For the uninitiated, “Two Beasts” is a comprehensive document of where SUMAC was in the late fall of 2020. The song hits on all the elements that make the band unique. Bowel-loosening low end? Check. Indecipherable time signature patterns? Yup. Long, empty pauses and repetitive structures? Yessir. Mammoth grooves? You betcha. “Two Beasts” is experimental…
2022 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Music Film! The Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack accompanies Ahmir Questlove Thompson s directorial debut documentary, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Like the documentary, most of the audio recordings that were recorded during…
One of a handful of albums Sun Ra released on the legendary Impulse! label in the early 70s, Astro Black provides a comprehensive picture of where the Arkestra was around the time, drawing to the end of their ultra-free period and beginning to investigate more traditional jazz forms, and even the fringes of funk. Pressed…
60th Anniversary 180g Vinyl LP Reissue All-Analog Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and Pressed at RTI Craft Recordings presents a 60th-anniversary edition of The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra. A standout title in the Afrofuturism pioneer and innovative jazz artist s extensive catalog of recordings, the 1962 album marks Sun Ra s first recording…
Two previously unissued non-Haverford (and non-Rhodes) bonus tracks have been to this package. Both are piano works from an unidentified concert tape in the archives of Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. Likely from the mid-1970s, the first, “We Live To Be” is a duet between Ra and an unidentified drummer and the second features Ra’s solo…
Three vinyl LP set. Recorded live at Teatro Giulio Cesare on March 28, 1980, comprising an astounding 27 compositions, including the highly celebrated Astro Black, Mr. Mystery, Romance of Two Planets, Space Is the Place, We Travel the Spaceways, and Calling Planet Earth, over six vinyl sides. High among the greatest live gigs by…
For this album, Sun Ra collected an arsenal of exotic string instruments and handed them out to his Arkestra on the precept that strings could touch people in a special way. That the Arkestrans didn t know how to play or tune these instruments was not beside the point-it was the point. Ra framed it…
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…
Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra’s historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983.
Black One is the fifth studio album from Sunn O))). As the title implies, the album is very black metal-influenced, utilizing many guest musicians of the genre, including Malefic and Wrest from Xasthur and Leviathan, respectively.This RSD Black Friday edition is a double colored vinyl LP in a deluxe gatefold jacket, and includes an 18”…
Sunrise Patriot Motion deliver their debut album, Black Fellflower Stream, a portrait of obsession and torment set entirely in a single isolated field where a man in the throes of mania believes he is capable of digging a hole deep enough to reach oil. With Yellow Eyes co-founders Will and Sam Skarstad on guitars…
Sunroof, aka Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones, release their brand new album, Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3, via Mute’s Parallel Series. Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 3 is a collection of nine improvised tracks, recorded using the duo’s Eurorack modular systems, and builds upon the self-imposed parameters laid out on their 2021 debut. Daniel Miller, the Founder and…
New Jersey’s SUNROT is preparing to release their first full length album under the Prosthetic Records banner. The Unfailing Rope is due on April 7 and comprises eight tracks of devastating sludge and noise – and promises to afford SUNROT the attention that they so richly deserve.At times The Unfailing Rope seemed to be a…