Label: Art Yard - All

Sun Ra

Dance Of The Cosmos Aliens / Door Of The Cosmos

Two killer cuts from Disco 3000 and Sleeping Beauty: a frantic drum machine workout and a June Tyson singalong. 33rpm 7'' on heavyweight 70g neon mag... more...

• 1 Dance Of The Cosmo Aliens (Disco Edit)
• 2 Door Of The Cosmos (Disco Edit)

Ian Simmonds

The Brunswick Variations LP

Art Yard records presents ‘The Brunswick Variations’ a new album of poetic landscapes by Ian Simmonds, with collaborations from Clemens Kynast [German... more...

• 01 Pick Up
• 02 Air To Breathe
• 03 Shoots of Spring
• 04 A Blues For Angels

Sun Ra

Angels and Demons at Play (featuring Marshall Allen) / Spontaneous Simplicity

Recommended by: Charmaine

Scintillating new Sun Ra 7'' from Art Yard!

• 1 Angels and Demons at Play
• 2 Between Two Worlds
• 3 Spontaneous Simplicity

Sun Ra Quartet & John Gilmore

The Sky Is A Sea of Darkness When There is No Sun To Light The Way

Recommended by: Wrong Sal

Side B: Recorded in 1978 with Luqman Ali (Drums); Sun Ra (Keyboards); John Gilmore (Tenor Saxophone, Percussion); and Michael Ray (Trumpet, Percussio... more...

• 1 Sun Ra Quartet ft. John Gilmore - The Sky Is A Sea of Darkness When There is No Sun To Light The Way
• 2 Sun Ra And His Arkestra - Somewhere in Space

Sun Ra

The Antique Blacks

Recommended by: Wrong Sal

The vitality you hear on Antique Blacks is a testament to the unique energy of the community around The Foxhole Cafe in Philadelphia, as Ra honed his... more...

• 1 Song No 1
• 2 There Is Change In The Air
• 3 The Antique Blacks
• 4 This Song Is Dedicated To Natures God

Sun Ra

Media Dream

Recommended by: Ernestas Sadau

All the material on this album comes from live performances from January 1978, when the quartet of Sun Ra was in Italy with a quartet – Michael Ray, J... more...

• 1 Saturn Research
• 2 Constellation
• 3 Yera Of The Sun
• 4 Media Dreams

Sun Ra

Disco 3000

''The album's one of Ra's greatest from the 70s -- recorded in Italy in 1978, and featuring some incredibly otherworldly keyboards that are some of hi... more...

• 1 Disco 3000
• 2 Third Planet
• 3 Friendly Galaxy
• 4 Dance of the Cosmo-Aliens

Sun Ra

On Jupiter (2018 repress)

A mixture of live recording and studio post-production, 'On Jupiter' sounds unique to any other album Sun Ra made. The arkestra reflects a disco pulse... more...

• 1 On Jupiter
• 2 UFO
• 3 Seductive Fantasy

Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra

Sleeping Beauty (2018 repress)

Recommended by: Clone

2018 REPRESS/REMASTERED One of the more delicate recordings of Sun Ra's 28-strong Arkestra, 'Sleeping Beauty' drifts in on a cloud of cosmic dust, sou... more...

• 1 Springtime Again
• 2 Door of the Cosmos
• 3 Sleeping Beauty

Sun Ra and his Myth Science Solar Arkestra

The Lost Arkestra Series Vol 1 and 2

Hidden fire from the Ra archives! A double 10” set featuring Sun Ra recordings from the outer limits and the underground. more...

• 01 Alone Came Ra
• 02 The Sky Is S Sea Of Darkness When There Is No Sun To Light The Way
• 03 We Travel The Spaceways
• 04 Love Is For Always

Al Chem

Weird Fiction

This is Mr Chem's first album. No Hopper is a reworking of a Ras Michael tune No Hoppers, from Rastafari Dub, Chem's version merging electronic percus... more...

• 1 No Hopper
• 2 Prophet
• 3 The Red Tower
• 4 Baudelaire

Pat Patrick & The Baritone Saxophone Retinue

Sound Advice (2017 repress)

Holy Grail jazz release: originally out on sun Ra's Saturn imprint. Bought back into the limelight through Artyard's Limited edition a few years back,... more...

• 1 Stablemates (intro)
• 2 Funny Time
• 3 Uptighttedness
• 4 Eastern Vibrations