Results for "Sun Ra"

Album

Angels and Demons at Play/The Nubians of Plutonia

Label: Evidence Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1.Tiny Pyramids 2.Between Two Worlds 3.Music from the World Tomorrow 4.Angels and Demons at Play 5.Urnack 6.Medicine for a Nightmare 7.A Call for All Demons 8.Demon's Lullaby 9.Plutonian Nights 10.The Golden Lady 11.Star Time 12.Nubia 13.Africa 14.Watusa 15.Aiethopia

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Holiday for Soul Dance

By Sun Ra

Label: Evidence Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1.But Not for Me 2.Day by Day 3.Holiday for Strings 4.Dorothy's Dance 5.Early Autumn 6.I Loves You, Porgy 7.body and Soul 8.Keep Your Sunny Side Up

Album

We Travel the Spaceways/Bad and Beautiful

By Sun Ra

Label: Evidence Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Interplanetary Music 2.Eve 3.We Travel the Spaceways 4.Tapestry From an Asteroid 5.Space Loneliness 6.New Horizons 7.Velvet 8.Bad and the Beautiful 9.Ankh 10.Just in Time 11.Search Light Blues 12.Exotic Two 13.On the Blue Side 14.And This Is My Beloved

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Spaceship Lullaby

By Sun Ra

Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Spaceship Lullaby / Stranger in Paradise / Just One of Those Things / Honky Tonk / Haunted Heart / Evelyn / Black Sky & Blue Moon / Ra Coaching Roland Williams / Holiday for Strings (Ra Dynamics Demo) / Holiday for Strings / I Fall Asleep Counting My Blessings / Nice Work if You Can Get It / Somebody Loves Me / Chicago USA / Chicago USA / C'est Si Bon / Blue Moon / Baby Please Be Mine / Blue Skies / My Only Love / Foggy Day / Perfume Counter / Love Is... / Wordless Piece / I Was Wrong / Louise / St. Louis Blues / Wooden Soldier & the China Doll / Africa / Somebody's in Love / Bye Bye / Black Sky & Blue Moon / Honey / Honey (With the Arkestra) / Come Rain or Come Shine.

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Article: Album Review

Sun Ra: Spaceship Lullaby

Read "Spaceship Lullaby" reviewed by Jay Collins

by Jay Collins
December 4, 2003

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 ...

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Article: Film Review

Space is the Place: The Mutha Ship Connection

by Rex Butters
November 27, 2003

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 ...

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Space Is The Place

by AAJ Staff
November 20, 2003

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 ...

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Article: Reassessing

Sun Ra: Atlantis

by Trevor MacLaren
October 5, 2003

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 ...

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Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

Read "The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra" reviewed by Matthew Wuethrich

by Matthew Wuethrich
January 19, 2003

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 ...

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Sun Ra: Angels and Demons at Play/The Nubians of Plutonia

Read "Angels and Demons at Play/The Nubians of Plutonia" reviewed by Matthew Wuethrich

by Matthew Wuethrich
January 19, 2003

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. ...