Sun Ra
1914–1993. American bandleader, pianist, composer. in the Free Jazz / Afrofuturism tradition.
Sun Ra was a pioneering Afrofuturist bandleader whose cosmic philosophy and avant-garde jazz output made him a cult figure. His music blends free jazz, space themes, and experimental electronics. Marketing tags reflect his African American heritage and countercultural significance.
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PATHWAYS TO UNKNOWN WORLDS
MODERN HARMONIC
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$31.49
Aug 06, 2021
Vinyl LP pressing. Travelogue through a cybernetical soundscape! The future rendered here by Ra seems more dystopian than utopian, and these 1975 guided improvisations are imbued with an underlying violence, alternate twists, bank turns, headchoppers, loops, rolls, sidewinders and drops. It's a dark & glorious journey. Featuring the debut of the complete version of 'Extension Out,' Pathways has been exquisitely mastered from the four-track session reel and includes an insert offering an enlightening glimpse at Ra & co.'s plans for their major label lucre.
SOUND OF JOY
DELMARK
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CD
$15.49
Oct 31, 1994
His second album from late 1956, w. John Gilmore, Pat Patrick, Julian Piester+, reisssue of LP for the first time on CD.
DISCO 3000: COMPLETE MILAN CONCERT 1
IMPORTS
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CD
$27.99
Nov 11, 2014
Japanese 2 x CD paper sleeve pressing. P-Vine. 2014.
LIVE AT MONTREUX
INNER CITY JAZZ
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CD
$14.99
Aug 17, 2010
Live at Montreux, a two-CD reissue that has one of his most accessible recordings. The 20-piece Arkestra, in addition to trumpets, trombones and saxophones, includes a bassoonist, a bass clarinetist, two drummers, two bassists and Ra on piano, solar organ and moog synthesizer. Their unique sound and wide-open approach were perfectly tailored by Sun Ra to express his innovative musical ideas.
HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN RA
ESP DISK LTD.
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CD
$30.99
Sep 14, 2010
HELIOCENTRIC WORLDS OF SUN RA
CALLING PLANET EARTH
ORG MUSIC
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Vinyl
$33.49
Apr 18, 2015
Calling Planet Earth comes from a concert recorded at Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark on December 5, 1971. Sun Ra and his Arkestra are captured in their prime, while exploring some of their most far out material to date. The recording is finally getting it's first ever vinyl release. This Record Store Day 2015 exclusive pressing is limited to 2,000 copies worldwide. Colored Vinyl version is no longer available 2016.
SPACEWAYS
ORG MUSIC
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Vinyl
$33.49
Feb 10, 2017
SPACEWAYS
SUN RA: JOYFUL NOISE
MUG SHOT PRODUCTIONS
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$17.99
Dec 11, 2015
Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra and members of his eclectic ensemble on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisation. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible viewing experience.
SINGLES
STRUT RECORDS
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Vinyl
$48.99
Dec 09, 2016
Vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve, includes digital download. Strut presents a new definitive collection of Singles released by jazz maverick Sun Ra during his Earth years, spanning 1952 to 1991. Released prolifically during the 1950s and more sporadically thereafter, primarily on the Saturn label, the 45s offer one-off meteorites from Ra's prolific cosmic journey, tracing the development of his forward-thinking "Space-Bop" and his unique take on jazz and blues traditions which sounded unlike anything else from the period. As with his LPs, most 45s were only pressed in small runs and were sold at gigs and have since become extremely rare and sought after. Only a small handful of copies of "Love In Outer Space" b/w "Mayan Temple" and "The Blue One" b/w "Orbitration In Blue" have ever been seen; some have only been discovered in physical form in recent years; some were planned and penciled in but allegedly never made it to vinyl (including "Saturn" and "Velvet" from the Jazz In Silhouette LP) and some appeared as limited one-off magazine singles and posthumous releases, including "Hell #1" aka "Out There A Minute." The set is the most comprehensive collection of Ra's singles to date. Sleeve note writers Francis Gooding and Paul Griffiths brilliantly illustrate the role of the single within Ra's career and break down each release with detailed track by track notes. Working with Sun Ra LLC and Sun Raarchivist Michael D. Anderson, Strut has also assembled the best possible master sources for each track.
SUN RA: JOYFUL NOISE
MUG SHOT PRODUCTIONS
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DVD
$17.99
Dec 11, 2015
Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra and members of his eclectic ensemble on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisations. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible viewing experience.
CONTINUATION
CORBETT VS DEMPSEY
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CD
$21.49
Sep 22, 2017
2013 release. An expanded reissue of Sun Ra's Continuation, originally released in 1970. A special two CD reissue of the hyper-rare El Saturn Records album, recorded in 1963, early in the Arkestra's New York period, paired with a full disc of extra material. Loaded with John Gilmore, one of the greatest and rarest slabs of Sun Ra vinyl, on CD for the first time. Recorded on March 10, 1963 at the Choreographer's Workshop in New York City. Remastered from the original tapes by Michael D. Anderson; Reissue produced by John Corbett and Adam Abraham.
