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  Review by Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery
  RAQIB HASSAN & ENSEMBLE MOGRA - Another Place - Volume 2 (Evil Clown 5010;
  USA) This set was recorded at the Western Front in Cambridge in July of 1998 and the personnel is nearly the same as Volume 1: Raqib Hassan on tenor sax & mussette, Dave PEK on bari sax, bass clarinet & bassoon, Michael Shea on piano, Tor Snyder on guitar, Khaliq Fulani on violin, Glynis Lomon on cello, Larry Roland on bass, Trevor Daniels on African percussion, Lawrence Cook, Sydney Smart & Yuri Zbitnov on drums; plus Sam Lobel on tenor sax and Dennis Warren on drums on one piece each. Also like Volume 1, this disc is also a tribute to Sun Ra which begins with a fine cover of Mr. Ra's "Space is the Place". Like a Sun Ra concert, this ensemble starts off with a spirited vocal, hand-clapping version of this infectious Ra gem. It sounds as if the band and audience are feeling the spirit and grooving together, traveling the spaceways. Eventually all of the horns, strings and drummer erupt into a powerful mass, so watch out as the heavens part. I dig the sound of those massed reeds & drums: flutes, saxes, double reeds & several drummers all swirling intensely around one another. Incredible! There are a couple of bonus tracks included here, one of which is from the leader Raqib Hassan with another ensemble called Cosmocentric, which again sounds like similar Sun Ra-like cosmic weirdness, layers of reeds, percussion and other free spirits unleashed. This band and this disc do capture the space-flight ascension of where Sun Ra and his Arkestra left off..!
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