Sun Ra LLC/Sun Ra Music Archive releases as of April 15, 2016

Straight from Sun Ra LLC's Irwin Chusid we have a state of the union update on all of the Sun Ra LLC/Sun Ra Music Archive releases issued and/or remastered as of April 15, 2016.

- The record label is ENTERPLANETARY KONCEPTS, period. 

- Anything tagged "MFiT" means Mastered for iTunes, indicating it was remastered from tape by Michael Anderson and Irwin Chusid. 

- The other titles were remastered from vinyl or a combination of tape and vinyl. 

- These titles are currently not available as hi-res downloads, only m4a (iTunes) and mp3 (all other digital retailers). 

- Sun Ra LLC/Sun Ra Music Archive is currently working on vinyl (and possibly CD) reissues of many catalog titles thru Virtual.

- Non-catalog vinyl releases are forthcoming in 2016 via Sundazed Records Modern Harmonic imprint.

Angels and Demons At Play 

Antique Blacks

Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

Astro Black 

Atlantis

Aurora Borealis [solo piano] (non-MFiT)

Bad and Beautiful 

Beyond the Purple Star Zone

Celestial Love

Continuation Vol. 1

Continuation Vol. 2

Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy 

Cosmos

Dance of Innocent Passion (non-MFiT)

Fate in a Pleasant Mood 

Fireside Chat with Lucifer

God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (non-MFiT)

Holiday for Soul Dance 

I Roam the Cosmos

Inter-Media Arts 1991

Interstellar Low Ways 

Invisible Shield 

Jazz by Sun Ra (non-MFiT)

Jazz in Silhouette 

Magic City (full stereo)

Monorails and Satellites Vol. 1

Monorails and Satellites Vol. 2 (non-MFiT)

My Brother the Wind Vol. 1

My Brother the Wind Vol. 2

New Steps (non-MFiT)

Night of the Purple Moon

Nubians of Plutonia 

Oblique Parallax (non-MFiT)

Omniverse (non-MFiT)

Other Planes of There 

Other Side of the Sun (non-MFiT)

Other Voices, Other Blues (non-MFiT)

Paris 1983

Pit-Inn 8-8-88

Ra to the Rescue

Secrets of the Sun

Solo Piano, Venice 1977 (non-MFiT)

Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue

Soul Vibrations of Man

Sound Sun Pleasure 

Strange Strings 

Sub Underground #1

Sun Ra Visits Planet Earth 

Supersonic Jazz

Universe in Blue 

Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow (non-MFiT)

We Travel the Spaceways 

When Sun Comes Out

Sun Ra Dreams: Unknown LPs

It's 3:25 am. I was just woken from a Sun Ra dream. I'm sure if you're a fan like me that you've had them too. There's so much myth, legend, mystery and imagination in Sun Ra land that dreams just come with the territory.

I was wandering a city alone, in despair. Something terrible had just happened in my personal life. The city, though it didn't really look like it, was Seattle. A familiar neighborhood I've visited in my dreams before. I know there's a record store around here, sometimes I can find it, sometimes I can't. I find it, and end up in the basement immediately - the forgotten, fringe treasures. There are millions of fluorescent lit records down here, and as if by attraction or perception, I immediately find the Sun Ra LP section. There's about 50-60 albums in the cardboard box - all beautiful and varied vintage covers on different labels and in different styles. I start flipping through them. Other than "Interstellar Low Ways" I've never seen any of the cover designs in waking reality, but in my dream they are all familiar to me. Exciting, but still known. Until I flip to the back of the stack and see something I've never seen - in dream or awake. I speak an expletive in amazement. There's 2 copies of this album - both have cryptic handwriting on small labels instead of prices, so they must be more rare and expensive than I can afford - I'm assuming over $1,000 usd. The album is released under the name Sun Ra and was recorded in the 50s on the MGM label. The title is "The Garden," and it is an instrumental soundtrack to Disney's "The Lion King." (Yes, I know it wasn't a Disney property back then.) I imagine that the earthy primal space funk of the "Angels and Demons at Play/Nubians of Plutonia" records would be a perfect match for the subject matter. The cover is an abstract impressionistic pastel illustration of a lion in the jungle in blue, green, purple, and gold. A search of Google on my phone shows that this LP is out-of-print and has never been reissued, other than a bootleg CD from Europe sourced from a needle drop of the LP. I hold the record in my hand, flip it over and start to inspect the titles and liner notes as a group of school kids comes down a nearby hall. I look up, my cat jumps on my back, and I awake.

Tell me about your Sun Ra dreams in the comments section below...

© 2001-2017 Sun Ra Arkive.

Expanded version of rare Omniverse Sun Ra book due from Art Yard on 10/11/2015

After being out-of-print for about almost 20 years, the rare - and at the time definitive - book Omniverse Sun Ra by Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent is being published by Art Yard on 10/11/2015.

 The original book was printed in what I assume was a relatively small run, and at the time cost a hefty $100 USD, which meant this young freak couldn't afford one. My Sun Ra mentor Richard Segan had a copy, and it was always a treat to look at his copy when I visited. Even then, it seemed like a rare treasure - to be handled gently, to be absorbed carefully...

