So I hear ya’ll enjoyed Pharoah Sanders which means you should all enjoy the brilliance of Sun Ra. It’s jazz, I think, but nothing like you’re ever bound to hear again. Sun Ra clearly has attachment issues to SPACE and his band is the grandly named the Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra. I bring you today Sun Ra & His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra with their brilliant soundtrack to the movie Space Is The Place. I’m not kidding.
According to Wikipedia, Ra apparently went to Saturn, and this is a direct quote:
“… my whole body changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up … I wasn’t in human form … I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn … they teleported me and I was down on [a] stage with them. They wanted to talk with me. They had one little antenna on each ear. A little antenna over each eye. They talked to me. They told me to stop [attending college] because there was going to be great trouble in schools … the world was going into complete chaos … I would speak [through music], and the world would listen. That’s what they told me.”
- Space is the Place
- Images
- Discipline
- Sea of Sounds
- Rocket Number Nine
Much Love