Change-Over Imminent - More Questions/Comments

OK, looks like I'll be changing over to googlepages. They let you upload the images to their server, and I can't imagine google ever making for slow loading...

You can check out the work I'm doing there, even though it is not as complete as this site is. Hopefully it'll be done by Sunday...Please comment if it looks stupid so I can change it.

http://intergalacticresearch.googlepages.com/

You can go nuts over there.

I don't think you can let people leave comments on google pages. I need a comment section for this site (so people can harass me when/if I don't update, so people can request reuploads, and just for convenience). If there is a way to leave comments on google pages, let me know how to insert that function into my homepage...

If no one knows of a good way to leave comments on googlepages, I will simply leave a link to this site for comments...

Please visit. I have made the minimum outline of the site (have not added torrent links, but will). You can pretty much elaborate on where it will go.

I do plan on adding a more critical/in-depth page in Sun Ra studies. This will include the booklist for Ra's course at Berkeley, and links to many of the books. Eventually, and if there is interest, I can upload the outlines and/or notes I made on some of that material.

Suggestions and Updates

It has come to my attentions that "The Overseer" has continued to delete these links, making the empowering tunes of Sun Ra unavailable to most everyone.
Such a galactic travesty cannot take place for long.

The Overseer has left a vacuum. But the music of Sun Ra will rise from these ashes, like a phoenix.

In other words, I'll be reuploading everything (again).
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I will be doing a significant amount of work on this blog, and also considering moving to Google (the loading time is the main reason I stopped posting updates...blogger is very annoying). Anyone have recommendations?
I don't know html, which leaves me up shit-creek as far as design goes. It is a real shame.
I have also decided I will add links to torrent files. I believe this will aid in the Intergalactic Research Project. I will still use Rapidshare as well.

Thank you for everyone who has responded to requests or posted material. It is welcome. Hopefully it will continue.

Please comment on how to make this site better. The quicker the comments come, the faster certain suggestions can be implemented.

Now Entering the 70s!

My collection of Sun Ra up to the 60s has been posted now. The posts today span from the late 60s into the early 70s. I will put a list of albums needed to fulfill the 1960s discography in a post today or tomorrow, and hopefully people can contribute. Like I mentioned before, I unfortunately missed the previous uploads in the comments section.

Everyone enjoy. I will also be posting links to books on Sun Ra's reading list that can be found online. These certainly helped me understand where Ra was coming from, his background with Egypt and myth, etc. I think this will help in defending my more "academic" approach to Sun Ra--which the very name of my site implies.

Anyone with bootlegs from the 1950s-60s, please post them. It would be excellent. I will soon be posting some bootlegs (I think I have a couple from the 70s).

Thank you everyone for the encouragement and the philosophical questions raised. It is an interesting conversation. And if the debate were to be solved by people who take an interest in music, it would be one thing--but the legal debate will be "solved" by the people who have the MONEY and own the means of production.

Sun Ra and his Astro-Infinity Arkestra (Intergalactic Series II)
Continuation
Editions:
Saturn ESR 520; LP 520 (1969 or 70) (matrix numbers ESR37363NP, ESR29691)

Included Tracks:
Side A:
Biosphere Blues (Ra)
Intergalaxtic Research (Ra)
Earth Primitive Earth (Ra)
New Planet (Ra)

Side B:
Continuation To (Ra)
Jupiter Festival (Ra)

Line-up & Recording Date:
Ra-p, space org (Gibson Kalamazoo org), galactone space instrument (Hohner Clavinet), gong; Kwame Hadi-tp; Akh Tal Ebah-tp, mellophone; Ali Hassan-tb; Marshall Allen-as, Jupiterian fl, picc; Danny Davis-as, acl; Danny Ray Thompson-as, Neptunian libflecto [modified basson]; John Gilmore-ts, cl; Pat Patrick-bs, fl; Robert Cummings-bcl (only in New Planet); Ronnie Boykins-b; Robert Barry-d, lightning d; Carl Nimrod [Carl S. Malone, Nimrod Hunt]-space d; James Jacson-log d; Art Jenkins-space voice (in Intergalaxtic Research).
New York, 1968.

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Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra
My Brother the Wind Volume II
Alt. Title: Otherness
Editions:
Saturn LP 523, SRA 2000 (1971)
Evidence 22040 (CD, 1992)

Included Tracks:
Side A:
Somewhere Else (Ra)
Contrast (Ra)
Ra-intergalactic org; Kwame Hadi-tp; Akh Tal Ebah-tp, space dimension mellophone; Marshall Allen-as, fl, picc; Danny Davis-as, acl, fl; John Gilmore-ts, perc; Danny Ray Thompson-bs, fl; Pat Patrick-bs, fl; James Jacson-ob, perc; Alejandro Blake-b; Clifford Jarvis-d; Lex Humphries-d; Nimrod Hunt-hand drums; William Brister [Rashid Salim]-perc; Robert Cummings-perc. New York or Philadelphia, 1969.

The Wind Speaks (Ra)
Sun Thoughts (Ra)
Journey to the Stars (Ra)
World of the Myth "I" (Ra)
The DesignQCosmos II (Ra)
Ra-Mini-Moog. Surely Philadelphia, 1970.

