Name: Secrets Of The Sun
Brand: Sun Ra

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SATUN9954H

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Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Scorpio

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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Black LP

Artist

Sun Ra

Genre GB

Jazz

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Saturn

Saturn is a German chain of stores founded in 1961 in Cologne, Germany. With their store in Hamburg being the largest electronics store in the world, Saturn has established itself as a leading retailer of consumer electronics. Known for their wide range of products and exceptional customer service, they have become a go-to destination for all things electronic.

As an *Exclusive Retailer* or distributor of media releases, Saturn has played a significant role in promoting and supporting various artists and performers. Their commitment to showcasing the latest music releases from both established and emerging talents has made them a trusted platform for music enthusiasts.

With their extensive collection of albums, vinyl records, CDs, and digital downloads, Saturn offers music lovers a diverse selection to choose from. Whether you're looking for chart-topping hits or exploring niche genres, you can rely on Saturn to provide an unparalleled shopping experience that caters to your musical preferences.

Sun Ra, born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, was an American Free-Jazz composer, pianist and band leader. He was a pioneer of free improvisation and modal jazz, as well as an early user of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Sun Ra's music innovations and visionary experiences set him apart as a true musical innovator. He formed the Sun Ra Arkestra in the 1950s and continued to compose and perform until his death in 1993.Born and raised in Alabama, Sun Ra showed exceptional talent as a pianist from a young age. By the age of 11, he could sight-read and compose music. As a teenager, he performed with local jazz and R&amp;B bands before taking on his first full-time musical job leading the Sonny Blount Orchestra. In the mid-1930s, Sun Ra had a transformative experience during deep meditation where he claimed to have been transported to Saturn by beings from outer space who tasked him with spreading peace through music.

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Secrets of the Sun is one of many Sun Ra albums which originated from sessions at the Choreographer's Workshop, a West 51st Street venue which served as the Arkestra's rehearsal space from roughly 1962 to 1965. The band rehearsed there endlessly, and more often than not an open-reel tape deck was running. These sessions produced tracks which (without organising logic) achieved first commercial release on Saturn LPs throughout the 1960s and '70s. (Many unreleased tracks are first appearing on these post-2014 "Sun-tennial" digital remasters.) Secrets of the Sun was recorded in 1962, but didn't appear on Saturn vinyl until '65. Per what had long been the bandleader's trademark, many titles point to destinations beyond Earth's stratosphere, while paradoxically echoing rhythms and forms inspired by Africa. And in what was a recurring motif of the Choreographer's milieu, the recordings themselves have a raw quality, replete with warehouse acoustics, distortion, erratic mic proximity, and a limited frequency spectrum. It's garage jazz. As on many of the Workshop sessions, drummer Tommy Hunter served as recording engineer, and his proto-psychedelic reverb saturates a few of these performances.

Secrets Of The Sun

Music GB