"incredible culling of rare Sun Ra material from impossible to find
Saturn jams mostly 1960s-1970s in a hand-coloured by Oakland kids
edition of only 100 copies: running the classic Ra gamut from solo synth
bloop through full-on sci-fi gospel orchestra, beatbox violence, space
chants and wiggy full ensemble horn freak outs, this is pretty much the
bomb in terms of unheard Sun Ra and pretty much everyone who has heard
it has been blown away. all covers are unique and hand-coloured just
like the original Saturn sleeves. cassette release of the year? highly recommended!" volcanic tongue
"one of the best mixes of Sun Ra material we have ever heard. a dynamic and continuous mix of spectacular Sun Ra music projected
out from pyramid tops for all to enjoy and be transformed by! if you don't know much about Sun Ra's music, we'll here's a perfect
sampler of his material, mostly taken from rare 60's & 70's
recordings, rare synth stylings, solo abstract piano work, deep trip hop
like grooves mixed with horn freak-outs, gospel vocal chants and Sun Ra
speach insights!
each cover is unique and different as they are all hand colored by the neighborhood kids here in Oakland, just like the original private press records the band colored in between rehersal takes! All copies of this limited to 200 pressing come with a foe Saturn Records Buisness Card with the Chicago and Oakland phone #'s on them!" sanity muffin
"Sun Ra first solo homemade recordings eerie-ly recorded onto a reel to reel in the beyond dark ages of 1948. now that ra is 100 and floating in the interstellar space: here is the blueprint of his trademark glee-spree sprawl dipped into the cosmic glitter of nothingness, alone in a empty church with nothing but his vivid and endless imagination to co-pilot. if the "carnival of souls" soundtrack by genius gene moore is enough to make you want to take it with you forever & drive off a bridge: heres more smiling golems of interplanetary lost-world haunts to pepper your eerie day.
fairly “inzane” ~looking issue of this short suite of recordings made on reel-to-reel by sun ra in 1948 in a “mysterious location” running through standards (and an “abstract original”) on a fully-fledged church organ, predating his more outré tendencies by a good few years. nice, crispy, overloaded recording spec lends a harmonic richness & claustrophobic weight to the proceedings.” mimaroglu
01 autumn again ~ pulse emitter | equinox (constellation tatsu, 2014) 02 balcony on the outer space ~ portopia '81 | stardust memory (field hymns, 2014) 03 star hive module ~ opaline | shade virtual (habitat tapes, 2014) 04 golden haze ~ x.y.r. | el dorado (coming soon...) 05 el devenir de las piedras, side a ~ claudio caldini (sonm archive, 1989) 06 breet's long winter's leap ~ loren chasse | unreleased (2014) 07 mayapple's dream ~ kane pour | unreleased (2014) 08 celestial ~ an bene & pierre lambow | sustained space (trance port tapes, 1983) 09 lenox avenue blues ~ fats waller | 1926-1927: organ and piano solos (classic, 1992) 10 willow weep for me ~ sun ra | church organ, 1948 (unknown label, 2014) 11 wind voice/lost lake ~ cloaks | visible (sun ark, 2014) 12 7th vision ~ günter schlienz | tour tape (sicsic, 2014) 13 untitled ~ euglossine | floridian abstract (housecraft, 2012) 14 garden music #10 ~ inner travels | garden music (rainbow pyramid. 2014) 15 waves ~ miaux | dive (ultra eczema, 2014) 16 to dance with you ~ enno velthuys | different places (exart, 1997) 17 parade I ~ pierre palla | tuschinsky, orgel (odeon/decca, 1948) 18 super cosmic ~ portopia '81 | stardust memory (field hymns, 2014) 19 feeling II ~ sun an | ice cream memory card (buena vista, 2014) 20 in search of a dream ~ bobby brown | live (destiny, 1978) 21 after night, before sunrise ~ oliwa | oceanic triangulation (inner islands, 2014) 22 karabinka ~ eitetsu hayashi | messenger of the wind (victor, 1983) 23 cohabitation ~ strange mountain | inhibitions (geology, 2014) 24 providence ~ cliffsides | headspace (tranquility tapes, 2014) 25 night sounds, side a ~ opaline | night sounds vol. I (self-released, 2014)
