Name: The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra
Brand: Sun Ra

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375 Media

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Release date

2017-02-10

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5140942

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825481040624

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Sun Ra

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Esp Disk

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Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Sun Ra, born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, was an American Free-Jazz composer, pianist and band leader. He was a pioneer of free improvisation and modal jazz, as well as an early user of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Sun Ra's music innovations and visionary experiences set him apart as a true musical innovator. He formed the Sun Ra Arkestra in the 1950s and continued to compose and perform until his death in 1993.Born and raised in Alabama, Sun Ra showed exceptional talent as a pianist from a young age. By the age of 11, he could sight-read and compose music. As a teenager, he performed with local jazz and R&amp;B bands before taking on his first full-time musical job leading the Sonny Blount Orchestra. In the mid-1930s, Sun Ra had a transformative experience during deep meditation where he claimed to have been transported to Saturn by beings from outer space who tasked him with spreading peace through music.

New York based experimental, avant-garde, and free-jazz label ESP Disk was founded in 1963 by Bernard Stollman. Originally known as Esperanto-Disk, the name was shortened to ESP-Disk'. Although it faced financial challenges in the US, the label gained recognition in Europe and Japan through licensing agreements. In 1992, Stollman licensed the catalog to German label ZYX Music for reissues on CD. The Japanese label Venus Records also licensed a number of titles. Subsequently, there were brief licensing agreements with Dutch label Calibre and Italian label Abraxas. Since 2005, ESP Disk of New York has resumed manufacturing and is releasing reissues, previously unreleased material, and new releases.

The label had several addresses over the years: 
<ul>
<li>180 Riverside Drive (1964-1966)</li>
<li>5 Riverside Drive (inbetween addresses)</li>
<li>156 Fifth Avenue (1966-1969)</li>
<li>300 W. 55 (1970)</li>
<li>Acorn Hill House, Krumville (1969-1972)</li>
<li>290 West End Ave (1973-1975)</li></ul>

ESP Disk's discography includes numerous notable releases spanning from ESP-1002 to ESP-3021.

ESP Disk

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Sun Kil Moon aka Mark Kozeleck returns with the follow up to the honest, tragic and perfect album 'Benji'. 'Universal Themes' is once again epic and full of strange meditations on death, work and hard work. The standout tracks include 'The Possum', a nine minute track featuring Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley about dead possums and hanging out with Godflesh. Mot of the tracks are based on grinding riffs while, within their walls, Kozeleck experiments with collage, multi tracked vocals and disorientating shifts in moods. in short, it's another masterpiece from a man that can do no wrong at the moment.

The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra

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