Our friend from Pavia in north Italy Antonio Mainenti has prepared a program to celebrate the 100th birthday of Sun Ra.
In his own words,that will give a bit of an impression how his Italo-english sounds like (to me an extra sonic quality of his programs) he will explain what you can ecpect in his one hour program which will be broadcasted
So says Antonio:
“My Grandfather was a DJ and happy Sun Ra (for the centenary of the birth of Sun Ra)”
clips:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Pod Scene 1956 (movie)
Alien (movie)
Detroit Black Journal interview
interview on WREK 91.1 in Atlanta
Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller)
The Alan Lomax Collection – Italian Treasury – Sicily
Music of Ancient Egypt
Radio Sutch initial
Sun Ra music: Land of the day star, Mystery of two, Velvet
May 22, 1964, Sun Ra was in Sicily. That day, in the village of Santa Croce Camerina, he met my grandfather.
My grandfather had a pasta factory: kneading, gave the form, dry pasta for all the inhabitants of the village. The pasta was three qualities: black (whole wheat ), dirty ( mixed ), white.
Sun Ra was in town to relax, looking for quiet golden beaches for the day of his fortieth birthday.
He went into the lab to ask questions. He was wearing a funny cap.
It was 2.30 pm, the hour of the siesta. My grandfather was playing the bombardino trombone, one of his arrangements of the classic Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller, but whit 5/4 time, playing around like: pam – pa pa pam …
They became friends, they recorded a disc, now lost.
My grandfather made him listen the traditional Sicilian music, modal music and horizontal. The Arabic scales, like of Egypt scales. The marranzano, a type of Jew’s Harp, similar to that of India but also to the Cowboys.
Walks, long walks in the Randello woods to pick asparagus.
Suddenly, the aliens from Saturn, kidnapped them …”
And then….
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I addition,
Beppe Grifeo plays his arrangements of Sun Ra songs.
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