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The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016)

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Re: The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016)

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Post by alexambarch »

A while back I somehow managed to watch Space Is the Place[1] without knowing anything about Sun Ra. The discovery that he was not an actor and was instead a great jazz musician was a wild one. If you haven't seen it, Space Is the Place is a super interesting look into early Afrofuturist films and Sun Ra as a character.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072195/

Re: The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016)

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Post by chrisweekly »

Labels fall short (and miss the point? talking about music : dancing about architecture)

Musically adjacent but maybe more accessible, in this dark funk / hard-bop-acid-jazz realm, I highly recommend "Yo Miles!" https://open.spotify.com/album/6NI2WNLTa5E9J5RKQkL25X?si=CEt...

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Post by dmix »

Rochus wrote: post #12
riffic wrote: post #4

Devo's first live show was in 1975 opening for Sun Ra and things were chaotic : https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/15k9kf/devo_hired_as...

unfortunately the video is no longer available

Couldn't find the video but found this on wikipedia:

> The earliest known live performance of the song was on Halloween night of 1975, opening for Sun Ra.[3] The released recording of this version is seven minutes long.[3] However, according to a 1997 interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, they performed a half-hour rendition of the song as a joke to annoy the crowd: "We'd play 'Jocko Homo' for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't stop until people were actually fighting with us, trying to make us stop playing the song. We'd just keep going, 'Are we not men? We are Devo!' for like 25 minutes, directed at people in an aggressive enough manner that even the most peace-lovin' hippie wanted to throw fists."[4]

Edit: here's the audio only version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82j12E3cpS4

It probably looked something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcp8osYmU88

Re: The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016)

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Post by p_j_w »

artsytrashcan wrote: post #7
riffic wrote: post #4

Devo's first live show was in 1975 opening for Sun Ra and things were chaotic : https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/15k9kf/devo_hired_as...

I prefer to see Mark Mothersbaugh's being known primarily as "The Rugrats Guy" to most Millennials as something akin to karmic justice for his antics. See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco.

>See also his weirdly derogatory comments about disco.

This won't be a surprise for anyone who knows much about him. Mark Mothersbaugh was a punk/new wave guy (though obviously not exclusively) and most punks had a visceral hatred for disco.

Re: The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (2016)

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Post by Rochus »

dmix wrote: post #17
Rochus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

unfortunately the video is no longer available

Couldn't find the video but found this on wikipedia: > The earliest known live performance of the song was on Halloween night of 1975, opening for Sun Ra.[3] The released recording of this version is seven minutes long.[3] However, according to a 1997 interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, they performed a half-hour rendition of the song as a joke to annoy the crowd: "We'd play 'Jocko Homo' for 30 minutes, and we wouldn't…

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