Sun Ra Prophet (LP, colored Vinyl)

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(Modern Harmonic) 4 tracks, colored vinyl in red These once lost recordings on the Prophet... more

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Sun Ra: Prophet (LP, colored Vinyl)

(Modern Harmonic) 4 tracks, colored vinyl in red

These once lost recordings on the Prophet keyboard expand Ra's omniverse with a whole series of long cuts! All recorded in a single day, they finally make their debut on Earth, pressed on red vinyl and packaged with a Prophet Keyboard booklet and notes from ranthropologist Brother Cleve!

What happens when a prophet meets a prophet? The answer lies in these grooves.

Of the hundreds of recordings Sun Ra and his Arkestra have released under various names, most were recorded at concerts or in makeshift studios, such as New York's Choreographer's Workshop in the early 1960s. In addition, some 22 albums were recorded at the Variety Recording Studio in New York's Times Square. On August 25, 1986, however, Sun Ra and his comrades-in-arms entered Mission Control, a state-of-the-art 24-track studio north of Boston, teeming with electronic keyboards and otherworldly sound generators. In this arsenal was a brand new digital ultra-keyboard - the Prophet VS (“Vector Synthesizer”).

Of all the keyboards Ra played over the course of his fifty-year career, the Prophet VS was one of the most sophisticated. There is no evidence that he played any of the earlier versions of the instrument, the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and Prophet-10. The Prophet-5 was developed in 1978 under the direction of engineer Dave Smith using microprocessors, a new technological advance at the time, and revolutionized electronic music as the first polyphonic and, more importantly, programmable synthesizer.

Ra was fascinated by the Prophet (certainly not only by the name, but also by the instrument). Recorded in a single day, it is now time for these once lost performances to be rediscovered.

Article properties: Sun Ra: Prophet (LP, colored Vinyl)

Interpret: Sun Ra
Album titlle: Prophet (LP, colored Vinyl)
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: 0090771421111
weight in Kg 0.27

Sun Ra - Prophet (LP, colored Vinyl) LP 1
01	The Prophet	Sun Ra
02	Infinity Excursion	Sun Ra
03	The Prophet at Play	Sun Ra
04	The Prohet Returns	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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