if you like disco 3000 you should check out media dream - it's from the same italian tour
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
playing synth in a Sun Ra cover show later this month, stoked!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
xp glad you like the paris tapes tarfumes! i still play that one in my car sometimes. a really memorable disc.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 June 2013 04:50 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfikmy7koTs&list=PL1R8_DCS7cN9zRPIWaGoVV21gTJxqfvPY&feature=player_detailpage#t=370
Sun Ra Arkestra: Angels And Demons At Play - San Francisco, 8/3/13
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:26 (ten years ago) link
marshall lights into the wind synth @ 6:00
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
I can't believe I missed this show. I'm not likely to see them, ever.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 29 August 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
I am apprehensive about trying to d/l all this
but there is a bunch of shit in there that I want and cannot otherwise get
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
fuuUUUUUCK.
I'm kind of surprised no one tried to do a "complete Saturn recordings" box, but hey, too late now.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
also Steveolend to thread:
re: is there a critical discography of his work anywhere. Book form or website. Would love to know what was what at a glance.apparently there's this. I haven't read it.
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
http://artistcamp.rebeat.com/store/sun-ra/afternoon-tunes/4053166846872/cover.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/zI1Ub0G.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/mmPJNBl.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/IY8Q4Ik.jpg
― μ thant (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Uh-oh...lapsed-copyright releases?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
re-reading bits of Space is the Place, I wonder has anyone here ever come across any of the Saturn Records 45rpm 7"s? How insanely rare/expensive are these?
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 March 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
Checking on popsike, looks like anywhere between $30 and $3000.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 14 March 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
hadn't seen this before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbvOPo4tHM
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/30541/sun-ra-perfume-by-norton-records
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Friday, 2 May 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
huh I wonder how that book of poetry compares with the other one I already have
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 May 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
WKCR centennial celebration:
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/sun-ra-centennial-festival-monday-may-19-sunday-may-25
Our festival will involve both show-specific programming throughout the week, as well as a 48-hour continuous broadcast on Thursday May 22nd and Friday May 23rd. To begin, the Monday May 19th, Tuesday May 20th, and Wednesday May 21st "Out to Lunches" (12-3pm) will consist of "Intro to Ra" programming, featuring some of Ra's most acclaimed recordings, as well as archived interviews with Ra himself. The Wednesday May 21st "Musician's Show" (6-9pm) will air a recent interview with long-time Arkestra trumpeter Chris Capers. The culminating event, the 48-hour broadcast on Thursday and Friday, will look at a range of Ra's work, including pivotal live sets, regional sessions, his solo work, key Arkestra members, and more. The centennial festival will conclude on Sunday, May 25th, with an in-depth look at some of Ra's earlier controversial, avant-garde work on the early morning "Jazz 'til Dawn" (1-6am) and a focus on notable Arkestra members with significant distinct careers on the afternoon "Jazz Profiles" (2-7pm).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 18 May 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
Thanks so much for posting that, Tarfumes. Today's Out To Lunch started with the more mainstream-progressive, Ellington-influenced tracks from LPs like Jazz In Silhoutte (which incl maybe the earliest version of "Ancient Aethopia", which leads us to the brink, with breezes from afar), and then to more adventurous music from the same era (late 50s-early 60s). Thee stealthy cosmic brinkmanship becomes a recurring tactic in these selections; also a not-R&b/rock-yet-r&b/rockhead-luring approach (though no electric bass etc., not yet)keeps things from being too navel-gazing. Overall, the courteously challenging approach suggests Dr. Leary & associates' set-and-setting acid sessions; DJ is describing the intriguing artwork and other marketing aspects (LPs would appear at campus radio stations, with no prior or following press sheets etc.)
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
These bold-edged, small combo and maybe octet selections from The Nubians of Plutonia seem like good places to start, whatever your tastes: tautly, unmistakably Ra.
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
this is fantastic office listening, thanks for the heads up
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Not that I like them all in the same way, or to the same degree, but the album seems meant to be more of a sampler. Now: "Circe," getting more exotica again, while leading off When Sun Comes Out.
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
"We travelll, the space-wayys, from plan-ett, to planet."
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
Finally! Into the Skronk!
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
This existed at the same time as Giant Steps and Ornette and Mingus...and yet somehow, is in another dimension entirely.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Cosmic Tones! Might be my favorite Ra record.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Dig the beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BslNucq9jXo
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
Yep, finishing today's lunch with selections from Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy, a pick-me-up (and veer me through the spheres, set me down walking briskly). And a couple from one I haven't heard, The Universe In Blue/. Clavinet shuffle, June Tyson singing: "I hope you understand/Pharoah was sittin' on his throne/When the black man ruled this land/I hope you understand/I hope you understand..." Now the clavinet lattice is swaying, drum is not swayed.
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I've heard The Universe In Blue!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
Rightat the end with a couple (first a slightly refracted starlight boogie) from Night of the Purple Moon.