SPACE IS THE PLACE
IMPORTS
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CD
$12.99
Sep 03, 2001
SPACE IS THE PLACE
CELESTIAL LOVE
MODERN HARMONIC
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CD
$16.49
Apr 10, 2020
Celestial Love contains recordings made in September 1982 at New York's Variety Studios, which had hosted countless Sun Ra sessions since the late 1960s. This was one of the last extended sessions at Variety, and these recordings were the last studio works released on Sun Ra's own Saturn label (though the label did continue to press concert recordings, and new studio recordings did appear on other labels). Aside from their inclusion on Celestial Love, tracks from these sessions landed on the albums A Fireside Chat With Lucifer and Nuclear War. Since Nuclear War's contents overlapped with both Fireside Chat and Celestial Love, we have reconstituted the latter two as complete albums, thus covering all titles from these Variety dates. The music on Celestial Love is mostly "inside" Ra, veering towards mainstream jazz (the lengthy and adventurous "Fireside Chat," not on this album, being an exception). Ra's early hero, Duke Ellington, is represented twice with "Sophisticated Lady" and "Drop Me Off in Harlem," and two other standards ("Smile" and "Sometimes I'm Happy," both sung by June Tyson) are given snappy Ra arrangements.
CRYSTAL SPEARS
MODERN HARMONIC
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$31.49
May 03, 2019
Vinyl LP pressing, Recorded in '73 and rejected by tin-eared major label execs in '75, Crystal Spears (or "Crystal Clear" as it appears on the tape box) subsumes a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, with percussionists providing tonal textures, and plaintive oboe colliding with roaring electronic keyboards over waves of rollicking marimba, devilishly chattering below the fray. Crystal Spears is Sun Ra's once lost aural cinematheque! Includes a quad-ra-color Sun Ra poster!
MONORAILS & SATELITES: WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO V. 1-3
COSMIC MYTH RECORDS
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$38.99
Feb 01, 2019
Triple vinyl LP pressing in tri-gatefold cover. Considering the monumental depth of Sun Ra's recorded oeuvre, there are surprisingly few solo piano albums. Monorails and Satellites Volumes 1 and 2 were the first commercial LPs of the artist's solo keyboard excursions. Recorded in 1966 and released on his Saturn imprint in 1968, Volume 1 featured seven idiosyncratic originals and one standard ("Easy Street") delivered in Sunny's singular manner. Volume 2 was released the following year, and contains five compositions, all originals. A third volume was prepped but shelved, and this deluxe edition marks it's premiere release. As with all Cosmic Myth releases these volumes are superbly mastered with copious liners notes by renown American jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, and additional overviews by jazz historian Ben Young and producer Irwin Chusid.
STANDARDS
ORG MUSIC
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$33.49
Aug 16, 2019
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble-including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden (Dr. Strangelove) and a sultry Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot) in her breakout role-this gritty crime classic by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since. An uncommonly naturalistic view of a seamy underworld, The Asphalt Jungle painstakingly depicts the calm professionalism and toughness of it's gangster heroes while evincing a remarkable depth of compassion for their all-too-human fragility, and it showcases a master filmmaker at the height of his powers. Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, and Marilyn Monroe (in one of her early major roles) star. 112 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH). 715515190619 CCIN2711BR 37064846 25.27 39.95 .18 CRITERION COLLECTION BLU-RAY MOVIE MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER 11/15/2016 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/77/3100377.jpg 500 1 N
ONE MISSED CALL TRILOGY ONE MISSED CALL TRILOGY An iconic trilogy of J-horror films comes to Blu-ray for the first time! Tapping into the same brand of terror as the Ring and Grudge movies, visionary director Takashi Miike (Audition, Blade of the Immortal) presents a modern, high-tech twist on that mainstay of Japanese folklore, the yurei or vengeful spirit, in the form of it's own iconic antihero - the terrifying Mimiko. In the first installment in the trilogy, 2003's One Missed Call, student Yoko (Anna Nagata, Battle Royale) receives a phone message from her future self, ending with her own death scream. Two days later, she dies in a horrific rail collision. As the mysterious phone curse spreads, claiming more young lives, Yoko's friend Yumi (Ko Shibasaki, Battle Royale, 47 Ronin) joins forces with detective Hiroshi (Shinichi Tsutsumi, Space Battleship Yamato), whose sister met the same gruesome fate. But can they unravel the mystery before the clock runs out on the next victim - Yumi herself? Mimiko's curse continues to wreak bloody havoc in two sequels - 2005's One Missed Call 2 and 2006's One Missed Call: Final, in addition to spawning a TV series and an American remake. This lavish collection from Arrow Video gathers together the original trilogy and a swathe of in-depth bonus features for the ultimate spine-tingling experience 760137279884 ARWR222BR 39943804 31.40 49.95 .34 ARROW VIDEO BLU-RAY MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 02/25/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/23/3766223-2525799.jpg 0 2 N
