Space Is the Place (soundtrack)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Space Is the Place

| type = soundtrack

| artist = Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra

| cover = Sunra_sitp_sdtrk_250px.jpg

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| released = mid-/late 1993

| recorded = early 1972, Oakland, California

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| genre = Jazz

| length = 74:21

| label = Evidence Music

| producer = Ihnfinity Inc. (music), Jerry Gordon (CD)

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} {{Allmusic|class=album|id=r148356|first=Ron|last=Wynn}}

| rev2 = Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev2Score = (8th ed.) {{Rating|3|3}}({{Rating|1|1}})

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Space is the Place is an album by Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra. The music was recorded in early 1972 in San Francisco, California for the film Space Is the Place.{{cite AV media notes| title = Space Is the Place| others = Sun Ra| year = 1993| type = CD booklet| publisher = Evidence Music| id = ECD 22070-2| location = Conshohocken, PA}} However, the music remained unreleased until Evidence Music issued a compact disc in 1993.

During the late-1960s and early-1970s, Sun Ra and his ensemble made several forays to California. In 1971, Sun Ra taught a course, "The Black Man in the Cosmos," at University of California, Berkeley.{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|orig-year = 1992|edition = 8th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 0-14-102327-9|pages = [https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/1247 1247]|url = https://archive.org/details/penguinguidetoja00cook_1/page/1247}} Over the course of these California visits, Sun Ra came to the attention of Jim Newman, who produced the film Space Is the Place starring Sun Ra and his Arkestra, and based, in part, on Sun Ra's Berkeley lectures. The soundtrack CD compiles 16 tracks that Sun Ra recorded for the film.