Sun Ra
Prophet (red Vinyl)
Featuring what may be his only recordings on the Prophet keyboard, these once lost performances expand the omniverse of
Ra across a stellar set of lengthy cuts! All recorded in a single day and finally making their terrestrial debut,
pressed on yellow vinyl and packaged with a Prophet keyboard brochure plus notes from Ranthropologist Brother Cleve!
What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves.
Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the majority were
recorded in concert or in makeshift studios such as their early 1960s set-up at NYC's Choreographer's Workshop. Beyond
those, roughly 22 albums were recorded at Variety Recording Studio in New York's Times Square. However, on August 25,
1986, Sun Ra and cohorts entered Mission Control, a state-of-the-art 24-track studio north of Boston, which was teeming
with electronic keyboards and otherworldly sound generators. Nestled within that arsenal was a brand-new digital ultra
keyboard the Prophet VS ("Vector Synthesizer").
Of all the keyboards Ra played throughout his half-century career, the Prophet was one of the most sophisticated.
There's no evidence that he had played either of the instrument's earlier incarnations, the Sequential Circuits
Prophet-5 and Prophet-10. Created using microprocessors, a then-new technological advance, under the auspices of
engineer Dave Smith in 1978, the Prophet-5 revolutionized electronic music as the first polyphonic and, most
importantly, programmable synthesizer.
Ra was intrigued by the Prophet (surely by the instrument as well as by the name). Recorded during a single day, it's
about time that these once lost performances have now been found.
Price
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
21-02-2025
Label
Item-nr
924000
EAN
0090771421111
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
THE PROPHET
2
INFINITY EXCURSION
3
THE PROPHET AT PLAY
4
THE PROPHET RETURNS