Sun Ra

• 180 GRAM HIGH-DEFINITION VIRGIN VINYL

Despite Sun Ra’s obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra—Herman Poole Blount—spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards.

He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those formative years were no doubt recaptured during the Monorails sessions.

PERSONNEL:

• Sun Ra - solo piano

Recorded in New York, 1966

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Space Towers
• A2. Cogitation
• A3. Skylight
• A4. The Alter Destiny

• SIDE B
• B1. Easy Street
• B2. Blue Differentials
• B3. Monorails And Satellites
• B4. The Galaxy Way