Sun Ra

Berkeley Lecture, 1971

Forthcoming - October 2024

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Officially released for the first time ever, a previously unknown half-hour from cosmic mythologist and sound scientist Sun Ra's 1971 U.C. Berkeley course "The Black Man in the Cosmos." Ra's soft-spoken intensity is underscored by the sound of chalk on the board as he ambles effortlessly through his potent and prescient ideas. The class session closes with two musical tracks, a piano version of "Love In Outer Space" and a blistering Moog solo.

Lecture with piano and Moog solos recorded at University of California, Berkeley, in 1971 as part of Ra's course "The Black Man and the Cosmos."

Courtesy of the Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago.

Transfer by Todd Carter. 

Mastering by Alex Inglizian.

Original tape box and reel from CAA. 

CD designed by David Khan-Giordano.

Produced by John Corbett.

1. Berkeley Lecture (32:16)
2. Love in Outer Space (4:58)
3. Moog Solo (16:17)

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