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❝ Sun Ra: Art on Saturn is the first comprehensive collection of all Saturn printed covers, along with hundreds of the best hand-designed, one-of-a-kind sleeves and disc labels, decorated by Ra himself and members of his Arkestra. Essays by Sun Ra catalog preservationist Irwin Chusid, noted Ra scholar John Corbett, and Glenn Jones, who in the 1970s signed Ra to a distribution deal that put countless homemade covers into circulation, add unique insights into the interplanetary life and work of Sun Ra and his Saturn partner Alton Abraham. ❞ *

Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra’s Saturn Label

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/05/sun-ra-art-on-saturn-the-album-cover-art-of-sun/

Robert Fripp demonstrates Frippertronics on Midnight Special, immediately after thanking Rick James.

❝ The tape supply reel was placed on the first deck, in Record mode, and the take-up reel on the second, in Playback mode, with the tape threaded between the two machines and the output of the second deck fed back to the input of the first. The result was both a delay of several seconds, depending on the distance between the two tape machines, and a buildup of sound from the feedback loop that, together, created a dense ambient drone of the just-past and the now-present performance – an aural pentimento. ❞ *

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