Samstag 23. Mai '26     19:00     Konzerthinweis
Galiläa-Kirche  [Rigaer Str. 9/10    10247 Berlin]

Celebrate 112 years of Sun Ra in space
and 102 of Marshall Allen on Earth

• 19:14: Open up the gates to the outer space
• 19:24: Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut (2025) in presence of film director Ari Benjamin Meyers
• 20:01: Ignition of the music-powered engines

Chris Hyperion Mehler – Intergalactic Trumpet
Reverend Hunter S. Chicken – Titan Tenor Sax
Pharoannes Mimas Schleiermacher – Moon Sax, Moog Synth
Yorgos Iapetus Hochapfel – Sun Organ, Galilei Piano
Isis Dione Roessler -Horsehead Nebula Bass
Janus Tethys Leipnitz – Starr Drums
Ngoma Lugundu – Baobabs, Vulcan Brush Dance

The sound of joy is enlightenment. Hereby, our invitation, we do invite you to be of our space world.

Sun Ra is in outer space. Sunrise in outer space. Love for everybody.
Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut (2025)

Marshall Allen, 99, Astronaut (2025) is centered around the world renowned free and avant-garde jazz musician and current leader of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, of which he has been a continual member since 1958. He has recorded primarily with Sun Ra since the late 1950s and has led the Arkestra since 1995, following Sun Ra’s death in 1993 and John Gilmore’s two years later. The debut album of „one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era“, mentioned twice in the Guinees Book of Records, was released in his 101st year of life.

Overground control 2:

• Major Tolga Tolon (Red Crescent Space Mission Super Sonic Sound Engineer)
• United Space Marshal Lion Bix bei der Kellen (Speedometer of Light, Enlightenment Illuminationist)

Let’s celebrate the birthdays of the oldest practicing alto saxophonist and big band leader between the Sun and Jupiter and that of his extraterrestrial mentor from Saturn.