Sun Ra - Haverford College, January 25 1980 LP experimental with Duncan’s lyrics and vocals

with Duncan’s lyrics and vocals becoming a shamanic portal to a possible future

were bringing to the dance

or together with collaborators in live performances that bordered on the ceremonial in their intensity and lack of entertaining frippery

Arts Center (1977) feature the cream of that eras downtown new music scene including Ernie Brooks

And yet an adept virtuosity and ghostly ethereality invokes the grim dark beauty of the swamps as much as the veiled creeping horrors

Sun Ra - Haverford College, January 25 1980 LP experimental with Duncan’s lyrics and vocalsNote: we had some coloured vinyl copies of this that were bung, but this black version plays great! 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