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Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 (1971)
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol 1 ranks among the best of the Arkestra's live recordings. Though there are a few very nice shorter pieces with vocals ("Enlightenment," "The Stargazers"), this is...
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Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 2 (1971)
While Sun Ra was struggling to find an audience stateside, Willis Conover had enlisted Sonny (amongst others) into Uncle Sam’s Cold War cultural army, broadcasting the Arkestra’s records regularly on...
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Sun Ra - It's After The End Of The World (1970)
 Recorded live at the Donaueschingen Music and Berlin Festivals in 1970, this gem ideally captures Sun Ra and His Intergalactic (Research) Arkestra at its most otherworldly self. Individual and...
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ESP Sun Ra Radio Tribute - 14 hrs in 6 Parts
After receiving a few requests from interested readers to re-up portions of this series, I decided that featuring the entire collection of webcasts in one post would help to bring some attention to...
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Solar Flares
This is intended to be a repository of Contributions from kind readers. Please feel free to share links to any unpublished or out-of-print Sun Ra related music, video, pictures, or print material. Any...
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Sun Ra - VPRO Broadcast 1971.11.11 Delft, Netherlands
 The Arkestra appeared at the Technische Hogeschool, Nieuwe Aula in Delft, on November 11, 1971. The state-run radio station recorded the concert and broadcast it on November 14. According to Campbell...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Live From Soundscape (1979) released 1994
In celebration of Cauleen Smith's amazing work, Black Utopia, I want to re-introduce this fantastic 1979 set performed in NYC. This is a great recording of a fantastic performance and Disc 2 (Japanese...
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Sun Ra - Life IS Splendid (from Ann Arbor 72 LP)
Life is SplendidThanks to Tom in SFCA for suggesting."My understanding is that Atlantic Records put out a compilation record of the 1972 Ann Arbor...Festival which contains an excerpt of the Sun Ra...
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Sun Ra - Space Poetry and The Immeasurable Equation
In celebration of the 99th anniversary of Sun Ra's arrival on our Earthly plane.Sun Ra’s wordplay, poetry, and language equations are as entertaining and thought provoking as his music and all seem to...
View ArticleNOW! Please Contribute to Thomas Stanley - Only A Few Hours Left
Professor Stanley's project was successfully funded! I'm really looking forward to reading his book. Thanks to all who joined me in supporting the project.A personal meditation and scholarly...
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Sun Ra - Super-Sonic Sounds (1974)
In 1972 Ed Michel, the producer of the recording Space Is the Place, offered Sun Ra and Alton Abraham a lucrative contract on behalf of ABC/Impulse to rerelease the bulk of the Saturn catalog and to go...
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Sun Ra at Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio
A few years ago, John Corbett and his wife, Terri Kapsalis, donated a treasure trove - a historical cornucopia of sounds, articles, ephemera, and images that had been tossed into boxes, made ready for...
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Sun Ra - Live at the Hackney Empire (1994)
Live At The Hackney Empire may be the definitive latter-day Sun Ra recording for a couple of reasons. First, it's a full two-and-a-half hour concert on two CDs, so you get the actual flow Sun Ra...
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Sun Ra - The Other Side of the Sun (1980)
The Other Side of the Sun is a great example (among many) of Ra's ability to deftly use traditional Big Band Jazz as a launch pad for his exploratory adventures. The wonderful sound and inclusion of...
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Sun Ra - Egyptian Fantasy from Beets: A Collection of Jazz Songs (1992)
"Egyptian Fantasy (Carefree)" has long been one of my Sun Ra concert favorites. The hypnotic repetition of the theme makes for a great foundation over which the Arkestra's tone scientists can...
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Sun Ra - Stardust from Tomorrow
A companion piece to Second Star to the Right (Salute to Walt Disney), the two disks clock in at nearly 1:39 and is the remainder of the performance from April 29, 1989, at the Jazzatelier in...
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Sun Ra - Otherness (1974) (Reconstructed)
Otherness is a fascinating hybrid featuring tracks from Side A of the 1971 release, My Brother the Wind Volume II, alongside tracks from Side A of the 1966 recording, Outer Spaceways Incorporated. As...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated (1968) - Calling Planet...
In 1971, Sun Ra sold a stash of tapes to Alan Bates of the German label, Black Lion, who shortly thereafter issued this album under the title, Pictures of Infinity. A 1994 CD reissue added a previously...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Strange Strings (1967)
  Recorded NYC 1966-1967 Strange Strings is one of the most obscure and downright weird recordings in all of Sun Ra’s immense (and weird) discography. By 1966, Ra had acquired a selection of odd...
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2nd Chance: Sun Ra - Walt Dickerson Quartet - Impressions of A Patch of Blue...
I remember the date was quite a challenge. I don't think there was any music there to refer to. Or if there was, we didn't necessarily follow it. There was an understanding who would begin each...
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