Bleep

There’s no end to rediscovering the prophetic visions of Sun Ra — but his 1983 Arkestra release A Fireside Chat with Lucifer is perhaps his most prescient — and notorious. The very real consequences of cold war fallout are played out in the cheekily menacing call-and-response of ‘Nuclear War’, a speak-easy jazz protest song in which Ra drops the F-word more times than you’d expect.