Jerry Dammers' Spatial A.K.A Orchestra - Ghost Planet Album

Tracklist

1	Ghost Planet
2	Free Nelson Mandela

Credits

• Written By – Jerry Dammers

Notes

Coloured vinyl.

Video

Album

OFFICIAL CLIP Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra British Tour MarchApril 2010 see for Dammers' Spatial Orchestra. Official clip: Ghost Planet. Official clip: Ringo Rock. Official clip: Where Pathways Meet. Official clip: Sabayinda. Jerry dammers' spatial orchestra will be playing at the barbican, london on friday 18TH july 2014. The founder of The Specials and 2 Tone, Jerry Dammers, has moved his Spatial AKA Orchestra on some way from its beginnings as a tribute to maverick jazz musician Sun Ra. At its last concert in Berlin the orchestra, containing some of the cream of Britain's jazz players, had expanded the scope of its r. Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers born 22 May 1955 is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England, based ska revival band The Specials, The Special . and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. He also founded 2 Tone Records. Dammers was born in Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu, South India, the son of Horace Dammers who was later Dean of Bristol Cathedral from 1973 to 1987. Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. For me, getting to play with him was one of the greatest things about the Specials. His album Man from Wareika had been one of my all time favourites and a great inspiration. Continue reading. If, as Einstein maintained, the universe is constantly expanding, then Jerry Dammers' Spatial Orchestra may be the ideal vehicle in which to explore its outer limits, this being a characteristic it emulates, with the addition of a string section now expanding its ranks to some 24 musicians. The orchestra's Ra-homage origins are retained in versions of I'll Wait for You and a tremendous Soul Vibrations showcasing drummer Patrick Illingworth, while Ra's influence on Dammers' own heritage is reflected with a Ghost Town cosmologically expanded into Ghost Planet. Listen to music from Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra like Gnossienne No. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra. Track Dammers paid tribute to The Specials reunion, of which he is not taking part, by performing Ghost Town at a perfomance at Londons Barbican on Tuesday March 10. The founder Specials man, accompanied by the Spatial AKA Orchestra, played a two-and-a-half hour set, under the banner Cosmic Engineering: A Tribute To Sun Ra And Other Musical Mavericks. See which songs from which albums Jerry Dammers' Spatial . Orchestra played through the years. Jerry Dammers' Spatial . Orchestra Albums total. No album statistics available yet. The Spatial AKA Orchestra's main influence is Sun Ra's Solar Arkestra, the cosmic jazz ensemble led by a man who steadfastly maintained to the end that he was from Saturn. Dammers's arrangements brilliantly join the dots between Ra's work and funk, making the inaccessible accessible. At one jaw-dropping juncture, they play, in quick succession, not just Tubular Bells, but Joe Meek's I Hear a New World, a ska take on Erik Satie's 1893 solo piano piece Gnossienne No 1, the Specials' International Jet Set and the theme from Batman. The Spatial AKA Orchestra is a music ensemble led by Jerry Dammers of The Specials, an English 2 ToneSkaPunk rock band popular in the late 1970s. Dammers formed the orchestra in 2006 as a tribute to American jazz musician Sun Ra, though it grew to include other genres such as reggae, funk, and classical music. The shows are as much about theater as music. At a festival in Norwich, England, Dammers donned a golden mask behind a row of keyboards on a stage cluttered with Egyptian mannequins