SunRaUniverse

There is nothing new under the Sun of the past, That is why the history therein repeats itself.
(Sun Ra)

Sun Ra in motion!

Every Place there is Music. Chaos is Music and harmonious Peace is Music. Silence is Music.
(Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra - Lodge Room Los Angeles, CA - Mon Aug 4 2025 : Two shows in one night - Early show will be a Big Band Swing set and the late show will be an Outer Space Jazz set.

The mighty Sun Ra Arkestra.

Some people had some idea that I was going to save the world, it’s not my world how can I, all I got to talk about is folks getting together. In a big Universe like this, there ought to be something better than what there is..
(Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra works on the other side of time

When you recognize that the cities shape the region, and that the lakes shape the cities, you see the region as much more diverse and wild and unpredictable. You understand that regions are made up of millions of people intersecting in strange ways, influencing each other unpredictably. You hear the sounds of the Great Lakes in a different way. The Cleveland proto-punk scene is Great Lakes music. Motown is the sound of the Great Lakes. And even the strangest sounds of them all, that of Sun Ra and His Arkestra, the impossible-to-define primeval-cosmic oddball-transcendent jazz, is in many ways a product of Chicago, and the lake over which it looms.

I wrote a review of William Sites's "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afro-Futurism and the City" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) for Great Lakes Review, reflecting on how we talk about the region, and how the Midwest can be much weirder and more diverse than we think.

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Sun ra was the reason I started making art. Getting to see the Arkestra twice is probably the best part of the last year.

The Sun Ra Arkestra kicks off a series of frill-filled shows at SFJazz The classic Afrofuturist jazz group touched down in San Francisco Thursday for four nights of shows

The Sun Ra Arkestra kicks off a series of frill-filled shows at SFJazz missionlocal.org/2025/08/sun-...

I have been to outer space I've had experiences going out there I know it's possible.
(Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Arkestra - SFJAZZ CENTER 201 Franklin St. San Francisco
31 July - 3 Aug 2025
8|02: Marshall Allen 101 Salute
8|03: Space Is The Place / The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra

Anything I do for this planet is because the Master Creator of the Universe is making me do it..
(Sun Ra)

genius reissue of late-period Sun Ra, 1988, with Ra exclusively playing the Yamaha DX7 - the FM-powered marmite of '80s synths = fully bonkers and quite brilliant 🔥

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Sun Ra Arkestra - SFJAZZ CENTER - 201 Franklin St. San Francisco
31 July/3 Aug 2025 : 4 sets in 4 days
7|31: Cosmic Space Jazz
8|01: Big Band Swing
8|02: Marshall Allen 101 Salute
8|03: Space Is The Place / The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra

I appreciate every musician, I don't care what kind of music they play. I appreciate anything that any musician does on a planet like this one.
(Sun Ra)

Sun Ra Quartet ft. John Gilmore - Other Voices, Other Blues. / Horo Records – Recorded in Rome, Italy, Jan 1978, feat the quartet of Sun Ra (keyboards) Michael Ray (trumpet) John Gilmore (tenor sax) and Luqman Ali (drums) No bassist. The tracks were issued on a double LP in '78

I play some music that will astound some people. But they need to be astounded, they need to be shook up before it’s too late..
(Sun Ra)

I don't really live in time, there's no yesterday and no tomorrow it's all continuous fabric.
(Sun Ra)

Every Place there is Music. Chaos is Music and harmonious Peace is Music
Silence is Music.
(Sun Ra)

I roam the cosmos I visit a planet now and then, My visits are so seldom that sometimes The people on the planet forget who I am
(Sun Ra)

The Omniverse Oriki, by Marshall Allen 3 track album

The Omniverse Oriki
by Marshall Allen
(High Two 2025)

"Sun Ra bandleader Marshall Allen Trio’s collaboration with the Ade Ilu Ensemble... channelled & churned indelible musical spirits in extended “oriki”, Yoruba narratives set to explore omniversal wavelengths"
hightwo.bandcamp.com/album/the-om...

You might say I'm a spiritual scientist and also a Cosmo musical scientist.
(Sun Ra)

Enter to win tickets to see Sun Ra Arkestra at SFJAZZ on August 2nd!

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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible.
(Sun Ra)

I think musicians are on a superior level, but unlike scientists, they haven't been accepted for their abilities.
(Sun Ra)

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Music is a Message From Space Kicking off with a whispered a capella piece from the man from Saturn himself, Music is a Message From Space is a kind of Sun Ra mixtape compiled by the fine folks at...

This Sun Ra-themed mixtape leads listeners into unknown worlds. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7896909...

My music is the music of precision. I know exactly the rhythm that must animate my music, and only this rhythm is valid. I have in my mind a complete image of my work, on all the different levels: melody, harmony and rhythm.
(Sun Ra)

You're on the spaceship Earth
And you're outward bound
Out among the stars
Destination unknown
But you haven't met the captain of the spaceship yet, have you?
(Sun Ra)

I play some music that will astound some people. But they need to be astounded, they need to be shook up before it’s too late..
(Sun Ra)