Sun Ra - Crystal Spears (Black Vinyl) Rap Music ready to take flight –

ready to take flight – it also signifies the power of music

lauded by the likes of NPR and The Fader

all 13-odd tracks supposedly recorded on a single July day at a cost of just $17

mastered by Heba Kadry (Slowdive

Expanded edition includes all songs on all formats for the first time

Sun Ra - Crystal Spears (Black Vinyl) Rap Music ready to take flight –Jagged spears of crystal thrust into the brain (or is it the heart?) elicit an agonizing howl, a cry, and a scream. Thus opens Sun Ras 1973 adventure mystery Crystal Spears. After a few minutes of a cathartic brawl between Minimoog and Yamaha combo organ, percussionists Atakatune and Odun enter while drummer Clifford Jarvis provides tonal textures, not rhythm, from the kit. Marshall Allen saunters in with a rather plaintive oboe, under which Ra later