SUN RA +ARKESTRA 1978 Media Dreams US LP El Saturn PRIVATE Press EX Handmade Slv
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Description
ARTIST: SUN RA & his ARKESTRA
TITLE: MEDIA DREAMS
LABEL + YEAR: El Saturn Records; white pasted paper labels, USA Private Press, 1978
Label text: ‘Enterplanetary Koncepta BMI’
CONDITION VINYL: Excellent, I have listened right through and this plays Excellent
Matrix details:
Side 1: CMP 1978 C-A
Side 2: CMP 1978 D-B 1978-D-B
CONDITION SLEEVE: Excellent, hand-made: the front is decorated with strips of round ‘Sun Ra’ labels uniformly placed: the rear sleeve is blank.
Gold label to top front right with ‘Imported & distributed by Recommended Records, 583 Wandsworth Road, London, SW8 3JD, UK’
DESCRIPTION:
Side 1:
Saturn Research
Constellation
Yera Of The Sun
Side 2:
Media Dreams
Twigs At Twilight
An Unbeknowneth Love
Notes
Live in Italy, January 9th 1978.
Credits
Drums, Vocals – Luqman Ali
Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Drum Programming [Rhythm Machine] – Sun Ra
Tenor Saxophone, Drums, Vocals – John Gilmore
Trumpet, Vocals – Michael Ray
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his experimental music, "cosmic philosophy", prolific output, and theatrical performances.
He was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up.
Born and raised in Alabama, Blount would eventually become involved in the 1940s Chicago jazz scene. He soon abandoned his birth name, taking the name Sun Ra (after Ra, the Egyptian God of the Sun) and developing a complex persona and mythology that would make him a pioneer of Afrofuturism: he claimed he was an alien from Saturn on a mission to preach peace, and throughout his life he consistently denied any ties to his prior identity.
His widely eclectic and exploratory music would eventually touch on virtually the entire history of jazz, ranging from swing music and bebop to free jazz and fusion, and his compositions ranged from keyboard solos to big bands of over 30 musicians.
From the mid-1950s until his death, Ra led the musical collective The Arkestra (which featured artists such as Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, June Tyson throughout its various iterations). Its performances often included dancers and musicians dressed in elaborate, futuristic costumes inspired by ancient Egyptian attire and the space age.
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