Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (DELUXE EDITION)

Strut Records, 6LP, Box Set, Hardbound Box W/ Festival Programme + Large 12-Page Booklet W/ Photos And Liner Notes

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:

SUN INTERLUDE

LOVE IN OUTER SPACE

THE SHADOW WORLD (excerpt)

THE COSMIC EXPLORER

.THE COSMIC EXPLORER

UNTITLED PIANO SOLO

FRIENDLY GALAXY No. 2

WHY GO TO THE MOON? / IT’S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD /

SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY

WATUSI

PERCUSSION INTERLUDE

INTERSTELLAR LOW WAYS

SOMEWHERE ELSE (9.10)

THEY’LL COME BACK

2; TONE SCIENCE INTERLUDE

THE SATELLITES ARE SPINNING

SUN RA AND HIS BAND FROM OUTER SPACE

CALLING PLANET EARTH

IMAGINATION

I’LL WAIT FOR YOU

WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS

THE WORLD OF LIGHTNING

BLACKMYTH

2A.THE SHADOWS TOOK SHAPE

2b. STRANGE WORLDS

2c. JOURNEY THROUGH THE OUTER DARKNESS

MYTH TONE POEM (UNTITLED)

SKY (2.02)

THREE CHEERS FOR RA

PRELUDE

THEME OF THE STARGAZERS

THE SHADOW WORLD

THE SATELLITES ARE SPINNING

SECOND STOP IS JUPITER

TONE SCIENCE

NEXT STOP MARS

SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY

FRIENDLY GALAXY No. 2

PLEASANT TWILIGHT

OUTER SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED / YOU BETTER GET READY

ENLIGHTMENT

CALLING PLANET EARTH

SPACE BOP (UNTITLED)

SPACE BALLAD (UNTITLED)

SUN RA AND HIS BAND FROM OUTER SPACE / THEME OF THE STARGAZERS / WE’LL WAIT FOR YOU

SOMEBODY ELSE’S IDEA / WALKING ON THE MOON / IT’S AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD

WE TRAVEL THE SPACEWAYS

TONE SCIENCE INTERLUDE

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES

THE SATELLITES ARE SPINNING