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Sun Ra - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght - 6LP - Black Vinyl Boxset [RSD 2025] Sun Ra

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Release date: Apr 12, 2025
Catalogue number: STRUT193LP
Barcode: 4062548102246
Format: RSD 2025 - 6LP - Black Vinyl Boxset

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This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order.
Available to buy in-store from 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day).
Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025.

Originally released across two edited volumes by Shandar in 1971, the concerts are now being reissued by Strut in a stunning expanded 6 LP vinyl box set for Record Store Day 2025

The set is housed in a hardboard box and features a reprint of the original festival programme, a 12-page over-sized booklet featuring liner notes by Daniel Caux, Jacqueline Caux and Paul Griffiths and stunning restored photos of the festival by Philippe Gras. Sun Ra's Nuits de la Fondation Maeght recordings are legendary within his extensive canon

Across two nights in August 1970, these were the first concerts Ra and the Arkestra had performed outside North America and formed part of a stellar festival line-up alongside Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela

Prior to Maeght, The Arkestra's early years in New York had been lean in terms of gigs, money and visibility

Their precarious situation improved after Ra's participation in the 1964 October Revolution concerts and the release of the breathtaking Heliocentric Worlds LPs

A gradual increase in touring followed and talk had turned to brokering dates in Europe when they received an invitation to play at an art gallery in Southern France in 1970

Set in the medieval town of St Paul-de- Vence in Provence, the Fondation Maeght celebrated modern art in all its forms, housing work from some of the most important artists of the 20th Century including Matisse, Georges Braque, Chagall and Giacometti. The Ra performance featured one of the great Arkestra line-ups with mainstays John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, Danny Davis and Danny Ray Thompson at the peak of their powers

Festival curator Daniel Caux recalled, "The Arkestra's performances were electrifying

Films were projected behind the musicians - vistas of New York and Chicago, moon rockets, Egyptian Gods and plumed African warriors

Sun Ra's organ threw lightning bolts, dancers brandished symbolic objects

The audience was stunned by a spectacle that surpassed anything they could have imagined".

Track List:

A1. Sun Interlude
A2. Love In Outer Space
A3. Shadow World (Excerpt)

B1. Cosmic Explorer (Continuation)
B2. Piano Solo (Untitled)
B3. Friendly Galaxy No.2

C1. Why Go To The Moon? / It's After The End Of The World
C2. Spontaneous Simplicity
C3. Watusi

D1. Percussion Interlude
D2. Interstellar Low Ways
D3. Somewhere Else

E1. They'll Come Back
E2. Tone Science Interlude
E3. Satellites Are Spinning
E4. Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space
E5. Calling Planet Earth
E6. Imagination
E7. I'll Wait For You
E8. We Travel The Spaceways

F1. The World Of Lightning
F2. Blackmyth; I) Shadows Took Shape II) Strange Worlds III) Journey Through The Outer Darkness
F3. Myth Tone Poem (Untitled)
F4. Sky5. Three Cheers For Ra

G1. Prelude
G2. Theme Of The Stargazers
G3. Shadow World

H1. Satellites Are Spinning
H2. Second Stop Is Jupiter
H3. Tone Science
H4. Next Stop Mars

I1. Spontaneous Simplicity
I2. Friendly Galaxy No.2

J1. Pleasant Twilight
J2. Outer Spaceways Incorporated / You Better Get Ready

K1. Enlightment
K2. Calling Planet Earth
K3. Space Bop (Untitled)
K4. Space Ballad (Untitled )
K5. Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space / Theme Of The Stargazers / I'll Wait For You

L1. Somebody Else's Idea / Walking On The Moon / It's After The End Of The World
L2. We Travel The Spaceways
L3. Tone Science Interlude
L4. Days Of Wine And Roses
L5. Satellites Are Spinning
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Format: RSD 2025 - 6LP - Black Vinyl Boxset

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