Another spaced-out album by Saturn native Sun Ra. The twenty-seven minute title track includes plenty of patented creepy 70's horror movie-styled keyboard work. When all the instruments join in, accompanied by delay effects and the sound being constantly phased from one channel to the other, you're in for one confusing and dizzying ride. Easily the best track on the album. Things do become more "jazzy" towards the end, but in "medieval-on-yo-ass" free-jazz style! Yeah! The Shadow World sounds very similar to what fellow Pharoah Sanders would be doing on later in his solo career (without the world music elements). The two shortest track: Abstract Eye and Abstract "I" (!?) practically sound like musique concrète with lots of off-beat strings and strange brass noises and percussion. A lovely effort very much in the same spirit as earlier album Cosmic Tones [...] (but just not as wild).