Omni Sound has introduced the brand new album My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra’s Poetry. Out August 25, it options recitations of the late jazz icon Sun Ra’s poems by these he labored with and impressed, together with Knoell Scott, Tara Middleton, L’Rain, Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio), Abiodun Oyewole (of the Final Poets), Melani Charles, and extra. The Solar Arkestra’s Marshall Allen additionally performs kora on the album. Hear Saul Williams’ studying of “When Angels Speak” beneath.
My Phrases Are Music: A Celebration of Solar Ra’s Poetry:
01 Marshall Allen: “EVI Introduction”
02 Saul Williams: “When Angels Communicate”
03 Mahogany L. Browne: “Circle Eternity”
04 Anthony Joseph: “The Three Dimensions of Air”
05 Melanie Charles: “[Anything can give up its life]”
06 Abiodun Oyewole: “Any person Else’s Thought”
07 Tara Middleton: “I Have Forgotten”
08 Jive Poetic: “Flight”
09 L’Rain: “Love in Outer Area”
10 Tunde Adebimpe: “The Limitless Realm”
11 Zakia Sewell: “The Cosmic Age”
12 Cal Hancock Rux: “Solar-Day”
13 Knoel Scott / Marshall Allen: “The Melody of Air”
14 Anthony Joseph: “The Invisible Giants”
15 L’Rain: “I Deal in Souls”
16 Tunde Adebimpe :“Black Prince Charming”
17 Mahogany L. Browne: “Message to Black Youth”
18 Jive Poetic: “Nothing Is”
19 Melanie Charles: “The Pals of Ability”
20 Saul Williams: “The Outer Darkness”
21 Zakia Sewell: “If I Instructed You”
22 Carl Hancock Rux: “The Void”
23 Knoel Scott / Marshall Allen: “The Uncared for Aircraft of Knowledge”
