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The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. I
By Sun Ra
Label: ESP-Disk
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Heliocentric
2. Outer Nothingness
3. Other Worlds
4. The Cosmos
5. Of Heavenly Things
6. Nebulae
7. Dancing in the Sun
Music from Tomorrow's World
By Sun Ra
Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Angels and Demons at Play 2. Spontaneous Simplicity 3. Space Aura
4. S'wonderful 5. It Ain't Necessarily So 6. How High the Moon
7. China Gate 8. Majestic 1 9. Ankhnaton 10. Posession 11. Tapestry
from an Asteroid 12. Majestic 2 13. Majestic 3 14. Majestic 4 15. Velvet
16. A Call for All Demons 17. Interstellar Lo-Ways (Introduction)
Lanquidity
By Sun Ra
Label: Evidence Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Lanquidity 2. Where Pathways Meet 3. That's How I Feel 4. Twin Stars of
Thence 5. There Are Other worlds (they have not told you of)
Sun Ra: Spaceship Lullaby
by Jay Collins
Sun Ra watchers have to be thrilled with Atavistic’s recent efforts to present rare and previously unreleased Saturnistic material. The label's first release was the Cold War-era classic Nuclear War, followed by Music From Tomorrow’s World, a compendium of two previously unreleased live sessions from the tail end of the Chicago Period. The series’ latest issue ...
Space is the Place: The Mutha Ship Connection
by Rex Butters
In 1974 the original Brother From Another Planet, Sun Ra, participated in a legendary low budget indie sci-fi film based on the Ra myth. Shot in 16mm around Oakland’s Merritt College and San Jose’s Rosicrucian Museum, Space Is The Place stars Ra as a crazy wisdom-cracking alien come to transport black folks to an Edenic planet ...
Space Is The Place
by AAJ Staff
Space is the Place Featuring Sun Ra Directed by John Coney Plexifilm 2003 There's so much mystery and intrigue surrounding Sun Ra that it's quite hard to discern his identity. Was he really from Saturn? Biographer John Szwed, author of the book Space Is The Place, made big ...
Sun Ra: Atlantis
by Trevor MacLaren
Sun Ra and the Astro Infinity Arkestra AtlantisSaturn 1967 With Mars now in sight with the naked eye, no time is better than the present to turn to the planets. During his tenure on Earth, Saturnian Sun Ra created some trailblazing sounds that helped to change not only the sound ...
Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
by Matthew Wuethrich
Sun Ra stated that he wanted to create otherworldly emotions on this album. These emotions are “disguised as jazz,” to quote one of Ra’s poems. The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra, recorded in 1961, consists of a range of simmering, swinging, riffing tunes full of deft counterpoint. On the surface, these tunes show a rather restrained ...
Sun Ra: Angels and Demons at Play/The Nubians of Plutonia
by Matthew Wuethrich
If you try to track the development of Sun Ra's music on record, you will inevitably run up against numerous difficulties. Both chronologically and stylistically, his oeuvre contains anachronisms, false trails, mistakes and just plain weirdness. Evidence's re-issue package of the two Saturn albums, Angels and Demons at Play/The Nubians of Plutonia represents exactly these problems. ...
Sun Ra: Holiday for Soul Dance
by Matthew Wuethrich
Holiday for Soul Dance testifies to not only Sun Ra’s originality, but also his courage when making stylistic decisions. This album, believed to be recorded sometime around 1958, casts Ra in the role of the traditionalist as the Arkestra interpret a batch of time-honored (and time-worn) standards. Surprisingly, this role fits better than one might expect. ...
