We Travel The Space Ways (Vinyl) – Sun Ra

The complete LP + 5 bonus tracks – limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl.

Sun Ra’s album We Travel the Space Ways was primarily recorded in 1960 and features Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, Phil Cochran, Julian Priester, Jon Hardy and others, with all compositions by Sun Ra. It brings together several eras and personnel of the Arkestra and was probably mostly produced by Ra himself during rehearsals.

The mechanical sound at the end of the title track comes from a toy robot, as explained in the book From Sonny Blount to Sun Ra: The Chicago Years: “The bizarre whirring and quacking heard at the end of ‘We Travel the Space Ways’ comes from a toy robot with flashing lights; John Gilmore told John Corbett that around this time the Arkestra would release the ‘robots’ into the audience during their performances. The band also used mechanical ‘flying saucers’ as props”.

Featuring the bonus tracks ‘Message To Earthman’ / ‘Big City Blues’ / ‘Hours After’ / ‘The Blue Set’ / ‘The Sun One’.