26 eighties gleam ~ demonstration synthesis | ds10 (rainbow pyramid, 2014) 27 awake, awake, awake ~ bus gas | snake hymns (spring break tapes!, 2014) 28 in waves ~ former selves | in waves (harmonic articulation, 2014) 29 goodbye dreams... ~demonstration synthesis | ds6 (5cm recordings, 2014) 30 archipelago ~ madalyn merkey | valley girl (new images, 2014) 31 untitled ~ inspired school of astral music | 10:10 opening... (sonic meditations, 2014) 32 meridiano ~ oliwa | selva primaria (rainbow pyramid, 2014) 33 palm café ~ c. young | daily's ep 10" (jj funhouse, 2014) 34 première mosrel ~ bwengo | tasty morsels, vol. 1 (tasty morsels, 2013) 35 writer ~ oootini | sample/hold (further, 2014) 36 native shores ~ edward artemiev | moods (melodia, 1983) 37 auto pedals ~ banal beauty | sandmutopia (cavelife, 2011) 38 live ~ sarah davachi| live at lucky's comics (music waste, 2014) 39 vie dans les profondeurs ~ michel redolfi | nausicaá...(cirm, 1991) 40 nº 7 'aquarium' andantino ~ eugene ormandy | carnival of the animals (sony classical, 1996) 41 group motion perfomance ~ charles cohen | group motion (morphine, 2013) 42 matching mirrors-morgiana's prowl ~ luboš fišer | morgiana (finders keepers, 2013) 43 miroitements ~ costin miereanu | fata morgana (poly-art international, 1982) 44 something nice for my dog ~ mark isham | vapor drawings (windham hill, 1983) 45 ah nice bir ~ hakan polat | neyzen (yavuzburcplak, 2011) 46 creek ~ hiroshi yoshimura | green (sona gaia productions, 1986) 47 swim twice ~ geotic | morning shore (eon isle) (self-released, 2014) 48 main theme/red square ~matti bye | the hundred-year-old man who climbed... (2014) 49 rotation ~ robert turman | chapter eleven (hanson, 2010) 50 lúa~ árbore| lúa(self-released, 2014)
...y aquí está el recopi de otoño, coincidiendo con el equinoccio, y con octubre a la vuelta de la esquina. snif. la lista de discos pendientes sigue aumentando y aumentando, y eso que yo hago esfuerzos verdaderos por disminuirla. con tanta música bonita desbordante es imposible resumir y ser concisa, y al final como siempre me salen estos recopis eternos. en 'autumn, again' hay descubrimientos que me hacía mucha ilusión compartir como 'el devenir de las piedras' de Claudio Caldini, una cinta de cassette de 1989 (hyades arts, ñam ñam) que tanto me recuerda a Bill Doob y a todo lo relacionado con Inspired School of Astral Music. ha sido imposible encontrarla pero, como el que busca siempre halla, al final he aquí un trocito de la cara a. lo mismo que 'miroitements' de Costin Miereanu, otra rareza deliciosa de 1981. hay una canción de árbore para la que no tengo palabras, se llama 'lúa' y son field recordings en estado puro, pajaritos, el océano atlántico y ese toque de guitarra tan suyo que reconocería a mil millones de kilómetros de distancia. amor eterno a 'celestial' de An Bene & Pierre Lambow, un tesoro de 1983 que también me recuerda a Celestrial Stairway (la obsesión va en aumento...). y siempre, siempre, nuevas y emocionantes canciones de Günter Schlienz, x.y.r. (preciosísimo adelanto de 'el dorado' que Vladimir quiso compartir con nosotros), Former Selves, Miaux y muy especialmente 'balcony on the outer space' de Portopia '81, la canción más bonita del mundo. gracias como siempre a las recomendaciones aisladas, a los mixtapes (m.m. peres se ha ganado el cielo por este pequeño homenaje a la música de órgano de los años treinta)... y a Toys and Techniques, uno de esos blogs que no quisiera que desapareciera nunca. la guinda: en pocos días subiremos un compilado sólo de chicas, mano a mano con la caracola (me pía un pajarito que la blogosfera está triste sin luzzzalig...). ¡chin chin!