COLTRANE,JOHN GIANT STEPS Pressed on limited, 180 gram, blue vinyl! Hugely influential 'new jazz' masterpiece from 1960. Trane's quartet (Tommy Flanagan or Wynton Kelly - piano, Paul Chambers - bass, Art Taylor or Jimmy Cobb- drums) back the legendary sax-man on a set that would include future Trane standards such as Naima, Giants Steps and Mr PC. 889397006020 DOL7006020.1 39944719 14.99 20.99 .59 DOL VINYL LP POP JAZZ 12/06/2019 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/53/3766353-2721508.jpg 0 1 N
MINGUS,CHARLES MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS MINGUS 889397006136 DOL7006136.1 39944825 14.99 20.99 .58 DOL VINYL LP POP JAZZ 12/06/2019 0 1 N
COLEMAN,ORNETTE FREE JAZZ 889397006174 DOL7006174.1 39944863 14.99 20.99 .75 DOL VINYL LP POP JAZZ 12/06/2019 0 1 N
CHOPIN / SWAN,JEFFREY / HAYDN ORCHESTRA CHOPIN: THE TWO PIANO CONCERTOS 8044291151821 IMT1151821.2 39945617 13.53 20.99 .21 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 12/13/2019 0 1 N
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CAUVIN,THIBAULT CITIES II 889854906627 SOIP4906627.2 39948540 17.14 26.99 .24 SONY CLASSICAL IMP COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/06/2019 0 1 N
BAGNOLI,STEFANO / WE KIDS TRIO DALI 8056364970369 IMT4970369.2 39965462 16.24 24.99 .13 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 12/13/2019 0 1 N
HUNTERS,BECK HUNT IS ON 5051078933429 IMT8933429.2 39966070 11.72 17.99 .24 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 05/26/2017 0 1 N
ARCHER,MARTIN / MWAMBA / BENNETT / FAIRCLOUGH SUNSHINE! QUARTET 5051078953021 IMT8953021.2 39966162 11.72 17.99 .24 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 05/26/2017 0 1 N
DEEP TIDE QUARTET SEE ONE DO ONE TEACH ONE 5051078958224 IMT8958224.2 39966216 16.24 24.99 .48 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 09/22/2017 0 2 N
KING,ELIZABETH TESTIFY / A LONG JOURNEY 854255000052 BBTI5.7 39985972 8.14 9.98 .16 BIBLE & TIRE REC CO 7-INCH SINGLE POP BLUES 01/17/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/33/3768933-2622528.jpg 0 1 N
ZE MANOEL: DELIRIO DE UM ROMANCE A CEU ABERTO ZE MANOEL: DELIRIO DE UM ROMANCE A CEU ABERTO NTSC / ALL / Excellent show by this composer, musician and singer, with the participation of great artists of different generations who lent their voices to the songs and piano of Ze Manoel, such as: Arthur Nogueira, Carol Guimaraes, Celia, Fafa de Belem, Isadora Melo, Jucara Marcal, Jussara Silveira, Juliana Perdigao, Mariana Aydar, Na Ozzeti and Virginia Rodrigues. 14 tracks. 7899989982741 TRTB9982741DVD 39989994 18.86 27.99 .21 TRATORE MUSIC BRASIL DIGITAL VIDEO DISC POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 12/27/2019 0 1 N
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE AT THE MET 639842655521 WMUF2655521DVD 39993175 16.03 23.99 .20 WARNER MUSIC FRANCE DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL BALLET 11/18/2003 0 1 N
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE CASSE NOISETTE 5051865601722 WMUF5601722DVD 39993410 18.86 27.99 .20 WARNER MUSIC FRANCE DIGITAL VIDEO DISC CLASSICAL BALLET 12/14/2009 0 1 N
DE ANDRE,FABRIZIO COMPLETE 8000000099440 IMT0099440.1 40000343 56.99 79.99 1.00 IMPORTS VINYL LP POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC ITALY 12/13/2019 0 2 N
ROSSINI / PANTELIADIS,MARIOS ROSSINI: QUELQUES RIENS POUR ALBUM 746160665849 IMT0665849.2 40001401 16.24 24.99 .24 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 12/13/2019 0 1 N
ENSEMBLE DEL GIGLIO / CAVALLO,LIVIO QUANDO CANTO: CHORAL GLIMPSES IN ITALIA 746160665856 IMT0665856.2 40001418 14.43 22.99 .24 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CLASSICAL VOCALS 12/13/2019 0 1 N
REGGAETON NEW HITS / VARIOUS REGGAETON NEW HITS / VARIOUS 8033116153324 IMT6153324.2 40001807 11.72 17.99 .24 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC ITALY 12/13/2019 0 1 N
TOLSTOY,VIKTORIA STATIONS 614427974020 ACRR7974020.2 40021799 19.85 30.99 .14 ACT RECORDS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 02/07/2020 0 1 N
RONIN BRUTO MINORE 8051411743767 BCND1743767.2 40021843 16.24 24.99 .24 BLACK CANDY ITALY COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC ITALY 12/20/2019 0 1 N
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REUNION BIG BAND MY LIFE IS NOW: TRIBUTE TO MARCO TAMBURINI 8033433292683 CALI3292683.2 40022550 11.72 17.99 .14 CALIGOLA COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 12/20/2019 0 1 N
LESTER LIVE AT 6TH NORD - EST 8032484739758 CALI4739758.2 40022611 14.43 22.99 .09 CALIGOLA COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 12/20/2019 1 1 N
