TORRENT TITLE
Sun Ra Arkestra - 1970-1972 Discipline Variations Live, A Compilation
ARTIST NAME
Sun Ra Arkestra
BOOTLEG TITLE
N/A
VENUE, CITY, COUNTRY, DATE
Discipline Variations Live, A Compilation 1970-1972
TRACK LISTING
FOLDER 1 (2:53:31)
01 1970-xx-xx NY Discipline (27?) with Space is
the Place theme....................(12:39)
02 1970-xx-xx NY Discipline 99 ?...........(10:09)
03 1971-06-12 LA Discipline 15..............(4:21)
04 1971-10-19 Aarhus Discipline 2...........(4:12)
05 1971-10-19 Aarhus Discipline No ?.......(14:12)
06 1971-11-11 Delft Outer Darkness + Discipline 1
+ Untitled Improvisation...........(13:37)
07 1971-11-11 Delft Discipline 27...........(7:11)
08 1971-11-11 Delft Discipline 1 + Untitled
Improvisation......................(18:14)
09 1972-06-07 NY Discipline No ?............(5:01)
10 1972-06-07 NY Discipline 11 + Discipline
No ?................................(8:16)
11 1972-06-07 NY Discipline No ? + The Shadow
World..............................(20:31)
12 1972-08-19 NY Discipline 27..............(8:00)
13 1972-08-19 NY Discipline 27-II..........(23:19)
14 1972-08-19 NY Discipline 33..............(6:30)
15 1972-11-02+3 Mystery Discipline No ?....(17:11)
this compilation was assembled from the following gigs:
1970-xx-xx Slug's Saloon, New York, NY
1971-06-12 JP Whidney High School, Watts, Los Angeles CA
1971-10-19 Vejlby Risskov Hallen, Aarhus, Denmark
1971-11-11 Technische Hogeschool, Nieuwe Aula, Delft, Netherlands
1972-06-07 Slug's Saloon, New York, NY
1972-08-19 Slug's Saloon, New York, NY
1972-11-02+3 'The Mystery Board', (Unknown Venue), (Unknown City)
< the latter was thought to be Either 1972 or 1973 >
< but ima say this Discipline track being present would more likely fit it being 1972 >
LINE UP
(from Sun Ra Tape-ography by Robert Campbell)
(1972-06-07 gig for a sample of folks of the time)
The Arkestra: Ra-org, Mini Moog; Akh Tal Ebah-tp, mellophone; Marshall Allen-as, ob, fl, picc;
Danny Davis-as, fl; John Gilmore-ts, perc, voc; Eloe Omoe-bcl; Danny Ray Thompson-bs, fl;
poss. Lex Humphries-d; poss. Harry Richards-d; James Jacson-Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum, fl;
prob. Stanley Morgan (Atakatune)-cga; prob. Odun-cga, perc; Alzo Wright-clo, perc; June Tyson-voc;
Space Ethnic Voices: poss. Ruth Wright, Cheryl Banks, Judith Holton. Strange strings including koto
and sun harp appear briefly at end of They'll Come Back [Simosko, corrections by rlc]
ARTWORK
N/A
SOURCE / LINEAGE
Various
Various sources > FLAC > DIME > you
The original FLAC content from all the original shares, remains intact here; all I did was sort and renames only.
NOTES
I made this compilation for myself, and at some point thought maybe others would like to hear it too.
You could 'roll your own' & match what's here, if you took the 15 tracks of the 7 gigs from which these selections came.
The original FLACs here weren't modified, just renamed to sequence them.
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In the early 70s, Sun Ra began performing, recording & releasing pieces titled Discipline with some #.
They had a very basic theme or feel (the discipline), which would also often be accompanied by some lovely improvisation.
The earliest 1970 shows are not noted as having Discipline tracks.
From 1970 thru 1972, many variations were played live, but from 1973 forward they seem to only play D27 / D27-II.
A few of them appeared on albums of the time, but there wasn't a 'Discipline album full of them'.
These performances are scattered within that 1970-1972 gap.
Some officially released performances (none present here) also jibe with that, Discipline # tracks fitting that time gap (Paris + Egypt).
The intent here was just to easily gather together the variations, to facilitate a single Discipline listening session.
I know that one coulda edited it tighter, taking out 'non-Discipline bits', adding fades and whatnot.
Once I put them in a common folder, weeded the keepers from the rest, put the keepers in order, then I gave it all a listen 'as is'.
I was after ease... and how by doing that it could let u 'roll your own' too... and it seems to work fine enough.
Mind you, some of this is probably subjective - 'it sure sounds like a variation on the Discipline theme', but who knows for sure.
(It's not like these titles were :P announced b4 playing them.)
That said, generally speaking, the segments here also sound to me to agree with that.
I gave each one a listen based on that sentiment, for inclusion consideration.
After that, it was just a matter of chronologically sequencing them.
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Track 11 had some uncredited Shadow World bits too, so I add mention of it in the title here.
For the pieces we know well, D27 and D27-II, its cool to hear the early versions here.
For the others, it's nice to hear the themes collected together.
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Filenames have numbers on the end that are the TIMES (ex. - "...-359" is 3min59sec long).
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