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Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion

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Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
Live album by
Sun Ra Arkestra
Released1988
RecordedAugust 8, 1988
VenuePit Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo
GenreFree jazz
Length58:22
LabelDIW
ProducerKohei Kawakami & Zen Matsuura
Sun Ra chronology
Hours After
(1986)
Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
(1988)
Somewhere Else
(1989)

Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion (subtitled Live at Pit-Inn, Tokyo, Japan, 8, 8, 1988) is a live album by jazz composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded in Tokyo in 1988 and released on the Japanese DIW label.[1]

Reception

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The Allmusic review by Jesse Jarnow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The recording captures the band sympathetically, managing to keep the chaos under control through a crisp and deep mix... a good introduction to Sun Ra's work".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Sun Ra except as indicated

  1. " Introduction/Cosmo Approach Prelude" – 7:29
  2. "Angel Race/I Wait for You" – 7:18
  3. "Can You Take It?" – 3:14
  4. "If You Came from Nowhere Here" – 10:27
  5. "Astro Black" – 11:23
  6. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon) – 5:11
  7. "Why Was I Born?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:57
  8. "Insterstellar Lo-Ways" – 7:23

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Sun Ra discography Archived March 20, 2015, at the Wayback Machine accessed July 21, 2010
  2. ^ a b Jarnow, J., Allmusic Review accessed July 3, 2014