Knockout, anthemic rare groove, from the 1979 album Life, Love And Harmony. Ultra-jazzy, classy, and exultant, this is Nancy Wilson at her very best. She even throws in a quickfire Louis Armstrong impression. That’s John Klemmer playing saxophone.
Backed with The End of Our Love, a northern soul floor-filler from 1968, hard to come by.
Ace.

Likely recorded in Chicago around 1956; originally released on Saturn. Ra is co-composer of both sides; it could be him playing the harmonium.
‘I had two main vocal groups at the time,’ Ra once recalled. ‘One was called the Cosmic Echoes. And the Cosmic Rays, too. It was around the same time that John Gilmore joined the band. I saw the possibility that they could be really great so I began to coach them; they were connected with a barber shop, but I taught them other things.’ ‘We’d go down to the barber shops and rehearse some groups,’ added John Gilmore. ‘Sun Ra had them singin’ some beautiful stuff. I think he probably was saving them from themselves. He heard them, heard their potential, snatched them off the street, and started making them do something constructive.’

Beautifully presented in die-cut, screen-printed jackets, with printed inner sleeves.
‘The infinitely wise drum-driven solar chant of Children Of The Sun, with the profoundly meditative & deeply relevant-to-now space chant They Plan To Leave.’ 
Both from Ra To The Rescue.
Tiny run.

Beautifully presented in die-cut, screen-printed jackets, with printed inner sleeves.
‘Two versions of one of Ra’s most enduring compositions. The classic take featuring vocals by David Henderson, and an alternate instrumental version never before released on vinyl, featuring the almighty John Gilmore on the drum kit!’
Tiny run.

Black Ark magic. Al Campbell steps up with teacherly scorn, as clear as a bell.

From 1979, and including UFO — rumbustious disco, Arkestra-style, featuring Marshall Allen on oboe, with solos from John Gilmore, Taylor Richardson and Michael Ray (who also mixed the album, layering in pre-recorded material).
Seductive Fantasy lines up John Gilmore, James Jacson’s bassoon, some fine baritone saxophone and some electric guitar and bass, Marshall Allen’s oboe and Eloe Omoe’s bass clarinet, with great piano-playing from Ra throughout, and towards the end some arco strings.

From the same 1979 recording sessions as Strange Celestial Road, this is one of Sun Ra’s best-loved, funkiest records, with John Gilmore in full flight, and a bigger Arkestra than had just played the Moers festival.

Bagpiping meets Partch DIY and the singing of Pandit Pran Nath, at the grass roots of Fluxus, in an empty swimming pool. Long, slowly building drones, lightly processed, with snatches of melody. Check it out.

Arranged and produced by Leroy Hutson, who co-wrote all the songs, and part engineered at Curtom. The Voices’ best album, brimming with good vibes, bubbling grooves, great singing, political resistance.