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"The Koeln concert shows us these positive vibrations marching through "the complete continuance of creative music," and on towards the next millennium. The "success of the future" is not a lost cause as long as there is music like this in the air."-Graham Lock

A great live recording of Sun Ra and his Arkestra from 1980 in Switzerland, originally released as a double LP, and remastered for CD in 2010 (two pieces have been excluded from the original LP release).

«A Timeless Protest, Updated» – 14 years have passed since the recording of Sweet Freedom – Now What? Today, the world is a very different and infinitely more dangerous place. The Berlin Wall has fallen, only to have new ones rise up in Israel and along the US southern border with Mexico; to name a few.

There had been no plans, no preparation. It was a completely spur-of-the-moment decision. Nine years later, I don’t remember whose idea it was—mine? Werner X. Uehlinger’s? Ran’s or Anthony’s? Once we started, enthusiasm was high, everyone jumped into it head-first and hard, perhaps a bit too hard at first.

Willisau, 1979: An intersection of planned chance and fortuitous contrivance.

Anthony Braxton takes this wonderful legacy of bebop and makes it speak anew. But in doing so, he is only renewing Charlie Parker’s promise – the promise that runs throughout the African-American creative tradition – that now is the time the music can and must address. — Graham Lock

The resulting music – a step into virtuoso improv within «vibrational space» – sings with a relaxed exhilaration that will make it a certain pleasure for all who listen. Here, I guess (to steal an image from William Blake), is the sound of «Joy as it flies». — Graham Lock