Sun Ra Arkestra

Sun Ra Arkestra – Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:58:34 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Sun Ra Arkestra – The Solar-Myth Approach Vol. 2 (1972/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:04 minutes | 848 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charly | BYG

The Solar-Myth Approach was first issued in 1971 as a double LP set on the French BYG/Actuel label, then repackaged as two stand-alone volumes in 1972. Founded in 1967, BYG was associated with the maverick arts journal Actuel. The label issued dozens of fascinating and groundbreaking free jazz, experimental, and psychedelic releases before a seemingly abrupt—and controversial—late-1972 bankruptcy. The pot-head pixies in the band Gong recalled that “during the making of [our album] Flying Teapot in January 1973, the band learned that the record company had gone bust, its Paris office stripped bare, no phones working. The band was abandoned at the Manor Studios midway through the album.” The label died without a lawful successor—but not without litigation and lawsuits.

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Sun Ra Arkestra – The Solar-Myth Approach Vol. 1 (1972/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:51 minutes | 879 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Charly | BYG

The Solar-Myth Approach was first issued in 1971 as a double LP set on the French BYG/Actuel label, then repackaged as two stand-alone volumes in 1972. Founded in 1967, BYG was associated with the maverick arts journal Actuel. The label issued dozens of fascinating and groundbreaking free jazz, experimental, and psychedelic releases before a seemingly abrupt—and controversial—late-1972 bankruptcy.

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Sun Ra Arkestra – The Saturnian Queen of the Sun Ra Arkestra (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:38 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Modern Harmonic

The voice of Afrofuturistic science non-fiction! Undoubtedly the most sublime constellation in the Sun Ra cosmos, June Tyson’s voice is the perfect guide through one of the most challenging and varied musical legacies ever to be encountered. Capable of strong, fierce, and emotive vocalizations as well as intricate weavings, her voice transcends genre. This first ever collection affirming June Tyson’s unassailable gravity in Sun Ra’s realm features previously unissued cuts and features rare photos and extensive liner notes!

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Sun Ra Arkestra – Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra: Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:40 minutes | 639 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sundazed Music – Modern Harmonic

A celestial journey is just what Sun Ra and his Arkestra have created with Space is the Place. Sun Ra’s opus is at its simplest, a trip through outer bound melodies! Planetary bodies, eras in time, crystals, space caravans… Allow yourself to envision or feel a world away!

Featuring an album’s worth of previously unissued recordings from the same soundtrack sessions! These newly discovered tracks are heavy on the prose of Sun Ra, as he and June Tyson bestow countless bits of information and inspiration onto the listener.

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Sun Ra Arkestra – Living Sky (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:25 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omni Sound

For more than two decades, the disciple that has most visibly carried on Sun Ra Arkestra’s legacy and sound is their musical director, alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, the iconic fire breather and life force that restored the Arkestra’s vitality in the massive vacuum left by Ra and John Gilmore’s death in the ‘90s. Allen turned 98 in 2022 and, as evidenced by Living Sky, his influence and leadership remain undiminished. Marking the Arkestra’s first new recording since their 2021 Grammy-nominated album Swirling, Living Sky was recorded on June 15, 2021 at Rittenhouse SoundWorks in Philadelphia and features a total of nineteen musicians, including a strings section. It was mixed and mastered by three-time Grammy winner Dave Darlington (Eddie Palmieri, Brian Lynch, Wayne Shorter).

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