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john sangster - once around the sun - the roundtable

SIR 002LP - auslp

Genre: Jazz - Spiritual / Cosmic & Soul Jazz

1. Om: The Cosmic Breath 
2. The New Universe Begins 
3. Once Around The Sun 
4. First Space Trip 
5. The Kaleidoscope Of Life 
6. Heavy Skies 
7. Through The Planet 
8. Stargirl 
9. A New Dawn 
10. Into The Atom 
11. The Witches 
12. Cassie 
13. Epiphany 
14. Return To Earth 

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The forgotten score to the documentary about the Australian equivalent to Woodstock, the "Ourimbah festival". In contrast to the Aussie Rock and folk sounds of the festival, Sangster, at the time of making this music being very much influenced by Sun Ra, delivers an expansive orchestral spacejazz masterpiece. Likened to Jean-Claude Vannier's "L'enfant assassin Des Mouches", "OATS" is a uniquely orchestrated score where passages of avant garde incidental music sit along side thumping bass heavy psych. Featuring members of the Don Burrows Quartet, SCRA, Galapagos Duck plus the Sydney Philharmonic. Roundtable is a sublabel from Votary discs. A PRESSING OF 500 COPIES ONLY !