I use music as a medium to talk to people.
(Sun Ra)
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
(Sun Ra)
In the half-between world,
Dwell they: The Tone Scientists
In notes and tone
They speak of many things...
The tone scientists:
Architects of planes of discipline
Mathematically precise are they:
The tone-scientists.
(Sun Ra).
I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people. (Sun Ra).
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos. (Sun Ra).
Resist me----
Make me strong
Resist me----
Make me strong.
For since I cannot be what you will
I shall always be that much more so
What I will. (Sun Ra).
Sun Ra (1914-1993) Was a major black musician and bandleader, a ground breaking innovator of immense and extraordinary vision, 'The corner stone of experimental Jazz Whose mythology and intergalactic narrative navigated between Ancient Egypt and outer space.
His Performances incorporated everything from 30s big band swing to Experimental funk and synthesizer pieces, with a large ensemble of musicians and dancers. He was also a master pianist, whos published output exceded 180 albums, he recorded for many of the American and European Jazz Labels and toured extensively with his various ensembles between 1956 and 1993. He also did cover versions of Walt Disney tunes and recorded a couple of sides for a toy company, as well making films and documentaries about his philosophy and vision. Sun Ra was also a gifted writer and his collected works of Poetry and Prose can be found in The Immeasurable Equation
Sun Ra’s music is associated with his musical navagation toward free jazz and his poetry toward cosmology and Egyptology, Sun Ra worked within the traditional established African American expressive traditions, He had a distinct compositional style and language, elements of the blues, ragtime, and spirituals crossed-over with experimental electronic instruments, rhythm machines - invented instruments and re-combined in a fusion to present new musical dimensions, he was a 'cosmic guide' through black musical traditions, A 21st Century Tonal Guide To Times Tomorrow.
Sun Ra is arguably one of the most influential and important of all 20th century composers. Sun Ra was a sonic explorer in the revolutionary 'Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow', the new forms of music, and a ground-breaking bandleader of immense vision.
His extraordinary work and time on this planet has yet to be fully appreciated.
ART YARD is an Independent Record Company based in London UK Established in 2004 and formed to bring some of Sun Ra's lesser know works to the new generation of listeners
SUN RA'S THE ANTIQUE BLACKS, ART YARD CD 010 WITH A BONUS TRACK. CD-RELEASE DATE 21/11/09 AVALIBLE VIA RER MEGA CORP, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD 'NOW' AVAILABLE ON ITUNES AND EMUISC
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1978 THAT THIS HISTORC SUN RA RECORDING HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE, ABSTRACT SOUND DIMENTIONS, RECITED POETRY. MOOG FREAK OUTS, METAPHISICAL DECLAMATIONS, SUN RA AND HIS MYTH SCIENCE SOLAR ARKESTRA, RECORDED IN 1974. 180 GRAM 'fully re-mastered', Limited Vinyl Edition available early next year, Art Yard / Kindred Spirits Collaboration.
SUN RA'S DISCO 3000 , Sun Ra, John Gilmore, Luqman Ali, Michael Ray : Recorded at The Teatro Ciak, 23/01/1978, Milan Italy.
SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA HORIZON 'LIVE IN CAIRO EGYPT' 12/17/71 EXTENDED.
SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA NIDHAMU + DARK MYTH EQUATION VISITATION. 12/12/71- 12/16/71 -12/17/71. 'LIVE IN CAIRO EGYPT'.
Art Yard presents Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band’s definitive work, 'Egyptian Jazz' recorded in Heliopolis Egypt between 1968 and 1973. Western Jazz musicians have been fascinated with the world of Islam for many years, for religious - spiritual, musical and sociological reasons. It was therefore inevitable that musicians of the Arabian North African area would play a part in the interaction of these two Musical Cultures. The compositions correspond to the cross over of musical styles at the time of the recording, 6000 miles away across the Mediterranean and Atlantic in New York with releases on Moodsville by Yusef Lateef and RCA by Ahmud Abdul-Malik.
This release marks the first time Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band’s definitive works are presented to the west
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These tracks where created with an amalgamation of elements, electro mechanical devices, invented instruments, modified keyboards and delays, self constructed percussion rhythm machines and string devices.
This ‘half man, half machine’ cross-over configuration consists of arrangements with electromechanical drums, loops, samples, 12 string guitar, timpanis, heckeshorn, metallophone, This is a visit to the Electro Mechanical sub-underground.
