The Mother of all Ra Live recordings.
Tracklist
Friday December 26, 1981
Disc One 67:37
1st Set
Sun Ra Accepts The Key To The City Of Detroit
Discipline 27
Untitled Improv
Queer Notions
Yeah Man!
Round Midnight
Space Loneliness
Lady Bird
Half Nelson
Cocktails For Two
Big John's Special
Love In Outer Space (Includes Long Drum Section)
Disc Two 67:32
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Space Is The Place
Untitled Improv
We Travel The Spaceways
Gone With The Wind
Encore
Angel Race / This Place Is Not My Home / Stranger In Paradise / Astro Nation
Greetings From The 21st Century / Interplanetary Music / Moonship Journey / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Rocket Number Nine / Do That Thang / Pluto Too
2nd Set
Discipline 27
Untitled Improv
Untitled Improv
Enlightenment
The Satellites Are Spinning
Blue Lou
Unidentified Title
Disc Three 39:58
Spontaneous Simplicity
Images
Unidentified Blues
Stompy Jones
Over The Rainbow
I Can't Get Started
Saturday December 27, 1980
Disc Four 72:42
1st Set
Untitled Improv
Hymn To The Sun
Untitled Improv
Untitled Improv
Untitled Improv (Organ And Percussion)
Big John's Special
Unidentified Title
Take The A Train
Lightnin'
Disc Five 56:32
Slippery Horn
Solitude
Exactly Like You
The Mayan Temples
The Sound Mirror
Right Road, Wrong Direction
Bad Truth
Shoulder To Shoulder
Sea Of Immortality
To Be Or Not To Be
Ra Ra Ra
Over The Rainbow
Calling Planet Earth
Enlightenment
The Satellites Are Spinning
Disc Six 74:38
Love In Outer Space
Yeah Man!
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways
Announcer
2nd Set
Untitled Improv (Kora)
Discipline 27-11
The Same Sun Is Shining Now / Computer In The Sky / Private Eye In The Sky / Another Kind Of Glory / I Have Many Names / Mystery, Mr. Ra / You Have No Life Certificate / I Am A Different Kind Of Being / The Universe Sent Me To Converse With You / Stranger In Paradise / Do You Have Rights For Angels? / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Bad Truth / You're Just Babies In The Universe
Bad Truth / Moonship Journey / Sea Of Immortality / Astro Nation / Angel Race / This World Is Not My Home / I'll Wait For You
Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Second Stop Is Jupiter
Disc Seven 74:34
Untitled Improv
We'll Be Together Again
The Sunny Side Of The Street
King Porter Stomp
Spontaneous Simplicity
Space Loneliness
Lights On A Satellite
Watusi
Disc Eight 15:54
Big John's Special
Strange Celestial Road
Hit That Jive Jack / Gone With The Wind
Announcer
Sunday December 28, 1980
Disc Nine 72:31
1st Set
Untitled Improv (Kora) / Jingle Bells / Untitled Improv / Hymn To The Sun
Along Came Ra / Mystery Mr. Ra
Discipline 27 / Untitled Improv / Unidentified Title
Unidentified Title
Unidentified Blues
Three Little Words
Disc Ten 77:34
Sleeping Beauty
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
El Is A Sound Of Joy
South America
Africa
The Satellites Are Spinning
Saturn Rings / Journey To Saturn / Saturn Rings
Announcer
Disc Eleven 58:02
2nd Set
Untitled Improv
Unidentified Title
Discipline 27-11
You Are Living On The Other Side Of Time / I Am Sin / Sunset
The Same Sun Is Shining Now / Private Eye In The Sky
You'd Better Mind What You're Saying
Untitled Improv
Deep Purple
Unidentified Title
Big John's Special
Yeah Man!
Disc Twelve 65:16
Body And Soul
Queer Notions
Discipline 99
Images
Unidentified Blues
Lady Bird
Half Nelson
Watusi
Disc Thirteen 30:55
Destination Unknown / Untitled Improv / Untitled Improv (Synthesizer) / Destination Unknown
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways
Rocket Number Nine / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Journey To Saturn / Saturn Rings / Third Heaven / Neptune
Monday December 29, 1980
Disc Fourteen 58:23
Unidentified Title (Kora, Bass, Percussion, Etc)
Pleiades (Flutes And Bells Only)
Before Sun Comes Out
Discipline 27 / Unidentified Improv
Spontaneous Simplicity
Oblique Parallax (Organ And Synthesizer Only)
Queer Notions
Big John's Special
Yeah Man!
Disc Fifteen 46:43
Lights On A Satellite
Love In Outer Space
We'll Be Together Again (Organ And Rhythm Only)
Disc Sixteen 58:13
Space Loneliness
Destination Unknown / The Space Age Is Here To Stay / Unidentified Improv (Synthesizer Only) / Calling Planet Earth
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways / Angel Race / This World Is Not My Home / I'll Wait For You / I Could've Enjoyed Myself On The Planet / Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Next Stop Mars / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Why Go To The Moon / Satellites Are Spinning / Journey To Saturn / We Travel The Spaceways / Interplanetary Music / Face The Music / Strange Celestial Road / Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space / Hit That Jive, Jack / Gone With The Wind
Encore
Astro Nation
King Porter Stomp
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Announcer
Tuesday December 30, 1980
Disc Seventeen 55:25
Untitled Improv (Kora, French Horn, Etc)
Discipline 27 / Untitled Improv (Alto Sax, Trumpet, Etc.)
