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❝ So glib you can’t predict whether it’s a prayer for war or a warning against it, Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War’’ (1982) is a preemptive war memorial, a song sculpted at the altar of imminent danger, but in a spirit of maddening and defiant play… This might be the most effective protest song ever made because rather than decry injustice until it becomes saccharine and unbearable to listen, stuck in time reifying that injustice by denouncing it, “Nuclear War”  joins the unjust activity, revels in it as an accomplice as if the potential suffering of nuclear fallout is up to its potential victims. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/19/so-glib-you-cant-predict-whether-its-a-prayer/

The Crucial Difference Between ‘Cheesy’ and ‘Corny’

❝ Both etymologies are anecdotal and inconclusive. By some accounts, corny comes to us via jazz musicians in the 1930s, describing licks that sounded unfashionable and trite—something more at home in the agricultural environment of a square dance than a sophisticated urban jazz club. Corny might have also been extrapolated from seed catalogs that circulated starting in the 1890s and included simple and predictable little jokes in the margins that some called “corn jokes.” Either way, the meaning seems to hinge on an aesthetically condescending geographic association with rural America. Cheesy, by contrast, has almost no clear path to its current association. Some claim the term has nothing to do with the food, but instead arrives through an ironic reversal of the Urdu chiz, meaning “thing,” which, picked up by British occupiers in the early 1800s, gave us phrases like “the big cheese.” ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/04/16/the-crucial-difference-between-cheesy-and/

❝ 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/

Each month, I compile a BNDCMPR playlist of my favorite songs found that month on Bandcamp. Some may say my taste is eclectic and ‘out there,’ and I embrace that by including sounds throughout my spectrum of interests. I also spend a good bit of attention to the sequence so listen from start to finish if you can.

I just finished March 2022’s 8sided Selections and you can listen to it here.

If you’re catching up, here’s February’s Selections and January’s Selections.

Enjoy and support the artists + songs you love.

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/03/31/each-month-i-compile-a-bndcmpr-playlist-of-my/