Tag Archive for the term: sun ra arkestra

I thought this would be fun to post, this here “poem” — which is actually an email I just received from my father. Yes, this is exactly as the email arrived (except without the “love, dad” bit), this is exactly how he wrote it, and I’m really digging it right now! Emails from my [...]

SQUARE QUOTES
Episode 5: Pansexual Digressions & Nocturnal Omissions
Check out this fun podcast episode where I (Amber) am interviewed about Lickety Split and the upcoming issue, The Risk Issue and its July 4th launch. Square Quotes is an awesome new podcast outta Digital Bird Studios. Check it:
“With a turnaround time that would daunt most college radio [...]

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SPACE IS THE PLACE!
These are the words of the mighty Sun Ra (aka Sonny Ray, Sonny Lee, Le Sonra & Herman Poole Blount), legendary jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher. He left this planet back in 1993 to journey into the cosmos (which he already knew so well) [...]

Five minutes ago, right outside the Indyish tent at Parc des Ameriques, Tristan came running up to me and shouted, “Lise! Rain! Go!” One glance up at the sky and the wicked wind turning the leaves and I was on my feet, running and bringing down the walls of the tents as others ran around [...]

Big thanks are owed to AKG Microphones for the celebration that was this Friday’s giant free outdoor workshop and jam in the sun with 15 members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, accompanied by Ethereal Tribal.

Because AKG and Soundcraft, their Canadian distributor, appreciated immediately how special this opportunity was we were able to make it [...]

It was a really epic jam session where people took the ”bring your own instruments” to heart in a big way (cellos and a bunch of saxophones put my tambourine and maracas to shame!) and a whole lot of photos from the madness are taking up space on my hard drive, here are my favorites:

Night before last I did not sleep a wink, I was running over and over in my mind the details for the show the next day, the Sun Ra Arkestra coming into town, this vision we had hatched was going to be good and real if we could pull it all off, pull it all [...]

I really, really should invest in a digital camera. Like, really. Possibly tomorrow!
Not having enough money for any more than three beer tickets is unwise.
At the same time, it doesn’t matter because someone around you will always have plenty to share.
Surviving on beer and energy drinks only works until the 8 pm dizzy spells kick [...]

Oy, it’s sticky in Mtown tonight, it’s June, that ain’t right! Well, it’s midafternoon, but still. The sidewalks are damply sizzling and the small groups and framentary crowds of tourists and marijuana dealers are circling slower then usual, making flurries like dandylion cotton when intercut by the sweating, irrepressibly active jogging types on Mount Royal. [...]

Picture this: In a pocket of stone stage and archway, in a park full of greenery and sun at a busy corner of St Laurent, mid-Montreal, crowds gather carrying trumpets and violins. The stage is crowded with over 15 legendary musicians. The park is transformed into a beer tent and the Indyish are converging [...]