Sun Ra And His Infinity Arkestra
Strange Things (expanded Version)
Remastered with Bonus Tracks. Liner notes by Irwin Chusid, and an expanded essay by David Toop. Fans of Sun Ra's Space Bop and genre-bending jazz were in for a shock with Strange Strings. Even in the eclectic and sometimes baffling Sun Ra catalog, Strange Strings is an outlier. It's primitive, it's sophisticated, but it's not a gradient of either. It's brutal, yet highly sensitive. Is it music, or just noise? Or noise as music? John Cage could not be reached for comment.