Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Deluxe Edition) [6xLP - Boxset]

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

1. Sun Interlude
2. Love In Outer Space
3. Shadow World (Except)
4. Cosmic Explorer
5. Cosmic Explorer (Continuation)
6. Piano Solo (Untitled)
7. Friendly Galaxy No. 2
8. Why Go To The Moon? / It's After The End Of The World
9. Spontaneous Simplicity
10. Watusi
11. Percussion Interlude
12. Interstellar Low Ways
13. Somewhere Else
14. They'll Come Back
15. Tone Science Interlude
16. Satellites Are Spinning
17. Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space
18. Calling Planet Earth
19. Imagination
20. I'll Wait For You
21. We Travel The Spaceways
22. The World Of Lightning
23. Blackmyth
24. Myth Tone Poem (Untitled)
25. Sky
26. Three Cheers For Ra
27. Prelude
28. Theme Of The Stargazers
29. Shadow World
30. Satellites Are Spinning
31. Second Stop Is Jupiter
32. Tone Science
33. Next Stop Mars
34. Spontaneous Simplicity
35. Friendly Galaxy No. 2
36. Pleasant Twilight
37. Outer Spaceways Incorporated / You Better Get Ready
38. Enlightenment
39. Calling Planet Earth
40. Space Bop (Untitled)
41. Space Ballad (Untitled)
42. Sun Ra And His Band From Outer Space / Theme Of The Stargazers / I'll Wait For You
43. Somebody Else's Idea / Walking On The Moon / It's After The End Of The World
44. We Travel The Spaceways
45. Tone Science Interlude
46. Days Of Wine And Roses
47. Satellites Are Spinning