Wax Museum Records
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Melbourne Vic 3000
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STRUT229LP STRUT229LP
Formats
1x Vinyl LP Album Reissue
Country
Release date
Jan 1, 2020
Styles
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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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
Wax Museum Records
250 Flinders St (downstairs)
Melbourne Vic 3000
+61451216310