Side B:
Otherness Blue (Ra)
Somebody Else's Idea (Somebody Else's World) (Ra)
Pleasant Twilight (Ra)
Walking on the Moon (Ra) [it doesn't appear on saturns]

Ra-Spacemaster (organ); Kwame Hadi-tp; Akh Tal Ebah-tp, space dimension mellophone; Marshall Allen-as, fl, picc; Danny Davis-as, acl, fl; John Gilmore-ts, perc; Danny Ray Thompson-bs, fl; Pat Patrick-bs, fl; James Jacson-fl, ob, perc; Alejandro Blake-b; Clifford Jarvis-d; Lex Humphries-d; Nimrod Hunt-hand drums; William Brister (Rashid Salim)-perc; Robert Cummings-perc; June Tyson-voc (on Somebody Else's Idea &Walking on the Moon). New York or Philadelphia, end of 1969.

Line-up & Recording Date:
See each track.
Notes:
There are copies with side A substituted by side A of Outer Spaceways Inc. -- it seems that the master tape was lost when some covers were already printed and Sun Ra decided to use them anyway. This mixed versions use to have saturn number 5221.

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Sun Ra and his Astro-Solar Infinity Arkestra
My Brother the Wind
Editions:
Saturn ESR 1970; ESR 521; LP 521 (1970)

Included Tracks:

Side A:

My Brother the Wind (Ra)
Intergalactic II (Ra)
To Nature's God (Ra)

Side B:
The Code of Interdependence (Ra)

Line-up & Recording Date:
Ra-two Mini-Moog synths; John Gilmore-ts, d, perc; Marshall Allen-as, ob, picc, fl, perc; Danny Davis-as, acl, perc.
New York or Philadelphia, 1970.
Notes:
Sun Ra recorded and published the second volumen of My Brother the Wind before than the first volume.

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Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra
The Solar-Myth Approach Volume I
Editions:
BYG Actuel 529340 (1971)
Affinity AFF 10 (1978)

Included Tracks:
Side A:
Spectrum (Ra)
Realm of Lightning (Ra)
The Satellites are Spinning (Ra)

Side B:
Legend (Ra)
Seen III, Took 4 (Ra)
They'll Come Back (Ra)
Adventures of Bugs Hunter (Ra)

Line-up & Recording Date:
Ra-p, e-celeste, Mini-Moog syn, space-master (org), Hohner Clavinet; Kwame Hadi-tp; Akh Tal Ebah-tp, space dimension mellophone; Ali Hassan-tb; Charles Stephens-tb; Marshall Allen-as, ob, fl, picc; Danny Davis-as, acl, fl; John Gilmore-ts, perc; Danny Ray Thompson-bs, fl; Pat Patrick-bs, fl; James Jacson-ob, fl, perc; Ronnie Boykins-b; Clifford Jarvis-d; Lex Humphries-d, perc; Tommy "Bugs" Hunter-d; Nimrod Hunt-hand drums; June Tyson-voc; Art Jenkins-space voice (on Realm of Lightning). The band sings onThe Satellites are Spinning.
Supposed to have been recorded at Sun Studios, New York 1970-1971. Other older material can be included too.
Notes:
The two volumes were reissued on CD by AffinityB AFF760, without Strange Worlds. Also, there was a double LP BYG 529202 which joined the two Solar-Myth Approach. Recently they have been reissued on a double cd CHARLY SNAF818.

Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra
The Solar-Myth Approach Volume II
Editions:
BYG Actuel 529341 (1971)
Affinity AFF 76

Included Tracks:
Side A:
The Utter Nots (Ra)
Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Ra)
Scene 1, Take 1 (Ra)

Side B:
Pyramids (Ra)
Interpretation (Ra)
Ancient Ethiopia (Ra)
Strange Worlds (Ra))

Line-up & Recording Date:
Ra-p, Mini-Moog syn, Spacemaster (org), Hohner Clavinet, sun harp; Kwame Hadi-tp; Akh Tal Ebah-tp, space dimension mellophone; Ali Hassan-tb; Charles Stephens-tb; Marshall Allen-as, ob, fl, picc; Danny Davis-as, acl, fl; John Gilmore-ts, perc; Danny Ray Thompson-bs, fl; Pat Patrick-bs, fl; James Jacson-ob, fl, perc; Ronnie Boykins-b; Clifford Jarvis-d; Lex Humphries-d, perc; Tommy "Bugs" Hunter-d; Nimrod Hunt-hand drums; June Tyson-voc (on Strange Worlds). The band sings on Outer Spaceways Inc.

Supposed to have been recorded at Sun Studios, New York 1970-1971. Other older material can be included too. And some tracks are clearly recorded live.
Notes:
The two volumes were reissued on CD by AffinityB AFF760, without Strange Worlds. Also, there was a double LP BYG 529202 which joined the two Solar-Myth Approach. Recently they have been reissued on a double cd CHARLY SNAF818.

http://rapidshare.de/files/34948583/1970-71_Sun_Ra_and_-_The_Solar_Myth_Approach.rar