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Hace 4 días · The Sun Ra Arkestra, the ensemble Ra led for nearly 40 years until his death in 1993, was a big band in fact if not always in style, and Kronos has called in a wealth of collaborators to match...
Hace 3 días · Sun Ra Arkestra band leader and saxophonist Marshall Allen has lived on Earth for a century, but on Saturday night at Opus 40, he pointed to the sky and asked the sold-out crowd “why can’t we go somewhere there?” suggesting he’s still not done with his exploratory, interplanetary jazz mission. On the Arkestra’s second of...
Hace 4 días · Opus 40 is a stone sculpture garden in a former quarry located several miles off route 212 and down 3 miles of single lane dirt road. Parking is located in several clearings on the property, the audience walks into the site via rustic paths. Many did take the pilgrimage this year as the Sun Ra Arkestra made its third annual appearance to Opus 40.
Hace 4 días · The Arkestra, which included dancers, dressed in fantastical costumes inspired by ancient Egyptian attire and the space age, and Sun Ra conducted while wearing flowing robes and futuristic helmets.
Hace 4 días · Avant-jazz visionary Sun Ra’s Afrofuturist vision comes to the screen in this film adaptation of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, incisive social critique, playful pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and electrifying concert sequences, as Sun Ra and his Arkestra spearhead an intergalactic mission to relocate the Black community to their utopian space ...
Hace 2 días · In 2021, Balimaya Project released their debut album, Wolo So, drawing comparisons to Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 and Sun Ra’s Arkestra for their powerful, polyrhythmic sound.
Hace 3 días · Consisting of recordings from Sun Studios (aka Ra's house in Philadelphia) from 1968-1969, the album features nine tracks: six compositions which have never been heard before in any form, plus fresh coats of paint on such 1950s classics as "Sunology" and "Ancient Aiethiopia", and an early rendition of "Why Go To The Moon".
