{"id":16582,"date":"2021-10-25T00:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=16582"},"modified":"2022-01-28T19:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T19:54:42","slug":"sun-ra-and-his-astro-infinity-arkestra-pathways-to-unknown-worlds-lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/sun-ra-and-his-astro-infinity-arkestra-pathways-to-unknown-worlds-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra &#8211; Pathways To Unknown Worlds &#8211; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>Pathways To Unknown Worlds<\/strong>&#8221; was originally issued on LP in 1975 as part of <strong>Sun Ra<\/strong>\u2019s ill-fated and short-lived ABC\/Impulse! partnership. This <strong>Modern Harmonic<\/strong> edition has been exquisitely mastered from the four-track session reel. The Impulse! LP was formatted as \u201cQuad Compatible\u201d\u2014short for \u201cquadraphonic\u201d\u2014which you could enjoy if you had four speakers, a custom quad cartridge\/stylus, and a quad decoder integrated into your \u201970s hi-fi. (None of this technology ever achieved wide consumer acceptance. \u201cBack to Stereo,\u201d if you call that progress.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ra<\/strong>\u2019s original LP liner notes expressed his disdain for the past and his vision towards the future. But the future here rendered by <strong>Ra<\/strong> seems more dystopian than utopian. Imagine this album as an aural Science Fiction novel, analogous to the contemporaneous writings of Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Samuel R. Delany, and others who dwelled in unknown worlds where confusion and chaos often reign. A cybernetical soundscape for time travel through an inscrutable cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>These 1975 guided improvisations are imbued with an underlying violence, alternate twists, bank turns, headchoppers, loops, rolls, sidewinders and drops. It\u2019s a dark &amp; glorious journey, and features the debut of the complete version of \u201cExtension Out\u201d!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Modern Harmonic<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Modern Harmonic<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Pathways To Unknown Worlds<\/strong>&#8221; was originally issued on LP in 1975 as part of <strong>Sun Ra<\/strong>\u2019s ill-fated and short-lived ABC\/Impulse! partnership. This <strong>Modern Harmonic<\/strong> edition has been exquisitely mastered from the four-track session reel. The Impulse! 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A cybernetical soundscape for time travel through an inscrutable cosmos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mRvoXgTfJQpKvIjLOarkfs46rAkRc4ErQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[3944,1002],"class_list":["post-16582","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_tag-modern-harmonic","product_tag-sun-ra","product_shipping_class-lp","pa_artist-sun-ra","pa_genre-improv","pa_genre-jazz","pa_label-modern-harmonic","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/16582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=16582"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=16582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}