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Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2020)

Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 89 Mb | 00:38:33
Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Big Band | Label: Modern Harmonic

While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee “Nuclear War,” there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to “Nuclear War,” Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. Fireside Chat offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist’s intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything… except predictability.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 2, 2024
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2020)

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - A Fireside Chat With Lucifer (1983/2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 89 Mb | 00:38:33
Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Big Band | Label: Modern Harmonic

While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee “Nuclear War,” there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to “Nuclear War,” Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. Fireside Chat offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist’s intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything… except predictability.
Sun Ra - Sun Ra (The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note) (2014)

Sun Ra - Sun Ra (The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note) (2014)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 470 MB
3:25:05 | Jazz, Free Jazz, Swing, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Soul Note

The legendary jazz recordings made by Black Saint/Soul Note make a welcome return to the active catalog with this series of specially-priced boxed sets, which feature some of the label's finest artists. Sun Ra - the Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note features four albums in slipcases with original album artwork, housed in a sturdy box. The set includes the albums Reflections in Blue, Hours After, Mayan Temples and a Tribute to Stuff Smith.

Blue Sun - Live 1970 (2001)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 26, 2021
Blue Sun - Live 1970 (2001)

Blue Sun - Live 1970 (2001)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 386 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 150 MB | Covers - 30 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Karma Music (KMCD 1970)

Reissue on CD from the original master of live album by Danish Progressive hippy outfit similar to Burnin Red Ivanhoe, Rainbow Band and Midnight Sun. Recorded in 1970. Long tracks with extensive solo improvisation interplay between Guitar/Sax/Flute. Blue Sun is one of the most loved and missed bands in Danish Rock history. Their career was extreme short and intense. Blue Sun was at times very closed connected to the hippie-movement, and they marked the opening of the summercamp in Jutland with grace. Sadly this band has done very few recordings.
Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra - When Angels Speak of Love (2019 Remaster) (1966/2019)

Sun Ra And His Myth Science Arkestra - When Angels Speak of Love (2019 Remaster) (1966/2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 200 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 105 Mb | 00:45:40
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Cosmic Myth Records

When Angels Speak of Love, released in 1966 on Sun Ra's Saturn label, is a rarity, there having been limited pressings (150 copies, by one estimate), which were sold thru the mail and at concerts and club dates. The tracks were taped in New York during two 1963 sessions at the Choreographer's Workshop, a rehearsal space/recording den with warehouse acoustics. Ra spent countless hours at the CW from 1961 to 1964 sharpening the Arkestra during exhaustive musical huddles. John Corbett calls this "one of the most continuous, best-documented periods of Ra's work"; much tape from these seminal sessions has survived and been issued on LP, CD and digitally.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2 (2023)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Feb. 20, 2023
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2 (2023)

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Ellingtonia, Vol. 2 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 330 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 139 MB
1:00:25 | Jazz | Label: Enterplanetary Koncepts

Here's a second volume of Sun Ra paying tribute to one of his favorite musical geniuses. And here's roughly the same annotation adapted from volume one, revised where appropriate.
Despite the fact that Sun Ra has over 1,000 titles copyrighted in his name, a good part of his concert and recorded repertoire consisted of works by other composers. He arranged—in his idiosyncratic way— tunes by Monk, Gershwin, Henderson (Fletcher and Horace), Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, and countless others. But no one breezed into Sun Ra set lists more often than the "Duke"—Edward Kennedy Ellington.

Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 21, 2023
Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky (2022)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Living Sky (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 337 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | 00:59:25
Avant-Garde Jazz, Fusion, Space-Age | Label: Omni Sound

For more than two decades, the disciple that has most visibly carried on Sun Ra Arkestra’s legacy and sound is their musical director, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, the iconic fire breather and life force that restored the Arkestra’s vitality in the massive vacuum left by Ra and John Gilmore’s death in the ‘90s. Allen turned 98 in 2022 and, as evidenced by Living Sky, his influence and leadership remain undiminished. Marking the Arkestra’s first new recording since their 2021 Grammy-nominated album Swirling, Living Sky was recorded on June 15, 2021 at Rittenhouse SoundWorks in Philadelphia and features a total of nineteen musicians, including a strings section. It was mixed and mastered by three-time Grammy winner Dave Darlington (Eddie Palmieri, Brian Lynch, Wayne Shorter).

Sun Ra - Celestial Love (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Jan. 4, 2021
Sun Ra - Celestial Love (2020)

Sun Ra - Celestial Love (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 274 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 113 Mb | 00:48:12
Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band | Label: Modern Harmonic

Celestial Love contains recordings made in September 1982 at New York's Variety Studios, which had hosted countless Sun Ra sessions since the late 1960s. This was one of the last extended sessions at Variety, and these recordings were the last studio works released on Sun Ra's own Saturn label (though the label did continue to press concert recordings, and new studio recordings did appear on other labels). Aside from their inclusion on Celestial Love, tracks from these sessions landed on the albums A Fireside Chat With Lucifer and Nuclear War. Since Nuclear War's contents overlapped with both Fireside Chat and Celestial Love, we have reconstituted the latter two as complete albums, thus covering all titles from these Variety dates.
Circles Around The Sun - Live at the Charleston Pour House 11/12/21 (2022)

Circles Around The Sun - Live at the Charleston Pour House 11/12/21 (2022)
FLAC tracks / MP3 320 kbps | 2:19:09 | 792 / 317 Mb
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Jam Band / Label: Royal Potato Family

Circles Around the Sun is a contemporary instrumental rock band that formed with the specific purpose of creating intermission music for Fare Thee Well, a series of reunion concerts played by the surviving members of the Grateful Dead during their 2015 tour. Those shows celebrated the band's 50th anniversary and served as their official send-off, while Circles Around the Sun was designed to reflect the Dead's spacy and grooving overall feel. After the tour, the group issued a self-titled album from the Fare Thee Well gigs and supported it with their own road trip. The response was so positive that they remained a going concern and released Let It Wander in 2018, which was less influenced by the Dead and more freeform, delivering on the roots influence of jazz-funk, soul, and fusion. The band underwent a fundamental transition in 2019.
Sun Ra - Universe in Blue (Expanded, Remastered) (1972/2022)

Sun Ra - Universe in Blue (Expanded, Remastered) (1972/2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 346 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 151 MB
1:01:54 | Avant-garde Jazz | Label: Cosmic Myth Records

Universe in Blue, a collection of undated live club performances by Sun Ra & His Blue Universe Arkestra, was issued in small-run pressings with two different LP covers on Sun Ra's Saturn label in 1972. Until now it has never been officially reissued on LP or CD.