― dow, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
Part of press release email I received today
The Sun Ra Mastered for iTunes releases include material culled from session and rehearsal tapes, and production and album masters. The series includes a significant amount of previously unreleased material, some stereo mixes of tracks previously available only in mono, and complete versions of tracks which had been edited for the original LPs. Many of these tapes, and the records that were made from them, are high-quality lo-fi, having been recorded in studios, nightclubs, and ad hoc rehearsal spaces.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
list of the remasters
Angels and Demons at PlayAstro BlackAtlantisBad and BeautifulCosmic Tones For Mental TherapyFate In a Pleasant MoodHoliday For Soul DanceInterstellar Low WaysThe Invisible ShieldJazz In SilhouetteThe Magic CityMonorails and Satellites Vol. 1Nubians of PlutoniaOther Planes of ThereSound Sun PleasureStrange StringsSupersonic JazzUniverse In BlueVisits Planet EarthWe Travel the SpacewaysWhen Sun Comes Out
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit I was AT that '91 Toronto gig! (Or at least may have been - saw 'em twice during the weeklong engagement.)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Currently: tracks from Nothing Is, the 1966 college tour. At the moment: "Space Aura," with rollicking piano and rhythm section, tenor and bari saxes, suave, brawny trombone, a bit of freaky unison, steaming drum solo---if doing the Downbeat blindfold test, I'd guess Mingus. Next album: Atlantis.
― dow, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
Man, Ra was such an underrated pianist.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Ho, this last (?) one from Nothing Is is high North Africa-suggesting reed, bass figure I've never heard anywhere before, appropriate bell tree, cowbell, cymbals, kick drum in, piano now too---nobody but Ra's crew now; starting to sing, "This is the theme of the Stargazers now/Stargazers in the sky/This is the theme of to-morr-ow's world", horns cut loose. Piano, and: "If you find Earth bor-ing, just the same old place/C'mon sign up, Outer Space-ways, in-cor-por-ray-ted", jaunty now, and splee splonk splash the good rain.//// Something else: rocksichord and oboe? Electric guitar, or more keyboard? Into Atlantis now, I think.
― dow, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:35 (ten years ago) link
Yep, definitely Atlantis.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Amazingly specific sound qualities to these selections. A lot of the albums are on that xpost iTunes remasters lists; wonder of some of this is from advance copies? Heretical thoughts amidst the Vinyl Return. On tracks from Other Planes of There, feel like I'm walking around in the bells of soloing horns. Finishing up today's Lunch with some Heliocentric Worlds. Vol. 2, I think. xpost Thurs.-Fri.'s 48 hr. marathon may have me calling in, staying home in the headphonesverse.
― dow, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I seriously considered calling in sick just to listen to that.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
Those Atlantis tracks were terse, emphatic grooves: bass, drums, versatile electric keys; no horns (needed) on the ones I heard. True of the album as a whole? I'll have to find out.
― dow, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
I sure hope those remasters really are remasters. The cd versions of all those things on the Evidence label are no-noised to death and it drives me crazy! Not that I'd even remotely consider purchasing them all again, at least not in download form, but for the sake of future generations!
― liam fennell, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link
A physical release would be nice. I used to hope for a Mosaic-like "complete Saturn recordings of Sun Ra" box, but I suspect such a thing is impossible.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 May 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
Horizons on WKCR right now! This is a great one, still un-reissued.
More fun: my buddy Josh is going to play "Space Is The Place" on the organ at Fenway Park today!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:09 (ten years ago) link
That sounds awesome. Was up in Boston this past Sunday and enjoyed the organist's work at Fenway that night.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
He's fun to follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtkantor
He'll take requests!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, I'll be thinking about that. Today I've heard more acerbic small-group flexing (really dig that sproingy keyboad) from Atlantis, natural echo, tympany and arco basses in rehearsal, but no stop-starting, just dinosaur workouts on Strange Strings, and captivating flute via "Spontaneous Simplicity," from Outer Spaceways Incorporated: more rehearsals, but with applause. Now more space boogie from xpost Night of the Purple Moon(flute, piano, oboe at the moment, in reverberating jellyfish jello). Oh yeah, and this, from this morning's Morning Edition--incl audio--music &interview excerpts--and a video; see prev. NPR on Ra linked at the bottom of text)http://www.npr.org/2014/05/22/314593139/saturn-still-swings-celebrating-sun-ra-at-100 Commotion now.
― dow, Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
From Dow's descriptions I think I want to add Nothing Is to my modest Ra library. Emusic has a thing on ESP Disk called The Complete Nothing Is... Am I well served if I get that?
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 22 May 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
Whoa, really digging this synth thing on right now (after "My Favorite Things")! Anyone know what it's from?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 May 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
It was from either New Steps or Other Voices, Other Blues; both are 70s quartet sets.This afternoon's focus on smaller groups is now curving back through the the 50s: "Deep Purple," a duet with Stuff Smith (overdubbed? Seems to be plucking and bowing simultaneously)(now it sounds like a modified organ), and others from Sun Sound Pleasure. Jon, The Complete Nothing Is is worth checking out, if you like that approach, and prob more easily available than the original, at this point (reminds me I still haven't looked up Ra on Spotify).
― dow, Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
Cool, thanks! I don't have much late-70s Ra, for some reason. Definitely gonna seek those out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 May 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link