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Sun Ra - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Stuart's featured album is Sun Ra's Somewhere Over The Rainbow, an Afrofuturistic jazz gem from 1977.

Stuart's back with weird and wonderful music from all five corners of the globe including psych rock from Japan, doom metal from Italy and, of course, alt rock from Reading. Plus, tunes from Captain Beefheart, Jake Thackray and Arzachel.

Stuart's featured album is Sun Ra's Somewhere Over The Rainbow, a reissued live recording from 1977 featuring Saturn's greatest jazzman at his funky Afrofuturistic best.

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Music Played

  • Diagram Brothers

    There Is No Shower

    • LTM Recordings.

  • Ulrika Spacek

    This Time I'm Present

    • Self release.

  • Kuunatic

    Disembodied Ternion

    • Glitterbeat.

  • Sun Ra

    We Live To Be

    • Strut.

  • Sun Ra

    Gone With the Wind

    • Strut.

  • Arzachel

    Azathoth

    • Resnik Music Group.

  • Messa

    Dark Horse

    • Svart Records.

  • The Durutti Column

    Conduct

    • London Records (Because Ltd).

  • Sun Ra

    Pleiades

    • Strut.

  • Sun Ra

    Discipline 27

    • Strut.

  • Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

    Tropical Hot Dog Night

    • Virgin.

  • Nomieye

    The Earth in All Conscience

    • Rosie Turton.

  • Coil

    Fire of the Mind

    • Infinite Fog Productions.

  • Ronnie Hilton

    The Laughing Gnome

    • Castle Music.

  • Stuart Bogie

    #103 Monday, June 29, 2020 in E (feat. Jeremiah Lockwood)

    • Royal Potato Family.

  • Jake Thackray

    The Rain on the Mountainside

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Brown Wimpenny

    Old Molly Metcalfe

    • Broadside Hacks.

  • Peaking Lights

    Marshmellow Yellow

    • Two Flowers Records.

  • Premiata Forneria Marconi

    È festa

    • RCA Records Label.

  • Chantell Smith & Richard Wileman

    Samhain Tree

    • Self release.

  • Sun Ra

    Make Another Mistake

    • Strut.

  • Sun Ra

    Amen Meni Many Amens

    • Strut.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday 20:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music