Sun Ra was the living embodiment of Afrofuturism as a concept, a mythical figure with a huge body of groundbreaking work that feels extra prescient today. A new, animated video from streamable sci-fi ...

The easiest and maybe quickest entry point into Sun Ra's music might be the vocal performances. The disc opens with the ceremonial identification of Ra as "the living myth" and maybe an angel from ...

Sun Ra’s statement, musically and spoken, is that this is a primitive world. Its practices, beliefs, religions, are uneducated, unenlightened, savage, destructive, already in the past. That’s why Sun ...