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Sun Ra Arkestra

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1984 - Nuclear War

1971 - My Brother the Wind, Volume II

1971 - Pictures of Infinity

1970 - Sound Sun Pleasure!!

1970 - Holiday for Soul Dance

1970 - The Night of the Purple Moon

1970 - Continuation

1970 - My Brother the Wind

1969 - Atlantis

1968 - Sound of Joy

1968 - A Black Mass

1967 - Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy

1967 - Angels and Demons at Play

1966 - When Angels Speak of Love

1966 - The Magic City

1966 - The Nubians of Plutonia

1966 - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2

1966 - Strange Strings

1966 - Other Planes of There

1966 - Visits Planet Earth

1965 - Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

1965 - Fate in a Pleasant Mood

1965 - Secrets of the Sun

1963 - When Sun Comes Out

1958 - Jazz in Silhouette

1957 - Super-Sonic Jazz

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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.