What is the reality of the situation?

"I feel like the revolution is inside-revolution, revolution-because that’s the journey, the most dangerous journey. The hardest journey is the journey inside." Don Cherry November 18, 1936 - October 19, 1995

Today!!

Every place there is music. Chaos is music and harmonious peace is music. Silence is music. (Sun Ra)

Tomorrow!!

“If there is any living artist who overwhelmingly deserves to be dubbed a genius, that living artist is Werner Herzog, and ‘The Future of Truth’ is yet more proof.”

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Tonight at 7:30pm | FREE, but RSVP requested Thrilled to join with @rpmfestival.bsky.social for this special event! www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...

Tonight! Greg Kelley & Lori Goldston Sound + Light + Movement: Trumpet + Cello + Silent Film 10 silent films interact with Lori Goldston’s live scores, reinscribing a relationship between live music and film that it is as old as film itself.

Remembering Pharoah Sanders Sun Ra Arkestra alumnus - Tenor Saxophone - October 13 1940 – September 24 2022 - He travels the spaceways from planet to planet.

"You can play Monk's music to children and they turn on to it immediately. The grown-ups say, Monk is difficult, he's weird but the reason is they are too strung up. Kids listen to him cause of that purity and clarity, that angelic quality he kept. And because he's mischievous." - Abdullah Ibrahim

The Second tallest, load-bearing wall, building in the world. The 1887 Ames Building with 3-meter (9-foot) thick granite walls at base. #UrbanGaze #Boston #Photography #HistoricBuildings #StreetPhitography

I am glad my children don't share my affinity for secrecy and magic, even though I think the world is, in the final analysis, a secret place that can only be understood through magic. (29 Oct 1994)

"I never stopped experimenting, improving and crystallising and creating and I still do that and I never lost sight of that. I realised a long time ago what my mission is and I've stayed true to that." Happy Birthday Pete Cosey born October 9, 1943

Silence is music. There are different kinds of silences In a lesser but not least important sense Silence is an integral part of all music (Sun Ra)

Blessed Sacrament Jamaica Plain, MA Stained glass was removed about 20 years ago prior to sale and has been boarded up since. Redevelopment into housing has begun.

Astro infinity music is beyond freedom. It is precision, discipline. It is coordination and sound interdependence. It is the design of another world. It has nothing to do with the traditions of yesterday, today or the future. (Sun Ra)

"I knew to a degree what I thought I wanted to do, but I never thought I would be able to do it. My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was not going to be controlled." Happy Birthday Bill Dixon born October 5, 1925

Well, I'm not playing Space Music as the ultimate reach anymore. That is, not in the interplanetary sense alone. I'm playing intergalactic music, which is beyond the other idea of space music, because it is of the natural infinity of the eternal universe Eternal. (Sun Ra)

'Imagination' is a magic carpet Upon which we may soar To distant lands and climes And even go beyond the moon To any planet in the sky, If we came from nowhere here. Why can't we go somewhere there? (Sun Ra)

Danny Ray Thompson - Sun Ra Arkestra - 1st Oct 1947 - 12th March 2020 - He travels the spaceways from planet to planet.

It's After the End of the World! Don't you know that yet? (Sun Ra)

"Got a cloudbuster mounted in my pickup truck"

A lovely tribute to Phil Factor from @redgate 's founder:

You might say jazz came from the sun priests of Egypt. (Sun Ra)

October 14th! Thrilled to co-present this special free event inside Boston City Hall with @rpmfestival.bsky.social, featuring cellist Lori Goldston and trumpeter Greg Kelley, performing Goldston's live scores along with 10 contemporary silent films. www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...

John Gilmore Sun Ra Arkestra Legend - Arrival day Sept 28 1931 – Aug 20 1995) He Travels the Space Ways.

The Archangel Uriel as channeled by Ruth Norman.

good evening jamaica plain 🥰

"Sometimes, none of it's written 'cause everybody's coming from intuition." Happy Birthday John Gilmore September 28, 1931

I'm really playing all types of music, A lot of people think I just play avant garde, but I can play anything. (Sun Ra)

Boston r/brutalism

"I just like colors and like to paint different scenes. It gives me inner peace. It gives me the same thing as playing music. It's all the same. It's all beautiful. Life can be beautiful." Pharoah Sanders October 13, 1940 - September 24, 2022

I’m actually painting pictures of infinity with my music. It has something else in it, something from another world. (Sun Ra)

You may think that it’s gravity that holds us all together but it is not, it’s music. (Sun Ra)

This music is of the realm of the alter-destiny. In order to develop it, I had to separate myself from the world. (Sun Ra)

Thanks again to everyone who came out to see Amaryllis on our About Ghosts tour. Last night's final show at Roulette, featuring special guests Brian Settles and Immanuel Wilkins, is now archived online. More info about our European dates coming soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0V...

Happy first day of Fall, Boston! #Fall #Autumn Image: The Muddy River, taken October 1965 by Peter H. Dreyer.

Sun Ra and his Arkestra - Space Is the Place Movie 1974

The most magical site was Montségur, reached by a steep 40-minute hike over jumbled rock, straight up to the massive grey-blue walls of the Cathar citadel. The last hundred feet of the ascent are made over marble boulders, broken and polished up by centuries of climbing feet. (21 May 1994)

57 years ago today, one of the coolest cop shows premiered on CBS, Hawaii Five-O. It would run for 282 episodes, become a staple in re-runs, and spawn a successful reboot decades later. Book 'em, Danno! www.retroist.com/p/retroist-h...

Proper evaluation of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth into the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom (Sun Ra)

I'm talking about something that's so impossible, it can't possibly be true. But it's the only way the world's gonna survive, this impossible thing. My job is to change five billion people to something else. Totally impossible (Sun Ra)

A widening of concepts is necessary Another look at the future is required. Look and see the twin road vision light It is darker than the night.. It is the twin-road heraldry Vibrations of a different kind.. These kind vibrations are just the kind we need. (Sun Ra)

Sun Ra at Central Park Summer Stage at the Naumburg Bandshell, New York July 29 1989.

I don't speak about the Universe cos that's the oneness  of things, I'm talking about the Omniverse, the multiplicity of things, out in space, world after world after world. (Sun Ra)

The Intergalactic Sun Ra