It was an incredible book then, and still is to this day.

For the past 10 years or so it has commanded insane prices on the secondary market, and the author said it would never be reprinted. So what a welcome joy and relief to hear that this essential Sun Ra volume will be released again, as an expanded and revised hardback 304 page edition!

From Art Yard:

Twenty years after its first publication, ART YARD are proud to present the fully revised 2nd edition of Hartmut Geerken’s long unobtainable Omniverse – Sun Ra, a definitive hitch-hiker’s guide to the Sun Ra galaxy.

The new, completely revised edition features:

- Many previously unpublished photographs of Sun Ra and the Arkestra in Heliopolis Cairo 1971 and New York 1961 by Hartmut Geerken and Val Wilmer.
- A fully revised discography by Chris Trent, co-author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra including: Comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography, chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel and record label indexes. Shellac Records,78RPM indexes, 45 RPM Singles indexes. Jackets and Labels indexes. new full colour images of hundreds of Sun Ra album covers, posters, handbills and ephemera and reproductions of rare hand drawn LP sleeves.
- articles by Geerken, Amiri Baraka, Chris Cutler, Robert L. Campbell, Salah Ragab, Sigrid Hauff, Robert Lax and others
- Hardback Portrait 304 Pages. French fold cover.

For five decades, Sun Ra brightened planet Earth with his unique, provocative and esoteric musical philosophy. Touring the world with his formidable Arkestra, he represented and affirmed a new vision of Black history and culture, embodied and spread a new and powerfully influential Black philosophy, and revolutionised music with sounds from beyond the purple star zone.

Ra accepted no limitation imposed on him by earthly powers: his vista was the universe, his travel was interplanetary, his music borne along the spaceways as he delivered messages of light to a sleeping world. Now more than ever, the value and radicalism of his protean musical inventiveness, his socially collective self-determination, and his philosophical and poetic profundity can be seen. Where Ra went, we are slowly going, and we will find his message for us waiting there. The new edition of Omniverse – Sun Ra is a major contribution to Sun Ra studies, and a dazzling overview of its subjects astonishingly productive career on Earth - the definitive companion to the many worlds of Sun Ra.

ISBN: 978-0-9933514-0-2
Distributed by Forced Exposure in the USA
Distributed by Art Yard in the UK

 

Esoteric Sun Ra Arkive Research: A Fireside Chat With Lucifer and Land Of The Day Star

Land Of The Day Star from Cymbals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOfsmXdPX-I

http://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-The-Great-Lost-Sun-Ra-Albums-Cymbals-Crystal-Spears/release/1058512

A Fireside Chat With Lucifer:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fireside-chat-lucifer-remastered/id939483986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNkAJ08Dpqg

http://www.discogs.com/master/view/568225

Research:

http://freemantv.com/who-is-lucifer/

http://biblehub.com/topical/d/day-star.htm

http://endtimelect.com/2013/01/03/the-bright-morning-star-vs-the-daystar/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread855953/pg1

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=230573

http://www.siriusrising.com/myth.htm

https://cultofamonra.wordpress.com/tag/lucifer/

http://watchman33.com/2009/04/23/the-lucifer-project-raising-antichrist-part-iii/

http://www.cuttingedge.org/free13.html

Esoteric Sun Ra Arkive Research: A Fireside Chat With Lucifer and Land Of The Day Star

© 2001-2017 Sun Ra Arkive.

NEW RELEASE: Sun Ra - The Night Of The Purple Moon

19700000 RLC2 163 The Night of the Purple Moon [2014 Remaster Thoth Intergalactic IR 1972] New York, NY

THE NIGHT OF THE PURPLE MOON, recorded in 1970, features Sun Ra playing two electronic keyboards that were popular with psychedelic bands: the Rocksichord and the Minimoog. Ra used them to explore the sonic possibilities with futuristic music. Yet listening to Purple Moon, there's a sense that after a decade of experimentalism and free jazz, Sun Ra wanted to make an accessible pop record. 

Remastered edition with unreleased bonus tracks just released via iTunes: http://bit.ly/1vkKbFX

http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/detail.php?parametro=45

Side A: 

Sun-Earth Rock (Ra) 

The All of Everything (Ra) 

Impromptu Festival (Ra) 

Blue Soul (Ra) 

Narrative (Ra) 

Outside the Time Zone (Ra) 

Side B: 

The Night of the Purple Moon (Ra) 

A Bird's Eye View of Man's World (Ra) 

21st Century Romance (Ra) 

Dance of the Living Image (Ra) 

Love in Outer Space (Ra) 

Ra-two Mini-Moog's, rocksichord; John Gilmore-d, ts; Danny Davis-as, acl, fl, cga, d; Stafford James-eb. Probably New York, 1970

http://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-And-His-Intergalactic-Infinity-Arkestra-The-Night-Of-The-Purple-Moon/master/278041

