Sun Ra Exotica black vinyl reissue 3LP compilation Third Man Pressing

	C$		30
	$		21

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Record comes from personal collection and shows signs of gentle usage - please see photos for detail on condition. I am also happy to combine shipping on multiple orders - please see my other listings for more records you may be interested in, most are priced to move. Thanks for looking!

A1Kingdom of Thunder3:50

A2Space Mates4:43

A3Star Bright2:25

A4The Nile, Part 14:48

A5Eve5:50

B1Tiny Pyramids3:38

B2The Lady With The Golden Stockings7:42

B3Paradise4:27

B4New Horizons3:02

B5Portrait Of The Living Sky1:48

C1India4:48

C2Ancient Aiethopia9:14

C3Planet Earth4:55

C4April In Paris3:55

D1Island In The sun10:21

D2Africa5:05

D3Friendly Galaxy4:51

E1Interstellar Low Ways8:24

E2The Conversion Of J.P.3:56

E3Cha-Cha in In Outer Space4:36

F1Brazilian Sun3:56

F2Lights On A Satellite3:38

F3Somewhere In Space6:13

F4Spontaneous Simplicity3:01

F5Overtones Of China4:18

When fans think "Exotica," the names that come to mind are Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Les Baxter, Esquivel, and countless others. But Sun Ra?

Here, we offer an illustrative passage from John Szwed's indispensable 1997 Ra biography, Space is the Place. For context, Szwed is chronicling the evolution of Ra's style in the late 1950s, when the budding legend was based in Chicago, leading a midsized ensemble (already dubbed an "Arkestra"), and still working largely in subgenres identifiable as "jazz." Szwed's reflections on Sunny's absorption with Exotica align the Afrofuturist icon with an unlikely musical inspiration:

[quote] "Sunny was listening to the Hollywood-inspired music being made by people like David Rose, whose lush, massed string writing could be heard as theme songs on popular radio programs; or to the exotica of people like Martin Denny, who recorded in Honolulu accompanied by animal noises, natural acoustic delay, and reverberation; and especially to the arrangements of Les Baxter, the premier figure in what was being called mood music.

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