SUN RA - ANTIQUE BLACKS (LP)

Sun Ra Antique Blacks on Vinyl LP

With the Arkestra HQ based at Marshall Allen's family home, a period of stability followed that resulted in some of Sun Ra's most well-loved albums like Lanquidity, Sleeping Beauty, and On Jupiter. Philly lit Sun Ra's creative spark from 1968 right up to the early ‘90s. On Antique Blacks, Sun Ra blends elements of free jazz, off-key synth explorations, and experimental theatre into an other-worldly concoction that doesn't crop up anywhere else in the Arkestra's massive discography. Antique Blacks takes its starting point from the bible and slavery, and throws these issues into the contemporary political frame hurtling up-to-date with and late ‘60s Civil Rights. At this time the Arkestra typically consisted of twenty to thirty musicians, dancers, singers, and fire-eaters, combined with elaborate lighting effects and playing sets for two to three hours nonstop.

Sun Ra Antique Blacks Track Listing

1.  Song No. 1
2.  There Is Change In The Air
3.  The Antique Blacks
4.  This Song Is Dedicated To Nature's God
5.  The Rediculous "I" and the Cosmos Me
6.  Would I For All That Were
7.  Space Is The Place
8.  You Thought You Could Build A World Without Us