Sun Ra - A Fireside Chat with Lucifer - Ltd LP (Fiery Orange)

An F-bomb saturated hip-hop call & response club cut...from Sun Ra?!

While the most renown track in this omniversal opus is the atomic expletive-filled repartee “Nuclear War,” there is so much more to this dark mysterious journey through the mind of Sun Ra. The sprawling, suite-like 20-minute title track sustains a lyrical edge in spite of an open framework and textures, which encourage sonorities to surface and emerge from the band as if there was no human intention behind them. In opposition to “Nuclear War,” Ra's organ playing here was built less on bombast and sonic terror than it is on whispers, stutters, shivers, and swells. Fireside Chat offers a wide stylistic array, as was the artist’s intent, reflecting his eclectic, seemingly irreconcilable approach to compositional extremes. With Sun Ra you get everything... except predictability.

Tracklist:
01. Nuclear War
02. Retrospect
03. Makeup
04. A Firside chat with Lucifer

LP, Fiery Orange Vinyl
Released by Modern Harmonic in 2024 (originally 1983)

No personnel were listed on the original Fireside Chat with Lucifer LP. The following musicians are cited in Robert Campbell and Christopher Trent's The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra (2nd ed.) as having participated in the sessions that produced tracks for the albums Fireside Chat, Nuclear War and Celestial Love:

Marshall Allen: alto sax, flute
Walter Miller: trumpet
Vincent Chancey: French horn
Hayes Burnett (and possibly John Ore): bass
John Gilmore: tenor sax
James Jacson: bassoon, percussion
Danny Ray Thompson: baritone sax , flute
Samarai Celestial: drums
Tyrone Hill: trombone, vocal (1)
Atakatune: percussion
June Tyson: vocal (1)

Tape transfers by Michael D. Anderson of the Sun Ra Music Archive
Digital restoration by Michael D. Anderson and Irwin Chusid