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Sun Ra
Egypt 1971

Sun Ra - Egypt 1971

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A1. Discipline No. 27 (3.55)
A2. Solar Ship Voyage (2.33)
A3. Cosmo-Darkness (2.08)
A4. The Light Thereof (5.12)

B1. Friendly Galaxy No. 2 (10.16)
B2. To Nature’s God (9.05)
B3. Why Go To The Moon? (2.39)
A1. Space Loneliness No. 2 (11.41)
A2. Discipline No. 11 (9.39)
A3. Discipline No. 15 (2.44)
B1. Nidhamu (13.12)
A1: Starwatchers / Theme Of The Stargazers (1.20)
A2: Discipline No. 2 (5.28)
A3: Shadow World (13.31)

B1: Third Planet (5.00)
B2: Space Is The Place (3.26)
B3: Horizon (7.49)
B4: Discipline No. 8 (8.29)
CD1
SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO-INTER-GALACTIC-INFINITY-ARKESTRA – LIVE IN EGYPT VOL. 1
(NATURE’S GOD) / (DARK MYTH EQUATION VISITATION) (original album)
1. Discipline No. 27 (3.55)
2. Interview With Ra (4.16)
3. Solar Ship Voyage (2.33)
4. Interview With Ra (Concluded) (0.25)
5. Cosmo-Darkness (2.08)
6. The Light Thereof (5.12)
7. Friendly Galaxy No. 2 (10.16)
8. To Nature’s God (9.05)
9. Why Go To The Moon? (2.39)

SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO-INTER-GALACTIC-INFINITY-ARKESTRA – NIDHAMU
(LIVE IN EGYPT VOL. II) (original album)

10. Space Loneliness No. 2 (11.41)
11. Discipline No. 11 (9.39)
12. Discipline No. 15 (2.44)
13. Nidhamu (13.12)

CD2
SUN RA AND HIS ARKESTRA – HORIZON (original album)
1. Starwatchers / Theme Of The Stargazers (1.20)
2. Discipline No. 2 (5.28)
3. Shadow World (13.31)
4. Third Planet (5.00)
5. Space Is The Place (3.26)
6. Horizon (7.49)
7. Discipline No. 8 (8.29)
8. We’ll Wait For You (1.38)
9. The Satellites Are Spinning (11.14)
10. Enlightenment (2.37)
11. Love In Outer Space (7.13)

CD3
UNRELEASED RECORDINGS 1
1. Next Stop Mars (6.27)
2. Pleiades (1.59)
3. We’ll Wait For You (8.39)
4. The Bridge (4.50)
5. Nidhamu (Part 1) (13.31)
6. Nidhamu (Part 2) (6.04)
7. Discipline No. 27 (1.16)
8. They’ll Come Back (0.43)

CD4
UNRELEASED RECORDINGS 2
1. Calling Planet Earth (2.51)
2. Imagination (1.19)
3. Discipline (3.47)
4. Angels And Demons At Play (3.12)
5. We Sing This Song (5.44)
6. Space Is The Place (5.14)
7. Organ Interlude (1.16)
8. Angels And Demons At Play (13.34)
9. Egyptian Oasis (3.06)
10. Egyptian Oasis 2 (3.33)
11. Space Is The Place (5.19)
12. Neptune (10.00)

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 US 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.

These releases comprise 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. Ra subsequently edited the three LPs of the ‘Live In Egypt’ series for release on his Saturn record label and its affiliated twin, Thoth Intergalactic: ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and ‘Horizon’.

These three albums are now reissued for the first time individually in their original artwork and all tracks are remastered from the original tapes.



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Released November 13, 2020

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