The Crew consists of
Thomas Stern : recording, mixing, additional effects.
Christian F. Günther : self constructed electromechanical instruments, rhythm machine,
Moritz Wolpert: percussion, timpanis, electromechanical drums.
Alexander Christou: samples, loops, 12 string guitar,
Berliner Ring - Orbital, has a combination of Themes and Moods from the Berlin landscape, with detours, playgrounds and off ramps . This release explores outside the conventional musical circuit. The Engine Room interaction of the triggered electromechanical instruments perform with dramatic, theatrical and complex supernatural initiative.
The pieces released on this disk present a brew of forms and techniques. The tracks create a geographical reference or representation, ‘a tonal landscape’, an Orbital echogram from the inner workings of the Berliner Ring machine. These tracks are ambient instrumental stereologues, inhabited by vivid abstract tones and rhythm creatures.
This is an ‘off centre’ Berliner Ring – Orbital soundmap, a transmission from a weird musical dimension, an alternative brew of Sonic Revolution from East Berlin.
What the London orbital is to the English capital. The Berliner ring is to Berlin - a circular highway surrounding the great city.
Berliner Ring is a project consisting four individuals: call them artists, musicians, and inventors. Moritz Wolpert: drummer and painter lately
has focused on developing a new music instrument -the heckeshorn -
a hybrid of automatic slide guitar, mechanically triggered polychord and rhythm machine.
Christian Günther, the one who mostly earns the description as an inventor, throughout the years he developed several species of analogue synthesizers, rythemboxes, thermins, painting machines - all in his very specific rusty World War 1 look. So he provided a bunch of genuine machines to the Berliner Ring.
Alexander Christou who blends different sides of contemporary music, as electronic grooves, songs, traditionals and different music styles.
Thomas Stern, bass player, osmotic dubbler.
Doctorate in Distillery, enfleurager, morphosing elixing smoke rings, orbiting Berliner Ring and a great mix and remixer with a weird ear perfectly rounds up the Berliner ring crew.
Art Yards offer for a release triggered a serial of recording session (2006/2008), which led to the first album – ‘Orbital’ - an odyssey through
the continents and subcontinents. Dark layers, spiral stairways, four divine comedians winding their way through a gas-powered universe.
Das Heckeshorn
Recorded: live on March 16, 2003 at the Beta Lounge in San Francisco
In 1967, San Francisco’s Fifty Foot Hose were certainly one of the
innovators of a sound that took Psychedelia to new heights and was
captured on the band’s one record, Cauldron. They are a totally
unique hybrid—on one hand pulsating bay area acid rock, on the other,
fractured electronic freakery, becoming one whole cohesive being. The
sci-fi-ish video game-like artwork hinted at the sounds within, as did
the Limelight label’s pedigree for truly progressive sounds. Band
leader, Cork Marcheschi, used homemade electronic devices to create
crude and experimental soundscapes and instrumental compositions that
were sprinkled throughout the album.
Often starting shows with a swelling rumble that exploded into the
first song, they soon developed a rabid following on the SF scene,
though there was the occasional totally wrong gig, like when a
very-pregnant Nancy had to perform at a Catholic Girls’ school! Still,
the group wowed the crowds, performing with greats like Chuck Berry and
Fairport Convention.
Our next show is at the Jazz Café on Friday Friday 26 June. More details below! The Jezebel Sextet + Groove Cartel + Soul Cookers DJs in assocation with Saint Paul Soul Jazz
Jazz Cafe, 3-5 Parkway Camden London, NW1 7P
Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £15 / £12.50 advance or £10 guest list (sign up at www.jezebelsextet/gigs)
Saint-Paul Soul Jazz, Europe’s most exciting funk festival, crosses the channel to present a night of heavy Hammond funk featuring The Jezebel Sextet and the Groove Cartel, plus DJ sets from Soul Cookers Records. All the excitement and friendly atmosphere of the festival at the Jazz Café for one night only!
#About Saint Paul Soul Jazz
Saint Paul Soul Jazz, Europe’s first Hammond funk and raw soul jazz festival, takes place from 10-12 July in the beautiful provençale village of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, near Avignon in France. This year’s line up includes: The Perceptions, Phat Fred, Lefties Soul Connection and Sweet Vandals
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