(A quick post after eons of absence)
Sun Ra (Herman Sonny Blount 1914-1994) was an experimental jazz musician who is remembered for his philosophy cosmo-afro-futurist and say it came from the planet Saturn with a mission to save humanity through music. In Space is the Place (1972) Sun Ra and his band The Arkestra "travel into space a craft driven by music, so they find a new planet where he decides to establish that blacks are discriminated against and treated as trash on your planet
home. Arrive at a small bar in chicago where there used to play and try to sensitize the people and create an employment agency to recruit people d without embarkation is in conflict with a kind of Lord of the pimps who play a match of cards in the desert (surrealistas. .. ) to decide the fate of the black race. The film is full of surrealism low budget which gives a special touch. I will not talk much about Sun Ra here but you can research the net far and listen to your music. Certainly the duo
on your hard Coil Black Antlers composed a song in tribute to the great prophet and the vidoe serves as preview of the film:
And finally here the links. it's a shame uqe not have subtitles but I'm too lazy to translate ...
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