God ra

Sun Ra - God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (2018) {Cosmic Myth Records CMR 003}
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© 2018 Cosmic Myth Records | CMR 003
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Progressive Jazz

Sun Ra is best known for the extensive archive of recordings he made with his Arkestra, and most Ra enthusiasts are probably first attracted to his work by the sui generis imagination he brought to arranging for large ensembles. These span the recalibrated swing-band tropes of Jazz In Silhouette (Saturn, 1959), a perfect choice for an advanced-level Blindfold Test, through off-planet takes on exotica such as those compiled on the previously reviewed Exotica (Modern Harmonic, 2018), and on to such spectacularly experimental albums as The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 1 (ESP, 1965).

Following on immediately, Dark Myth Visitation Equation might be better known to some as Sun Ra In Egypt Vol.1 or alternatively, Nature's God. It's an album based in part on a Cairo TV broadcast, and the general tone of the record tends to eschew electronics in favour of the Arkestra's more conventional cosmic shuffle. Finishing off the album is the highly surreal 'Why Go To The Moon?', Sun Ra's equivalent of a three-minute pop song, drawing on a weird gospel feel and the usual interplanetary subject matter.

Sun Ra - Art Yard in a Box (2012) {7CD Box Set Art Yard SUNRERBOX rec 1970s}
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© 1970s, 2012 Art Yard / ReR Megacorp | SUNRERBOX
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Funk / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz

9 classic Saturn LP releases from Sun Ra on 7 CDs in an individually numbered box set limited to just 500. All these albums are great, all of them quite different from one another and all featuring a lot of electric keyboards and Moog from the boss. The albums are: Disco 3000, Sleeping Beauty, On Jupiter, Beyond the Purple Star Zone, Oblique Parallax, Horizon, Nidhamu, Dark Myth Equation Visitation The Antique Blacks.

One of the towering figures of 20th century's music, Alabama-born pianist and organist Herman "Sun Ra" Blount (1914) became the cosmic musician par excellence. Despite dressing in extraterrestrial costumes (but inspired by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt) and despite living inside a self-crafted sci-fi mythology (he always maintained that he was from Saturn, and no biographer conclusively proved his birth date) and despite littering his music with lyrics inspired to a self-penned spiritual philosophy (he never engaged in sexual relationships apparently because he considered himself an angel), Sun Ra created one of the most original styles of music thanks to a chronic disrespect for both established dogmas and trendy movements.

A small group of US troups and an Egyptologist use an ancient device found in 1920s Egypt to transport themselves to a distant planet. There they discover .. err, well any more plot would be considered a spoiler.
~ Rob Hartill