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I can recommend The Heliocentric Worlds Vol 1 & 2 as a primer.
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fair enough if you already like it, but i was hoping for more in the line of lanquidity and was disappointedi really like disco 3000 - i might pick that one up
(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.
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