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Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra / Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy
(Vinyl LP – Saturn Research)
Recorded in 1963 but not released until 1967 on Sun Ra’s Saturn label, Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy is one of the more notorious of the artist’s early New York releases. It near-completely rejects existing notions of jazz in favor of conducted chaos, offering a template for the unknown. Therapeutic for some, electroshock for others. In its lysergic abstractness, Cosmic Tones prefigures by a few years the outer dimensions of psychedelia (which was inspired by psychosis-replicating chemicals), and foreshadows some of the wilder studio escapades of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. (Early in their careers—though a decade apart—Zappa and Sun Ra shared a producer: Tom Wilson.)