Ra to the Rescue!

Description

One of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, ‘Ra to the Rescue!’ 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.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Mystery, Mr. Ra – Sun Ra
2. When Spaceships Appear (Ra to the Rescue Ch. 1) – Sun Ra
3. Back Alley Blues (Fragile Emotion Blues) – Sun Ra
4. Drummerlistics – Sun Ra
5. Children of the Sun – Sun Ra
6. Cosmo-party Blues – Sun Ra
7. Space Shuttle (Ra to the Rescue Ch. 2) – Sun Ra
8. Fate in a Pleasant Mood – Sun Ra
9. They Plan to Leave – Sun Ra
10. When Lights Are Dark (Back Alley Blues Alternate) – Sun Ra