This is a rebroadcast of part one of the Sun Ra ESP Radio Tribute by “The Good Doctor” and Sun Ra archivist, Michael D. Anderson. This extensive six-part fourteen-hour career retrospective was produced for the Sun Ra centennial in May of 2014. Over the year I will periodically release all six episodes. It is an incredible series with lots of interviews and music spanning Sun Ra’s prolific career. Last month PHC highlighted what is going on lately with the recent massive upload of Sun Ra remasters by the newly formed label, Enterplanetary Koncepts.
Don’t forget to check out ESP-Disk, a record label that was reformed in the early 2000s. ESP-Disk nurtured many avant-garde artists in the 1960s and 70s. Now they are reissuing many classic releases from their back catalog, as well as new releases. Check out the recent book by Jason Weiss, Always in Trouble An Oral History of ESP-Disk: The Most Outrageous Record Label in America. The book is an extended interview with ESP-Disk founder Bernard Stollman on the rise, fall, and rebirth of the label. The story is complete with the assertion that the label was under surveillance by the CIA and was sabotaged when Stollman wouldn’t accept a buyout. The second half of the book interviews artists that were involved with the label including how The Good Doctor was appointed by Sun Ra as the official band historian.
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