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Ah, I was thinking about starting a thread on the Master of time and space myself, actually. Pipped at the post.
One of the main probs with Sun Ra is that his discography is absoulutely enormous and very confusing (different albums with the same titles, same albums with different covers, badly recorded jazz standards albums etc).
Albums I'd recommend are the Space is the Place soundtrack, which is great for beginners as it's full of the really out stuff from his best period (late 60s/early 70s). Also a good one for the Sun Ra neophyte is Out There a Minute, which Blast First put out a while ago. It's basically a greatest hits, but it's all well recorded and features some of his best known tunes.
Also the Space is the Place movie was recently released on DVD which I can't recommend highly enough. It's basically a cheap blaxploitation Sci-fi movie, complete with wobbly spaceships, cosmic pronouncements and trippy visuals. It's a complete hoot and one of the better encapsulators of the Sun Ra philosophy.
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