Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Live at Montreux - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The music is both avant-garde and accessible, one of the highpoints of the decade for Sun Ra

Universe in Blue is a rarity. This collection of undated live club performances was issued in small-run pressings with two different LP covers on Sun Ra's Saturn tag around 1972, but has largely escaped further notice. The performances originated in the early 1970s at the rowdy Lower East Side jazz mecca Slug's Saloon, located at 242 East 3rd Street. Starting in 1966 (or possibly as late as 1968), Sunny and his band performed at Slug's almost every Monday night for several years, and took the stage sporadically for several years thereafter. They typically started around 9 00 pm and played without a break until 4 00 am. The personnel fluctuated, depending on who showed up, who was hanging around and could handle an instrument, and the bandleader's divinations. These legendary evenings were raw, unpredictable, calamitous, and not without artistic controversy. They brought Sun Ra to the greater attention of the New York press and helped cement his reputation for audacious showmanship.

CD + small t-shirt bundle. Digitally remastered edition. It hardly gets more Swedish '90s than Vinterland's one and only full-length album, Welcome My Last Chapter (1996). Along bands like Dissection, Sacramentum, Unanimated and others, Vinterland laid the foundation for the melodic black metal sound that came to inspire and influence both contemporary and subsequent bands. Even to this day, this timeless masterpiece finds it's home with new generations of metal fans, who are enchanted by the icy atmosphere that the album conveys.