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ART YARD is an independent record label and music publishing company based in London, UK. Established in 2004 and formed to bring some of Sun Ra’s lesser know works to the new generation of listeners.

Sun Ra (1914-1993) is arguably one of the most influential and important of all 20th century composers.  A sonic explorer in the revolutionary ‘Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow’, the new forms of music, and a ground-breaking bandleader of immense and extraordinary vision.

Sun Ra, the cornerstone of experimental jazz whose mythology explored an intergalactic narrative that navigated between Ancient Egypt and outer space.

His performances incorporated everything from 1930’s big band swing to experimental funk and synthesizer pieces, with a large ensemble of musicians and dancers. He was also a master pianist, who’s published output exceeded 180 albums, he recorded for many of the American and European jazz labels and toured extensively with his various ensembles between 1956 and 1993. He also did cover versions of Walt Disney tunes, recorded a couple of sides for a toy company, as well making films and documentaries about his philosophy and vision.

Sun Ra’s music is associated with his musical navigation toward free jazz and his poetry toward cosmology and egyptology. Sun Ra worked within the traditional established African American expressive traditions. He had a distinct compositional style and language, elements of the blues, ragtime, and spirituals crossed-over with experimental electronic instruments, rhythm machines – invented instruments and re-combined in a fusion to present new musical dimensions, he was a ‘cosmic guide’ through black musical traditions, A 21st Century Tonal Guide To Times Tomorrow.

Sun Ra  extraordinary work and time on this planet has yet to be fully appreciated. In this manner we honour and perpetuate the Sun Ra legacy.

The Art Yard “Sun Ra El Saturn” release series is sanctioned by Sun Ra LLC, Enterplanetary Koncepts representing the heirs and successors of Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony’r Ra AKA Sun Ra.


Contact: Peter Dennett
Art Yard Ltd and Art Yard Music Publishing.
303 The Pill Box,
115 Coventry Road,
London E2 6GG
Company No. 05046410
Email: in**@***************co.uk

Below is a list of distributers and mailorders that we work with.

Omniverse Sun Ra is Distributed

by  Central Books in the UK.

by : Forced Exposure in the United States

by Rush Hour in the Netherlands

Vinyl Distribution

by Japan Blues in the United Kingdom/ email: ta*@********es.com

by Rush Hour in the Netherlands

by : Forced Exposure in the United States

CD Distribution

United Kingdom and United States: RER-Mega-Corp /

You can follow Art Yard Records on FB and listen to some audio previews on Soundcloud

More from Strut Records: http://www.strut-records.com / https://www.facebook.com/StrutRecords

More from The Sun Ra Arkestra: http://www.sunraarkestra.com

Artists

  • Sun Ra and His Arkestra
  • Marshall Allen, The Maestro.
  • Salah Ragab and The Cairo Jazz Band Egyptian Jazz
  • Pat Patrick and The Baritone Saxophone Retinue – SOUND ADVICE
  • Charles Davis, musician, composer and educator
  • John Sinclair, poet, writer and political activist.
  • Hartmut Geerken, musician, composer, writer.

LABEL ARCHIVES

  • The Sun Ra Arkestra Directed By Marshall Allen – SWIRLING
  • SUN RA – EGYPT ’71 5LP Box
  • ‘IT’S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD’ Out Of The Pages
  • Tribe – Hometown DETROIT SESSIONS 1990 – 2014
  • It’s After The End Of The World by Gerald Jenkins
  • Al Chem 160 Tons of Sunlight Daily. digital album release
  • AL CHEM – Weird Fiction
  • SUN RA – OF ABSTRACT DREAMS
  • Omniverse Sun Ra
  • Sun Ra and His Arkestra Discipline 27-II
  • Sun Ra – The Lost Ark Series Vol 1 & 2
  • Sun Ra And His Solar Arkestra- I ROAM THE COSMOS
  • Sun Ra, Singles The Definitive 45’s Collection 1952 – 1991
  • Sun Ra, IN SOME FAR PLACE: Roma ’77
  • Gilles Peterson Presents / To Those Of Earth… And Other Worlds
  • Sun Ra and his Intergalacitc Research Arkestra – PLANETS OF LIFE OR DEATH: AMIENS ‘73
  • Marshall Allen Presents Sun Ra and His Arkestra – IN THE ORBIT OF RA
  • Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra / Sleeping Beauty and On Jupiter
  • Sun Ra Disco 3000 and Media Dreams Milan 1978
  • Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra Wake Up Angels / Live At The Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival 1972-73-74
  • Sun Ra & His Myth Science Solar Arkestra The Antique Blacks
  • Sun Ra And His Mythic Science Arkestra The Paris Tapes: Live At Le Théâtre Du Châtelet 1971
  • Remembering June Tyson and John Gilmore
  • Berliner Ring – Orbital
  • Sun Ra – The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 1 & 2
  • Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space – Space Aura
Art Yard Limited 2025