Nothing Is...


Nothing Is... is a live album by the American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Sun Ra, recorded in 1966 and released on the ESP-Disk label in 1970. In 2010 ESP-Disk released College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is... an expanded 2xCD edition, restoring the full concert on disc one and adding part of the second set and some tracks from the sound check on disc two.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Lindsay Planer stated: "Sun Ra and his Arkestra issued only a handful of titles on the groundbreaking indie ESP-Disk label. Each title respectively contains some of their most expressive musical statements to date".

Track listing

Original LP

Side A

  1. "Dancing Shadows" – 9:50
  2. "Imagination" – 1:53
  3. "Exotic Forest" – 9:50

    Side B

  4. "Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space" – 1:58
  5. "Shadow World" – 13:48
  6. "Theme of the Stargazers" – 0:40
  7. "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" – 1:42
  8. "Next Stop Mars" – 0:38

    2005 CD bonus tracks

  10. "Velvet" – 7:20
  11. "Outer Nothingness" – 15:43
  12. "We Travel the Spaceways" – 1:30

    ''College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is...''

Disc one (05/18/1966 – first set)

  1. "Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space" – 14:02
  2. "The Shadow World" – 4:40
  3. "Interpolation" – 2:18
  4. "The Satellites Are Spinning" – 1:17
  5. "Advice to Medics" – 2:50
  6. "Velvet" – 8:16
  7. "Space Aura" – 10:26
  8. "The Exotic Forest" – 9:43
  9. "Theme of the Stargazers" – 1:52
  10. "Outer Spaceways Incorporated" – 2:24
  11. "Dancing Shadows" – 9:45
  12. "Imagination" – 0:40
  13. "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" – 1:12
  14. "Next Stop Mars" – 0:41

    Disc two (05/18/1966 – partial second set and sound check)

  15. "The Satellites Are Spinning" – 9:08
  16. "Velvet" – 7:10
  17. "Interplanetary Chaos" – 4:35
  18. "Theme of the Stargazers" – 1:30
  19. "The Second Stop Is Jupiter" – 11:16
  20. "We Travel the Spaceways" – 1:42
  21. "Nothing Is" – 6:13
  22. "It Is Eternal" – 12:37
  23. "State Street" – 8:21
  24. The Exotic Forest" – 4:32

    Personnel