#sun-ra

[grrlmusic]

Sun Ra & his Solar Arkestra - Art-Forms From Dimensions Tomorrow

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

How can media only represent us aces as withdrawn and the opposite of flamboyant when we have served this hard?

[luci-lle-e]

4 am 5:30am, feeding Dragons.

(And then, the Sun rose. A millstone, burning. Already the breath of a nightmare.)

[soulbrotherspeaks]

How Sun Ra Taught Us to Believe in the Impossible 

The visionary jazz artist sketched an “Astro-Black mythology” that aligned ancient Egyptian history with a future human exodus “beyond the stars.” Source: How Sun Ra Taught Us to Believe in the Impossible | The New Yorker

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[yasbxxgie]

“I'm not real, I'm just like you. You don't exist in this society. If you did your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real, if you were you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we are both myths. I do not come to you as a reality, I come to you as the myth because that is what black people are: myths. I came from a dream that the black man dreamed long ago. I'm actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors. I'm going to be here until I pick out some of you to take back with me." -- Sun Ra "Now that you've named yourself you can be fully integrated into our society." -- Seraphina a.k.a. Beyond C’est

[lostinspaceee]

from The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

by Sun Ra

[djhamaradio]

Djhamaradio presents The Late Night Tip live from Cleveland

11:00 to 11:30

1) Sun-Ra - enlightment

2) Tommorrows People - Lovers to friends

3) Leon Ware - Learning how to love you

4) Curtis Mayfield - Right on from the darkness

5) Attitude, belief & determination - Martin Dumas, Jr

6) living in excstasy - barry white

[titleknown]

Y'all don't even know how right you are with the puzzle/fantasy/scifi aspects of rap. Funk, one of the precursors to Rap and Hiphop, was *always* literaly and explicitly a Sci-Fi joint. It was a way, in a world where a black person still doesn't get to see themselves in the stories they love, to make yourself into the star of your own glamorous, space ship and groove story. Its the best.

Oh! Well, IDK much about that history aside from Sun-Ra, who’s presumably the most well-known of that crowd.

Can’t quite get into that guy’s music, but I will forever respect him for his commitment to sci-fi weirdness