Pre-Sale Vinyl (A Philosopher's Monologue)

Nojen Ra – Debut Album "A Philosopher's Monologue" (Vinyl LP)

Sales outside of the Continental United States: If you are outside of the Continental United States, please use the Contact Page or email nojenra.441@gmail.com before buying the album to arrange for shipping to you. No matter where you are, we will get this album into your hands and on your turntable! -- Nojen Ra

PRE-SALE EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS:

Hi-Fidelity WAVS: The first 200 pre-sale customers will be eligible to receive high-fidelity WAV downloads of up to three tracks of their choice from the album for your personal listening library.

• Each track is licensed for 50 total downloads
• Access is granted on a first come, first served basis
• Once a track reaches 50 downloads, it will no longer be available
• You’ll be contacted after purchase with your selection form and download instructions.

This Album is Limited to 300 Copies: This is a limited run of 300 vinyl albums. No more will be pressed or sold. When this limited run is sold, this release will end. Each album will be opened from the shrink-wrap, and numbered and signed before being shipped to you.

About the Artist Known as Nojen Ra: Nojen Ra is a human artist who remains deliberately unplatformed. No genre tags. No persona. No streaming. No identity to follow. This is not content. This is music. A Philosopher's Monologue is a solo jazz guitar album, and it is Nojen Ra's first release. This release will also be the vehicle for Nojen Ra to seek membership in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (the "Recording Academy").

Because Nojen Ra does not participate in the personal performance art of "presence-ing" on social media or seek to use the mass-tech distribution machinery of streaming platforms, some may assume that Nojen Ra is a product of AI. To the contrary, Nojen Ra is deeply human—and deeply disillusioned by the idea that, in order to reach others, one must surrender to technologies that prioritize platform visibility over inner presence and real human-2-human connectivity.

This musical release resists that bargain. It was not made to chase followers or feed algorithms or to entertain you for 11 seconds. It was made to restore the possibility of deep listening—of presence without noise, tone without branding, feeling without spectacle. Nojen Ra exists, but not as a product. Only as a person, an artist, and as an invitation to experience the energy of music together (with you).

Why Vinyl: A Philosopher’s Monologue is a solo jazz guitar album—and the first offering from Nojen Ra. The experience is intimate and unadorned: one human, one guitar, and one listener. Nothing more.

This music asks for your presence. It invites you to physically drop the needle, to sit with what unfolds, and to engage with each note intentionally. Halfway through, you're asked to flip the record—a natural intermission that reflects the shape of the journey.

Modern music technology has reduced the act of listening to background noise—infinitely available, instantly forgettable. This vinyl-only release resists that erosion. It restores listening to its rightful place: as an act of connection between the art, the artist, and the one who listens—and through that, to the greater field of energy that joins us all.

What You Will Hear on this Album: Each track on this debut album is a reinterpretation—an instrumental cover—of songs that have passed through decades of meaning. Now rendered in a language of tone, silence, and intention. Music for deep listening, free from spectacle.

Side One

 

1. Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard) (2:19)

2. A Night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) (2:56)

3. Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Richard Betts) (3:26)

4. Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (Donald Fagan, Walter Becker) (3:11)

5. Georgia (Hoagy Carmichael) (3:33)  

6. The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix) (3:11)

Side Two

1. Giant Steps (John Coltrane) (1:53)

2. When Sunny Gets Blue (Marvin Fisher) (3:11)

3. Crazy on You (Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson) (3:39)

4. Third Stone From the Sun/Voodoo Chile (Jimi Hendrix) (3:00)

5. Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio / Spain Medley (Miles Davies, Chick Corea) (3:43)

6. Layla (Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon) (3:35)

 

Thank you for exploring what A Philosopher’s Monologue is all about. I hope the vinyl finds its way to you!

Best to You,

// Nojen Ra

P.S. Step away, drop the needle, and let yourself listen. You are worth this time. I'll see you there!

#NojenRa #33.3 #SpinVinyl

P.S.S. You will see the "share" icons in this store for Facebook, X and Pinterest. These icons are there because they are baked into the Payhip.com DNA and can not be removed (without some heavy lifting). Nojen Ra has no presence on these platforms. If you want to share the album on any of these platforms, that's cool but you don't need to or should not feel compelled to. My interest is not reaching the masses through multi-billion dollar corporate intermediaries that don't value art (musical or otherwise). My interest is to connect artist-to-listener deeply and singularly. #Unplatform #Listen