SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO INFINITY ARKESTRA – My Brother The Wind, Vol. 1 – CD – CMR002

Remastered and expanded edition: My Brother The Wind, Vol. 1 captures Afrobeat visionary Sun Ra’s initial 1969 encounter with the Moog synthesiser. The album has been meticulously remastered from archival session tapes and includes rare and previously unreleased studio material. The original 1970 Saturn release featured four tracks, which are included on disc 1 of the two-LP vinyl remastered edition. Disc 2, side A features the complete tracking session of Ra’s Moog-centric single The Perfect Man, with three full takes of the title, including two previously unissued versions. Side B of disc 2 features the monumental 18-minute Space Probe, an outrageously freewheeling Ra solo work recorded on a Moog (or two) around the same time. This edition of My Brother the Wind, Vol. 1, was co-produced by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive, and Irwin Chusid, for Cosmic Myth Records. CMR releases primarily use source tapes from Anderson’s archive, the world’s foremost collection of original Ra session masters.

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