Monorails And Satellites (Vinyl LP) Folk & Americana

Monorails And Satellites (Vinyl LP) Folk & AmericanaDespite Sun Ra's obsession with the future, Monorails and Satellites is something of a nostalgia trip. As a youth in Birmingham, Alabama, the man who became Sun Ra Herman Poole Blount spent hours at the Forbes Piano Company, amusing himself (as well as staff and customers) at the showroom keyboards. He practiced standards, emulated his piano heroes, played the latest pop songs, and improvised. The idyllic reveries which the teen experienced in those

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the album ultimately was fused together in a burst of creativity fuelled by both collaboration and Green's escape into the wild

turntablist Nu-Mark delivers a punchy breakbeat take on At‚àö‚â•mico

included 'Love Buzz' which Nirvana covered

that this superb record was only David Bowie's fourth

Consider the achingly poignant lyrics brimming with righteous anger

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Chambers is flawless in his support role

both in songwriting and in execution and sounding heavier in places

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