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(2016/Modern Harmonic) 16 tracks. The first-ever collection of Arkestra vocal tracks!... more

Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra: The Space Age Is Here To Stay (CD)

(2016/Modern Harmonic) 16 tracks. <br>
The first-ever collection of Arkestra vocal tracks!

Over 75 minutes of vocal performances - audible perfection! Featuring album art interpreted from the work of 'the father of modern space art,' Chesley Bonestell, plus extensive liner notes.

Across the history of jazz, there is no wilder, more future-forward composer and performer than Herman Poole Blount, aka Sun Ra. Known as much for his wild on-stage persona as his innovative compositions, Sun Ra was the avant-garde bleeding edge of the jazz genre, introducing modal composition and electronic instrumentation before almost anyone else -- not to mention bringing the space age to life with his obsession with all things extraterrestrial. Across more than 100 LPs released in his lifetime, Sun Ra charted a course to space and far, far beyond.

Known primarily for his keyboard improv and freeform band arrangements, Sun Ra could also write great vocal songs when he set his mind to it. Such songs as 'Space Is The Place' and 'Interplanetary Music No.1' show Ra's unique approach to songwriting, using eerie chanting and repetition to create hypnotic moods. And Ra could get swingy when he wanted to as well -- 'Enlightenment' and 'Sometimes I'm Happy' are gorgeous ballads, as pretty as any Tin Pan Alley tune. Of course, it wouldn't be Sun Ra without his space age lyrics -- 'Take your first step out to outer space - You're like a little baby who never walked before' shows up in the future-predicting 'Walking On The Moon.'

At long last, Modern Harmonic has put together The Space Age Is Here To Stay, the very first collection of Sun Ra’s vocal tracks — two albums’ worth of mind-blowing tunes from the mind of the Man from Saturn himself. 

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Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Space Age Is Here To Stay (CD) CD 1
01 Nuclear War (live) Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
02 Interplanetary Music No 1 Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
03 Back In Your Own Back Yard Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
04 Enlightenment Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
05 'Round Midnight Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
06 Sometimes I'm Happy Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
07 The Antique Blacks Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
08 Moorish Nights Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
09 Walking On The Moon Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
10 This Song Is Dedicated To Nature's God Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
11 1984 Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
12 Space Is The Place Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
13 The Forest Of No Return Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
14 The Truth About Planet Earth Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
16 Space Chant (Third Heaven) Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra
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"Sun Ra & His Interplenantary Vocal Arkestra"

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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Tracklist
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Space Age Is Here To Stay (CD) CD 1
01 Nuclear War (live)
02 Interplanetary Music No 1
03 Back In Your Own Back Yard
04 Enlightenment
05 'Round Midnight
06 Sometimes I'm Happy
07 The Antique Blacks
08 Moorish Nights
09 Walking On The Moon
10 This Song Is Dedicated To Nature's God
11 1984
12 Space Is The Place
13 The Forest Of No Return
14 The Truth About Planet Earth
16 Space Chant (Third Heaven)