LiveWired Presents
SUNDAY, AUGUST 5TH, 2007
SUN RA IMPOSSIBLE SPACE CIRCUS
7PM KNITTING FACTORY OLD OFFICE,
74 Leonard Street, tel.212.219.3006
$11 advance / $15 door
7:15pm: Screening of ultra-rare 1968 film 'Spaceways' by Ed English featuring extensive footage of Sun Ra house at 48 East 3rd Street in New York, plus Arkestra appearance at Carnegie Hall. Also showing at 10:30pm: Sun Ra TV concert from Berlin, 1970 - exquisitely psychedelic
It has been nearly 15 years since the Sun Day that carried Sun Ra to yet another world, and the waves of effect from the infinitively creative mind of Sun Ra have entered into every genre of music today. We see his more immediate influence especially in the musics of artists as engraving as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, Laurie Anderson, Fela Kuti and Pink Floyd. Countless rock groups and creative improvisational ambient artists have followed Sun Ra's lead into musical revelations. Sun Ra re-set the peripherals of music's seeming limitations with mesmerizing illuminations.
And like the velocity of time travel, Sun Ra's music becomes with every moment more magnificently vital.
On Sunday, August 5th, 2007, at the Knitting Factory in lower Manhattan, The Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus will once again perform from original charts, original adaptations and interpretations of Sun Ra's music.
This is the third presentation of the Space Circus - previously including Sun Ra Arkestra alumni Juini Booth, Vincent Chancey, Terry Adkins and On Ka'a Davis - and promises to be yet another resplendent concert.
Visiting from Milwaukee is DANIEL ZELONKY, aka SUITE CRUDE, aka LOW RES, an artist-producer of international reknown and one of today's foremost researchers of Sun Ra's music. He will be bringing along with him a special keyboard and some groundbreaking original charts of lesser known Sun Ra gems. Also traveling from the midwest are Sean Behling and Kelly Rossum, joining the NYC home team and a few of the Sun Ra Arkestra Philly contingent. Zelonky's selections will make for an historic presentation unheard ever in the world!
For more information contact Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services.
