Issues Magazine

09/22/2026

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ISSUES VISIONS A22 Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra
Atlantis
Feel double-jointed grooves like machine cogs, heads nod to contort a guitar jump. 6/4 funk, clavinet bouncing, blent shades of harmony. Tapestry seducing strange, high-caste and threatening. Novel even for The Arkestra, Exceptional.
Atlantis, jettisoned arm of our galaxy, woven in wish-laden narrative. Mu sets down the law as it cunningly hops, angelic.
It’s Sun Ra.
It’s Music.
10/10

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09/21/2026

ISSUES 113: DEATH PYRE, SPECIAL LITERARY EDITION, available 10/01/26 ANTICIPATE

09/19/2026

ISSUES Interviews 82: LOWELL HOBBS
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Now available on the Youtube channel!
Lowell Hobbs is a guitarist from North Carolina, now living in Atlanta, GA. He does musical work with the Asheville band Tongues of Fire.
You can find his work here:
tonguesofire.bandcamp.com/album/tongues-of-fire
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09/17/2026

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ISSUES VISIONS A21 Sun Ra & His Myth-Science Arkestra
The Nubians of Plutonia
Energetic impulse of a processional display, dancing tones of darkness sliding in a gradient toward cool jazz. Saxes throatily mesmerize. The persistent but understated percussion dances along the grooves. Moving along through bebop tropes, through gorgeous electric piano space-scape insinuations. Nubia is everything, matching beauty to shadow, improvisation to form.
It’s Sun Ra.
It’s Music.
10/10

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09/15/2026

Emotional Resonance from New Jersey

2 track album

09/15/2026

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The fourth part of Ryan O'Doud reading "The Book of Sages." Éliphas...

09/14/2026

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ISSUES VISIONS A20 Sun Ra and The Arkestra
Sound of Joy
Patient and restrained, notes progress with subtle snap, a soft attack crests quickly into pronounced pluck. Extensive trumpet sections, layered like a chorus, dare to say the good has come. Darting bass shoves bebop horns, sketching pointillistic line work. Planet Earth spells brilliant vistas, buried for a nod within the standard jazz reception.
It’s Sun Ra
It’s Music
10/10

09/13/2026

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ISSUES INTERVIEWS 81: LESLIE KEFFER (ISSUES 111) Full Audio is available on our Youtube page.

09/09/2026

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ISSUES VISIONS A19 Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra
Strange Strings
Broad, cloudy mysticism rent by pathos fever dream. Grasping for anchors, steel concrete foundation. The tearing, desperate cacophony screams terror and obscurity. Not just composing but drawing with sound, sketching broad, angst-ridden strokes, in tune with om and impetuous desire. World’s Approaching proclaims fanfare; the daunting emergence of new, noble horror.
It’s Sun Ra
It’s Music
10/10

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09/06/2026

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