Sun Ra – Astro Black
Astro Black
Astro-Black Mythology
Astro-Timeless Immortality
Astro-Thought In Mystic Sound
Astro-Black Of Outer Space
Astro Natural Of Darkest Stars
Astro Reach Beyond The Stars
Out To Endless Endlesslessness
Astro-Black American
The Universe Is In My Voice
The Universe Speaks Through The Dawn
To Those Of Earth And Other Worlds
Listen While You Have The Chance
Find Your Place Among The Stars
Listen To The Outer [...]

Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 2 LP
An album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra
played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra
THERE 
There is a land 
Whose being is almost unimaginable to the 
Human mind. 
On a clear day, 
We stand there and look farther than the 
ordinary eye can see. 
Far above the roof of the [...]

 
Sun Ra – Angels And Demons At Play LP
The Shadow of Tomorrow 
Today is the shadow of tomorrow 
Today is the present future of yesterday 
Yesterday is the shadow of today. 
The darkness of the past is yesterday 
And the light of the past is yesterday. 
The days of yesterday are all numbered and summed in the word “once;” 
Because “once upon [...]

Super-Sonic Sounds is the 1974 Impulse reissue of the first Sun Ra album to be released on his label El Saturn Research, Super-Sonic Jazz, which was owned and operated by Ra and his business partner Alton Abraham.  Before the Super-Sonic Jazz release they had released singles by Chicago doo-wop groups like the Cosmic Rays.  The [...]

 
Mongo Santamaria – The Watermelon Man
 

“..,.And that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.” So wrote Richard Burton (1577-1640) in Anatomy of Melancholy. 

Mongo Santamaria has often said that part of the beauty of [...]