Catering to closet Sun Ra completists the world over, the Transparency label put nearly 60 discs of the Saturnian’s works into circulation this year. The mammoth Detroit box is probably best reserved for true believers (26 hours of music), but the more manageable At the Horseshoe Tavern, 1978 delivers instant pleasures without the perils of indigestion. Also of note, the imprint’s six volume Lost Reel collection excavates concert and rehearsal tapes from a myriad of dates and sources.
I have a long-gestating article on the series that will hopefully drop sometime in early ‘09.
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