SPAGNA,IVANA 1954 8019991884720 IMT1884720.1 40022932 54.99 77.99 1.56 IMPORTS VINYL LP POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC ITALY 12/20/2019 0 1 N
NARDEYDEY NARDEYDEY 689492198114 IMT2198114.1 40022970 12.99 17.99 .48 IMPORTS 12-INCH SINGLE POP R&B / SOUL / FUNK 01/24/2020 0 1 N
LES FLEURS OUBLIEES LES FLEURS OUBLIEES 824255027045 IMT5027045DVD 40023113 16.97 24.99 .18 IMPORTS DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DRAMA 03/06/2020 0 1 N
CHOC QUIB TOWN SOMOS PACIFICO 7798115830706 IMT5830706.2 40023182 7.21 11.99 .24 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC ARGENTINA / TANGO 12/27/2019 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/08/1506308.jpg 0 1 N
TWO ON A GUILLOTINE (1965) TWO ON A GUILLOTINE (1965) Twenty years ago, a little accident with a guillotine trick left magician Duke Duquesne's wife/on-stage assistant without a head... and their baby daughter, Cassie, without a mother. Now, The Great Duquesne may have another trick up his sleeve. He dies, leaving Cassie a sizable inheritance if she spends seven nights in his spooky mansion. With a fearless young reporter by her side, Cassie braves terrors that could be the work of evil spirits. Or are they illusions dreamed up by Cassie's dear demented dad? Connie Stevens, Dean Jones (in his pre-The Love Bug days) and Cesar Romero star in a creepy horrorfest that offers scares, screams, a return of that guillotine and Max Steiner's (Gone with the Wind) penultimate score 883929696581 WARA1000748830BR 40024066 20.95 23.99 .15 WARNER ARCHIVES BLU-RAY MOVIE HORROR / SCI-FI / FANTASY 01/28/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/11/3771911-3656476.jpg 5 1 N
UNDERWATER (1954) UNDERWATER (1954) Broke Florida newlyweds Theresa and Johnny Gray (Jane Russell, Richard Egan) were all ears when adventurer pal Dominic Quesada (Gilbert Roland) claimed a lead on a treasure-laden galleon sunk off of Cuba. Their expedition determined he was right-but retrieving the precious cargo is another matter, between the boat's position on a precipice, shark-laden waters, and some two-legged predators tracking their course. Long-sought maritime thriller co-stars Lori Nelson, Robert Keith, Joseph Calleia. 99 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English DTS HD mono Master Audio; Subtitles: English (SDH). 883929704033 WARA1000753650BR 40024134 20.55 23.99 .15 WARNER ARCHIVES BLU-RAY MOVIE DRAMA 01/28/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/18/3771918-3656511.jpg 1 1 N
BALLESTER,CARLOS MARTIN TOMAS PAVON COLECCION CARLOS MARTIN BALLESTER 9788494655227 IMT4655227.2 40037103 45.12 69.99 2.41 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC SPAIN & PORTUGAL 12/13/2019 0 1 N
STYLE QUEENS EPISODE 3: TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE QUEENS EPISODE 3: TAYLOR SWIFT Style Queens presents the world's most famous celebrity fashion icons and shows viewers how to follow in their footsteps. Taylor Swift has gone from country princess to edgy rock star over the span of her short career. From her signature cat eye makeup to how she got her baby felines, it's time to show you how Swift continues to make fashion headlines in her everyday lifestyle choices. 760137273394 MVD2733DVD 40051482 6.37 9.95 .16 MVD VISUAL DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DOCUMENTARY 03/17/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/84/3774884-2530938.jpg 1 1 N
BEST OF 90S 10-FILM COLLECTION VOL 1 BEST OF 90S 10-FILM COLLECTION VOL 1 A collection of ten films from the 90's filled with action, laughs, and suspense. 883929705528 WHV1000756893DVD 40086040 36.42 41.98 .40 WARNER HOME VIDEO DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER 02/04/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/29/3778229-2533398.jpg 3 6 Y
KAUMAAKONGA TAOBA With TAOBA, Kaumaakonga delivers deep-pocket rhythm and rhythmic finesse, guided by sparkling immediacy. Rich roots elements and uplifting, community-centered spirit. Textures of organic pulse and low-end warmth support sing-along release, culminating in a cohesive arc that feels both fresh and familiar. A standout for collectors who appreciate inventive rhythm, genre-blurring ideas, and thoughtful detail. 9317486003038 IMT6003038.2 40097893 13.53 20.99 .08 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 01/31/2020 2 1 N
SAVINA,CARLO LE CALDE NOTTI DI DON GIOVANNI / O.S.T. 8436548730451 IMT8730451.2 40098173 17.14 26.99 .20 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP SOUNDTRACKS & FILM SCORES 02/07/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/67/3779467-2573771.jpg 0 1 N
ZIRNGIBL,CHRISTOPH FINIS TERRAE / O.S.T. 645239780417 IMT9780417.2 40098388 22.57 34.99 .14 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP SOUNDTRACKS & FILM SCORES 02/07/2020 0 1 N
SOUTHERN SOUL SLOW JAMS 2 / VARIOUS SOUTHERN SOUL SLOW JAMS 2 / VARIOUS Today s Southern Soul actually encompasses a wide variety of styles from traditional Blues, to Contemporary R&B, Deep Soul, Zydeco, Beach Music and more. Following the success of and like the first collection Southern Soul Slow Jams 2 leans into the sexy soulful balladry of Southern Soul. Another 16 outstanding shots of soulful slow jams from the likes of Charles Wilson, Pat Brown, Mister Zay, Garland Green, Stan Mosley, Jody Sticker, Will Easley, Jerry L. Michelle Miller & more. 885007794929 AVIA83077.2 40105864 9.98 15.98 .19 AVIARA MUSIC COMPACT DISCS POP BLUES V/A COMPILATIONS 02/21/2020 0 1 N
