Bleep

The mighty Sun Ra gets the reissue treatment from Glasgow’s Poppydisc. Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy was originally recorded in 1963 but only saw the light of day four years later. Predating both the psychedelia trend and the funk of George Clinton, this album saw Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra traverse universes in search of melodic perfection. Ra himself played a swirling astro space organ around traditional worldly instruments rent with intergalactic virtuoso power. Too complex just to call jazz, it’s a heady listen that crosses boundaries and galaxies in equal measure.