Continuation
is an interesting late-'60s date with a nice mixture of styles.
"Biosphere Blues"
is a great slow
blues
with room for a number of solos, but anchored by the phenomenal playing of
Ronnie Boykins
.
"Intergalaxtic Research"
has some creepy space voice over a plodding beat which is joined by creepy organ, and
"New Primitive Earth"
is a weird flute/bells/koto experiment.
"New Planet"
is very cool space-
exotica
with
Bugs Hunter
(presumably) adding enormous washes of reverb and echo at various points in the tune.
"Continuation To"
starts with a crazed circus fanfare and then features
Sun Ra
on speed piano before calming down for a trumpet solo over an eight-beat bass ostinato.
"Jupiter Festival"
is a cacophonous romp with the saxophones' swooping squeals matched by
Boykins
' squealing arco.
features several interesting instruments, like the Jupiterian Flute and Neptunian Libflecto and the space voice of
Art Jenkins
, and is one of several albums that demonstrate what a great player
was. ~ Sean Westergaard