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(Modern Harmonic) 10 tracks If you wish upon a star... it's Saturn! Previously unheard... more

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Sun Ra: Pink Elephants On Parade (LP)

(Modern Harmonic) 10 tracks

If you wish upon a star... it's Saturn! Previously unheard recordings of Ra from the archives, compiled because of their connection to the children's movie company with the cartoon rodent.

Jazz lovers and Disney nerds alike will be amazed at how seamlessly Sun Ra and his Arkestra put their own stamp on both well-known and overlooked Disney songs. Pink Elephants on Parade takes nine songs from Disney's storied catalog and recontextualizes them as beautiful, funny and sometimes terrifying pieces of Afrofuturist jazz. The collection is also further proof that Ra was always willing to transcend the conventions of jazz. Listen to the entire album, and you'll probably never look at the Disney music catalog the same way again.

Originally known for accompanying Dumbo and Timothy's colorful alcohol-induced hallucinations, this song is given new life by Ra and the Arkestra in more ways than one. The cacophony of horns, drums, percussion and cowbell is reminiscent of a marching band. However, the crazy grandeur of the song is taken to the extreme with crazy vocal lines (hence the high-pitched “What'll I do” vocals) and other performances that somehow sound more evil and abrasive here than in the Oliver Wallace and Ned Washington version. Although the Sportsmen's vocals exuded a certain eeriness in this particular arrangement, the Arkestra takes a previously innocent-sounding song and makes Pink Elephants On Parade sound even scarier.

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Interpret: Sun Ra
Album titlle: Pink Elephants On Parade (LP)
Genre Jazz
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Label MODERN HARMONIC
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0090771421012
weight in Kg 0.27

Sun Ra - Pink Elephants On Parade (LP) LP 1
01	The Forest Of No Return	Sun Ra
02	Someday My Prince Will Come	Sun Ra
03	Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	Sun Ra
04	Let's Go Fly A Kite	Sun Ra
05	Second Star To The Right	Sun Ra
06	Pink Elephants On Parade	Sun Ra
07	Whistle While You Work	Sun Ra

Sun Ra Sun Ra Sun Ra was an American experimental and avant-garde jazz composer and... more

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"Sun Ra"

Sun Ra

Sun Ra was an American experimental and avant-garde jazz composer and musician (piano, organ, keyboard), poet and philosopher. He was born on 22 May 1914 as Herman'Sonny' Blount in Birmingham, Alabama and died on 30 May 1993 in his birthplace.

myth

Sun Ra was already considered a myth during his lifetime and until today as one of the most wicked jazz musicians of this world (or the Orbit?). With his very own style and innovative ideas, he polarized the critics and the audience. For some he was a brilliant innovator, for others a charlatan. However, it is undisputed that Sun Ra is one of the pioneers of free jazz.

Arkestra

His bizarre astrological sermons and philosophies made him as famous as his musical compositions and performances. In 1952 he gave up his birth name and took the name Sun Ra (Ra is the name of the ancient Egyptian sun god) and conducted an orchestra with a constantly changing line-up, the famous Arkestra. The most notable members of the Arkestra were the saxophonists John Gilmore, who in turn strongly influenced John Coltrane, and Marshall Allen, who still leads the Arkestra today. The word Arkestra was developed by Sun Ra as a connection from ark to orchestra.

Cosmic Jazz

In the 1950s, Sun Ras first developed music from swing, with which he began his career in the 1940s,'reinventing' himself by using the science fiction hype, devoting himself to space issues and giving his new sounds the label'Cosmic Jazz'. According to music critics and jazz historians, some of his best works were created during this period. Notable Sun-Ra albums of the 1950s include many Super-Sonic Jazz, Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth, Interstellar Low Ways, Angels And Demons At Play, We Travel The Spaceways and Jazz in Silhouette.

Saturn

As early as the 1950s, the eccentric began wearing strange costumes and headdress in Egyptian style. He claimed he came from the planet Saturn and developed an artificial figure of lyrical poetry and'cosmic' philosophies preaching peace and consciousness. Unlike many black musicians of his generation, he rarely talked about controversial topics. He preferred to make music while the ensemble of musicians who worked with him and toured with him was constantly changing.

The Sixties, 70s and beyond

In the 1960s, Sun Ras music became increasingly experimental with a tendency towards chaos. During this period his popularity reached its peak when Beat Generation and Psychedelic Rock discovered Sun Ra for themselves.

During the 1970s and beyond, the music of Sun Ra and the Arkestra developed in conventional directions, but still highly eclectic and energetic. With the singer June Tyson he brought jazz standards to the stage in a captivating way and began to process parts of Walt Disney's music from the Disney films. In the late 1980s, the Arkestra even gave a concert in Disney World.

Sun Ra has recorded over 100 albums from 1956 to 1993. Some were released on his own label El Saturn and many others under the name Sun Ra & His Arkestra and numerous variations of them (Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra, etc.).

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