It didn’t make the recent obits for MTV News, but as an impressionable Texas teen in 1993, it was Kurt Loder who first uttered the name of Sun Ra, providing the wormhole that led me into the Sun Ra omniverse. Sun Ra had just departed Planet Earth “Eeeearth!” and Loder rattled off a few titles to serve as possible entry points, with the mouthful of Cosmi…
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