Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Deluxe Edition) (RSD 2025, 6 LP Vinyl Boxset)
Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Deluxe Edition)
- Record Store Day 2025
- 6x LP Vinyl Boxset
- Limited to 800 copies
RELEASE DATE: 4/12/2025
DESCRIPTION
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.
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.
TRACKLIST
Side A
Sun Interlude
Love in Outer Space
The Shadow World (Excerpt)
Side B
The Cosmic Explorer
The Cosmic Explorer
Untitled Piano Solo
Friendly Galaxy No. 2
Side C
Why Go to the Moon? / It’s After the End of the World
Spontaneous Simplicity
Watusi
Side D
Percussion Interlude
Interstellar Low Ways
Somewhere Else (9:10)
Side E
They’ll Come Back
Tone Science Interlude
The Satellites Are Spinning
Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space
Calling Planet Earth
Imagination
I’ll Wait for You
We Travel the Spaceways
Side F
The World of Lightning
Blackmyth
The Shadows Took Shape
Strange Worlds
Journey Through the Outer Darkness
Myth Tone Poem (Untitled)
Sky (2:02)
Three Cheers for Ra
Side G
Prelude
Theme of the Stargazers
The Shadow World
Side H
The Satellites Are Spinning
Second Stop Is Jupiter
Tone Science
Next Stop Mars
Side I
Spontaneous Simplicity
Friendly Galaxy No. 2
Side J
Pleasant Twilight
Outer Spaceways Incorporated / You Better Get Ready
Side K
Enlightenment
Calling Planet Earth
Space Bop (Untitled)
Space Ballad (Untitled)
Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space / Theme of the Stargazers / We’ll Wait for You
Side L
Somebody Else’s Idea / Walking on the Moon / It’s After the End of the World
We Travel the Spaceways
Tone Science Interlude
Days of Wine and Roses
The Satellites Are Spinning
