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by Doug Collette
The outlandish persona Sun Ra created and maintained for himself over the years may sometimes distract from the adventurous intent of the music he made. Yet it is testament to his vigorous loyalty to both the music as means of communicating his cosmic ideology and the basic tenets of his unconventional means of creativity that neither theme intruded dangerously upon the other during the course of his sixty-some year career. In a fittingly limited edition run (for both ...
read moreSun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack)
by Mark Corroto
Do not expect The Criterion Collection to reissue the 1974 film Space Is The Place anytime soon. It is though, a cult classic in the truest sense of the word. Sun Ra and his Arkestra had been at the forefront of avant-garde music, developing and refining his vision since the 1950s. Today listeners are most likely acquainted with Ra's claims of being from Saturn and his mission to save our doomed planet. Back in the late 1960s and early 70s ...
read moreSun Ra at Inter-Media Arts, 1991
by Howard Mandel
On April 10, 1991, the night of this concert at Inter-Media Art Center in Huntington, Long Island, Sun Ra was near the apogee of his earthly transit. Having led his transformative iterations of his Arkestra around the globe for an unlikely if not unimaginable four decades, the visionary composer, keyboardist, conceptualist and cosmologist was, even though in recovery from a stroke, at the peak of his powers, two years from breaking free of his local orbit entirely. He ...
read moreSun Ra & His Space Arkestra: What Planet Is This?
by AAJ Italy Staff
Beh, si sa com'è l'astronomia! La scoperta di satelliti, pianeti, pianetini, galassie lontane, supernovae è un'attività continua, un aggiornamento progressivo di una mappa cosmica che più si va a dettagliare più ci si accorge che è l'immagine stessa dello spazio infinito. Capita così che l'interrogativo What Planet Is This? sia quello che apre ancora una volta le porte verso i mondi della Space Arkestra di “sua spazialità" Sun Ra, così come si spalancano archivi e registrazioni: in questo doppio pubblicato ...
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