Persy Jacson

Nuit noire sur le Cap. Le monde entier se mobilise contre le réchauffement climatique en éteignant les lumières pendant une heure. à la faveur de l'obscurité, une vague de violence déferle aux abords de la ville. Une mère et son bébé sont portés disparus. …

Sun Ra - Space Probe (1974) {Saturn-Art Yard ‎CD011 rel 2011}
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© 1974, 2011 Saturn / Art Yard ‎| ART YARD CD 011
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Space-Age / Jazz Funk / Progressive Jazz

The rare Space Probe sent out to the cosmos by Sun Ra in the mid 70s – with material recorded from the early 60s onward – the heart of it being Sun Ra's first ever recordings on a moog synthesizer in 1969, and it's one heck of a trip! This excellent edition on Art Yard includes the material from the original Saturn release – the epic, nearly 18 minute interstellar trip that is the title track – with Sun Ra crafting hallucinatory moog magic throughout it. He shifts gears on "Earth Primitive Earth" (the complete version), an earlier recording, as much influenced by ancient sounds as futuristic ones, with hand drums for the beat and bass clarinet by John Gilmore. The closing "Conversion Of JP" is the other holdover from the earlier Space Probe LP and it's another gem steeped in primitivism, believed to feature Marshall Allen on flute (sure sounds like him to us).

Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Research Arkestra - Helsinki 1971: The Complete Concert (2009) {2CD Set Transparency 0314}
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© 1971, 2009 Transparency | 0314
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz

The complete document of a rare Finnish performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra – material recorded in Helsinki on October 14, 1971 – presented here in a 2CD package. The CDs feature both the first and second sets of the evening – and the material was recorded by the Finnish broadcasting company, so the quality is pretty good – well-recorded, and with as much clarity as some of the better-known live Arkestra albums of the time. The group's in wonderful form – a fairly large lineup, given the Scandinavian trip – and they run through modes that are spacey, spiritual, and straight. Players include Kwame Hadi, Marshall Allen, John Gilmore, James Jacson, Pat Patrick, Danny Davis, and Danny Ray Thompson – and June Tyson sings some really wonderful vocals on the record too.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - The Spirit of Jazz Cosmos Arkestra at WUHY, 1978 (2019) {Enterplanetary Koncepts 048289129999}
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© 1978, 2019 Enterplanetary Koncepts / Sun Ra LLC | 048289129999
Jazz / Space-Age / Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Funk / Experimental Big Band / Progressive Jazz

Sun Ra's Spirit of Jazz Cosmos Arkestra—the only known use of this appellation in Ra's entire catalog—performed in concert at Philadelphia's WUHY radio studios in 1978, probably in July. WUHY producer Anna Mintz, in a voiceover introduction, called the show "one of the hottest things to happen here since Dick Clark and American Bandstand left town."

Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Atlantis (1993) {Evidence ECD 22067-2 rec 1967-1968}
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© 1967-68, 1993 Evidence Music | ECD 22067-2
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Space Jazz / Experimental Big Band

An incredible record from Sun Ra! The session was recorded in New York in the late 60s – and it features Ra playing the "solar sound instrument", which is actually a modified Hohner Clavinet, used here with some really spooky sounds! The setting of the album is spare and moody – with Ra striking out first on the "solar sound instrument" – laying down a groove that's filled in by John Gilmore on tenor, plus additional percussion by Robert Barry (who plays a bit of the "lightning drum"), Clifford Jarvis, Marshall Allen, and Pat Patrick.