The Sun Ra Album-by-Album Thread (Second Sun)

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  1. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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    2 more limited Sun Ra releases, apparently from the same label that did the Live at the Squat Theatre LP.

    http://united-mutations.blogspot.ca/2015/07/two-new-sun-ra-vinyl-albums.html?m=1

    "TWO NEW SUN RA VINYL ALBUMS

    Just out and already very hard to find as both of these titles have only been produced in an extremely limited quantity.

    sun ra : live in the late 80's
    (2015, lp, italy, sinner lady)

    sun ra : live in winston, salem, nc, june 1990
    (2015, lp, italy, sinner lady)

    75 copies each."

    Sound clips:

    https://m.soundcloud.com/meditations/live-in-winston-salem-nc-june-1990-excerpts

    https://m.soundcloud.com/meditations/live-in-the-late-80s-excerpts

    Available here for now. Also they have "deluxe editions" for 5 times the price! The Squat LP had a different cover and vinyl cover in editions of 33 and 8 (!) so who knows.

    http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/sun-ra-live-in-winston-salem-nc-434313

    http://www.hhv.de/shop/de/artikel/sun-ra-live-in-the-late-80-s-434312?p=jurWIt
     
  2. Zomvid

    Zomvid Delicate Genius

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    Any updates on the CD reissues? I remember reading about the whole catalog being released on CD somewhere
     
  3. ad180

    ad180 Forum Resident

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    I heard "the end of 2015" for CD and vinyl releases, but I bet it will be 2016.
     
  4. AnotherEargazm

    AnotherEargazm Forum Resident

    Wow, do those Saturn original pressings go for big money!
     
  5. Zomvid

    Zomvid Delicate Genius

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    Bay Area, CA
    Thanks!
     
  6. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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    http://united-mutations.blogspot.ca/2015/11/sun-ra.html?m=1

    "
    A message from Erwin Chusid on the Saturn newsgroup :

    Michael and I have now completed and released 50 digitally remastered Sun Ra albums (+ nine iTunes-only samplers). Most were remastered from tape, a few from rare vinyl when tape was unavailable. All are available in AAC+ 24-bit format from iTunes, and as mp3s (distributed by Virtual) thru Amazon, eMusic, and other surviving digital retail outlets.

    A large part (but not all) of the iTunes Sun Ra catalog is here:
    http://iTunes.com/SunRaMusic?ls=1&app=itunes

    (If you dislike Apple, iTunes, or digital formats in general, please refrain from gripes here. If not for a passionate Ra fan on the editorial staff at iTunes, none of these remasters—and the vinyl and CDs which have and will continue to emerge from them—would have happened. One guy with an idea started it all. He prefers to downplay his role.)

    Our recent digital releases are:

    Antique Blacks (1974)
    http://apple.co/1MwrZ5i

    Beyond the Purple Star Zone (1980)
    http://apple.co/1WlsYEQ

    God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (1979)
    http://apple.co/1SbYtRa

    Aurora Borealis (1981)
    http://apple.co/1e7FwQO

    Oblique Parallax (1980)
    http://apple.co/1G68U07

    Dance of Innocent Passion (1982)
    http://apple.co/1NQLMt4

    Antique Blacks is differently configured than the Saturn LP and Art Yard CD. It mirrors the original session tape (which includes a 24-minute Antique Blacks "suite"), sounds cleaner, and is sequenced according to the tape. Art Yard's CD is still available, but our digital version has replaced AY's. Aurora Borealis = solo piano. God Is More Than Love = solid jazz trio set with Sunny, Samarai, and Hayes. Oblique and Purple Star Zone are Detroit residency sets.

    Strut has issued two double LPs & CDs: "In the Orbit of Ra" (compiled by Marshall Allen) and "To Those of Earth and Other Worlds" (curated by Gilles Peterson). These albums largely consist of material from our catalog of digitally remastered recordings.

    https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/marshall-allen-presents-sun-ra-a/

    https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/to-those-of-earth-and-other-worl/

    We're partnering with a new Sundazed imprint, Modern Harmonic, on a series of vinyl releases. First up will be a 2-LP vocal/song compilation (Space Age is Here to Stay) that will contain remastered catalog tracks and some previously unreleased material from Michael's archive. Target release: March 2016. After that, a collection of Sun Ra Exotica. Sundazed has also signed on for a series of 7" and 10" singles, which should roll out in early 2016.

    We've partnered with Virtual to issue remastered LP/CD editions of classic Saturn catalog albums, some containing bonus material. This project is taking longer than anticipated to launch because of technical logistics. We have Ben Young (ex-WKCR) and Joe Lizzi (Ben's partner at Triple Point Records) on board for new tape transfers and album mastering.

    Art Yard (Peter Dennett) will soon be issuing on LP/CD "I Roam the Cosmos," a 51-minute live 1972 performance spotlighting a call-and-response between Sunny and June. The previously unreleased track was mastered last year and released digitally. Earlier this year, in conjunction with Strut, AY issued the previously unreleased "Planets of Life or Death: Amiens '73," also featuring Sunny and June. Next year AY will issue a double LP/CD of a previously unreleased Sun Ra piano and Moog performance with vocals recorded in Rome 1977.

    Michael and I are currently working on remastered versions of Soul Vibrations of Man, Discipline 27-II, Crystal Spears, Cymbals, Pathways to Unknown Worlds, Friendly Love, Discipline 99, Taking a Chance on Chances, and Unity (complete Storyville shows). There will be some bonus material and in some cases new mixes from 4-track tapes.

