This album was born from a rare session held in 2015 at Quatermass Sound Lab, led by Malcolm Catto. It was a rehearsal session in preparation for a performance at the Worldwide Awards hosted by Gilles Peterson, featuring improvisational, one-take reinterpretations of Sun Ra’s classic masterpieces. These recordings lay dormant in Malcolm Catto’s archive for a decade, unheard by anyone, until they were finally released to the public.
This EP features the title track A1 (sample 1), a cover of “Nuclear War”—a song with a spiritual, profound groove and psychedelic, pitch-black atmosphere—sung by Barbora Patkova, vocalist of The Helliocentrics; a powerful cover of “Where Pathways Meet”—a meditative soul-jazz-funk masterpiece from the 1978 classic album *Lanquidity*—as track A2 (sample 2); a supple cover of Ronnie Boykin’s “Angels And Demons At Play,” originally recorded in 1960, as track B1; and a cover of “Astro Black” (B2; sample 3)—a 1972 dark funk/cosmic jazz masterpiece that mysteriously showcases Bilal’s astonishing, otherworldly vocals—is also a fantastic rendition.