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How do you make a documentary film about a man who was also a myth? About a musician who was more than a musician? About someone who asked us to trust our intuition more than our rational minds? This double LP contains the entire soundtrack to the accompanying PBS documentary! Includes liner notes from executive producer Bradford Smith about the making of Sun Ra: Do The Impossible and interviews from members of the Arkestra!

1 Imagination – Over the Rainbow
2 Introduction to Angels
3 Angels & Demons at Play
4 Introduction to Sunology
5 Sunology
6 Introduction to Big John’s Special
7 Big John’s Special
8 Sun Ra Letter of WWII Religious Objection
9 Motherless Child
10 Dreaming By the Cosmic Rays
11 Advice for Medics
12 You Are Not a Myth
13 Spontaneous Simplicity (Abridged)
14 Call for All Demons
15 Names
16 Ancient Aiethopia
17 Interplanetary Music
18 Somewhere in Space
19 Sound of the Time
20 Music from the World Tomorrow
21 Introduction to Pleiades
22 Pleiades
23 I Am Strange
24 Quiet Ecstasy
25 I Am An Instrument
26 Twilight
27 Dance of the Living Image
28 Pescara Mini-Moog Solo
29 Space Probe
30 Somebody Else’s Idea
31 El Is a Sound of Joy (Abridged)
32 Watusa
33 Meteor Shower
34 Blackman
35 Space Is the Place
36 Door of the Cosmos (Abridged)
37 Part of the Mystery

street date 5/22/2026