TEEN MOM 2: SEASON 4 TEEN MOM 2: SEASON 4 On the dramatic 4th Season of Teen Mom 2 Leah, Jenelle, Kailyn and Chelsea deal with the ups and downs of motherhood, relationships, finances and careers. The girls face some of their biggest challenges yet, overcoming unseen obstacles and under pressure to raise their toddlers all while growing into resilient young adults. The last time we saw Jenelle she was struggling with probation and trying to turn herself around to be a better mom to her son Jace. Having met a new beau Gary, things seem to have turned around for her. But everything goes haywire when she finds out her new boyfriend had a past with her best friend. The couple patches things up, but shortly after they get into a dramatic fight that lands them both in jail. With Gary out of the picture, Jenelle turns her affections back to Kieffer and things spiral out of control as she battles with her mental health and drug use. Things in Leah's world are difficult as she deals with a miscarriage that leads her to question if she's moving too fast with fianc? Jeremy. When Corey tells her he still has feelings for her, Leah breaks off her engagement to give their family another shot at being together. But when Jeremy confronts Corey about the true nature of his feelings, Corey falters. Meanwhile tests show a possible new diagnosis for Ali's slow development, and everyone unites to support her. Kailyn can't stand Jo's girlfriend Vee, which leads to a violent altercation. She files a protection from abuse order against Jo, which forces the court to redefine their custody agreement. After Kailyn's boyfriend Javi moves in, she is forced to take a look at her anger issues when she lashes out at him. Javi decides to join the Air force. Working to heal her co-parenting relationship with Jo, they go to counseling, but Jo is not happy when he hears of Kailyns plans to take Isaac out of state to wherever Javi is stationed by the Air Force. Finally, Chelsea says she's over Adam, but reveals to friends a fear that she might be pregnant from a one-night stand with him. Chelsea also faces separation anxiety when she takes Aubree to day care for the first time so she can finally start beauty school. Chelsea is not happy when she discovers out Adam has a new girlfriend and she tries to move on but gets overwhelmed when circumstances force her to move several times. She decides to take a break from school to celebrate Aubree's birthday and her 21st, while finally settling into a new place. 887936393860 MTVM3639386DVD 26439723 38.40 41.99 .27 MTV MOD DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE REALITY TV 10/10/2013 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/51/3780451-3658566.jpg 0 4 N
BATMAN: DARK KNIGHT RETURNS (TRIPLE FEATURE) BATMAN: DARK KNIGHT RETURNS (TRIPLE FEATURE) 883929680009 WHV1000743489DVD 39077721 8.75 14.98 .13 WARNER HOME VIDEO DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE CARTOONS & ANIMATION 07/02/2019 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/0/1/6/3/3923610.jpg 8 1 N
FINDERS KEEPERS FINDERS KEEPERS The discovery of an amputees mummified leg in a grill purchased at an auction in rural North Carolina turns into a bizarre battle for custody. Heartfelt, funny and often tragic, this film celebrates the lives of it's quirky subjects and examines the importance of letting go of the past. 889845943198 TEOD4594319DVD 39084118 12.79 13.99 .16 THE ORCHARD DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DOCUMENTARY 06/16/2019 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/47/3673247-3661347.jpg 0 1 N
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NIGHT OUT NIGHT OUT Saturday night in Berlin. A colorful mix of hetero and gay singles, couples and polyamorous, craving fun and satisfaction, explore the city and their relationships for different reasons. Their journey will lead them into the heart of a frenetic night where anything goes, portraying an array of contemporary nightlife possibilities. Loaded, passionate, and sweaty, the stories of our protagonists ultimately intertwine in KitKatClub. At the break of dawn, and after a series of mishaps, they each leave changed people. 896137001542 FILM1542DVD 39111746 20.95 29.95 .16 FILM MOVEMENT DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE LGBTQ+ THEMED FILM 07/09/2019 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/2/0/9/5/3925902.jpg 0 1 N
FREE - DIVE TO THE FUTURE: SEASON THREE FREE - DIVE TO THE FUTURE: SEASON THREE Your favorite swimming boys are back! While starting college and figuring out what they want for their future, Haru and Makoto run into the unexpected-their old teammates from elementary school. Still hurt from their team suddenly dissolving, Ikuya is out to prove he's better than Haru. But he's not the only threat that lies in the waters of competition! 704400018510 FUP1851BR 39117977 62.64 84.98 .90 CRUNCHYROLL BLU-RAY MOVIE ANIME / JAPANIMATION CARTOONS & ANIMATION 08/20/2019 https://media.aent-m.com/graphics/items/sdimages/b/500/4/2/2/6/3926224.jpg 12 4 Y
