Biography
This record of sorts, comes from the 1966 interview of Sun Ra by his then student Henry Dumas. Dumas was a a black poet and writer closely associated with jazz music in the 1960's especially avant-garde projects such as Sun Ra's.
The interview itself, is conducted over the music of Sun Ra's album 'Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy' providing an appropriate back drop for the the speech. Dumas' questions are directed at certain elements of Sun Ra's belief system ranging from the part Africans played in the slave trade, to the nature of God and infinity.
This one time collaberation has recently been sampled by the likes of Madvillain on 'Shadows of Tomorrow'.
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