As is most things surrounding the legacy of legendary jazz composer Sun Ra , the tribute to the posthumous figure from human music encyclopedia Ras G is tripped out, and positively other-worldly. The scoped-out vision of "Happy Arrival Day Mister Ra" features selected spoken words from the song's subject (and Moog segments), laced with computer-glitchy sound effects from various past space programs. It's a special creation from Ras, who has gone on record as being a very, very big fan of Ra, who would be celebrating his 99th birthday today. Listen to "Happy Arrival Day [...]
Nearly 100 years ago (99 to be exact), the man we all knew as Sun Ra was born. And even though he passed away in May 1993, his legacy lives on through the music of some of our favorites. Like Ras G , for example, who is paying homage to the musician he said changed his life. On "Happy Arrival Day Mister Ra", you hear some Moog work and vocals from Sun Ra while the remaining effects, percussion, and keys are handled by Ras G. It's an absolute trip and we wouldn't have it any other way.
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Sun Ra was as much philosopher as he was experimental Free Jazz composer, and his principles about race, basically the precedent to Afrofuturism, inspired countless artists and musicians. A new book called Space, Interiors and ... read more
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Wednesday was a tough one. After getting back to the room sometime around 5am, I could only muster a shade over three hours of sleep. I'm not good at going back to sleep once I'm awake. Sometime around noon I got in touch with Ken and KT and we made our plans for going to [...]
It's to his displeasure I don't doubt, though the likelihood of heinously ambidextrous Caribou drummer Brad Weber ever slipping the web of inexorable comparison he's albeit inadvertently weaved previously to this, his Pick a Piper project at this point seems only negligible at best. Parallels will always be scrawled between this and, say, Swim and that'd be to its inevitable discredit were this self-titled début itself not only a worthwhile accompaniment, but so too a worthy adversary. Of course it's grossly hypocritical for such a juxtaposition to be established in light of the above. [...]
ohmygodshutup from SomeLoveMusic on 8tracks Radio . track list: Flipless in What Plastic Box - Baby Walrus Fathers Day - Neal Morgan Shut Up & Deal - Radiator Hospital Tony's wife - Sun Ra Windows Open - Which Magic I Won't Hurt You - West Coast Art Experimental Band Movies Is Magic (Van Dyke Parks) - Mike Cooper This Is War... - Spoon Boy
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Red Bull Music Academy alumnus Naphta considers Sun Ra to be a pretty big musical influence. Enough so that his entire new album is dedicated to the late jazz great. Titled Sun & Ra Cuts , Naphta samples the work of Sun Ra in this quirky, original spin of jazz and dance music. Listeners will find themselves more challenged on tracks like "Space Dance", while "Nuclear War" is a deep grooving piece of house. Sun & Ra Cuts is available for stream and download below. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Sun Ra não era "apenas" um músico de jazz ou uma excelente estampa para uma certa t-shirt vermelha. Era o enviado à terra de uma qualquer entidade cósmica desconhecida para a humanidade, o homem que apontava para o espaço sideral e nos dizia o vosso lugar é ali e não neste pardieiro ao qual a gravidade nos consignou. E era, e continua a ser, claro está, um mito; e por ser um mito, basta a menção do seu nome para enlouquecer os fãs já de si irremediavelmente loucos. Desta feita, o blogue Adventure-Equation , que se dedica [...]
By groove@algarvecentral.net Sun Ra não era "apenas" um músico de jazz ou uma excelente estampa para uma certa t-shirt vermelha. Source: Groove 2U
Nothing like a business trip to make you appreciate the virtues of home. Some people are invigorated by the suitcase-dragging life and savor the constant sense of newness each hotel brings. I am not one of these people. When I'm traveling on the clock, slapstick disaster is always just a moment away. Logistics won't behave, and keeping the caravan of personal affects together is like herding a pack of restless dogs. It's no vacation, to be sure. Which makes me appreciate the astral flights of Sun Ra even more. Especially when they feel like the soundtrack [...]
Sun Ra - Lanquidity (1978) [Philly Jazz Inc.] (Vinyl) Tracklist A1 Lanquidity 8:19 A2 Where Pathways Meet 6:30 A3 That's How I Feel 8:09 B1 Twin Stars Of Thence 9:30 B2 There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) 10:58 follow deepgoa on Shuffler.fm , Tumblr , SoundCloud , RSS and MixCloud © dg , 2013
Every time I talk to my sister it seems like I'm asking her for advice. Specifically, I ask what I should blog about today. And, invariably, her answer is always the same: "Dinosaurs." That's usually the point at which I cease communicating with her for the day. She has not once given me a topic [...]
Fantastic Voyage Music and writer Kris Needs have teamed up once again to put together an ambitious, career spanning collection for the one & only Sun Ra. The three disc set begins with Ra's earliest recordings from the 1940's as a sideman, and traces his career right up to the end - from swing to the solar system! A Space Odyssey: From Birmingham To The Big Apple – The Quest Begins will be available on CD and MP3 from [...]
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in [...]
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