Sun Ra - Excelsior Mill Artist_Sahib Shihab Back in 2016

Back in 2016

he is famous for his swinging modern big band arrangements

These two compositions find peace between these modes

The lyrics of Ballad of the Absent Mare are based on the twelfth-century ten bulls (or ten ox-herding pictures)

it would take decades for the full impact and influence of Obscure’s ten albums to unfold

Sun Ra - Excelsior Mill Artist_Sahib Shihab Back in 2016The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely youll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done. Pressed on violet vinyl! The CD contains