seeking Sun Ra : space is the place

Today’s show is a Vibrational exploration of the explosive supernova that is the music, thought, and performance of Sun Ra, and the Utopian energetic nebula of the Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra.

Featuring special guests Intergalactic Dissonance and The Astral Apprentice, and songs from a recording of Sun Ra and his Arkestra live at Panama Red’s in Champaign, IL April 4 1979. We’ll also be playing some of the following intergalactic popular hits: Nuclear War, Mu, Space Is the Place, We Travel the Spaceways, Take the “A” Train, Calling Planet Earth, Astro Black, Bassism, and more!

Turn on. Tune in. Destination unknown!

Nuclear War . Nuclear War . 1982 . Saturn

Sun Ra & his Astro-Infinity Arkestra . Mu . Atlantis . 1969 . Enterplanetary Koncepts

Astro Black . Concert for the Comet Kohoutek . 1973 . ESP

Kwame Hadi-tp (solo on Discipline 27); Akh Tal Ebah-tp, flg, mellophone, voc; Dick Griffin or Charles Stephens-tb; Marshall Allen-as, ob, fl, perc; Danny Davis-as, fl, perc; John Gilmore-ts, perc, voc; Eloe Omoe-bcl, perc; Danny Thompson-bs, fl, perc; James Jacson-bsn, fl, Ancient Egyptian Infinity Drum; Alzo Wright-vln, clo, d; Ronnie Boykins-b; Sun Ra-Mini-Moog syn, org, declamation; Tommy “Bugs” Hunter-d; June Tyson-voc, dance; Space Ethnic Voices: prob. Judith Holton-dance, voc; prob. Cheryl Banks-dance, voc; Ruth Wright-voc, dance