Name: Janus
Brand: Sun Ra

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ORGM2091

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "ORGM2091"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Dischord

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

711574835713

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "711574835713"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Sun Ra

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Org Music

Org Music is a record label based in the United States, specializing in vinyl releases and reissues. They have reissued music from a wide variety of genres and artists, both well known and obscure. Org Music partners with various independent labels and catalog groups to reissue their music on vinyl, including Sun Record Company, Black Lion Records, Freedom Records, GHB Jazz Foundation, and most recently Brunswick Records. They also release music from new and active artists, including the Clenched Wrench label imprint of bassist Mike Watt.

Org Music is distributed by AMPED (Alliance Entertainment) in North America and through various distribution partners globally. They provide distribution and label services for several artists and sub-labels such as OAR (Overseas Artist Recordings), GHB Jazz Foundation, Headphone Records, and more.

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.

Janus is a compilation of rare material from Sun Ra and his Arkestra, drawing from tapes recorded between 1963 and 1970, taken from both live and studio performances. The space-age jazz shaman conjures up a variety of styles and moods along the way. 

Janus

Music GB