The amazing seventies disturbed Sun R.

In September this year, the trumpet player and former Son Arstra member Ahmed Abdullah recently threw in Sankofa Café In the capital. He appeared to read from his recently published book, A strange heavenly road: My time in Sun Ra Arkestraand And adding cross scraps from the live century plays to emphasize his words. At some point, he reminded of a few of us lucky enough to attend that Sun Ra “making music for the twenty -first century.”

The number of release of versions and versions from 2024 alone is a great defense of his demand. There is a group of derived materials from Disney, Pink elephant in a procession; The release of the expanded for the year 1967 Strange chains; Record members of the individual tubes discovered from 1984, Excelsior mill; Session is barely available from Outtakes, The kingdom of discipline; Live records 1976-1977 that have recently discovered Chicago offer.

Nihad Lights on a satelliteThe new album by Arkestra, which includes leadership and Alto Sax Play of Marshall Allen, which joined Sun Ra in 1958 and celebrated his 100th birthday this year. It is not bad for the institution that left the original composer, the band’s reader, the key player, and the Afot Pioneer Afro on the planet for more than 30 years. Given the possibility of participating in any hundred Sun RA titles, it is easy to be able to swim in the endless arkstra tributaries available to us now.

All of this leads us to another version, also called Lights on the satelliteThe largest part of this registrar live in the famous Baltimore Hall in July 1978, a period when it was the most distant exploration in the Arxra in the excessive vocal load in the early twentieth century the criteria of a large group in the piano century. Like Chicago Gallery materials, this substance was produced by the jazz archaeologist and co -chair of resonance records Feldman.

Due to the quantity of seams-the-to -seams now available from this period, a lot can be found here in one form or another elsewhere. The criteria dug by Arkestra at the time, such as half Nelson/Lady Bird LeeDley or Fletcher Henderson Classics “Yeah Man” and “Big John’s Special”, appear on any number of other SUN RA versions. As in the experiment of the piano and the “wateusi” rhythm or the familiar chants of the familiar space for the audience’s participation, represented here “We are traveling space”, tune in the RA book since the days of Chicago in the fifties. There is a single single offer of Sun Ra’s favorite “somewhere above the rainbow.”

So, yes, Sun Ra Freaks stumbled on these things before. Nothing of this makes what here is anything less important, especially given that this is the audioviser that is taken by Maryland, which was, Robert Mug, registered as part of the project that will become the movie. Full noise. It was released in 1980 and has long been available on VHS and DVD, and for years, this was one of the only ways to get an explicit glimpse of the man and his band. It includes interviews with ARKESTRA members, surface performance of about 50 or more players, philosophical reflections between RA planets, and it also contains musical shots, some of Baltimore Gig appeared here.

This version also comes with a booklet that includes Feldman interviews with Marshall Allen, Gary Bartz and Arkestra Michael D. Anderson; Mugge tells the story of how this project happened in the first place as well.

However, music, regardless of the number of versions of these things currently available, makes this version transcendent. After an opening procession of the rhythm, Sun Ra persuades some references between the planets of its mixture before the goddess of Saturn June Tyson moved to the lead center with “Tissue from the asteroid”, which is a song that has only the most weakened relationship to the automatic story of the same name, which was recorded by Argera Several times in the late fifties and early sixties.

Tyson makes the way to the huge and higher Trumbon from Craig Harris and a typical explosion of Alto Sachs from Allen, who joined him at one point by a long -term organ and Tinor Sach John Johnmour’s agent . We are already 17 minutes before you find the shows in the remains of the numbers.

Allen Sachs on the standard “cocktails” is a special matter. Sun Ra raises the melody for about two minutes on the piano before it appears, initially sharpening the tune before the launch of a series of screaming and then relegating again in the structure of the dirt song. It is almost happy. Moreover, it appears to anyone only familiar with the most “out” that plays, like Sun Ra, was drowned in the tradition of music. But then, none of the intention to stay was fixed.

Any decision I make to start playing standards in the 1970s was not attended until after he has already cleared a bold, studied and unjust path towards the future. This means that the criteria, which have not become often not become platforms to “unknown there”, are between 20 years of original materials and sections of the chaos they control. This design is uncompromising in the face of indifference and poverty makes festive vehicles like this one is obtained as hard and lively.