Christopher Eddy from Sun Ra Arkive: Now
that you and Michael have partnered with Sun Ra’s legal heirs, Sun Ra LLC, what
are your goals moving forward?
Irwin Chusid, Administrator for Sun Ra
LLC: Here’s a short task list, minus details because
these are essentially speculative, unconfirmed, subject to change, and
contingent on the cooperation of other people.
We’ve received a half-dozen offers from labels
eager to release Sun Ra on LP and CD. The best offer we received was from a
reputable distributor who proposes to help us set up our own label. The distro
rep is a longtime friend of mine and Michael, and he’s a Sun Ra fan. But so
far, nothing logistical has been finalized.
We’ll continue to fill out the Mastered for
iTunes catalog, which currently has 25 full-length releases, as well
as 9 samplers. We’ve also reissued a handful of albums from pristine vinyl
because we don’t have tapes. (The vinyl sourced-albums are not graded MFiT.) We
granted Apple limited exclusivity on the 2014 remasters because they initiated
the program and gave us terrific editorial support. On January 1, 2015, the
entire catalog will be released thru all other digital retailers, although they
will not feature Apple’s high quality AAC+ 24-bit format—they’ll be mp3s—and
they won’t have the downloadable pdf booklets.
I’m also striving to throw the bootleggers out
of the temple. Efforts ongoing, as well as cleaning up the foreign
sub-publishing, which is a mess thanks to … well, let’s just say someone not
connected to Sun Ra, to the family, or to Michael.
And finally, we plan the imminent launch of SunRa.com.
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