The Last Days / Crazy As A Daisy
Calling Planet Earth
Queer Notions
What's New?
Springtime Again
Space Loneliness
Cocktails For Two
Disc Eighteen 60:23
Lights On A Satellite
Big John's Special
Love In Outer Space
Enlightenment
The Shadow World
Disc Nineteen 44:30
The Shadow World (Continued)
Journey To Stars Beyond (Part 2) / Space Is The Place
Over The Rainbow (Organ Only)
Space Is The Place
We Travel The Spaceways / Outer Spaceways Inc. / We Travel The Spaceways / Hit That Jive, Jac / Moonship Journey / Greetings From The 21st Century / Rocket Number Nine / Second Stop Is Jupiter / Why Go To The Moon / I'll Wait For You / We Travel The Spaceways / Angel Race / Stranger In Paradise / This World Is Not My Home / We Travel The Spaceways
Announcer
Wednesday December 31, 1980
1st Set - 8:00 PM
Disc Twenty 56:24
Untitled Improv (Percussion. Kora) / Untitled Improv (Horns) / Unidentified Title (Flutes)
Auld Lang Syne
Astro Black
Tapestry From An Asteroid
Along Came Ra
Discipline 27
Island In The Sun
Disc Twenty-One 48:14
A Foggy Day
How Am I To Know?
Images
New Horizons
There Will Never Be Another You
Celestial Realms
Stardust From Tomorrow
Enlightenment
Disc Twenty-Two 42:06
Somebody Else's Idea / I Wouldn't Make A World Like This
Bad Truth / Somebody Might Push The Button
The Impossible Is Your Only Hope / Sea Of Immortality
Untitled Improv
They'll Come Back / There Are Other Worlds / Take The Big Gamble (On The Dark Horse)
Announcement: Get Your Passport From Me
2nd Set - 11:00 PM
Disc Twenty-Three 59:40
Untitled Improv (Percussion, Kora)
When There Is No Sun / Are You Spotless?
Discipline 27-11 / I Am The Tempter / I Use Planets For Stepping Stones / Discipline 27-11
Auld Lang Syne
Big John's Special
El Is The Sound Of Joy
Beyond The Purple Star Zone (Journey To Stars Beyond) (Part 1)
The World Of Africa
Rose Room
Disc Twenty-Four 57:21
Halloween In Harlem
Journey To Saturn / Saturn's Rings
You Got To Head Out To Space One Day / Never Never Land
Everything Is Space
Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Strange Worlds / Black Myth
Medicine For A Nightmare / Untitled Improv
Rocket Number Nine / The Space Age Is Here To Stay
Face The Music
Disc Twenty-Five 59:47
St. Louis Blues
Watusi
Sunology / The Lion Of The Heavens
Planet Earth
Third Heaven / Why Go To The Moon? We Travel The Spaceways / Imagination
Announcer
Thursday January 1, 1981
3rd Set - 3:00 AM
Disc Twenty-Six 19:49
On Green Dolphin Street
Untitled Improv
Outer Space Is Such A Pleasant Place
Myth Vs Reality
Strange Worlds / Black Myth
Disc Twenty-Seven 72:43
Untitled Improv
Vista Omniverse (Organ And Synthesizer Only)
Tea For Two
Blue Lou
King Porter Stomp
Yeah, Man!
Deep Purple
Keep Your Sunny Side Up
Interstellar Low Ways
The Satellites Are Spinning
Stompin' At The Savoy
Mayan Temples
Disc Twenty-Eight 60:12
Unidentified Title
Queer Notions
Willow Weep For Me
Space Loneliness
Round Midnight
Limehouse Blues
Discipline 99
Space Is The Place / We Travel The Spaceways / Greetings From The 21st Century / Strange Celestial Road
Announcer
I briefly mentioned this CD Box Set several months ago after it arrived in my mail box. It could quite possibly be the only copy in NZ. This version of this release is the 2008 second addition of 500 after the initial 400 from 2007 on CDr, so they are getting pretty rare. It is not a lavish affair by all means, the packaging consists of a cool plastic hinged box with binder rings to hold the plastic sleeves that the Cds slip into. The track list is a printed list on 2 sheets of folded A3 paper. The list of musicians does not quite match those listed in "The Earthly Recordings Of Sun Ra" Second Edition. I like the packaging and it should hold up well over time. The set was released by Transparency Records, a small boutique label that has put out quite a number of rare Sun Ra recordings, mostly live audience recordings and other rare gems and some not so good. The residency was recorded on soundboard by the residencies organiser, Rick Steiger, and was probably doing the rounds on the Tape swapping scene for some time. The set had been remastered from the original soundboard cassettes and although is very listenable and well above Bootleg quality, it certainly ain't high -fidelity. With over 26 hours of music on offer there is plenty to keep one occupied, although a lot of dedication is required.I have been sampling random discs from this set over the last several days and am finding the music here immensely listenable and enjoyable. We are getting the full gauntlet of Ra's ourve and lots and lots of excellent soloing from the Arkestra. There is far too much music for me to go into much detail about and in reality this set will only be of interest to a few hundred hardcore Ra fans but if you are into Sun Ra in a big way then this is one of the best live documents I have heard, sound quality aside. Highly Recommended, If you can find it. Rating 4.5/5.
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