Various – My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (Limited Edition Vinyl)

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.

Limited to 500 copies. Hand numbered. Comes with liner notes sheet and special poetry printed vinyl envelope.

Tracklist

Side A:

1. Marshall Allen – “EVI Introduction”
2. Saul Williams – “When Angels Speak”
3. Mahogany L. Browne – “Circle Eternity”
4. Anthony Joseph – “The Three Dimensions of Air”
5. Melanie Charles – “[Anything can give up its life]”
6. Abiodun Oyewole – “Somebody Else’s Idea”
7. Tara Middleton – “I Have Forgotten”
8. Jive Poetic – “Flight”
9. L’Rain – “Love in Outer Space”
10. Tunde Adebimpe – “The Endless Realm”
11. Zakia Sewell – “The Cosmic Age”
12. Cal Hancock Rux – “Sun-Day”
13. Knoel Scott & Marshall Allen – “The Melody of Air”

Side B:

1. Anthony Joseph – “The Invisible Giants”
2. L’Rain – “I Deal In Souls”
3. Tunde Adebimpe – “Black Prince Charming”
4. Mahogany L. Browne – “Message to Black Youth”
5. Jive Poetic – “Nothing Is”
6. Melanie Charles – “The Friends of Skill”
7. Saul Williams – “The Outer Darkness”
8. Zakia Sewell – “If I Told You”
9. Carl Hancock Rux – “The Void”
10. Knoel Scott & Marshall Allen – “The Neglected Plane of Wisdom”

Cat no: LP-OS-1003

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