The possibility of an Island #37

The Singles, compilação, Evidence Music (ECD 22164-2), 1996

Disc one – 1954-1960

01 Nu Sounds – A Foggy Day
02 Cosmic Rays – Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie
03 Cosmic Rays – Dreaming
04 Cosmic Rays – Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie (2)
05 Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra and Arkestra – Bye Bye
06 Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra and Arkestra – Somebody’s in Love
07 Le Sun Ra and his Arkistra – Medicine for a Nightmare
08 Le Sun Ra and his Arkistra – Saturn
09 Le Sun Ra and his Arkistra – Supersomic Jazz
10 Qualities – Happy New Year to You!
11 Qualities – It’s Christmas Time
12 Yochanan – Muck Muck (Matt Matt)
13 Yochanan – Hot Skillet Mama
14 Le Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Great Balls of Fire
15 Le Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Hours After
16 Juanita Rogers & Lynn Hollings w/ Five Joys – Teenager’s Letter of Promises
17 Juanita Rogers & Lynn Hollings w/ Five Joys – I’m so Glad You Love Me
18 Yochanan with Sun Ra and his Arkestra – The Sun One
19 Yochanan with Sun Ra and his Arkestra – The Sun Man Speaks
20 Yochanan with Sun Ra and his Arkestra – The Sun Man Speaks (previously unissued)
21 Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra – October
22-Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra – Adventure in Space
23 Yochanan with Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Message to Earthman
24 Yochanan with Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Message to Earthman (previously unissued)
25 Sun Ra & His Arkestra – State Street

Disc two – 1960-1982

01 Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra – The Blue Set
02 Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra – Big City Blues
03 Little Mack – Tell Her to Come on Home
04 Little Mack – I’m Making Believe
05 Sun Ra & his Outer Space Arkestra – The Bridge
06 Sun Ra & his Outer Space Arkestra – Rocket #9
07 Sun Ra & his Astro-Solar-Infinity Arkestra – Blues on Planet Mars
08 Sun Ra & his Astro-Solar-Infinity Arkestra – Saturn Moon
09 Lacy Gibson – The Sky Is Crying
10 Lacy Gibson – She’s My Baby
11 Lacy Gibson – I’m Gonna Unmask the Batman
12 Lacy Gibson – I Want an Easy Woman
13 Sun Ra & his Astro-Galactic Infinity Arkestra – I’m Gonna Unmask the Batman
14 Sun Ra & his Astro-Galactic Infinity Arkestra – The Perfect Man
15 Sun Ra & his Astro-Galactic Infinity Arkestra – Journey to Saturn
16 Sun Ra & his Astro-Galactic Infinity Arkestra – Enlightment
17 Sun Ra – Love in Outer Space
18 Sun Ra – Mayan Temple
19 Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Disco 2100
20 Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Sky Blues
21 Sun Ra – Rough House Blues
22 Sun Ra – Cosmo-Extensions
23 Sun Ra & His Outer Space Arkestra – Quest
24 Sun Ra & His Outer Space Arkestra – Outer Space Plateau

Na ilha

O Sun Ra tinha de estar na lista.

Numa noite de Verão vou-me tornar Um com o Cosmos mas vou precisar de uma ajudinha…

Que disco levar? Os Heliocentric Worlds? As noites da Fundação Maeght? O Lanquidity?? Os Singles???

Os Singles!!

Têm o doowop um bocadinho esgrouviado dos Nu Sounds, dos Cosmic Rays e dos Qualities. O muito esgrouviado Yochanan, o Little Mack , a Juanita Rogers, os blues de Lacy Gibson (onde, num deles, jura que há-de desmascarar o Batman)…

Depois é encher os dedos com os anéis de Saturno, ouvindo todas as Arkestras e Arkistras em formato de single.

O Cosmos é onde um Homem quiser.

A música é o mais cómodo meio de transporte.

Antony Gormley