{"product_id":"sun-ra_its-after-the-end-of-the-world_2025_war","title":"It's After The End of The World","description":"Reissue of the 1971 album 'After The End Of The World' by Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra, recorded live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin festivals. \"I play space music. When one day humans on distant planets hear the sounds of cosmic beings, the music will seem familiar to them, because when they were on Earth, they had heard Sun Ra.\" Thus proclaimed Herman Poole Blount over 50 years ago. The former pianist for Fletcher Henderson changed his name to Sun Ra and formed an \"Intergalactic Research Arkestra.\" The avant-garde big band, which also incorporated elements of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, divided the jazz world. It wasn't just the music that caused the uproar: Sun Ra's musical community attracted dancers and fire-eaters, and the group performed in extravagant costumes. Many critics considered the one who had taken the name of the Egyptian sun god to be a charlatan. However, the German jazz authority Joachim-Ernst Berendt recognized in his music \"old blues and gospel songs, African highlife dances and Egyptian marches, Negro minstrel shows and voodoo rituals.\" Sun Ra could thank the blessing of the German high priest of jazz for the invitations from the black jazz guru to the 1970 Donaueschinger Jazz Days as well as to the Berlin Jazz Festival. This MPS album was made from the recordings of these concerts. They certainly constitute a documentation of jazz history; with unusual instrumentation, the 21-musician group creates extraordinary percussive noises and sounds. The overall impression is muted since the actual dimension is missing. Sun Ra died in 1993.","brand":"Sun Ra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57520727425368,"sku":null,"price":23948434.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/sun-ra_its-after-the-end-of-the-world_2025_war","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}