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Gilles Peterson Presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra 'To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds'

STRUT125LP

Released on 30 October, 2015

€28,95 EUR

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Track Listing

A1 Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra* – Love In Outer Space (Vocal) 3:50
A2 Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra* – On Jupiter 4:02
A3 Sun Ra And His Myth-Sience Arkestra*– Spontaneous Simplicity (Stereo Version) 3:01
A4 The Cosmic Rays With Sun Ra And The Arkestra* – Dreaming 2:46
A5 Sun Ra And His Myth-Science Arkestra* – Black Sky And Blue Moon 3:02

B1 Sun Ra* – Enlightenment 2:57
B2 The Sun Ra Arkestra – The World Of Africa 3:00
B3 Sun Ra And His Arkestra* – They Plan To Leave 6:08
B4 Sun Ra And His Arkestra* – Children Of The Sun 4:28

C1 Sun Ra And His Blue Universe Arkestra* – Blackman 7:44
C2 Sun Ra And His Arkestra* – India 4:50
C3 Sun Ra And His Arkestra* – Mystery, Mr. Ra 3:07
C4 Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra* – The All Of Everything 4:23

D1 Sun Ra Quartet Featuring John Gilmore – When There Is No Sun 4:35
D2 Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra* – Sleeping Beauty 11:51
D3 Sun Ra And His Myth-Science Arkestra* – We Travel The Spaceways 3:27

‘To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds’ is a hand- picked selection from BBC 6Music DJ Gilles Peterson, long-time champion of Ra’s music and the UK’s leading tastemaker for jazz-based sounds. It serves as perhaps the best introduction yet to the music of Sun Ra for a whole new generation of converts, drawn from Ra's immense 125 LP back catalogue.

Sun Ra was a one-off in the history of jazz. As author Robert L. Campbell describes, “He claimed to be the last of the swing band leaders, yet dosed classic songs with LSD. He wrote poetry about the “coming space age” and claimed to be a citizen of Saturn. He dressed himself and his band in gold-lamé and lectured on the Creator’s message to the cruel and deceitful Earthman. He named himself after an Egyptian God. Was this guy for real? Sun Ra was very much for real.”