Sun Ra – My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1970 album My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2.
Music from My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
Artists on My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
Gear Used On My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Sun Ra – My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2 (1970). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
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Keyboards and Synthesizers used by Sun Ra on My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
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The Minimoog was frequently played by Ra starting around 1970. In this photo, the Minimoog can be seen on top of an RMI Rock-Si-Chord. The keyboard in the foreground is a Farfisa Professional organ.
The following comes from the article “Sun Ra & The Minimoog” from the Moog Foundation website:
In 1969, a year before the introduction of the Minimoog, Sun Ra became familiar with Bob Moog’s modular studio synthesizer. He was given a demonstration in New York by Gershon Kingsley. Sun Ra first met Robert Moog after Downbeat journalist and Sun Ra acquaintance Tam Fiofori arranged for a visit to Moog’s factory in Trumansburg in the Fall of 1969. This was most likely October. Bob and his crew were testing prototypes of the Minimoog at that time, inviting Sun Ra to explore its sounds. A recording of this test session was made and, although not originally intended for commercial release, partly released many years later in 1992 as the “Moog Experiment” (My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2, CD tracks 7-11, Evidence Records.) But more significantly, it was during this visit that Moog loaned Sun Ra a prototype Minimoog (Model B), several months before the commercial instrument (Model D) was introduced in March 1970. Ra immediately added the instrument to his repertoire of keyboards, later acquired a second, and featured the Minimoog prominently on many of his recordings of the early 1970s. Sun Ra sometimes played two Minimoogs at the same time to achieve a duophonic synthesizer sound.
Moog confirmed this story of Sun Ra’s visit to Trumansburg, stating that Sun Ra and his band arrived in Trumansburg, “fourteen or fifteen people and they came up in cars, and each one was older than the other.” Moog never got the Minimoog prototype back, nor did this concern him. The “Sun Ra Minimoog” was the third or fourth prototype that Moog built.
