Okay....I just saw this movie for the first time a few days ago. I liked it but was very weird - it had a "Graffiti Bridge of the 1970s" vibe to it. I had never heard or known anything of Sa Ra until know. How come nobody ever talks about him? Was he popular back then?

I looked him up on Wikipedia and it said that he claimed he was born on Saturn. Interesting concept for an artist.



BTW, can anybody explain to me what exactly "transmolecularization" is?
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You mean Sun Ra

Yeah, Sun-Ra. Thanx! I had to edit that title.

Sun Ra (Sonny Blount) threads pop up here periodically.
They don't usually last very long because most folks are not into Jazz here.
(Especially anything even close to avant-garde)


If you're serious about researching him further, here are a few links.
Official website of the Sun Ra Arkestra:
http://www.elrarecords.com/sunra.html

SATURN: Sun Ra and the Arkestra:
http://homepage.uab.edu/moudry/

The Cosmic-Myth Equations of Sun Ra:
http://www.ethnomusic.ucl...n%20Ra.htm

Doing research on Arkestra musicians John Gilmore and Marshall Allen will yield more insight.



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He'e well known in the jazz world, kinda hard to pin down though: so many albums covering so much ground. Some of the stuff I've heard sounds like somebody who's gobbled hallucinogens sneaking into a church after hours and goofing off on the mini-organ, what with there being no reference to convential structures. Conversely, I remember on his Atlantis album there were some quirky, tuneful little numbers. His discography is pretty intimidating so it's hard to know how representative what I've heard is to his whole body of work.

elmer said:

That's why I think it's important to understood that he didn't jump into the music scene, as some might consider a wack-o-naut.
For someone checking him out for the first time, it might be best to check out his early works.

If they can be found...



...Sound of Joy & Jazz in Silhouette for example.


These recordings will remind one that this same guy seriously studied Fletcher Henderson (not to mention played piano and arranged for him) & Duke Ellington.


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I love some Sun Ra

The Differences
Sometimes in the amazing ignorance
I hear things and see things
I never knew I saw and heard before
Sometimes in the ignorance
I feel the meaning
Invincible invisible wisdom,
And I commune with intuitive instinct
With the force that made life be
And since it made life be
It is greater than life
And since it let extinction be
It is greater than extinction.
I commune with feelings more than prayer
For there is nothing else to ask for
That companionship is
And it is superior to any other is.
Sometimes in my amazing ignorance
Others see me only as they care to see
I am to them as they think
According the standard I should not be
And that is the difference between I and them
Because I see them as they are to is
And not the seeming isness of the was

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"you must realize that you have the right to love beauty.... you must learn to listen, because by listening you will learn to see with your mind`s eye.
you see music paints pictures that only the mind`s eye can see. open your ears so that you can see with the eye of your mind"

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~Sun Ra



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