Sun Ra - My Words are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry

Sun Ra / Various Artists
My Words are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry
Omni Sound 1003 - super limited & numbered collection of poetry - LP Includes Liner Notes Sheet And Poetry Printed Record Envelope

Sun Ra is better known to most as a musician than a poet, but he identified equally as both. My Words Are Music provides direct access to the sentiments of a poet who never called Earth home. The spoken word album hosts an inspired array of artists who personally chose their favorite Sun Ra poems to recite. Freed from the page, his poetry acquires an unexpected simplicity and poignance it possessed all along.
This all-star and intergenerational lineup of artists conjure wisdom from his words: spoken word elder Abiodun Oweyole of The Last Poets; rapper, and singer-songwriter Saul Williams; jazz experimentalist Melanie Charles; British-Trinidadian poet, novelist and musician Anthony Joseph; poet Mahogany L. Browne; poet, playwright, and conceptual artist Carl Hancock
Rux; musician/digital composer L’Rain; singer, actor, and director Tunde Adibempe of TV on the Radio singer; British DJ and BBC radio host Zakia Sewell; ballistic hip-hop poet Jive Poetic; and longtime members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen, Knoel Scott, and Tara Middleton.
Punctuated by impish electronic interludes composed and played by Marshall Allen, these voices bless Sun Ra’s poetry with new life My Words Are Music offers the opportunity to follow Sun Ra into a better future. “Prepare for the journey,” he writes in his poem “The Cosmic Age”, “You have a rendezvous / With the living wisdom.” My Words Are Music is a project developed in conjunction with Living Sky, the all-instrumental Sun Ra Arkestra album released on Omni Sound in 2022.

     Tracks are:
When Angels Speak - Saul Williams
Circle Eternity - Mahogany L. Browne 
The Three Dimensions of Air - Anthony Joseph 
(Anything Can Give up it's Life) - Melanie Charles 
Somebody's Else's Idea - Abiodun Oyewole 
I Have Fdorgotten - Tara Middleton 
Flight - Jove Poetic 
Love in Outer Space - L:'Rain 
The Endless Realm - Tunde Adebimpe 
The Cosmic Age - Zakia Sewell 
Sun-Day - Carl Hancock Rux 
The Melody of Air - Knoel Scott & Marshall Allen (kora) 
The Invisible Giants - Anthony Joseph 
I Deal in Souls - L'Rain 
Black Prince Charming - Tunde Adebimpe 
Message to Black Youth - Mahogany L. Browne 
Nothing Is - Jive Poetic 
The Friends of Skill - Melanie Charles 
The Outer Darkness - Saul Williams 
If I Told You - Zakia Sewell 
The Void - Carl Hancock Rux 
The Neglected Plane of Wisdom - Knoel Scott & Marshall Allen (kora) 
     All AVI preludes and interludes are played by Marshall Allen 

NEW SEALED LP - limited to 500 - hand numbered