Home » Search Center » Results: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra

Results for "The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra"

Album

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra - 60th Anniversary Edition

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bassism; Of Sounds And Something Else; What’s That?; Where Is Tomorrow?; The Beginning; China Gates (Victor Young); New Day; Tapestry From An Asteroid; Jet Flight; Looking Outward; Space Jazz Reverie.

298

Article: Album Review

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 ...