It's After the End of the World
Live album by Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra
Released	1970
Recorded	17 October and 7 November 1970 Donaueschingen Music Festival and Berlin Jazz Festival
Genre	Jazz
Length	49:22
Label	MPS MPS 15289
Producer	Joachim E. Berendt
Sun Ra chronology
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (1970) It's After the End of the World (1970) Black Myth/Out in Space (1970)

It's After the End of the World (subtitled Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals) is a live album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra recorded in 1970 in Donaueschingen and Berlin and released on the MPS label in 1970. ^{[1] [2]} The complete concerts were released in 1998 as a 2-CD set entitled Black Myth/Out in Space .

Contents

• Reception
• Track listing
• Personnel
• References

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars. ^[3] All About Jazz observed "this gem ideally captures Sun Ra and His Intergalactic (Research) Arkestra at its most otherworldly self. ...such a recording as this offers the next best thing to but a sampling of what it must have been like to experience the path that Ra offered his listeners in a live concert, perhaps the most uninhibited platform for his musical message". ^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Sun Ra

1. "Strange Dreams – Strange Worlds – Black Myth / It's After the End of the World" – 14:40
2. "Black Forest Myth" – 9:15
3. "Watusi, Egyptian March" – 2:48
4. "Myth Versus Reality (The Myth-Science Approach) / Angelic Proclamation / Out in Space" – 18:22
5. "Duos" – 4:42

Personnel

• Sun Ra – Farfisa organ, Hohner clavinet, piano, Rocksichord, Spacemaster organ, Minimoog, Hohner electra, vocals
• Kwame Hadi – trumpet
• Akh Tal Ebah – mellophone, trumpet
• John Gilmore – tenor saxophone, percussion
• Marshall Allen – alto saxophone, flute, oboe, piccolo, percussion
• Pat Patrick – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, drum
• Danny Davis – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Abshalom Ben Shlomo – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
• Danny Ray Thompson – baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
• Leroy Taylor – oboe, bass clarinet
• Robert Cummings – bass clarinet
• Augustus Browning – Waldhorn
• Alan Silva – violin, viola, cello, bass
• Alejandro Blake Fearon – bass
• Lex Humphries – drums
• James Jackson – percussion, oboe, flute
• Nimrod Hunt – hand drums
• Hazoume – fireeater, dance, African percussion
• Math Samba, Ife Tayo – dance, percussion
• June Tyson – vocals
• Richard Wilkinson – stereo light-sound coordination

References