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Reissue of the Week: Sun Ra – Nuits de la Fondation Maeght

Sun Ra Arkestra

Living Sky

Ben Cardew On Hieroglyphic Being’s The Disco’s Of Imhotep

Sun Ra And His Arkestra

To Those Of Earth... And Other Worlds

Complete Communion: Jazz Reviews For August By Stewart Smith

Sun Ra And His Arkestra

In The Orbit Of Ra

Getting The Grip: A Jazz Column For October

Mangum Force: ATP & A Return To The Spirit Of Elephant 6

Articles 15

A Quietus Interview

The Glorious Exclamation Mark: Carla Bley Interviewed

Carla Bley is arguably the greatest living jazz composer; John Doran talks to the woman fellow musicians have nicknamed 'Countess Bleysie' and 'Bleythoven' about foundational free jazz sessions, the magic of The Liberation Music Orchestra and her epic jazz opera, Escalator Over The Hill. Home page photograph courtesy of Tod Papageorge
Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: The Best New Releases Of October 2020

New records by Sun Ra Arkestra, Autechre, Actress and more feature amongst our picks of the last four weeks
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Sun Ra

With a dizzying 169 entries on Discogs, it could be hard for Sun Ra newcomers to know exactly where to start but never fear... Sean Kitching has ten blazing suggestions
Books

30th Century Music Now: Mick Houghton Remembers Sun Ra

Ahead of his talk at this month's Quietus Social, Mick Houghton remembers his time working with Sun Ra in the early 90s in an exclusive extract from his new book Fried & Justified
Books

How Low Can You Go? An Extract From Dan Fox’s Limbo

What links the Biblical fear of purgatory with Sun Ra and Chubby Checker? Find out with Dan Fox in an edited extract from his new book, Limbo
Books

Glorious Extremes: David Stubbs On His New Book Mars By 1980

David Stubbs discusses the music, memories and imaginary journeys behind his latest book, Mars By 1980
Books

Like A Cosmic Newspaper: Val Wilmer On Sun Ra

In an extract from her long out of print book, As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977 (re-published this week by Profile Books), Val Wilmer goes in search of Sun Ra
Black Sky Thinking

Arabfuturism: Science-Fiction & Alternate Realities in the Arab World

Arabfuturism is a new and necessary artistic movement for countering the xenophobia and racism of Europe and America, argues Perwana Nazif. Images from A Space Exodus by Larissa Sansour, courtesy of the artist
Film

Afrofuturist Sonic Dreamworlds: On Black Panther

On place, history, and identity in Ryan Coogler's Black Panther film
Black Sky Thinking

Space Is The Place Is The Pace: Scientific Benefits Of Exercising With Sun Ra

Struggling to write his first novel, Daniel Ross discovered two things: exercise, and Sun Ra. Bizarrely, the combination was perfect - and there's actual science to back it up.

Books

Share The Radical: Free Jazz and Improvisation On Vinyl 1965 – 1985

Stewart Smith examines Johannes Rød's "collectors' guide to a niche area of music" — a book of lists with more to offer than catalogue numbers and discographies
A Quietus Interview

Playing The Cosmos Song: Thurston Moore & John Sinclair On Sun Ra

Sean Kitching talks to John Sinclair of MC5, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Paul Smith of Blast First Petite about the life and music of Sun Ra
Black Sky Thinking

Yearning For Impossible Escape: Sun Ra, Afro-Futurist Godfather

On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sun Ra, David Stubbs writes in praise of a musician whose "example is practical, vital and of the utmost, enduring relevance"
A Quietus Interview

The Sun Also Rises: Marshall Allen And James Harrar Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to Arkestra veteran Marshall Allen and left field film maker James Harrar about the Cinema Soloriens project. Photographs courtesy of Ka
Strange World Of...

Utopia Is Not Out Of Reach: A Guide To Sun Ra Arkestra

As Sun Ra Arkestra bring Saturn to Victoria Park for Field Day, Daniel Baker profiles their decades of cosmic free jazz Afrofuturism

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 15

Baker's Dozen

I Need A Double Dozen: Chris Corsano’s Favourite Albums

As he releases two new albums, the prolific drummer, improviser, and serial collaborator Chris Corsano takes Stewart Smith through 13 favourite records, from punk to jazz to his year spent listening only to Curtis Mayfield
Baker's Dozen

Jazz Is My Religion: Idris Ackamoor’s Baker’s Dozen

In a sprawling Baker’s Dozen, longstanding jazz legend Idris Ackamoor tells Siobhán Kane about the way Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Bob Marley and more have inspired his life and work
Baker's Dozen

Organs Of Ecstasy: Ben Chasny’s Favourite Albums

Questing experimental guitar hero Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs Of Admittance, tells Ben Graham about 13 records that influenced his playing and shaped his worldview, from psychedelic Japanese noise rock to American Primitive acoustic fingerpicking

Baker's Dozen

Panning For Gold: Fimber Bravo’s Favourite Music

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Zakiya Mckenzie speaks to steel pan legend Fimber Bravo about his favourite music, from Aretha Franklin to Stormzy and Johnny Cash; Sun-Ra, Hot Chip and Miles Davis
Baker's Dozen

The Exhilaration Of Discovery: Simeon Coxe’s Favourite Albums

The Silver Apples main man writes us his own Baker's Dozen, taking in Fats Domino and Portishead by way of Sun Ra and Spacemen 3

Baker's Dozen

Gorgeous: Graham Massey Of 808 State’s Favourite Albums

Graham Massey guides Julian Marszalek through 13 favourite albums, from Santana to Bowie, Gong, Magma, Miles Davis, and the time he went out for kebabs with Marshall Allen
Baker's Dozen

No Limits: Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s 13 Favourite Albums

Finland's finest selects a varied mix of metal, jazz, funk, prog and kraut for his Baker's Dozen
Baker's Dozen

Dawn To Dusk: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Albums

Tales of the oddest record shop on Tyneside and much more as Richard Dawson guides Jennifer Lucy Allan through an unsurprisingly diverse selection of records in this week's Baker's Dozen
Baker's Dozen

No Definitive Version: Nate Young’s Most Influential Records

Nate Young talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about what made his music, from teenage revelations, learning when to press record, and roofing with Scott Asheton.

Baker's Dozen

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia
Baker's Dozen

Hurtling Through The Void: Roly Porter’s Favourite Space Records

Following the release of Third Law, the producer talks Theo Darton-Moore through his favourite records associated with space travel and exploration, pieces of music that "look at things outside our own existence"

Baker's Dozen

Not Pastel Colours: Boris Blank Of Yello’s Favourite Albums

With a new box set of his soundtrack work just released, the composer and Yello man takes Rob Heath from Sun Ra to The xx in his all-time top LPs
Baker's Dozen

Like Choosing A Lover: Viv Albertine’s Favourite Albums

Always forthright, the great Viv Albertine discusses her favourite albums with Tom Hasson. T-Rex, Chris Watson, Don Cherry, Beefheart, Barrett, Kate Bush and.... The Slits all feature
Baker's Dozen

All The Glitter: Ira Kaplan Of Yo La Tengo’s Favourite Albums

Yo La Tengo’s frontman leads April Clare Welsh through a selection of his most played LPs
Baker's Dozen

The Beat Goes On: Kid Millions’ Favourite LPs

We look forward to Man Forever's gig with My Disco by getting the Baker's Dozen business from the gentleman Kid Millions

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