Red Hot Org - Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra

Individually, Kronos Quartet and Sun Ra are two of the most groundbreaking names in contemporary music. The former is the legendary San Francisco-based string quartet that laid a blueprint for what concert music could become, working with the likes of John Cage, Tanya Tagaq, and Astor Piazzolla. The latter was a singular jazz and avant-garde bandleader, as well as a philosopher and poet, who honed an extraordinary strain of cosmic experimental music from the 1950s until his ascension in 1993. As a capstone to Kronos Quartet’s 50th anniversary, the group has joined forces with the Red Hot Organization for the new album Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra. It’s stacked with some of the most innovative artists active today — everyone from multidimensional electronic musician Jlin, to Moor Mother and DJ Haram’s radical noise / rap project 700 Bliss, to abstract hip hop luminaries Armand Hammer, to avant-garde hero Laurie Anderson, to minimalist pioneer Terry Riley.

1. Outer Spaceways Incorporated
2. Maji
3. Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie
4. Images Suite
5. The Furthest Out Things
6. Phenomenon
7. Black Body Radiance
8. Blood Running High
9. The Wuz
10. Secrets Of The Sun
11. Love in Outer Space
12. Three Seasons In The Tempestuous Twelve Inch Planet
13. Kiss Yo' Ass Goodbye