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VA - My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Posted By: delpotro
Date: 24 Aug 2023 14:37:31
VA - My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

VA - My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 35:06 minutes | 232 MB
Poetry, Spoken Word | Label: Omni Sound, Official Digital Download

Sun Ra is better known to most as a musician than a poet, but he identified equally as both. My Words Are Music provides direct access to the sentiments of a poet who never called Earth home. The spoken word album hosts an inspired array of artists who personally chose their favorite Sun Ra poems to recite. Freed from the page, his poetry acquires an unexpected simplicity and poignance it possessed all along.

This all-star and intergenerational lineup of artists conjure wisdom from his words: spoken word elder Abiodun Oweyole of The Last Poets; rapper, and singer-songwriter Saul Williams; jazz experimentalist Melanie Charles; British-Trinidadian poet, novelist and musician Anthony Joseph; poet Mahogany L. Browne; poet, playwright, and conceptual artist Carl Hancock Rux; musician/digital composer L’Rain; singer, actor, and director Tunde Adibempe of TV on the Radio singer; British DJ and BBC radio host Zakia Sewell; ballistic hip-hop poet Jive Poetic; and longtime members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Marshall Allen, Knoel Scott, and Tara Middleton.

Punctuated by impish electronic interludes composed and played by Marshall Allen, these voices bless Sun Ra’s poetry with new life My Words Are Music offers the opportunity to follow Sun Ra into a better future. “Prepare for the journey,” he writes in his poem “The Cosmic Age”, “You have a rendezvous / With the living wisdom.” My Words Are Music is a project developed in conjunction with Living Sky, the all-instrumental Sun Ra Arkestra album released on Omni Sound in 2022.

Tracklist:
01. Marshall Allen - Prelude
02. Saul Williams - When Angels Speak
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 - Somebody Else's Idea
07. Tara Middleton - I Have Forgotten
08. Jive Poetic - Flight
09. L'Rain - Love In Outer Space
10. Tunde Adebimpe - The Endless Realm
11. Zakia Sewell - The Cosmic Age
12. Carl Hancock Rux - Sun-Day
13. Knoel Scott - 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 Friends of Skill
20. Saul Williams - The Outer Darkness
21. Zakia Sewell - If I Told You
22. Carl Hancock Rux - The Void
23. Knoel Scott - The Neglected Plane of Wisdom

foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2023-08-24 17:19:46

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Analyzed: Abiodun Oyewole / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (1)
Anthony Joseph / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (2-3)
Carl Hancock Rux / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (4-5)
Jive Poetic / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (6-7)
Knoel Scott / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (8-9)
L'Rain / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (10-11)
Mahogany L Browne / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (12)
Mahogany L. Browne / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (13)
Marshall Allen / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (14)
Melanie Charles / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (15-16)
Saul Williams / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (17-18)
Tara Middleton / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (19)
Tunde Adebimpe / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (20-21)
Zakia Sewell / My Words Are Music: A Celebration of Sun Ra's Poetry (22-23)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.72 dB -17.82 dB 1:06 06-Somebody Else's Idea
DR11 -1.97 dB -14.74 dB 1:15 04-The Three Dimensions of Air
DR14 -0.32 dB -18.01 dB 1:13 14-The Invisible Giants
DR12 -5.65 dB -20.16 dB 1:30 12-Sun-Day
DR14 -4.22 dB -22.44 dB 2:55 22-The Void
DR14 -3.11 dB -21.49 dB 0:36 08-Flight
DR11 -3.89 dB -19.08 dB 0:34 18-Nothing Is
DR14 -2.21 dB -20.40 dB 2:28 13-The Melody of Air
DR12 -0.98 dB -17.17 dB 3:10 23-The Neglected Plane of Wisdom
DR12 -4.31 dB -20.29 dB 0:42 09-Love In Outer Space
DR12 -3.05 dB -18.81 dB 1:20 15-I Deal In Souls
DR12 -0.20 dB -14.96 dB 3:39 03-Circle Eternity
DR13 -1.28 dB -16.79 dB 2:51 17-Message to Black Youth
DR3 -3.13 dB -19.43 dB 0:09 01-Prelude
DR12 -2.49 dB -16.40 dB 1:05 05-[Anything can give up its life]
DR13 -2.20 dB -18.09 dB 1:11 19-The Friends of Skill
DR12 -1.00 dB -16.33 dB 0:45 02-When Angels Speak
DR15 -1.47 dB -18.90 dB 1:17 20-The Outer Darkness
DR13 -1.20 dB -18.73 dB 2:21 07-I Have Forgotten
DR12 -0.93 dB -15.65 dB 0:53 10-The Endless Realm
DR12 -0.63 dB -16.67 dB 1:08 16-Black Prince Charming
DR14 -2.77 dB -19.88 dB 1:39 11-The Cosmic Age
DR14 -1.18 dB -17.05 dB 1:20 21-If I Told You
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Number of tracks: 23
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 738 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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