Not even instruments were safe from the cosmological. Sun Ra was a taskmaster of a bandleader, the charismatic head of a free jazz cult. Not only were his band members denied the pleasures of sex, drugs, and booze—the birthright of most jazz players—they also had to play on instruments marked by Sun Ra himself. At the exhibition, Sun Ra's "space harp," an electrified mbira, hung next to a cymb
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Finally getting around to listening to these pieces. I'll get to the Sun Ra in a minute, but right now I'm listening to this track from Martino, Baiyina, from the album Baiyina(The Clear Evidence), 1968. This piece is blowing me away. I'm not embedding the link, I'm asking you to please follow to www.destination-out.com, as that's the original site and more importantly, the information is im...
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In his travels throughout the galaxy Sun Ra ocaissionally landed on planets where funk was spoken. Here on earth he released some of these artifacts on his own label with hand drawn covers in limited pressings. Is Sun Ra the spiritual father and guide to George Clinton's space exploration? If you ever saw Sun Ra's stage show, (you know that George saw it, or at least felt it), you know what I'm...
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That crazy old Hubble is at it again - this time giving us a three dimensional map of dark matter. Here it is...Amazing. According to a BBC report, the creation of the "map" required 1,000 hours of Hubble observations."For the first time" says Professor Carlos Frenk, of the University of Durham, "we can really see what's out there."The BBC's science reporter writes: "Dark matter is invisible, s...
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Sunday morning playing catchup after a hellofa week anda half of load-in and what do my grateful eyes and ears behold, but...Following through, it turns out the good people at Destination Out! have made an amazing post full of interesting links, info, and mp3s. (I'm going to ask that you visit DO proper for the sounds. It's only right and when you see what else is there you will flip) "To clar...
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Finally getting around to listening to these pieces. I'll get to the Sun Ra in a minute, but right now I'm listening to this track from Martino, Baiyina, from the album Baiyina(The Clear Evidence), 1968. This piece is blowing me away. I'm not embedding the link, I'm asking you to please follow to www.destination-out.com, as that's the original site and more importantly, the information is im...
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I'm working my way through posting some of my most beloved songs, and today it is time for Sun Ra, bringing his own particular style to a Jerome Kern's, I Dream Too Much. There's a lot I could say about this song (and Sun Ra), but since most of it will make me sound like a caricature of adolescent/midlife angst with my clichéd wonderings and overused quotes about the unknowableness of the huma..
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| 2 Ancient Aiethopia |
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| 3 Blues at Midnight |
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| 4 Images |
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| 5 Enlightenment |
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