DOUBLE DYNAMITE (1951) DOUBLE DYNAMITE (1951) He may be an underpaid bank clerk but his voice is worth a million bucks. Frank Sinatra is $42.50-a-week teller Johnny Dalton, who comes across big money and big trouble in this frothy comedy. It's Only Money, Sinatra sings with his quipster pal Emil (Groucho Marx). Yet lack of it keeps him from marrying fellow bank employee Mibs (Jane Russell). Before you can say romantic comedy, Johnny rescues a bookie from a beating and receives a betting tip in appreciation. The appreciation appreciates into thousands. But there's a catch: the bank is short $75,000. And cash-flush Johnny is Suspect #1. Maybe Johnny's lot will be just Kisses and Tears (a Sinatra/Russell duet and the second of the film's two Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn tunes). The good news: Double Dynamite will also be love, laughs and stardust galore. 883929689934 WARA1000746441DVD 39133175 18.28 19.99 .16 WARNER ARCHIVES DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE COMEDIES 06/25/2019 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/05/3678605-3656417.jpg 0 1 N
ZENOBIA HALAK HALAK In the wake of their debut EP (released earlier this year on Crammed imprint Acid Arab Records), the mighty electronic music duo from Haifa offer their first album, which showcases their trademark style: Levantine dabke rhythms, powerful beats, sinuous synth lines and occasional dubby flavours. Zenobia are at the forefront of the new, vibrant Palestinian electronic music movement, originating in parallel between Haifa and Ramallah, scattered yet gradually more unified, and now extending across the borders to Amman, Beirut and the diaspora. Described by The Guardian as some crazy Kraftwerk of the Levant, the band consists of Nasser Halahlih, a pioneer who has been at the core of the scene since it's early days, and fleet-fingered keyboardist Isam Elias. 876623008095 CRDC291.1 40108100 13.75 17.98 .51 CRAMMED DISC US VINYL LP POP INT'L & WORLD MUSIC 08/07/2020 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/00/3780500-2535113.jpg 30 1 N
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TRAVEL THRU HISTORY DISCOVER LAS VEGAS TRAVEL THRU HISTORY DISCOVER LAS VEGAS Journey to the Wild West on today's episode of Travel Thru History! Take a peek behind the curtain of the most entertaining city in the world. It's a place carved out of the Mojave Desert; a place we've come to know as Las Vegas. While the city is known for it's endless entertainment options we'll take a look into the intriguing roots that were much different from what Las Vegas is today. We get things rolling by visiting the first permanent structure that was built in the valley. It was a small adobe Mormon Fort that was constructed by Mormon Missionaries. We'll learn how this became an essential crossroad for travelers. We'll blast our way into the 1940's and 50's as we visit the National Atomic Testing museum to learn about how the desert outside of Vegas was used for testing America's secret nuclear weapons. Next we visit the Neon Museum Boneyard, the final resting place for those large neon signs used to light up Las Vegas skyline. Put aside your previous notions of Las Vegas because we're going to prove that there is so much more to Las Vegas than rolling dice. 709629089518 TMWM12836831DVD 39158536 32.14 45.95 .26 TMW MEDIA GROUP DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE TRAVEL 05/21/2019 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/92/3680692-2473285.jpg 100 1 N
NOW YOU SEE LOVE NOW YOU DON'T NOW YOU SEE LOVE NOW YOU DON'T Hong Kong DVD/Region pressing. Starring Chow Yun Fat, Carol Cheng, Irene Wan, Carina Lau, Teresa Mo, Anthony Wong. 4895154915326 IMT4915326DVD 39172532 26.41 38.99 .20 IMPORTS DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE ACTION / ADVENTURE SOUTHEAST ASIA 05/17/2019 0 1 N
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SUN RA STANDARDS Sun Ra, the extraordinary, outlandish, and sometimes controversial pianist, is often described as an acquired taste", with a massive and diverse catalog. This release is a good place to start for uninitiated or dismissive listeners. The album showcases Ra's grounding in the jazz tradition, with unique takes on standards like "Time After Time," "Easy to Love," and "But Not for Me". Not unordinary for Sun Ra, the recording process was informal; "Can This Be Love?" was recorded in his Chicago apartment in 1955; he is accompanied only by the great Wilbur Ware on bass. The other five tracks, which feature, among others, Ra's longtime associate John Gilmore on tenor saxophone, were recorded at the Choreographer's Workshop rehearsal space in 1962 and 1963.
JAZZ MASTERS VOL. 3
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Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances. For much of his career, Ra led "The Arkestra", an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. Two albums "Monorails and Satellites" and "Pictures of Infinity" together in this package for the price of one!
