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Merry Psychic Tuesday!

On this episode of PTR, we’ll be kicking off the Magic City’s festivities in celebration of Sun Ra Day this week with a feature titled Sun Ra Speaks! In which we indulge in a smattering of interviews with the master himself, along with some choice selections of he & his Arkestra’s wonderfully otherworldly works! 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Al Casey - Thunder Beach
Lifeguard - Under Your Reach 
DIIV - Return of Youth 
L0wer Hybrid - Monster Is Mirror 
Pachyman - Calor Ahora
Johnny Moore’s 3 Blazers, ft. Charles Brown - Money’s Getting Cheaper 
Penza Penza - Hang Loose! 
Terrible Lovers - Amateur Taxidermy
Clark Coolidge & Thurston Moore - The Wickerwire Repetitions 
Doll Parts - Carnival Raga Revisited 
Broadcast - Colour In The Numbers 
Lukas Traxel - Transience ft. Otis Sandsjö & Moritz Baumgärtner 
Hali Polombo - SSTV
Vernal Scuzz - Nocturnal Life

HOUR 2 : feature - Sun Ra Speaks!

Sun Ra & his Arkestra - Abstract “I” (1993, The Magic City)
Sun Ra interview (1971, Helsinki)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra - Lights On A Satellite (1965, Fate In A Pleasant Mood)
Sun Ra Talks About Planet Earth and Music (1980, A Joyful Noise film)
Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra - Saturn (1966, Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth)
Sun Ra & His Arkestra  - Of Heavenly Things (1965, Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1)
Sun Ra interview by Bob Caylor, excerpt (1982, Bloomington, IN)
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Space Is The Place (1974, The Antique Blacks)
Sun Ra talks on "The Possibility of Altered Destiny”, excerpt (11/10/79)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra - We Travel the Spaceways (1960, We Travel the Spaceways)

Lou Reed - Goodnight Ladies

episode 342 : Sun Ra Speaks!

da doom day

Test Pressing

Modal Soda Pop

Cosmic Jazz

Free Album

K G G - Dancing on the Rings of Saturn

K G G - Moon Jazz

ARKESTRATION
Sonia Edgy - vocals
Loz Speyer - trumpet, flugelhorn
James Allsopp - tenor sax, bass clarinet
Gabriel Keen - piano, synth, alto sax
Olie Brice - double bass
Gary Willcox - drums

Recorded live April 2018 by Tom Bra
At Ridley Road Market Bar, Dalston, London E8

Space is the Place (Sun Ra) - Arkestration

Take a dive into your mind and surprise
Prod. by TrueHoustonEmcee

Echo Pool (Demo)

Ankh (Sun Ra) - Arkestration

Trumpeter and composer Loz Speyer releases his own music on Spherical Records - mainly, with his 3 horns quintet Inner Space, and his Cuban-Jazz 6-piece Time Zone. Here on Soundcloud there are also some other groups represented, including large ensembles that he's written for.

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Tracks by Khaki Green Gills often feel introspective and atmospheric, with a focus on mood rather than conventional song structures. Some of their work features glitchy, distorted sounds, while others lean toward more smooth, fluid instrumentals. They tend to play with textures and space in a way that makes the music feel organic and evolving, like a dreamscape or abstract sound experiment.
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