I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.
I use music as a medium to talk to people.
Sun Ra
I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
Sun Ra
Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Sun Ra
Sun Ra (1914-1993) Was a major black musician and bandleader, a ground breaking innovator of immense and extraordinary vision, 'The corner stone of experimental Jazz Whose mythology and intergalactic narrative navigated between Ancient Egypt and outer space.
His Performances incorporated everything from 30s big band swing to Experimental funk and synthesizer pieces, with a large ensemble of musicians and dancers. He was also a master pianist, whos published output exceded 180 albums, he recorded for many of the American and European Jazz Labels and toured extensively with his various ensembles between 1956 and 1993. He also did cover versions of Walt Disney tunes and recorded a couple of sides for a toy company, as well making films and documentaries about his philosophy and vision.
Sun Ra’s music is associated with his musical navagation toward free jazz and his poetry toward cosmology and Egyptology, Sun Ra worked within the traditional established African American expressive traditions, He had a distinct compositional style and language, elements of the blues, ragtime, and spirituals crossed-over with experimental electronic instruments, rhythm machines - invented instruments and re-combined in a fusion to present new musical dimensions, he was a 'cosmic guide' through black musical traditions, A 21st Century Tonal Guide To Times Tomorrow.
Sun Ra is arguably one of the most influential and important of all 20th century composers. Sun Ra was a sonic explorer in the revolutionary 'Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow', the new forms of music, and a ground-breaking bandleader of immense vision whose mythology navigated between Ancient Egypt and outer space. His extraordinary work and time on this planet has yet to be fully appreciated.
ART YARD is an Independent Record Company based in London UK Established in 2004 and formed to bring some of Sun Ra's lesser know works to the new generation of listeners
SUN RA'S DISCO 3000 , Sun Ra, John Gilmore, Luqman Ali, Michael Ray : Recorded at The Teatro Ciak, 23/01/1978, Milan Italy.
SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA
HORIZON 'LIVE IN CAIRO EGYPT' 12/17/71 EXTENDED.
SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA
NIDHAMU + DARK MYTH EQUATION VISITATION. 12/12/71- 12/16/71 -12/17/71. 'LIVE IN CAIRO EGYPT'.
Art Yard presents Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band’s definitive work, 'Egyptian Jazz' recorded in Heliopolis Egypt between 1968 and 1973. Western Jazz musicians have been fascinated with the world of Islam for many years, for religious - spiritual, musical and sociological reasons. It was therefore inevitable that musicians of the Arabian North African area would play a part in the interaction of these two Musical Cultures. The compositions correspond to the cross over of musical styles at the time of the recording, 6000 miles away across the Mediterranean and Atlantic in New York with releases on Moodsville by Yusef Lateef and RCA by Ahmud Abdul-Malik.
This release marks the first time Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band’s definitive works are presented to the west
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NEW RELEASE COMING SOON
BERLINER RING ORBITAL
BERLINER RING
ORBITAL
Release Date !!07/02/09!!
These tracks where created with an amalgamation of elements, electro mechanical devices, invented instruments, modified keyboards and delays, self constructed percussion rhythm machines and string devices.
This ‘half man, half machine’ cross-over configuration consists of arrangements with electromechanical drums, loops, samples, 12 string guitar, timpanis, heckeshorn, metallophone, This is a visit to the Electro Mechanical sub-underground.
The Crew consists of
Thomas Stern : recording, mixing, additional effects.
Christian F. Günther : self constructed electromechanical instruments, rhythm machine,
Moritz Wolpert: percussion, timpanis, electromechanical drums.
Alexander Christou: samples, loops, 12 string guitar,
Berliner Ring - Orbital, has a combination of Themes and Moods from the Berlin landscape, with detours, playgrounds and off ramps . This release explores outside the conventional musical circuit. The Engine Room interaction of the triggered electromechanical instruments perform with dramatic, theatrical and complex supernatural initiative.
The pieces released on this disk present a brew of forms and techniques. The tracks create a geographical reference or representation, ‘a tonal landscape’, an Orbital echogram from the inner workings of the Berliner Ring machine. These tracks are ambient instrumental stereologues, inhabited by vivid abstract tones and rhythm creatures.
This is an ‘off centre’ Berliner Ring – Orbital soundmap, a transmission from a weird musical dimension, an alternative brew of Sonic Revolution from East Berlin.
