“Intergalactic music belongs to ‘Outer Darkness.’”

It is rhythm against rhythm in various dispersions.
It is harmony against harmony in endless harmony.
It is melody against melody in a revelation brimming with life.
(Excerpt from *Outer Darkness* by Sun Ra)

From Detroit’s techno resistance to Berlin’s elastic minimalism, from the ancestral futurism of Lusaka to the house communion of Chicago, *When There Is No Sun* is a global recording project that brings together visionary electronic music producers to reconstruct Sun Ra’s universe.

Sun Ra, one of the most radical musical pioneers of the 20th century, expanded the possibilities of sound, identity, and imagination through jazz, electronics, poetry, and performance.

Commissioned by Omni Sound and curated by Ricardo Villalobos, this series features Underground Resistance, Che Damier & Ben Vedren, Calibre, A Guy Called Gerald, She Spells Doom, Barish K, and Ricardo Villalobos himself.

Based on Omni Sound’s archival material—including *Living Sky* by the Sun Ra Arkestra and the spoken-word album *My Words Are Music*, which features Sun Ra’s poetry—the producers draw fragments of sound and text into their own creative trajectories, passing through the gateway to the “realm where the impossible becomes possible” that Sun Ra opened.

The recitations by Saul Williams, Anthony Joseph, Mahogany L. Brown, Abiodun Oyeyole, Tunde Adebinpe, and Tara Middleton transform rhyme into rhythm and resistance into revelation.

Rooted in deep respect for Sun Ra’s legacy yet reaching toward the future as a vibrant creative force, *When There Is No Sun* is not merely a tribute, but a continuum. Striking a balance between the pulse of electronic music and a spirit of experimentation, it embodies Sun Ra’s promise that “another world exists”—if only one is willing to see it.