Sun Ra rare '69 LP The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra mint- space psych jazz

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Band/Record: Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds Of Sun Ra

Label/Matrix: FRANCE 1969  BYG 529 111

Condition Record/Sleeve: Mint-/EX+ (record immaculate, DREAM audio. Cover clean and unwritten, like new)

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! SPACE JAZZ MONSTER !! Original french press on the BYG label ... MINTY dream audio

~~~The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra is an album by the American Jazz musician Sun Ra and his Arkestra, recorded October 10, 1961 for the Savoy label. The first record to be recorded by a pared-down Arkestra after leaving Chicago, the album is often considered one of the most accessible records in Ra's vast catalogue;

    'Sun Ra's only release for the Savoy label is a gem... Ra sticks to acoustic piano for the entire session, but various percussion instruments are dispersed throughout the band, giving a slightly exotic flavor to some of the tunes... With the exception of "The Beginning," all the tunes are very accessible. This is one to play for the mistaken folks who think the Arkestra did nothing but make noise. Excellent.' Sean Westergaard, Allmusic

The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra was the first album to be recorded by the Arkestra after relocating to New York;

    'The idea was just to play a few gigs, maybe some studio work, and then go back to Chicago and work at the Pershing [club] again. But as soon as they crossed the George Washington Bridge they collided with a taxi and bent one of the wheels of Ronnie Boykins's father's car. With no money to have it fixed they were stranded again. [Sun Ra] went to a phone booth and called Ed Bland and Tom Wilson to tell them they were in town, and the band moved into a couple of hotel rooms over the Peppermint Lounge on 45th Street. But after a few days of waiting, Strickland and Mitchell got anxiuos, called home for money, and left. The five who remained then moved to a room on 81st Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive, and after a few days found a cheaper place farther downtown in the seventies.

    'Though the band had no luck finding places to play, Tom Wilson came up with a recording session for them with Savoy Records. On October 10 they crossed the river to the Medallion Studio in Newark with a few musicians they added for the date... and they produced a record which could have easily represented their repertoire during an evening at a club there..... Despite a heavy title and a cover painting of a conga drum swirling like a tornado through a valley of piano keys against an orange sky, the record was plagued from the start. Tom Wilson's liner notes were filled with inaccuracies: Distribution was almost as poor as it was with the Saturn records, and there was no reviews for twenty-three years, when it was reissued in 1984 as We Are In The Future.' John F Szwed

The album was produced by Tom Wilson, who would later become famous for producing albums by the Velvet Underground, Frank Zappa and Bob Dylan.
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra was the fourth album to be released by Sun Ra, after Jazz by Sun Ra (also produced by Tom Wilson) and Super-Sonic Jazz, both released in 1957, and Jazz in Silhouette from 1959. The next album to see the light of day would be When Sun Comes Out, released on Ra's own label, Saturn Records, in 1963..

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