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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 18d

Sun Ra and his Arkestra - Space Is the Place Movie 1974

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 11h

Out of every nation
They shall rise..
With the invitation of the sun
To journey through the Outer Darkness
To the Outer Heavens
Of the Intergalactic dawn.
(Sun Ra)

SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 1d

Silence is music.
There are different kinds of silences
In a lesser but not least important sense
Silence is an integral part of all music
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 2d

This is the Space Age
The age beyond the earth age:
A different direction beyond the gravitations of the past.
This is the Space Age:
The disguised twin of tomorrow
Striking upon the earth with relentless power.
(Sun Ra)

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 3d

Sun Ra
Moonshadow Saloon
Atlanta, GA
Oct 26, 1984
Part 1

youtu.be/r3yT5K4WCJw?...

Sun Ra at the Moonshadow Saloon ~ Oct 26, 1984 ~ Atlanta, GA (audio only)

YouTube video by Ted Selke

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 3d

This music is part of another tomorrow It's the music of the sun and the stars.
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 3d

Astro infinity music is beyond freedom. It is precision, discipline. It is coordination and sound interdependence. It is the design of another world. It has nothing to do with the traditions of yesterday, today or the future.
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 4d

Sun Ra & His Mythic Science Arkestra - The Paris Tapes : Live at Le Théâtre Du Châtelet 1971 (Art Yard/Kindred spirt) 2010

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I'm not playing Space Music as the ultimate reach anymore. That is, not in the interplanetary sense alone. I'm playing intergalactic music, which is beyond the other idea of space music, because it is of the natural infinity of the eternal universe Eternal.
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 5d

'Imagination' is a magic carpet Upon which we may soar To distant lands and climes And even go beyond the moon To any planet in the sky, If we came from nowhere here.
Why can't we go somewhere there?
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 6d

When I arrived on the planet, I always liked music that was together, and that was the most together music I ever heard.
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 7d

Marshall Allen & Danny Ray Thompson @ Market Street Cinema, San Francisco, USA - Oct1985 Photo by Hinds Brothers

SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 7d

Danny Ray Thompson - Sun Ra Arkestra - 1st Oct 1947 - 12th March 2020 - He travels the spaceways from planet to planet.

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 8d

Sun Ra on VH1 in 1989?!?!?

"I'm really not a man, you see, I'm an angel"

plus a daytime outdoor concert 1990 Winston-Salem, NC

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Sun Ra Arkestra, Winston-Salem (1990) plus Sun Ra & Don Cherry (1989)

YouTube video by bigfootpegrande

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 8d

It's After the End of the World! Don't you know that yet?
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 9d

You might say jazz came from the sun priests of Egypt.
(Sun Ra)

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 10d

John Gilmore and Sun Ra outside Ra House Morton street Philadelphia - June 1979 - Photo Val Wilmer

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 10d

only just put together that, for a bit in 1980, nico's band was a duo of john gilmore of @sunrauniverse.bsky.social & cheetah chrome of the dead boys.

Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Nico @ NYC 1980-09-26 https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2025/09/nico-nyc-1980-09-26.html

Nico @ NYC 1980-09-26

LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME https://pixeldrain.com/u/mo74aWWU NICO SQUAT THEATER, NEW YORK, NY, USA SEPTEMBER 26, 1980 AUDIENCE RECORDING BY ...

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 10d

Sun Ra And His Arkestra - Supersonic Jazz (Expanded Edition)

Official expanded 2xCD edition features 14 tracks of alternate versions and studio takes, and an additional four bonus tracks @sunrauniverse.bsky.social

released September 26, 2025
sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/supers...

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Todd @kinetograph.bsky.social · 11d

Solo by John Gilmore #BOTD with Sun Ra All Star Arkestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZplB...

Sun Ra All Star Arkestra - Out-of-this-world solo by John Gilmore

YouTube video by Miguel Patrício

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The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social · 11d

#BOTD 1931
John Gilmore: American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist.Known for his tenure with the avant-garde keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra from the 1950s to the 1990s,and led The Sun Ra Arkestra from Sun Ra's death in 1993 until his own death in 1995.
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JOHN GILMORE & ART BLAKEY - I Cant Get Started 1964

YouTube video by corporalhenshaw

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 10d

John Gilmore Sun Ra Arkestra Legend - Arrival day Sept 28 1931 – Aug 20 1995) He Travels the Space Ways.

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 11d

I'm really playing all types of music,
A lot of people think I just play avant garde, but I can play anything.
(Sun Ra)

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to see Sun Ra’s “Hidden Fire” return to circulation via a new Strut 2-LP #vinyl reissue. The last new material released on Saturn Records in 1988. I found these originals for $10 each circa 1997/98. Hard to believe I’ve owned them for nearly 30 years. 🪐🔥🚀

strut.bandcamp.com/album/hidden...

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SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 12d

I'm ready and able, but I'm not willing. I won't preach to the people of earth. let them come to me!
(Sun Ra)

SunRaUniverse @sunrauniverse.bsky.social · 13d

Subtle living equations Clear only to those Whose wish is to be attuned To the vibrations of the Outer Cosmic World Subtle living equations Of the outer realms Dear only to those Who wish fervently the greater life
(Sun Ra)

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