Sun Ra - Rome At Twilight
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10:56pm Somebody Else's World by Sun Ra from Marshall Allen presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: In The Orbit Of Ra
#SunRa #SomebodyElsesWorld #TheNightside #KUVO

Sun Ra - Somewhere In Space
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Small venues with Sun Ra in 1986 and Fabio Gouvea in 2026. #111Words #SunRa #Oakland #1986 #LiveMusic #Music #Jazz #FabioGouvea #Beclys #Basel #JorgeRossy #CharlieRose #ThiagoDuarte #MauroMartins #SmallVenues #Community https://111-words.ghost.io/small-venues-with-sun-ra-in-1986-and-fabio-gouvea-in-2026/

8:14pm Velvet - Stereo by Sun Ra from Jazz in Silhouette
#SunRa #VelvetStereo #TheThursdayNightBeat #KUVO

I listen to a lot of radio. Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman show is 5 hrs of Sun Ra's anti-war song 'Nuclear War' this week! This world needs Sun Ra just now.

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161577

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#SunRa

"Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, 'The Black Man in the Cosmos'

A pioneer of 'Afrofuturism', bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band. While attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, he had an out-of-body experience during which he was transported into outer space. As biographer John Szwed records him saying, 'my whole body changed into something else. I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn.' While there, aliens with 'little antenna on each ear. A little antenna on each eye' instructed him to drop out of college and speak through his music. And that’s just what he did, changing his name from Herman Blount and never looking back.

Whether you believe that story, whether Sun Ra believes it, or whether his entire persona is a theatrical put-on should make no difference. Because Sun Ra would be a visionary either way. Combining Afrocentric science fiction, esoteric and occult philosophy, Egyptology, and, with his 'Arkestra,' his own brand of free jazz-futurism that has no equal on earth, the man is truly sui generis. In 1971, he served as artist-in-residence at UC Berkeley and offered a spring semester lecture, African-American Studies 198, also known as 'Sun Ra 171,' 'The Black Man in the Universe,' or 'The Black man in the Cosmos.' The course featured readings from—to name just a few—theosophist Madame Blavatsky, French philosopher Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, black American writer and poet Henry Dumas, and 'God,' whom the cosmic jazz theorist reportedly listed as the author of The Source Book of Man’s Life and Death (otherwise known as the King James Bible).

Now we have the rare opportunity to hear a full lecture from that class, thanks to Ubu.com. Listen to Sun Ra spin his intricate, bizarrely otherworldly theories, drawn from his personal philosophy, peculiar etymologies, and idiosyncratic readings of religious texts. Hearing him speak is a little like hearing him play, so be prepared for a lot of free association and jarring, unexpected juxtapositions. Szwed describes a 'typical lecture' below:

Sun Ra wrote biblical quotes on the board and then ‘permutated’ them—rewrote and transformed their letters and syntax into new equations of meaning, while members of the Arkestra passed through the room, preventing anyone from taping the class. His lecture subjects included Neoplatonic doctrines; the application of ancient history and religious texts to racial problems; pollution and war; and a radical reinterpretation of the Bible in light of Egyptology.

Luckily for us, some sly student captured one of those lectures on tape."

https://www.openculture.com/2014/07/full-lecture-and-reading-list-from-sun-ras-1971-uc-berkeley-course.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music

Sun Ra:
🎵 Tapestry from an Asteroid (We Travel the Spaceways Version)

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https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/tapestry-from-an-asteroid-1

https://open.spotify.com/track/0EjtZmOLT6WLShJRHCFWVU

Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra. Often considered the first of Ra's 'outside' recordings, the album was the first to make extensive use of a discovery by the Arkestra's drummer and engineer Tommy Hunter:

'Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow.... contained "Cluster of Galaxies" and "Solar Drums", two rhythm section exercises with the sound treated with such strange reverberations that they threatened to obliterate the instruments' identity and turn the music into low-budget musique concrète. While testing the tape recorder when the musicians were tuning up one day, Hunter had discovered that if he recorded with the earphones on, he could run a cable from the output jack back into the input on the recorder and produce massive reverberation:

.. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_oUBnOpJgo&list=OLAK5uy_kwLCDdyl12p9as7nwHOCVhTWfhqSBtidI

#SunRa #SunRaandHisIntergalacticSolarArkestra #SpaceJazz #FreeJazz #Music #MarshallAllen #JohnGilmore #CliffordThornton

Sun Ra - Rome At Twilight
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All in good time: Drew DeNicola is nearing completion on #SunRa #DoorOfTheCosmos

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunradoc/sun-ra-door-of-the-cosmos/

#SunRa: Do The Impossible - About the Documentary | American Masters | PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/sun-ra-do-the-impossible-documentary/37455/

Cos Sun Ra

https://youtu.be/dj1HcBqCdh8

#SunRa #ExperimentalMusic #DonLetts

RE: https://jazztodon.com/@Avalon/116105493400242258

On the subject of major artists unafraid of alternative streaming, just go to the #SunRa page's Tracks, and hit random play. You'll be traveling spaceways for a very long time ☺️

#SunRa - SoundCloud
All the best music is on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/sFQwn8AZyaezf5tkI5

Jerry Gordon on #WPRB Princeton NJ 103.3 FM (https://wprb.com/) is playing the #music of #SunRa until 2 PM EST (1900 UTC) #jazz

Looking forward to the PBS Sun Ra documentary, though I am 100% certain it will be a hagiographic talking-head affair, with all kinds of academics waxing lyrical (and vaguely, without saying anything concrete or analytical) about his weird oeuvre.

I'm talking myself out of it as I write. Basically, anything with talking heads is going to be the wrong approach for this guy.

#SunRa #jazz #pbs #documentary #movies

I only recently discovered Kamasi Washington. He’s a fantastic jazz saxophonist. His style reminds me a little of Sun Ra. Worth a listen if you like jazz.

#Music #KamasiWashington #SunRa #Jazz

@afelia
Da gab es also ein paar Platten in der #Bücherei die ich unbedingt haben musste. Die Hausregel war, dass, wenn man etwas geliehenes kaputt oder nicht weiter verleihbar machte, es bezahlen oder ersetzen musste. Fair enough, ich behauptete die Platte kaputt gemacht zu haben und brachte zwei andere als Ersatz. Und das mehrmals, und hatte noch immer ein schlechtes Gewissen, weil die eine mir selber so viel mehr wert war.

#Schallplatten #sammeln #sammlung #sammler #SunRa #jazz #freejazz

@afelia
Ha, das muss ich erzählen... ich muss wohl einen Ausweis für die #Bücherei in #Düsseldorf gehabt haben, sonst hätte ich es wohl nicht machen können. #Schallplatten ,nicht Bücher.
Ich war dahinter gekommen dass da etliche Platten von #SunRa im Bestand waren. Und von Sun Ra gibt es tausende Platten, die man praktisch niemals, nirgendwo, nirgendwann je auch nur mal gesehen hat; die haben praktisch aus jedem ihrer Konzerte eine #Vinyl gepresst und auch nur bei Konzerten selbst verkauft.