This week we would’ve celebrated the 106th anniversary of the great jazz composer, bandleader, poet, philosopher and an all-around enigmatic legend, Sun Ra, had he not decided that his time among us mortals had come to an end, and leave our planet 27 years ago. In remembrance Moonshine Maverick thought it would only be appropriate to pay a little tribute to him by revising an old mixtape, presented here for the first time fully re-arranged and remixed.
So get out your Cosmos Dancing Shoes and Journey Through Galaxies of Past Tomorrow and Into Worlds Beyond Alter-Destiny Among Dimensions Unknown…
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - India
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Tiny Pyramids
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Angels And Demons At Play
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Enlightenment
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Ancient Aiethopia
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Saturn
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - The Others In Their World
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Call For All Demons
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Kingdom Of Thunder
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Fate In A Pleasant Mood
- Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra - Brazilian Sun
- Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - Watusa
- Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated
- Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra - Cluster Of Galaxies
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Egypt Strut
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Spontaneous Simplicity
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - When There Is No Sun
- Sun Ra and His Arkestra - El Is A Sound Of Joy
Tracks 1 & 18 from Super-Sonic Jazz, circa 1956. Tracks 2, 3 & 8 from Angels and Demons At Play, circa 1956 (8) and 1960 (2&3). Tracks 4-6 from Jazz in Silhouette, circa 1958. Tracks 7, 9 & 10 from Fate in a Pleasant Mood, circa 1956 (7) and 1960 (9&10). Track 11 from When Sun Comes Out, circa 1962-63. Tracks 12 & 13 from Soundtrack to the Film Space Is The Place, circa 1972. Track 14 from Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow, circa 1962. Track 15 from In Egypt, circa 1983. Track 16 from Pictures of Infinity, circa 1968. Track 17 from Disco 3000 (Complete Milan Concert 1978), circa 1978.
Artwork by Victoria Topping