STRUT RECORDS
Sun Ra - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght - 6LP - Black Vinyl Boxset [RSD 2025] Sun Ra
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This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. • Available to buy in-store from 9am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). • Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025.
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. 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
Prior to Maeght, The Arkestra's early years in New York had been lean in terms of gigs, money and visibility
Their precarious situation improved after Ra's participation in the 1964 October Revolution concerts and the release of the breathtaking Heliocentric Worlds LPs
A gradual increase in touring followed and talk had turned to brokering dates in Europe when they received an invitation to play at an art gallery in Southern France in 1970
Set in the medieval town of St Paul-de- Vence in Provence, the Fondation Maeght celebrated modern art in all its forms, housing work from some of the most important artists of the 20th Century including Matisse, Georges Braque, Chagall and Giacometti. The Ra performance featured one of the great Arkestra line-ups with mainstays John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Pat Patrick, Danny Davis and Danny Ray Thompson at the peak of their powers
Festival curator Daniel Caux recalled, "The Arkestra's performances were electrifying
Films were projected behind the musicians - vistas of New York and Chicago, moon rockets, Egyptian Gods and plumed African warriors
Sun Ra's organ threw lightning bolts, dancers brandished symbolic objects
The audience was stunned by a spectacle that surpassed anything they could have imagined".
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