Sun Ra - Calling Planet Earth

Sun Ra - Calling Planet EarthCalling 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.

" The tunes were recorded in Los Angeles

The entire vibe of the party goes from hands in the air to grinding

and the "should've been hit" song with arranger/producer Billy Strange ("How Are Things In California

The tracks captured that sense cosmic wonderment that had characterized the 1950s Space Race and the imaginations of a whole generation

Words simply don't do it justice

immediately satisfying and quietly stunning work

and the band began writing for their first full-length release

Thinking that I was better than a lot of people because a part of me felt and thought differently from most of my peers

It's a mishmash

I was thinking about the last few years of the Thatcher era

as well as making two essential entries in the Conroy catalogue

brought together by Horace Tapscott's legendary Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra