It's After the End of the World explained

It's After the End of the World
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
Cover:	It's After the End of the World.jpg
Released:	1970
Recorded:	17 October and 7 November 1970 Donaueschingen Music Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	49:22
Label:	MPS MPS 15289
Producer:	Joachim E. Berendt
Chronology:	Sun Ra
Prev Title:	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
Prev Year:	1970
Next Title:	Black Myth/Out in Space
Next Year:	1970

It's After the End of the World (subtitled Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals) is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra recorded in 1970 in Donaueschingen and Berlin and released on the MPS label in 1970.^{[1] [2]} The complete concerts were released in 1998 as a 2-CD set entitled Black Myth/Out in Space.

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.^[3] All About Jazz observed "this gem ideally captures Sun Ra and His Intergalactic (Research) Arkestra at its most otherworldly self. ...such a recording as this offers the next best thing to but a sampling of what it must have been like to experience the path that Ra offered his listeners in a live concert, perhaps the most uninhibited platform for his musical message".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

1. "Strange Dreams – Strange Worlds – Black Myth / It's After the End of the World" – 14:40
2. "Black Forest Myth" – 9:15
3. "Watusi, Egyptian March" – 2:48
4. "Myth Versus Reality (The Myth-Science Approach) / Angelic Proclamation / Out in Space" – 18:22
5. "Duos" – 4:42

Personnel

• Sun Ra – Farfisa organ, Hohner clavinet, piano, Rocksichord, Spacemaster organ, Minimoog, Hohner electra, vocals
• Kwame Hadi – trumpet
• Akh Tal Ebah – mellophone, trumpet
• John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, percussion
• Marshall Allen – alto saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, percussion
• Pat Patrick – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, drum
• Danny Davis – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Abshalom Ben Shlomo – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
• Leroy Taylor – oboe, bass clarinet
• Robert Cummings – bass clarinet
• Augustus Browning – English horn
• Alan Silva – violin, viola, cello, bass
• Alejandro Blake Fearon – bass
• Lex Humphries – drums
• James Jackson – percussion, oboe, flute
• Nimrod Hunt – hand drums
• Hazoume – fireeater, dance, African percussion
• Math Samba, Ife Tayo – dance, percussion
• June Tyson – vocals
• Richard Wilkinson – stereo light-sound coordination

Notes and References

1. http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/detail.php?parametro=54 Sun Ra discography
2. http://www.mps-music.com/portfolio-items/sun-ra-intergalactic-research-akestra-end-world/ MPS Music website
3. http://www.allmusic.com/album/its-after-the-end-of-the-world-mw0000028119 Allmusic listing
4. AAJ Staff All About Jazz Review, 25 April 2004