Sun Ra
About the artist
Sun Ra (1914 – 1993) was an innovative jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesiser player, who came to be known as much for his Cosmic Afro-futurist Philosophy as for his phenomenal musical compositions and performances. He claimed that he was of the "Angel Race", not from Earth but from Saturn. Some of his most notable influences were African and African-American theatre, theosophy, and masonic Afro-futurism. His interest in these art forms
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- Tapestry from an Asteroid
- Enlightenment
- Space Is The Place
- Hour of Parting
- Nuclear War
- Door of the Cosmos
- Door To The Cosmos - Mixed
- Saturn
- When There Is No Sun
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