Strut present the 4CD edition of Sun Ra’s ‘Egypt 1971’ along with the original albums ‘Dark Myth Equation Visitation’, ‘Nidhamu’ and ‘Horizon’ released as individual LPs, documenting Sun Ra’s first trip to Egypt with his Arkestra in December 1971.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.This release comprises 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.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Discipline No. 27 (3.55)
  • 2. Interview With Ra (4.16)
  • 3. Solar Ship Voyage (2.33)
  • 4. Interview With Ra (Concluded) (0.25)
  • 5. Cosmo-Darkness (2.08)
  • 6. The Light Thereof (5.12)
  • 7. Friendly Galaxy No. 2 (10.16)
  • 8. To Nature's God (9.05)
  • 9. Why Go To the Moon? (2.39)
  • 10. Space Loneliness No. 2 (11.41)
  • 11. Discipline No. 11 (9.39)
  • 12. Discipline No. 15 (2.44)
  • 13. Nidhamu (13.12)

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  • 1. Starwatchers / Theme of the Stargazers (1.20)
  • 2. Discipline No. 2 (5.28)
  • 3. Shadow World (13.31)
  • 4. Third Planet (5.00)
  • 5. Space is the Place (3.26)
  • 6. Horizon (7.49)
  • 7. Discipline No. 8 (8.29)
  • 8. We'll Wait For You (1.38)
  • 9. The Satellites Are Spinning (11.14)
  • 10. Enlightenment (2.37)
  • 11. Love In Outer Space (7.13)

• - 3 -

  • 1. Next Stop Mars (6.27)
  • 2. Pleiades (1.59)
  • 3. We'll Wait For You (8.39)
  • 4. The Bridge (4.50)
  • 5. Nidhamu (Part 1) (13.31)
  • 6. Nidhamu (Part 2) (6.04)
  • 7. Discipline No. 27 (1.16)
  • 8. They'll Come Back (0.43)

• - 4 -

  • 1. Calling Planet Earth (2.51)
  • 2. Imagination (1.19)
  • 3. Discipline (3.47)
  • 4. Angels and Demons At Play (3.12)
  • 5. We Sing This Song (5.44)
  • 6. Space is the Place (5.14)
  • 7. Organ Interlude (1.16)
  • 8. Angels and Demons At Play (13.34)
  • 9. Egyptian Oasis (3.06)
  • 10. Egyptian Oasis 2 (3.33)
  • 11. Space is the Place (5.19)
  • 12. Neptune (10.00)