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Lanquidity

Lanquidity
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Studio album by Sun Ra
Released 1978
Recorded July 17, 1978
Studio Blank Tapes Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz fusion
Length 43:29
Label Philly Jazz
Producer Sun Ra
Sun Ra chronology
Visions
(1978)Visions1978
Lanquidity
(1978)
Sound Mirror
(1978)Sound Mirror1978
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
All About Jazz favorable
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars
Alternative Press 4/5 stars
Jazz Times favorable
Spin favorable
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 3/5 stars

Lanquidity is a studio album by American jazz musician Sun Ra. It was released in 1978 by Philly Jazz (with a shiny silver cover) and reissued on HDCD by Evidence Records in 2000 (with a light grey cover).

It is quite different from his earlier recordings, drawing heavily on funk, R&B and jazz fusion. Lanquidity is also unusual in featuring two guitarists, which were seldom used in the Arkestra. The funk influence is also considerable, especially on "That's How I Feel". That track also contains a prominent tenor sax solo by John Gilmore, Sun Ra's sideman from the 1950s until Sun Ra's death in 1993.

"Where Pathways Meet", "That's How I Feel", and "Twin Stars of Thence" are played in a jazz fusion style.

Spin magazine called Lanquidity "a beautiful place to enter Ra's psych-jazz omniverse", while Alternative Press wrote that it is "impossibly funky": "Often compared to Miles Davis' heaviest jazz-rock-funk fusion, Lanquidity is dense, rhythmic and curiously hypnotic". Music journalist Robert Christgau is a fan of the album.


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