SUN RA: THE SINGLES
This is Poindexter Q Rock’n’Roll coming to you live from beautiful downtown Worthdale right here on WPDQ. We’re gonna be spinning some sheet like you ain’t never heard before. It’s gonna be M-I-N-D E-X-P-A-N-D-I-N-G.
The first thing I wanna tell you tonight, before we get started, is that, if you get a chance, you need to go down to the canteen and tell Harry and Irene that Poindexter Q says hey. And while you’re there get Irene to cook you up some of them brains and eggs she’s so famous for. OK, without further adieu, let’s rock!
Tonight I am going to turn the whole show over to an artist that many of you may not be so familiar with but one who has released music in every decade since the forties. Let me turn your attention to one specific package, Sun Ra: The Singles (Evidence 1996). A two-disc collection from throughout Sun Ra’s lengthy and prolific career that is a must for any serious music lover. With over 150 minutes of music so varied and adventurous that it almost literally turns you every which way but loose.
To listen to both discs straight through is a ride you won’t soon forget; as an amazing collection of innovative players interpret Sun Ra as Sun Ra interprets others. This is challenging music and we are all greater for it. From "A Foggy Day" to "Outer Space Plateau" it is a roller coaster of innovation.
Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount became Sun Ra. Then Sun Ra created his own alternative and was one of the first to do it. He created Saturn Records, his own independent label, in the mid-fifties, that released most of the music featured here. Sun Ra, who was early to experiment with Robert Moog’s contribution to musical instrumentation, was actually given a prototype mini-moog by Bob himself.
Tonight I am going to turn the whole show over to an artist that many of you may not be so familiar with but one who has released music in every decade since the forties. Let me turn your attention to one specific package, Sun Ra: The Singles (Evidence 1996). A two-disc collection from throughout Sun Ra’s lengthy and prolific career that is a must for any serious music lover. With over 150 minutes of music so varied and adventurous that it almost literally turns you every which way but loose.
To listen to both discs straight through is a ride you won’t soon forget; as an amazing collection of innovative players interpret Sun Ra as Sun Ra interprets others. This is challenging music and we are all greater for it. From "A Foggy Day" to "Outer Space Plateau" it is a roller coaster of innovation.
Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount became Sun Ra. Then Sun Ra created his own alternative and was one of the first to do it. He created Saturn Records, his own independent label, in the mid-fifties, that released most of the music featured here. Sun Ra, who was early to experiment with Robert Moog’s contribution to musical instrumentation, was actually given a prototype mini-moog by Bob himself.
You can find Sun Ra music that is more challenging, way more far-out than this, especially some of the 60’s era New York based explorations. In fact, there is quite a bit of doo-wop on this disc but I find it an excellent way to remember loosing my acid cherry and seeing Sun Ra and the Solar Arkestra lift off into interstellar overdrive at the Hampton Jazz Festival in 1967.
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