    ...

    Regards

    Irwin Chusid"

    This is fantastic news, a very good time to be a Sun Ra fan (old or new).
     
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  7. ad180

    ad180 Forum Resident

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    Wow. Thank you Mr Chusid, Michael Anderson and the unknown iTunes employee for making this happen.
     
  8. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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    Michigan
    Updated Omniverse Sun Ra book out now !

    i scored one from Forced Exposure for $76.50 shipped UPS

    [​IMG]
     
  9. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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    Michigan
  10. Roger Thornhill

    Roger Thornhill Senior Member

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    Heads up on another interesting looking release from sessions in 1969.

    SUN RA & HIS ASTRO-IHNFINITY ARKESTRA : THE INTERGALACTIC THING | Roaratorio »

    One might think, with a discography as extensive as the one Sun Ra boasts, that the scope of his work has been fully apprehended by this point, but The Intergalactic Thing demonstrates its seemingly bottomless depths.

    Actually, the average Sun Ra fan(atic) wouldn't think that at all.
     
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  11. ad180

    ad180 Forum Resident

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    The samples sound really nice! I'll be sure to get this one.

    Any word from Sun Ra LLC on vinyl reissues?
     
  12. sound_of_koi

    sound_of_koi New Member

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    Not sure if you're still looking but I have Sun Song. My copy of Sound of Joy doesn't have the 'rechanneled' banner but it has the same matrix code as the repress, so I'm not sure if that's something you want or not.

    DS 411 A SJW-10871
    DS 411 B SJW-10871
     
  13. sound_of_koi

    sound_of_koi New Member

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    I guess mine is an original after all, just checked against another copy.

    Sound of Joy
    DS-414A RE-1 10953
    DS-414B RE-1 10953
     
  14. ad180

    ad180 Forum Resident

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    USA
    Thank you!
     
  15. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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  16. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

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    Michigan
    Happy Sun Ra Arrival Day !

    [​IMG]
     
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  17. Piiijiii

    Piiijiii Hundalasiliah

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  18. Piiijiii

    Piiijiii Hundalasiliah

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  19. 93curr

    93curr Senior Member

    Really happy this is (finally) coming out, but can't help but be disappointed they didn't use the original LP cover art.

    Also; $14 for the CD and $17 for shipping!? For a single CD; that's insane. ($25 shipping for the vinyl!) I'm gonna pass on the ore-order and just wait to see if Amazon gets it in.
     
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  20. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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    Shipping anywhere to Canada has gotten expensive, even within Canada. That and the low dollar has driven prices up substantially.
     
  21. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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    BTW, did anyone notice the entry for "Celebrations for Dial Tunes" in the new Omniverse. Here is a excerpt of the entry:

    There is a Change in the Air/The Antique Blacks (From The Antique Blacks)

    Pan Afro/Discipline 8/Neptune/Discipline 27-II (incomplete) (From Discipline 27-II)

    *Information received [from] Tani Tabbal indicate that the tracks listed here comprise this mysterious album. Many thanks to Mike Johnston and Tani Tabbal for helping to resolve this question. Previously the main claim to the album's existence had been information from Tilman Stahl (letter to Geerken May 30, 1983)
    *Tani Tabbal's copy is probably a cassette dub from other LPs - the incomplete Discipline 27-II indicates the latter, as does the overall length (over 52 minutes) and strong technical suggestions that this is a needledrop copy.

    I think we can say that if it ever was a real LP, it was a hybrid which someone taped. If nothing else, it was someone's mixtape, with their own Ra-esque title.
     
  22. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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    Calgary
    Another upcoming Ra release

    SUN RA - BLUE YORK

    This collection features unreleased tracks from Sun Ra's Arkestra from 1963, focuses heavily on the masterful tenor saxophone of John Gilmore.

    A1. Blue York
    A2. Meteor Shower
    A3. The Myth
    A4. Infinity
    A5. Conversation Of The Universe
    A6. The Beginning Of
    B1. Endlessness
    B2. Red Planet Mars
    B3. Cosmic Rays/The Next Stop Mars
     
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  23. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    Greater Boston, MA
    I've got 41 Sun Ra LPs and 28 CDs (thanks to some 10 purchases over the past two weeks); I've not heard of this label or vendor. Thoughts on reliability (sorry if this seems like I'm being suspicious, but well, I guess I am). I've no real interest in the Sun Ra/John Cage "Moments of Silence" stuff, but if Gilmore is blowin', I'm buying. Plus, their website has some Sun Ra goodies I don't have, so always looking for a good source.
     
  24. citizensmurf

    citizensmurf Ambient postpunk will never die

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    You know, I just posted that link but didn't even think about where I'd seen those tracks before. They are all taken from the expanded version of Continuation that came out a few years ago.

    As far as reliability goes with Sun Ra releases, I think now the Sun Ra LLC are starting to get things straightened out, remastering titles and putting out quality releases, but there will be the odd "grey" release. I believe this one may fall under that grey umbrella. I've avoided buying any of the recent Saturn LP reissues because I've never been convinced that they were anything but copies of the old Evidence cds.
     
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  25. Archtop

    Archtop Soft Dead Crimson Cow

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    Greater Boston, MA
    I don't have Continuation and I do appreciate your thoughts on sound quality (and I know the sound quality is dicey on many of these), but what I was getting at is the reliability of sending money to an unknown European vendor's website. Any thoughts on Clear Spot as a distributor?
     
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