HAVERFORD COLLEGE, JAN. 25, 1980
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Soothing Sounds for Saturnians! Sun Ra, notorious for his aggressive keyboard attack and seemingly schizophrenic stylings, here offers a unique selection playing the celeste-like Fender Rhodes electric piano, which has a distinct sound (think Doors' "Riders on the Storm") and an interesting history. This is Ra sound at his most relaxed and contemplative state. This Sun Ra 1980 solo set at Haverford College has been kicking around the internet and in the digital libraries of Ra collectors for years, though it has not previously been properly mastered or commercially issued. Like many events in Ra's history, this gig has a story that goes beyond the music. Ra's presence onstage that night came about through an unforeseen chain of events that unfolded up until concert time. This is a very unique performance. Sun Ra is notorious for his aggressive keyboard attack and seemingly schizophrenic stylings-which can musically rocket from A to Z and back without transitional bridges. This set offers a marked contrast. Ra's instrument here is the celeste-like Fender Rhodes electric piano, which has a distinct sound (instantly recognizable in the Doors' "Riders on the Storm") and an interesting history. There are few pyrotechnics in this performance, and much restraint. Ra sounds relaxed and contemplative. It's Soothing Sounds for Saturnians. - Irwin Chusid 1. Love In Outer Space 2. Haverford Impromptu 1 3. Rhapsody In Blue 4. St. Louis Blues 5. Medley: Intro-Space Is The Place-Over The Rainbow 6. Haverford Impromptu 2 7. We Live To Be (previously unissued) 8. Take The A Train (previously unissued) 9. Haverford Encore Duet (featuring Walt Dickerson) (CD only)
PROPHET
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PROPHET
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FUTURISTIC SOUNDS OF
ART FORMS OF DIMENSIONS TOMORROW
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CD reissue. Sun Ra (who was born Herman Blount) was undoubtedly one of the most arcane musicians of the 20th century. He was an American Jazz composer, band leader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher, but his formal education came to an abrupt end. Sun Ra soon left college because, he claimed, he had a visionary experience as a college student that had a major, long-term influence on him. In 1936 or 1937, in the midst of deep religious concentration, Sun Ra claimed that a bright light appeared around him, and, as he later said: My whole body changed into something else. I could see through myself. And I went up... I wasn't in human form... I landed on a planet that I identified as Saturn... they teleported me and I was down on stage with them. They wanted to talk with me. They had one little antenna on each ear. A little antenna over each eye. They talked to me. They told me to stop because there was going to be great trouble in schools... The world was going into complete chaos... I would speak, and the world would listen. That's what they told me. This album originally appeared in 1962 and includes some remarkable technical advances. While testing the tape recorder while the musicians were tuning up one day, the band's drummer and engineer, Tommy Hunter, realized that by manipulating the tape recorder in unconventional fashion, he could create sounds that nobody had ever heard before. Unless you have already booked your summer holiday on Saturn, I suggest that you buy this record to see what you are missing.
OF ABSTRACT DREAMS
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Strut and Art Yard present another exclusive from the vast catalogue of cosmic jazz pioneer Sun Ra: a previously unreleased radio session most likely recorded at the WXPN FM radio studios in Philadelphia, 1974-5. This newly discovered session features a new version of Ra's earlier 'Island In The Sun', a romping, raucous rendition of 'Unmask The Batman' and the first studio recording of 'I'll Wait For You' There is no bass player on the sessions and Ra's left hand beats out a rhythmic bass pattern on the piano. All tracks are remastered directly from the original tapes. The album package features a newly commissioned painting by legendary Bristol urban artist Guy Denning and new sleeve notes by Paul Griffiths. Recently discovered in the Sun Ra archive, the recording forms part of a series of sessions that Ra and the Arkestra recorded for WXPN-FM between 1974 and 1980. The 'Antique Blacks' album was recorded there in '74. Based on the campus of The University of Pennsylvania, WXPN's station manager Jules Epstein and music director Russ Woessner were instrumental in the exposure and recording of The Arkestra in their broadcast production studios. Geno Barnhart, founder of The Empty Foxhole concert collective, Jules and Russ broadcast an on-going series of jazz concerts covering a wide spectrum. The Arkestra performed at The Foxhole in Philly many times from 1974.
CELESTIAL LOVE
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CELESTIAL LOVE
FATE IN A PLEASANT MOOD
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CD reissue. The history of music is full of extraordinary characters. Even some of the best known classical musicians had lives which, even by today's standards, were both shocking and bizarre. But when it came to the 20th Century, things really began to become peculiar. The notorious Sun Ra, who claimed to be an alien from the planet Saturn, or something like that, is responsible for some of the most challenging music that has ever been recorded. The music on this album was recorded in a marathon session of between 30-40 songs either at the RCA Studios or possibly at Hall Recording Company (both in Chicago), around 17 June 1960. Other albums to include tracks from the session include Interstellar Low Ways, Holiday for Soul Dance, Angels and Demons at Play and We Travel The Space Ways. The problem with trying to catalog the output of many artists from this period is that, back then, jazz and other popular musics were not seen as being of any lasting importance. So recording details, and lists of who played what, when and where - although things which we take for granted today - are often missing, and one has to piece together the facts from a myriad of different sources. When you add to this the fact that Sun Ra was notorious for his eccentricities (some have even described him as being barking mad), and attempting to come up with any truly cogent narrative is monumentally difficult. This music is actually from the more conventional end of Sun Ra's output and sounds like a trippier version of what Miles Davis and John Coltrane were doing at a time. Very groovy stuff.
RA TO THE RESCUE
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Digitally remastered edition. One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, RTTR originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant-garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra's sci-fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen's skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal track 'They Plan To Leave,' and so much more.
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH LUCIFER
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Digitally remastered edition. An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call and response club cut... from Sun Ra?! While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee Nuclear War, there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to 'Nuclear War,' Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. Fireside Chat offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist's intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything... except predictability. First ever reissue of this iconic album!
