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The Sun Ra Arkestra
Chicago, United States
Began in 1952
AKA: Le Sun Ra And His Arkestra, Le Sun-Ra And His Arkistra, Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Cosmo Discipline Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Research Arkestra, Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra, Sun Ra & the Year 2000 Myth Science Arkestra, Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra And His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra And His Astro-Solar-Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra, Sun Ra And The Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Astro-Galactic Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Omniverse Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra, Sun Ra and His Year 2000 Myth Science Arkestra, Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Research Arkestra, Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra, Sun Ra and his Solar-Myth Arkestra, Sun Ra and the Arkestra
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The Sun Ra Arkestra is the name most commonly used for the current incarnation of Sun Ra's original band, now led by Marshall Allen. Since 1954, Marshall Allen has been the ferocious core of the Arkestra. Under his direction, big band and swing are played to perfection and beyond. A master of both "inside" and "out," Allen steers the Arkestra to realize possibilities of future and past, always extending both, ever in cahoots with the alter-destiny. From "Medicine for a Nightmare" and "El Is a Sound of Joy" to "Astro Black" and "Enlightenment," Arkestra performances are a ritual experiment.

Fifteen members strong, the Arkestra's big-band traditionalism is as radical today as their afro-futurist iconoclasm has been since the 1950s. Sun Ra brought early synthesizers to big band arrangements, took to the stage in processions of sparkling dancers, and explained with patient confidence that he, and perhaps we, were neither human nor Earthbound.

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