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Sun Ra Arkestra

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Nuclear War (1984)	My Brother the Wind, Volu (1971)	Pictures of Infinity (1971)
Sound Sun Pleasure!! (1970)	Holiday for Soul Dance (1970)	The Night of the Purple M (1970)
Continuation (1970)	My Brother the Wind (1970)	Atlantis (1969)
Sound of Joy (1968)	A Black Mass (1968)	Cosmic Tones for Mental T (1967)
Angels and Demons at Play (1967)	When Angels Speak of Love (1966)	The Magic City (1966)
The Nubians of Plutonia (1966)	The Heliocentric Worlds o (1966)	Strange Strings (1966)
Other Planes of There (1966)	Visits Planet Earth (1966)	Art Forms of Dimensions T (1965)
Fate in a Pleasant Mood (1965)	Secrets of the Sun (1965)	When Sun Comes Out (1963)
Jazz in Silhouette (1958)	Super-Sonic Jazz (1957)

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The Sun Ra Arkestra is the name most commonly used for the current incarnation of Sun Ra's original band, now led by Marshall Allen. Since 1954, Marshall Allen has been the ferocious core of the Arkestra. Under his direction, big band and swing are played to perfection and beyond. A master of both "inside" and "out," Allen steers the Arkestra to realize possibilities of future and past, always extending both, ever in cahoots with the alter-destiny. From "Medicine for a Nightmare" and "El Is a Sound of Joy" to "Astro Black" and "Enlightenment," Arkestra performances are a ritual experiment. Fifteen members strong, the Arkestra's big-band traditionalism is as radical today as their afro-futurist iconoclasm has been since the 1950s. Sun Ra brought early synthesizers to big band arrangements, took to the stage in processions of sparkling dancers, and explained with patient confidence that he, and perhaps we, were neither human nor Earthbound.