19700000 RLC2 163 The Night of the Purple Moon [2014 Remaster Thoth Intergalactic IR 1972] New York, NY

19700000 RLC2 163 The Night of the Purple Moon [2014 Remaster Thoth Intergalactic IR 1972] New York, NY

NEW RELEASE: Sun Ra - Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow

19611100-19620000 RLC2 77-82 Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow [2014 Remaster Saturn Research SRLP9956] Choreographer's Workshop; New York, NY

24-bit remastered edition of ART FORMS OF DIMENSIONS TOMORROW, produced after Sun Ra's 1961 move from Chicago to NYC. Art Forms displays Sunny's tendency to juxtapose stylistic extremes to showcase versatility. "Cluster of Galaxies" and "Solar Drums" are percussion soundscapes, "Ankh #1" a swaggering R&B tune. "The Outer Heavens" echoes Third Stream jazz, while "Infinity of the Universe" offsets a percussion battalion with thunderous low-register piano. "Lights on a Satellite" and "Kosmos in Blue" ground the set with stylish hard bop. Includes the complete "Cluster of Galaxies" and a previously unreleased bonus track, an after-hours quartet cooker titled "Chicago, Southside." 

Get it here:http://bit.ly/1wBBcim

http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/detail.php?parametro=20

Side A: 

Cluster of Galaxies (Ra) 

Ra-sun harp, spiral percussion gong; Pat Patrick-thunder drums; Tommy Hunter-thunder drums. 1962. 

Ankh (Ra) 

Ra-p; Ali Hassan-tb; Marshall Allen-as; John Gilmore-ts; Pat Patrick- bs; Ronnie Boykins-b; C. Scoby Stroman-d. 1962. 

Solar Drums (Ra) 

Ra-p, sun harp, dragon drum; Marshall Allen-bells; John Gilmore-space drums; Ronnie Boykins-b; C. Scoby Stroman-perc. 1962. 

The Outer Heavens (Ra) 

Ra-p; Manny Smith-tp; Marshall Allen-as; John Gilmore-ts; Pat Patrick- cl; Ronnie Boykins-b. 1962. 

Side B: 

Infinity of the Universe (Ra) 

Ra-p percussion solo; Clifford Thornton-tp; Marshall Allen-sticks, perc; John Gilmore-dragon drums, bcl; Pat Patrick-perc; Ronnie Boykins-b; Clifford Jarvis-d. 1962. 

Lights on a Satellite (Ra) 

Ra-p; John Gilmore-ts; Pat Patrick-bs; Ronnie Boykins-b; John Ore-b; Tommy Hunter. November or December 1961. 

Kosmos in Blue (Ra) 

Ra-p; John Gilmore-ts; Robert Boykins-b (primer solo); John Ore-b (segundo solo); Tommy Hunter -d. November or December 1961.

http://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-And-His-Solar-Arkestra-Art-Forms-Of-Dimensions-Tomorrow/master/202415

19611100-19620000 RLC2 77-82 Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow [2014 Remaster Saturn Research SRLP9956] Choreographer's Workshop; New York, NY

19611100-19620000 RLC2 77-82 Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow [2014 Remaster Saturn Research SRLP9956] Choreographer's Workshop; New York, NY

NEW RELEASE: Sun Ra - Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow

19800917 RLC2 327 Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow [2014 Remaster El Saturn Records 91780] Squat Theater; New York, NY

Newly remastered for iTunes, a live 1980 Sun Ra album recorded at NYC's Squat Theater. "Eternal Tomorrow" has never been reissued in any format & LP copies are rare. The music is confrontational, defiant, and studded with explosive outbursts. The recording fidelity is raw because it was hard to capture this orchestrated chaos in a tiny space. But this is history: the time, the space, the players will never again converge. 

Get it here: http://bit.ly/1BQBPt6

http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/detail.php?parametro=110

Side A: 

Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow (Ra) 

Approach of the Eternal Tomorrow (Ra) 

Side B: 

The Rose Hue Mansions of the Sun (Ra)

Ra-syn, org; Curt Pulliam-tp; Walter Miller-tp; Michael Ray-tp; Craig Harris-tb; Tony Bethel-tb; Vincent Chancey-frh; Marshall Allen-as, ob; Noel Scott-bs, as; John Gilmore-ts; Danny Ray Thompson-bs; James Jacson-bsn, perc; Eloe Omoe-bcl; Kenny Williams-ts, bs; Hutch Jones-as, reeds; Sylvester Baton-reeds; Steve Clarke-eb; poss. Hayes Burnett or Richard Williams-b; Damon Choice-vib; Harry Wilson-vib; Luqman Ali-d; Reg McDonald-d. 

http://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-And-His-Arkestra-Voice-Of-The-Eternal-Tomorrow/release/963749

http://www.discogs.com/Sun-Ra-Arkestra-Rose-Hued-Mansions-Of-The-Sun/release/5378972

19800917 RLC2 327 Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow [2014 Remaster El Saturn Records 91780] Squat Theater; New York, NY

19800917 RLC2 327 Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow [2014 Remaster El Saturn Records 91780] Squat Theater; New York, NY