We hope you won't need to be convinced, but for this New Sounds, we will listen to "107 Reasons Why" by Do Make Say Think, and more instrumental music, perhaps even some that could be called "post-rock." There's something from the ambient drone band Labradford, who were out of Richmond, VA, along with music from Angelo Badalamenti.
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The cosmic composer/bandleader Sun Ra's big band space jazz might have been and still is pretty far out, but even Thelonious Monk agreed that it swings. For this New Sounds, we'll hear music by Sun Ra, (he who claimed to be of the "Angel Race" and that he was from Saturn, not our planet Earth), done up by other ensembles. We'll listen to the Heliocentrics & the Respect Sextet, along with Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet. Plus we'll hear Sun Ra's music as rendered by the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, and many others.
