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Transformed and performed by Lars Pedersen and Nils Arne Overgard / Beamwork, 2007-2008. All supplementary instruments by WHEN. Design by Trine + Kim Design Studio. No longer than a year after his ""return to darkness"" with You are silent, Lars Pedersen and his WHEN is back with a lesson in plunderphonics. Album no. 13 since the start 25 years ago, this one is something else: a mixtape/mashup to celebrate brilliant bandleader, pianist, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra. The first volume of WHEN's Homage Series, this singular saucer is a jam-packed jamboree of ""cosmic jazz"", where Lars borrows—not steals—cuts, loops, adds and completely turns the universe of the legendary jazz-brother from planet no. 6 inside out. Pedersen's own Omniverse Arkestra, if you will. This is not exploitation, or blaxploitation, or anything but a labour of love, respect and admiration—from one space cadet to another. Turn on, tune in, space out.