SUN RA: HIROSHIMA STARS THAT SHINE DARKLY EL SATURN LP

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64

"Hiroshima" is a side long solo piece for pipe organ! "I was about seven years old when on August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was the first city in the history of mankind to be struck by an atomic bomb -- dropped by the United States Air Force. In our days the only so-called democratic government which applied this mass-destruction weapon for the first time and would not hesitate to use it again, asks other countries to stop the development of nuclear power. What a miserable Christian hypocrisy. Why did Sun Ra title his only acoustic document performed on a church organ Hiroshima? Despite my young age in 1945 I can very clearly remember the gloomy atmosphere in 'bombed-out' Stuttgart with my family sitting around my uncle's place in Schwaebisch Gmnd during the twilight hour and talking about this unbelievable criminal act against Hiroshima. Beside the depressed mood of the talk I only remember the (surely false) fact, that 'Little Boy', as the United States offendingly called their bomb, was only as small as a tennis-ball. Beside the well-known political call and response ritual, 'Nuclear War,' 'Hiroshima,' has a pipe organ solo by Sun Ra, recorded in a theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. By attentive listening, one can discover some other instruments too. One can hear a triangle, a bird whistle, a slap-stick or castanets, a tambourine ring, cymbals, and most likely, different drums. The record was released in 1985 on one of Sun Ra's Saturn long playing records with the number 11-83. The flip side of this record is titled 'Stars That Shine Darkly...' Recorded live at Montreux, Switzerland during the tour of The Sun Ra All Stars, early November 1983." --Hartmut Geerken

Original El Saturn press from 1985, with hand drawn or silkscreened "spiderweb" cover in NM condition, vinyl is VG+ (looks NM, probably needs a light cleaning). Don't know what the "attentive listening" part is all about in that quote; it's not hard to hear the All-Stars backing him up (to these ears at least).Really really great lp.

Good luck & check out my other auctions for more rare vinyl!!

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