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Sun Ra Arkestra

Sun Ra Arkestra is a group from the US, active since 1952.

Group US since 1952 jazz avant-garde jazz free jazz

TOTAL PLAYS

SONGS PLAYED

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2011-12-06 23:56 · 6 Music — "Dawn"

LAST PLAYED

4 months ago · 6 Music — "Spontaneous Simplicity"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2011 — 2025

20 15 10 5 0

'11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 76 88%

Radio 2 7 8%

1Xtra 2 2%

Radio 1 1 1%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 19:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Nuclear War (live) 5 2022-03-27

2 Angels and Demons at Play 3 2025-12-27

3 Love in Outer Space 3 2018-07-19

4 Somebody Else's World 3 2017-09-21

5 Plutonian Nights 3 2015-01-13

6 Spontaneous Simplicity 2 2025-12-27

7 Take the A train 2 2024-07-25

8 Somebody Else's Idea 2 2022-09-25

9 Sleeping Beauty 2 2018-11-02

10 Somewhere in Space 2 2018-07-10

11 Nuclear War 2 2018-03-31

12 October 2 2017-10-02

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-12-27 15:42 Spontaneous Simplicity 6 Music

2025-12-27 15:35 Space Is the Place 6 Music

2025-12-27 15:34 Calling Planet Earth 6 Music

2025-12-27 15:33 Angels and Demons at Play 6 Music

2025-09-21 16:15 Friendly Galaxy (Part 3 of 3) 6 Music

2025-09-21 15:43 Friendly Galaxy (Part 2 of 3) 6 Music

2025-09-21 15:33 Lights On A Satellite (Part 2 of 2) 6 Music

2025-09-21 15:14 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans 6 Music

2025-09-21 15:07 Friendly Galaxy (Part 1 of 3) 6 Music

2025-09-21 15:00 Lights On A Satellite (Part 1 of 2) 6 Music

2024-07-25 00:36 Take the A train 6 Music

2024-05-05 21:20 Improvised I 6 Music

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

64 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

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'Round Midnight —

1 2018-05-22 ▶

Adventure in Space —

1 2018-12-14 ▶

Advice to Medics —

1 2014-02-14 ▶

Angels & Demons At Play —

1 2014-09-10 ▶

Angels And Demons (Glastonbury 2014) —

1 2014-07-01 ▶

Angels and Demons at Play —

3 2025-12-27 ▶

Brazilian Sun —

1 2018-03-02 ▶

Calling Planet Earth —

1 2025-12-27 ▶

Dawn —

1 2011-12-06 ▶

Demon's Lullaby —

1 2017-01-03 ▶

Door of the Cosmos —

1 2019-10-22 ▶

Egyptian Strut —

1 2020-03-31 ▶

Enlightenment (Live For BBC Radio 3) —

1 2014-07-06 ▶

Eve —

1 2018-11-25 ▶

Friendly Galaxy (Part 1 of 3) —

1 2025-09-21 ▶

Friendly Galaxy (Part 2 of 3) —

1 2025-09-21 ▶

Friendly Galaxy (Part 3 of 3) —

1 2025-09-21 ▶

Great Balls of Fire —

1 2016-11-15 ▶

If They Only Knew —

1 2017-04-08 ▶

Improvised I —

1 2024-05-05 ▶

India —

1 2019-04-26 ▶

Interplanetary Music —

1 2018-11-25 ▶

Kingdom of Not —

1 2018-01-07 ▶

Lights on a Satellite —

1 2017-05-20 ▶

Lights On A Satellite (Part 1 of 2) —

1 2025-09-21 ▶

Lights On A Satellite (Part 2 of 2) —

1 2025-09-21 ▶

Love in Outer Space —

3 2018-07-19 ▶

Love In Outerspace —

1 2018-04-13 ▶

Mayan Temple —

2 2017-01-08 ▶

Medicine for a Nightmare —

1 2016-04-01 ▶

My Way Is the Spaceways —

1 2015-08-01 ▶

Nuclear War —

2 2018-03-31 ▶

Nuclear War (live) —

5 2022-03-27 ▶

October —

2 2017-10-02 ▶

On Jupiter —

1 2015-10-20 ▶

Pan Afro —

1 2017-04-23 ▶

Pleasure —

1 2015-04-11 ▶

Plutonian Nights —

3 2015-01-13 ▶

Portrait of the Living Sky —

1 2016-03-18 ▶

Rocket no.9 —

1 2021-06-25 ▶

Rocket Number Nine (Glastonbury 2014) —

2 2014-07-01 ▶

Round Midnight (feat. Hatty Randolph) —

1 2016-11-15 ▶

Sea of Darkness / Darkness —

1 2021-01-29 ▶

Sleeping Beauty —

2 2018-11-02 ▶

Somebody Else's Idea —

2 2022-09-25 ▶

Somebody Else's World —

3 2017-09-21 ▶

Somebody's Else's World —

1 2014-08-28 ▶

Somewhere in Space —

2 2018-07-10 ▶

Space Is the Place —

1 2025-12-27 ▶

Space Lonliness —

1 2018-03-16 ▶

Spontaneous Simplicity —

2 2025-12-27 ▶

State Street —

1 2017-08-20 ▶

Sunology, Part One —

2 2016-06-02 ▶

Sunology, Part Two —

1 2016-05-27 ▶

Take the A train —

2 2024-07-25 ▶

Tapestry From An Asteroid —

1 2018-11-25 ▶

The Night Of The Purple Moon —

1 2018-12-23 ▶

The Perfect Man —

1 2017-01-08 ▶

Twilight —

1 2015-02-27 ▶

Under Different Stars —

1 2014-12-07 ▶

Velvet —

1 2018-11-25 ▶

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans —

1 2025-09-21 ▶

We Travel The Space Ways —

1 2017-04-15 ▶

We Travel the Spaceways —

1 2018-11-25 ▶