Travel the Spaceways as Michele K-tel zooms in on the upcoming “Friendly Galaxies” 100 Years of Sun Ra celebration at SF’s Center for New Music. Prepare for plenty of interstellar Sun Ra sounds along with commentary from special guests – event curator Jan Michaels, and Reconnaissance Fly improviser Polly Moller and bassist Tim Walters.

Playlist 11.6.14

Sun Ra “Message To Earthman [Alternate Take]” The Singles (Evidence)
Sun Ra “Moon Dance” Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy / Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow (Evidence)
Sun Ra & the Arkestra “Interplanetary Music” Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth/Interstellar Low Ways (Evidence)

Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra “Calling Planet Earth” Space Is The Place
Spaceways Incorporated (Vandermark/Drake/McBride) “Is a Sound of Joy” Thirteen Cosmic Standards By Sun Ra & Funkadelic (Atavistic)
Sun Ra “Enlightenment” Sound Sun Pleasure (Evidence)

Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra “Space Is The Place” Space Is The Place Soundtrack (Evidence)
Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra “We Travel The Spaceways” Space Is The Place Soundtrack (Evidence)

Reconnaissance Fly “Sanse is Crede NZA” Flower Futures (Edgetone)
Jon Raskin “Lullaby for Realville” Wavelength Infinity: A Sun Ra Tribute (Rastascan Records)
Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet “MU” Wavelength Infinity: A Sun Ra Tribute (Rastascan Records)
Thornhill/Chabot/Montclair Tri-School Arkestra “Planet Earth” Wavelength Infinity: A Sun Ra Tribute (Rastascan Records)

Sun Ra “Rocket #9” The Singles (Evidence)
Sun Ra & His Mythic Science Arkestra “Love in Outer Space Part One” The Paris Tapes (Art Yard)
Sun Ra “Love In Outer Space” The Singles (Evidence)
Sun Ra “The Magic City” The Magic City (Evidence)