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Sun Ra: Of Abstract Dreams
by Ian Patterson
Neither Sun Ra's death nor the passing of a quarter of a century since has slowed down the seemingly insatiable appetite for archival recordings of the pianist, composer and poet. In 2014, to mark the centenary of Sun Ra's birth--né Herman Poole Blount--Strut Records and Art Yard issued the 2-CD, career-spanning compilation In The Orbit of ...
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: An Angel Fell
by Chris May
In 2016, California-based tenor saxophonist Idris Ackamoor relaunched his 1970s spiritual-jazz band, The Pyramids, and released a corking new album, We Be All Africans (Strut Records). In spring 2018, he has released another outstanding disc with another almost entirely new line-up. The only musician who is held over from We Be All Africans is violinist Sandra ...
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: Black Times
by Chris May
Seun Kuti's fourth album fronting Egypt 80, the all-conquering Afrobeat band he inherited from his father, Fela Kuti, marks the end of an era--and also supports the maxim that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Black Times is the first album released by Egypt 80 not to feature saxophonist and ...
In The Orbit Of Ra
By Sun Ra
Label: Strut Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD 1: 01. Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Somewhere in Space; 02. Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra - The Lady With the Golden Stockings; 03. Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Somebody Else's World; 04. Sun Ra - Spontaneous Simplicity; 05. Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra - Plutonian Nights; 06. Sun Ra and His Myth-Science Arkestra - Angels and Demons at Play; 07. Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Island in the Sun (Extended Version - Previously Unreleased); 08. Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Rocket Number Nine Take Off for Planet Venus; 09. Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Solar Differentials
CD 2: 01. Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Astro Black; 02. Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra - Have You Heard the Latest News from Neptune; 03. Sun Ra - Dance of the Cosmo-Aliens (Live in Milan, 1978); 04. Sun Ra - Trying to Put the Blame on Me (Live In Rome, 1977 - Previously Unreleased); 05. Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Planet Earth; 06. Sun Ra and His Myth-Science Arkestra - The Nile; 07. Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Reflects Motion, Pt. 1 (Previously Unreleased); 08. Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Reflects Motion, Pt. 2; 09. Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Ancient Aiethiopia; 10. Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Interplanetary Music; 11. Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - We Travel the Spaceways
Sun Ra And His Arkestra: In The Orbit Of Ra
by Enrico Bettinello
Nell'anno del centenario della nascita di Sun Ra le iniziative sono state innumerevoli, ma mancava un vero e proprio “Greatest Hits," concetto che in sé sembra certamente piuttosto inadatto (e per certi versi anche antitetico) all'idea musicale dell'indimenticabile pianista e band leader di Saturno, Alabama, ma che risponde comunque a un'esigenza comprensibile. Il ...
