#sun-ra — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sun-ra, aggregated by home.social.
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@thetonearm to be clear, his United States passport on which #SunRa traveled clearly stated BIRTHPLACE: SATURN
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King Kolax and his Quintette - Vivian
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Door of the Cosmos #SunRa playlist
"This playlist is a bit more out there, more eclectic and in the spirit of SUN RA, defies chronology to some degree. This is a mix I could not have made a year ago but I feel reveals the many moods of RA and the reason why I still return to his expansive and singular catalog of sonic wonder!"
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8egAg3DL7-joPprYQIldG_aHvvHP0FbW
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Do The Impossible: Original Soundtrack To The Documentary | #SunRa #Bandcamp
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@rasterweb there’s so much. Lanquidity is great, jazz in silhouette for earlier work, heliocentric worlds, magic city, nubians of Plutonia, Mayan temples #jazz #music #sunra
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🪐 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗻 & 𝗣𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲'𝘀 #𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗥𝗮 #𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦
Sat March 28th, 9.30am, #Knoxville, TN #BigEars
Thu Apr. 2nd. #Birmingham, AL
Wed Apr. #Philadelphia #Lightbox
Fri Apr. 10th #Harlem #NYC #MayslesDocCenter
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"When you play these tunes, don't just copy their notes and sounds, you need to copy their INTENTION."
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We travel the space ways from planet to planet.
Sun Ra 1979 - Space is the place NSJF
#SunRa #SpaceIsThePlace
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6k4S3v21amc&si=5KTHX9h2fPqM61UI -
"Reality has touched against myth / Humanity can move to achieve the impossible / Because when you’ve achieved one impossible others / Come together to be with their brother, the first impossible / Borrowed from the rim of the myth / Happy Space Age to you . . ."
- Sun Ra
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For those outside the PBS regional firewall boundary, news today this #sunra torrent now shows on #thepiratebay in several handy formats.
While his space brothers may already know about Sun Ra, his earthbound non-USA friends should also have the chance 😊
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Mes écoutes de la semaine du 09 March 2026
#GraceBergere, #BertrandBetsch, #CavernOfAntiMatter, #DedalusEnsemble, #DhanaJeera, #Dragibus, #Ensemble0, #ThéoGirard #SophiaDomancich #LesleyMok #NickLyons, #PhilipGlass, #Growing, #Huntsville, #Katerine, #Krokofant, #NimaMajd, #øjeRum, #WestonOlencki, #OM, #SunRa, #HisMythScienceArkestra, #MajaSKRatkje, #MajaSKRatkje #MarteIngeborgHaltli #FridaHeleneHaltli, #MajaSKRatkje, #JonWesseltoft, #CamilleNorment, #PerGisleGalåen, #MajaSKRatkje #TorsteinSlåen #SigurdYtreArne, #Stereolab, #Stereolab, #NurseWithWound, #Supermalprodelica, #Kerozen, #MichaelVallera
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Sonny Blount (#SunRa) as Arranger for Red Saunders and his Orchestra 1951
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Part documentary, part musical ethnography, “The Cry of Jazz” (1959) was conceived by the composer Edward Bland, novelist Mark Kennedy, city-planner Nelam Hill, and mathematician Eugene Titus and comments on the innovations of Black musical history while acknowledging the ongoing fight for civil rights. It was incredibly controversial for these reasons and the frank discussions between the multi-racial cast at the center of the film
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Time for our first feature presentation: “The Cry of Jazz” (1959) directed by Edward O. Bland (https://youtu.be/fE00fzXpI04?si=UG1JNrQCyofGuS6R) and featuring the music of poet, musician and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra and His Arkestra
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There’s a lot of strobing and intense sounds in this week’s #LaEsoterica offerings. If this isn’t for you I can recommend the recent PBS “American Masters” documentary “Sun Ra: Do The Impossible” about the life & work of poet, musician and godfather of Afro-Futurism Sun Ra. You can watch it for free here (https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/sun-ra-do-the-impossible-documentary/37455/)
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I listen to a lot of radio. Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman show is 5 hrs of Sun Ra's anti-war song 'Nuclear War' this week! This world needs Sun Ra just now.
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"Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, 'The Black Man in the Cosmos'
A pioneer of 'Afrofuturism', bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band. While attending Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, he had an out-of-body experience during which he was transported into outer space. As biographer John Szwed records him saying, 'my whole body changed into something else. I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn.' While there, aliens with 'little antenna on each ear. A little antenna on each eye' instructed him to drop out of college and speak through his music. And that’s just what he did, changing his name from Herman Blount and never looking back.
Whether you believe that story, whether Sun Ra believes it, or whether his entire persona is a theatrical put-on should make no difference. Because Sun Ra would be a visionary either way. Combining Afrocentric science fiction, esoteric and occult philosophy, Egyptology, and, with his 'Arkestra,' his own brand of free jazz-futurism that has no equal on earth, the man is truly sui generis. In 1971, he served as artist-in-residence at UC Berkeley and offered a spring semester lecture, African-American Studies 198, also known as 'Sun Ra 171,' 'The Black Man in the Universe,' or 'The Black man in the Cosmos.' The course featured readings from—to name just a few—theosophist Madame Blavatsky, French philosopher Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, black American writer and poet Henry Dumas, and 'God,' whom the cosmic jazz theorist reportedly listed as the author of The Source Book of Man’s Life and Death (otherwise known as the King James Bible).
Now we have the rare opportunity to hear a full lecture from that class, thanks to Ubu.com. Listen to Sun Ra spin his intricate, bizarrely otherworldly theories, drawn from his personal philosophy, peculiar etymologies, and idiosyncratic readings of religious texts. Hearing him speak is a little like hearing him play, so be prepared for a lot of free association and jarring, unexpected juxtapositions. Szwed describes a 'typical lecture' below:
Sun Ra wrote biblical quotes on the board and then ‘permutated’ them—rewrote and transformed their letters and syntax into new equations of meaning, while members of the Arkestra passed through the room, preventing anyone from taping the class. His lecture subjects included Neoplatonic doctrines; the application of ancient history and religious texts to racial problems; pollution and war; and a radical reinterpretation of the Bible in light of Egyptology.
Luckily for us, some sly student captured one of those lectures on tape."
