limited heavyweight 7 inch, spiritual jazz by sun ra. tip!

spiritual / cosmic & soul jazz

all the material on this album comes from live performances from january 1978, when the quartet of sun ra was in italy with a quartet michael ray, john gilmore and luqman ali making recordings for aldo sinesio and the horo label

album of the works of spiritual legend sun ra!

all the material on this album comes from live performances from january 1978, when the quartet of sun ra was in italy with a quartet michael ray, john gilmore and luqman ali making recordings for aldo sinesio and the horo label

the albums one of ra s greatest from the 70s recorded in italy in 1978, and featuring some incredibly otherworldly keyboards that are some of his most enigmatic on record! original tracks from the album include disco 3000, an incredible workout on synthesizer, with a tiny bit of drum machine, a little space is the place breakdown, and all of the wild sound you d expect from a sun ra album plus more long tracks the sweetly soulful friendly galaxy, a great soul jazz number, and dance of the cosmo aliens, which has spooky organ, frenetic bass, and somber percussion. check!

a mixture of live recording and studio post-production, on jupiter sounds unique to any other album sun ra made. the arkestra reflects a disco pulse right back on itself, and delivers one of the most cohesive albums of their career. the title track is a masterpiece of gentle atonal harmony, while ufo pushes along at a cracking disco-ish pace with fierce brass and spacey dub effects. this is a timeless ra classic.

(2017 repress/remastered) one of the more delicate recordings of sun ra s 28-strong arkestra, sleeping beauty drifts in on a cloud of cosmic dust, sounding unlike anything before or after. with drummer luqman ali keeping the narcotic funk, but with dreamy solos from other key arkestra players like john gilmore, michael ray, and marshall allen, no sun ra collection is complete without this lp. inspired space-age lullaby music. tip!

hidden fire from the ra archives! a double 10” set featuring sun ra recordings from the outer limits and the underground. initially released on2 seperate 10-s back in 2010/13 respectively and both quickly became collectors items. don t miss them this time around...tip! . volume 1 features ‘along came ra’, was a previously unissued live track recorded in paris in 1983. with june tyson in full voice, the arkestra announce sun ra’s arrival on a sleeping planet. the flip features two previously unreleased cuts from the legendary disco 3000 concert tapes, a mind-blowing quartet session that releases the full power of sun ra’s crumar mainman synth. volume 2 lifts three fine selections from the ultra-deep sub-underground series of saturn lps. the transcendent ballad ‘love is for always’ and the driving, rootsy ‘the world of africa’ come from 1974’s live at temple u, while the myth-science poetics of ‘space is the place/we roam the cosmos’ is beamed down to earth from the 1975 what’s new set.

solo album displayig a collection of foggy electronic dub meditations recorded between 2000 and 2005 by berliner ring member alexander christou under his al chem guise. he has previously released for tummy touch and was part of the elecdrones formation on the berlin katzensonne label. further output include theater and radioplay compositions. limited 1st pressing 500 numbered 180gram tip-on sleeve. check!

(2017 repress) holy grail jazz release: originally out on sun ra s saturn imprint. bought back into the limelight through artyard s limited edition a few years back, now repressed again! comes with printed inner sleeve. big tip!