EXCELSIOR MILL
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The outsized sounds emerging from the Excelsior Mill organ captured here constitute a unique chapter in the Sun Ra story, a dizzying phantasmagoria that offers a whole new view on what Ra could do. It might thrill you; it might unnerve you; it might strum your heartstrings; it might spook the living daylights out of you. Most likely you'll experience all of the above before the jolting musical jeremiad is done. The CD includes the full uncut show with music not featured on the LP version! When you're Sun Ra, you don't need synthesizers to evoke apocalyptic visions and interstellar excursions. You don't even need a band. Ra is most widely known for working with various iterations of his Arkestra, but he was no stranger to unaccompanied keyboard expeditions. His discography contains solo piano albums, solo Fender Rhodes records, and solo recordings on conventional organ, the latter going as far back as his home recordings from the 1940s. But none of those instruments ever offered Sun Ra the kind of sonic artillery that waited beneath his fingers and feet when he sat before the keyboards, pedals, and multicolored constellation of tabs controlling the Wurlitzer pipe organ. Mystic and magisterial, Ra comes off here like a cross between a demonically riffing '50s horror movie villain and a futuristic congregation leader delivering the interplanetary gospel. Brassy stabs provide the kind of punctuation that could be graphically rendered as an endless string of exclamation marks in 500-point font. String-like swoops and swirls dance across the top of the carnage, cooling the flames just enough to keep the whole thing from combusting (for a while at least) but never dousing the fiery fury that Ra draws forth from the instrument.
PLANETS OF LIFE OR DEATH: AMIENS 73
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Enlightenment is... our tomorrow... It has no plane... of sorrow. Hereby, our invitation... We do invite you... Be of our Space World Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research Arkestra 'Enlightenment' Within their 1973 European tour, Sun Ra and his Arkestra had just completed a residency at the legendary Gibus in Paris in October before travelling to Amiens for a Sunday afternoon concert. Those filing into the city's Maison de la Culture that day would have little idea of the intense, visceral experience that awaited them. "Sun Ra's use of the Arkestra as his instrument in an onslaught of sound, colour and movement stimulated and even shocked the senses and the shakras of audience participants onto a higher plane of spirit consciousness," explains the Arkestra's Knoel Scott. On Side 1, the session kicks off with the theatrical overture, 'Enlightenment' as Sun Ra and vocalist June Tyson invite the audience to "be of our space world". Ra then moves into a rare instrumental version of 'Love In Outer Space', transforming the perennial Arkestra classic into a raw, ritualistic experience: "this was a vehicle for the Arkestra's space dancers. Close your eyes and imagine them writhing across the stage in celestial homage," explains Scott. Side 2 of the album opens with the glistening 'Lights On A Satellite', a feature for the spiritual tenor sax of John Gilmore, playing in unison with trumpeter Kwame Hadi. Closing track, the epic, chaotic, anxious 'Discipline 27-II / What Planet Is This' moves from abstract, freeform keyboard work from Sun Ra to a walking groove as Sun Ra and June Tyson take a thinly veiled psychedelic swipe at life on earth: "If this is a planet of life, why do people die here? " Following 2014's landmark compilation presented by Marshall Allen, 'In the Orbit Of Ra', Strut and Art Yard join forces once more for the first release anywhere of 'Planets Of Life Or Death'. Recorded direct from the sound board and mastered from first generation reel to reel, the title is exclusively available for Record Store Day 2015. The release features rare photos from Sun Ra's 1973 European tour by photographer Jan Persson with sleeve notes by Knoel Scott.
FUTURISTIC SOUNDS OF SUN RA
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Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered. This special 60th-anniversary reissue of groundbreaking jazz artist Sun Ra's iconic 1962 album, The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra, features all analog remastering by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. The package includes Tom Wilson's original liner notes, plus insightful new essays by jazz historian Ben Young and the journalist, radio personality and author Irwin Chusid.
SINGLES
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SUN RA Singles the Definitive 45's Collection 1952 - 1991 - Strut presents a new definitive collection of Singles released by jazz maverick Sun Ra during his Earth years, spanning 1952 to 1991. Released prolifically during the 1950s and more sporadically thereafter, primarily on the Saturn label, the 45s offer one-off meteorites from Ra's prolific cosmic journey, tracing the development of his forward-thinking "Space-Bop" and his unique take on jazz and blues traditions which sounded unlike anything else from the period. As with his LPs, most 45s were only pressed in small runs and were sold at gigs and have since become extremely rare and sought after. Only a small handful of copies of "Love In Outer Space" b/w "Mayan Temple" and "The Blue One" b/w "Orbitration In Blue" have ever been seen; some have only been discovered in physical form in recent years; some were planned and penciled in but allegedly never made it to vinyl (including "Saturn" and "Velvet" from the Jazz In Silhouette LP) and some appeared as limited one-off magazine singles and posthumous releases, including "Hell #1" aka "Out There A Minute." The set is the most comprehensive collection of Ra's singles to date. Sleeve note writers Francis Gooding and Paul Griffiths brilliantly illustrate the role of the single within Ra's career and break down each release with detailed track by track notes. Working with Sun Ra LLC and Sun Raarchivist Michael D. Anderson, Strut has also assembled the best possible master sources for each track.
