{"id":26854,"date":"2025-03-04T08:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26854"},"modified":"2025-03-04T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T08:41:21","slug":"art-music-art-on-saturn-the-album-cover-art-of-sun-ras-saturn-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26854","title":{"rendered":"ART\/MUSiC: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra&#8217;s Saturn Label"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"894\" height=\"947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4861-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26852\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4861-1.jpg 894w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4861-1-283x300.jpg 283w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4861-1-768x814.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One for the Wish List?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a bit of music by Sun Ra, on CD and mp3. But not much. I\u2019ve seen a couple of documentaries about him, as well. Rather like Frank Zappa, he\u2019s someone I find captivatingly interesting, whilst not quite knowing or liking all (or even very much?) of his recorded musical legacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the many things I love about both Zappa and Sun Ra is their ornery charisma. They were who they were. End of\u2026 The World had better take note!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4862-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26855\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4862-1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4862-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4862-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4862-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fond memories.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve tended to feel I must hide away, to survive being \u2018different\u2019. I admire these artists for their, \u2018fuck y\u2019all\u2026 I\u2019m taking my brand of madness to the world!\u2019 That makes it sound aggressive and negative. And there are times when those notes dominate with both Zappa and Ra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"961\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4863-1-961x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26856\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4863-1-961x1024.jpg 961w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4863-1-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4863-1-768x818.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4863-1.jpg 1408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Properly out there\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But I think their <em>love<\/em> of music, artistic freedom, and exploration, are all much more powerful and attractive aspects of their fecund creativity. And in these respects, what they do &#8211; not always easy or \u2018beautiful\u2019 (and certainly not commercial!) &#8211; reminds me of Picasso, in terms of untrammelled and volcanic artistic energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I must and <em>will<\/em> acquire both this fabulous looking book, and at the very least, listen to and explore a lot more of Sun Ra\u2019s fascinating musical universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4864-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4864-1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4864-1-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4864-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/img_4864-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bought this\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And to that end, I just ordered the above, on CD. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bit of music by Sun Ra, on CD and mp3. But not much. I\u2019ve seen a couple of documentaries about him, as well. Rather like Frank Zappa, he\u2019s someone I find captivatingly interesting, whilst not quite knowing or liking all (or even very much?) of his recorded musical legacy. One of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART\/MUSiC: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra&#8217;s Saturn Label&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6Z8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26858,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26854\/revisions\/26858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}