December 2022

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Issue 440

October 2020

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Issue 427

September 2019

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Issue 416

October 2018

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Issue 390

August 2016

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News

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise documentary reissued

08|10|2015

Robert Mugge’s 1980 documentary Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise is to be reissued on DVD and Blu-ray

Issue 380

October 2015

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Essay

Jazz Searches For The New Land: Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra’s “Saturn”

May 2015

Derek Walmsley journeys through the new worlds sketched out by jazz from the mid-1950s onwards

News

Sun Ra’s Space Is The Place expanded edition released

10|03|2015

Re-released for 40th anniversary with book and CD, an uncut version of the film and commentary

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Marshall Allen compiles Sun Ra material for Strut

23|07|2014

Strut and Art Yard releasing Ra primer this September, curated by Arkestra bandleader and including previously unreleased tracks.

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Sun Ra coffee for Chicago Jazz Festival

21|05|2014

More Sun Ra ephemera...

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Sun Ra perfume released by Norton Records

02|05|2014

Space is the place, but what does it smell like?

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Sun Ra masters auctioned on eBay

07|04|2014

A collection of master tapes, stampers and mothers claimed to be Sun Ra material are being auctioned.

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Sun Ra photos and ephemera to be exhibited in Edinburgh

25|07|2013

Backstage and concert photos by Val Wilmer and Baron Wolman on show at Sumemrhall next month.

Gallery

Gallery: Sun Ra on location and Ayé Aton's psychedelic murals

July 2013

On location shots from the filming of Space Is The Place, and Ayé Aton's psychedelic murals.

On Air

Adventures In Modern Music 29 September 2011

October 2011

Hosted by Derek Walmsley, spinning music from artists rolling through Newcastle's Tusk festival in October, including Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashi, Pulse Emitter, Hype Williams and Hiss Golden Messenger. Plus 1940s era Sun Ra from the depths of Michael D Anderson's Sun Ra archive, recordings which are forthcoming on The Eternal Myth Revealed box set.