Day 4 Sun Ra part 1 - I need coffee

As of Friday (9/25) casually came to the decision to make an attempt at listening to as much of Sun Ra's catalog in order, as possible. There are two immediate problems with this being that Sun Ra has ~130 official releases (you can check it out here.) Of course, as a compulsive listener, this is a fine challenge, though a few days in, I'm certainly hitting points where three to four albums in a row feel far too similar to want to ever hear them in sequence again.

The second problem comes from not having all 130 albums. A few of them, I'm sure I can safely skip, a few no doubt will have to be lost to obscurity, but I'm sure I will manage to find other means to fill in the remaining gaps--something that simply must be done for the purpose of my Sun Ra self-indoctrination course. Even acknowledging these gaps in my collection, I'm still pretty freaked out by how much Sun Ra I have (about 40 official albums + those transparency lost reels.) My current Sun Ra mania has been aided in particular by Atavistic and Art Yard's recent reissue programs. I'll come to these in time (Night of the Purple Moon, I'm looking at you!)

Anyway, to briefly sum up the current state of affairs, Friday I spun my LP of Sun Song (56), following it on Saturday with Sound of Joy (also 56 I believe). I proceeded to write reviews for both of them on Amazon. On Sunday I listened to Angels and Demons at Play (parts from 56) (I'll discuss it in a later entry) and Jazz in Silhouette (58), the later I also reviewed on Amazon.

That night I listened to 'Visits Planet Earth' (58), which is in reality only three songs. Was rather tired of reviewing everything, and the Evidence CD paired it with Interstellar Low Ways, so why not keep going?

While writing this first entry, I finished up Interstellar Low Ways (60) and will discuss this in my first serious entry after I find some cream for my coffee and figure out where this day is going.

PS also plan on getting back to Super Sonic Jazz, Sound Sun Pleasure and that singles collection. I have not forgotten them.

PPS My plan here isn't to just list the albums I've listened to. I will be discussing each in depth, but seriously man, the coffee is calling me.