Various -My Words are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poet -OMNI SOUNDS Vinyl Maxi Grooves.land/Playthek

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1. WHEN ANGELS SPEAK
2. CIRCLE ETERNITY
3. THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF AIR
4. [ANYTHING CAN GIVE UP ITS LIFE]
5. SOMEBODY ELSE'S IDEA
6. I HAVE FORGOTTEN
7. FLIGHT
8. LOVE IN OUTER SPACE
9. THE ENDLESS REALM
10. THE COSMIC AGE
11. SUN-DAY
12. THE MELODY OF AIR
13. THE INVISIBLE GIANTS
14. I DEAL IN SOULS
15. BLACK PRINCE CHARMING
16. MESSAGE TO BLACK YOUTH
17. NOTHING IS
18. THE FRIENDS OF SKILL
19. THE OUTER DARKNESS
20. IF I TOLD YOU
21. THE VOID
22. THE NEGLECTED PLANE OF WISDOM

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.. Celebration Of Sun Ra's Poetry

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Sun Ra is better known to most as a musician than a poet, but he identified equally as both. My Words Are Music provides direct access to the sentiments of a poet who never called Earth home. The spoken word album hosts an inspired array of artists who personally chose their favorite Sun Ra poems to recite. Freed from the page, his poetry acquires an unexpected simplicity and poignance it possessed all along. This all-star and intergenerational lineup of artists conjure wisdom from his words: spoken word elder Abiodun Oweyole of The Last Poets; rapper, and singer-songwriter Saul Williams; jazz experimentalist Melanie Charles; British-Trinidadian poet, novelist and musician Anthony Joseph; poet Mahogany L. Browne; poet, playwright, and conceptual artist Carl Hancock Rux; musician/digital composer Lâ??Rain; singer, actor, and director Tunde Adibempe of TV on the Radio singer; British DJ and BBC radio host Zakia Sewell; ballistic hip-hop poet Jive Poetic; and longtime members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen, Knoel Scott, and Tara Middleton. Punctuated by impish electronic interludes composed and played by Marshall Allen, these voices bless Sun Raâ??s poetry with new life My Words Are Music offers the opportunity to follow Sun Ra into a better future. â??Prepare for the journey,â? he writes in his poem â??The Cosmic Ageâ?, â??You have a rendezvous / With the living wisdom.â? My Words Are Music is a project developed in conjunction with Living Sky, the all-instrumental Sun Ra Arkestra album released on Omni Sound in 2022. - .. CELEBRATION OF SUN RA'S POETRY

Edition of 500 (hand-numbered) All EVI preludes and interludes played by Marshall Allen. Sun Ra is known to most better as a musician than a poet, even though throughout his long career he described himself as a composer of both. Recited by a multigenerational array of artists, 'My Words are Music' is an assembly of prose that comes to fruition through chosen selections of Sun Ra's poetry?simultaneously propelling Ra's message into the now while honoring its essence. All poetry appears courtesy of the Estate of Sun Ra, administered by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Melanie Charles appears courtesy of Impulse! Records. (Track numbers and durations do not appear on sleeve)

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LPOS1003

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