Sun Ra : Ra To The RescueOne of the rarer albums in the Sun Ra canon, 'Ra to the Rescue!' originally entered our orbit in 1983, mystifying listeners and confounding Ra fanatics with the minimal info on the Saturn pressing. Recorded at several locations over several years (including legendary avant garde arts enclave, the Squat Theater in NYC), the tracks here include everything from Ra's sci fi synthesizer insanity, Marshall Allen's skronking sax, an excellent Arkestra vocal

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