Redescoberta de HIROSHIMA, um dos mais psicóticos e desvairados discos da carreira de Sun Ra, que antecipa muitas das hoje tão reverenciadas aventuras da chamada New Weird America. Gravado ao vivo em Montreux, Suiça, em 1983, e publicado originalmente no ano seguinte, na Saturn Records. Uma vista de olhos pela nomenclatura da assim chamada Sun Ra All Stars Band. De uma assentada, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Archie Shepp, Don Cherry, Lester Bowie, Philly Joe Jones, Richard Davis, Don Moye e Clifford Jarvis. Juntos, preenchem na íntegra o lado 1 do LP. O programa do lado 2 é todo preenchido com Sun Ra em órgão de igreja, num concerto gravado em Atlanta, Geórgia. O acompanhamento é dado por breves intervenções de percussão e pouco mais. Reedição em vinyl de 180 gramas pela britânica Art Yard Records no âmbito do programa que tem vindo a pôr em prática, de devolver à circulação algumas das peças mais raras e inacessíveis da imensa discografia de Sun Ra.
Das notas: "I was about seven years old when on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was the first city in the history of mankind to be struck by an atomic bomb -- dropped by the United States Air Force. In our days the only so-called democratic government which applied this mass-destruction weapon for the first time and would not hesitate to use it again, asks other countries to stop the development of nuclear power. What a miserable Christian hypocrisy. Why did Sun Ra title his only acoustic document performed on a church organ Hiroshima? Despite my young age in 1945 I can very clearly remember the gloomy atmosphere in 'bombed-out' Stuttgart with my family sitting around my uncle's place in Schwaebisch Gmnd during the twilight hour and talking about this unbelievable criminal act against Hiroshima. Beside the depressed mood of the talk I only remember the (surely false) fact, that 'Little Boy', as the United States offendingly called their bomb, was only as small as a tennis-ball. Beside the well-known political call and response ritual, 'Nuclear War,' 'Hiroshima,' has a pipe organ solo by Sun Ra, recorded in a theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. By attentive listening, one can discover some other instruments too. One can hear a triangle, a bird whistle, a slap-stick or castanets, a tambourine ring, cymbals, and most likely, different drums. The record was released in 1985 on one of Sun Ra's Saturn long playing records with the number 11-83. The flip side of this record is titled 'Stars That Shine Darkly...' Recorded live at Montreux, Switzerland during the tour of The Sun Ra All Stars, early November 1983." - Hartmut Geerken
