Sun Ra / Astro Infinity Arkestra - Strange Strings (Expanded Edition) [CD] Miranda Cuckson Atlanta-based quintet Blackberry Smoke is

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Sun Ra / Astro Infinity Arkestra - Strange Strings (Expanded Edition) [CD] Miranda Cuckson Atlanta-based quintet Blackberry Smoke isFor this album, Sun Ra collected an arsenal of exotic string instruments and handed them out to his Arkestra on the precept that "strings could touch people in a special way." That the Arkestrans didn't know how to play or tune these instruments was not beside the point it was the point. Ra framed it "a study in ignorance." The result was primitive, yet sophisticated; brutal, yet highly sensitive. In his essay for this expanded edition of the 1967