Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Sun Ra

Sun Ra has probably the largest and most widely issued catalog in the history of recorded music, and the task of tracking when any bit of music was recorded or (often decades later) released has actually been the sole topic of multiple book-length features by an assortment of daring musicologists. His own record label, Saturn, often issued records with blank or hand drawn covers in extremely limited pressings that would simply disappear into the sands of time. As such the following titles are presented alphabetically and rarely captioned by more than a title. Good luck.

Angels and Demons at Play
(Original design, reconstructed from parts of several extremely low res images, approximating the original design as nearly as possible.)


Aurora Borealis
(Reconstruction of original, hand-drawn Saturn release cover from 1981, adapted from Popsike)

Fate in a Pleasant Mood
(1974 Impulse! reissue)


A Fireside Chat with Lucifer
(Adapted from Discogs)

The Heliocentric World of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
(Recent reissues)

The Heliocentric World of Sun Ra, Vol. 2

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra


Interstellar Low Ways
(Original)

Lanquidity

Mayan Temples

The Nubians of Plutonia
(Jaw-dropping effort from the 1974 Impulse! reissue)

Nuclear War

Other Planes of There

Sound of Joy

Unity

Visits Planet Earth
(Reconstructed)

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