SUN RA - Egypt '71 - 4CD Set

LABEL: Strut

CAT NO: STRUT209CD

BARCODE: 4062548012156

Tracklist:

1. Discipline no. 27
2. Interview with Ra
3. Solar Ship Voyage
4. Interview with Ra (concluded)
5. Cosmo-Darkness
6. The Light Thereof
7. Friendly Galaxy no. 2
8. To Nature’s God
9. Why Go To The Moon?
10. Space Loneliness no. 2
11. Discipline no. 11
12. Discipline no. 15
13. Nidhamu
14. Starwatchers / Theme Of The Stargazers
15. Discipline no. 2
16. Shadow World
17. Third Planet
18. Space Is The Place
19. Horizon
20. Discipline no. 8
21. We’ll Wait For You
22. The Satellites Are Spinning
23. Enlightenment love In Outer Space
24. Next Stop Mars
25. Pleiades
26. We’ll Wait For You
27. The Bridge
28. Nidhamu (part 1)
29. Nidhamu (part 2)
30. dDiscipline no. 27
31. They’ll Come Back
32. Calling Planet Earth
33. Imagination
34. Discipline
35. Angels And Demons At Play
36. We Sing This Song
37. Space Is The Place
38. Organ Interlude
39. Angels And Demons At Play
40. Egyptian Oasis
41. Egyptian Oasis 2
42. Space Is The Place
43. Neptune

SUN RA – Egypt ’71

4CD Boxset

Strut present the 4cd edition of sun ra’s ‘egypt 1971’, documenting Sun Ra’s first trip to egypt with his arkestra in december 1971.

In the years leading up to 1971, Sun Ra wrote many compositions and poems specifically inspired by the ancient African kingdoms and many others with associated mythological and heliocentric connotations. as such, a visit to Egypt and the opportunity for the Arkestra to play there was a matter of necessity. Ra’s first ever concerts outside of the U.S. had occurred in late summer and autumn of 1970 with performances in France, Germany and the UK and a second European tour was arranged for late 1971. at the end of that second tour, Ra caught wind of cheap flights from Denmark to Cairo.

This release comprises recordings made by Arkestra member Thomas “Bugs” Hunter made in December 1971 in the streets around the Mena House Hotel, Giza, from a concert held at the House of Goethe institute ex-pat Hartmut Geerken in Heliopolis, from a live Cairo TV channel broadcast and a concert at the ballon theatre in Cairo. The impact and significance of these few weeks upon Sun Ra can be measured by the growth and development of his output over the next few years; the immediate post-Egypt period included new studio and live recordings on the Saturn, Blue Thumb, Atlantic and Impulse labels and the ‘Space Is The Place’ movie.

The 4cd set features the three albums from the ‘Live in Egypt’ series: ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and ‘Horizon’ alongside previously unreleased material from the december 1971 recordings. All tracks are remastered from the original tapes and the cd set also features a 24-page booklet featuring new sleeve notes and rare photos by Hartmut Geerken and background information on the recordings by Paul Griffiths.