Sun Ra Recommendations? (2 Viewers)

[filter]

that kindred spirits label have just reissued some lps for the reasonable sum of e14 - disco 3000, sleeping beauty and on jupiter. the last two are in road now.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i really like disco 3000 - i might pick that one up

 

[Jerry Twig]

I can recommend The Heliocentric Worlds Vol 1 & 2 as a primer.
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Haha, BAD advice!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

currently listening: Strange Celestial Road

good

 

[shidheat]

i really like disco 3000 - i might pick that one up

fair enough if you already like it, but i was hoping for more in the line of lanquidity and was disappointed

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i might be mixing it up with media dream, that has some deranged disco stuff on it

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

30-disc boxset of early Sun Ra for £80 - good value. Not sure I need it in my life, but if theres a similar 60s-70s set I'd be keen

http://www.rermegacorp.com/Merchant...roduct_Code=Transparency0316&Category_Code=CU

(Yes, this has almost doubled in size since we first announced it. Those of you who have already subscribed will still pay the old price). This extraordinary project is the first part of a comprehensive musical biography of Sun Ra - the product of many years dedicated work and assembly by Michael Anderson, ex Arkestra drummer and director of the Sun Ra archive. With substantial spoken introductions to every section narrated by Sun Ra himself, the box follows his early influences through to his first recorded composition (1933) - and then goes on through the numerous collaborations, arrangements for third parties, later influences, church organ recordings and rehearsals with Stuff Smith (1948), rehearsals and concerts with the Sonny Blount Trio (1949), Ra sings standards (1949), first recordings with Pat Patrick (1952), The Nu Sounds DooWop rehearsals (1954), the Sun Ra Bebop Band, his band with Billy Hawkins (both 1956), some early Arkestra rehearsals, Supersonic Jazz (1956) and finally 'Sun Ra and his men from Space play pop hits live' from 1958 - the year this first box ends, passing a treasure house of rarities and obscurities en route . Moreover, this solid and profound collection doesn't just tell the story of one man's musical history but picks out a vital thread that runs through the tapestry of black popular music in the first half of the C20. Ra was never a crazy eccentric, more a shrewd observer, who took his own road but kept his eye on the traffic. He speaks eloquently here and with great charm, about his life, work, musical evolution and the landmarks and byways of an emergent cultural language of which he was an important part. With around 30 hours of rare music and speech, much never published until now and most of the rest so obscure and eclectic that it's pretty unlikely any of it will be familiar, this is an unprecedented and historically invaluable collection. It comes in a box with a 5" x 5" flat-bound paperback book, stuffed with rare photographs, ephemera, documentation and gathered information. And it's praiseworthily and idealistically amazingly cheap.

Due out in early to mid-September. Uncertain numbers, so advance orders are very strongly recommended.

POST FREE; it's heavy

 

[pavlos]

Saturn Still Swings: Celebrating Sun Ra At 100

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[shidheat]

14 hour sun ra special: . Adventure-Equation .: ESP Sun Ra Radio Tribute - 14 hrs in 6 Parts