I love Sun Ra but I'm also not a huge fan of screechy in general. I really have to be in the mood.
You might try Languidity from 1978. Mellow, spacey, and odd. Maybe Hiroshima from 1985.
From the early/mid-60s I'm a big fan of We Travel the Sapceways and Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy where he starts to play with spring reverb (telephone ringing in the background). Angels and Demons at play is one of his earliest and I think it's great even if people will say it's not especially spacey or experimental.
You might also like Nubians of Plutonia, On Jupiter, Art Forms Dimensions of Tomorrow, My Brother the Wind II (lots of synth exploration at the end), maybe Magic City.
I love Sun Ra but I'm also not a huge fan of screechy in general. I really have to be in the mood.
You might try Languidity from 1978. Mellow, spacey, and odd. Maybe Hiroshima from 1985.
From the early/mid-60s I'm a big fan of We Travel the Sapceways and Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy where he starts to play with spring reverb (telephone ringing in the background). Angels and Demons at play is one of his earliest and I think it's great even if people will say it's not especially spacey or experimental.
You might also like Nubians of Plutonia, On Jupiter, Art Forms Dimensions of Tomorrow, My Brother the Wind II (lots of synth exploration at the end), maybe Magic City.
I don't think you can go wrong with those two. I've been meaning to check out Interstellar Low Ways for ages. Maybe I'll pick it up next.After listening to lots of previews on iTunes, i decided to start in by ordering the two-fer cd of "Angels and Demons at Play/Nubians of Plutonia".
I don't think you can go wrong with those two. I've been meaning to check out Interstellar Low Ways for ages. Maybe I'll pick it up next.
By the way, the John Szwed biography Space is the Place is excellent. Less talked about but also really good is Graham Lock's Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton.
Sun Ra trivia (that everyone here probably already knows but news to me): Longtime Sun Ra sideman Pat Patrick is the father of Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
By the way, the John Szwed biography Space is the Place is excellent. Less talked about but also really good is Graham Lock's Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton.
Better SunRa trivia - he only had one testicle.