sun ra albums that haven't been reissued s/d

Disco 3000. Or is it 2000? Anyway, great side-long synth madness.

Oh, and that one with Pharoah Sanders. Which I've never heard, dammit.

'strange strings': real mindfuck that one.

Yeah, I was going to say "Strange Strings" too! I believe "My Brother The Wind, Vol.II" (or maybe vol. I - can't recall) is still unavailable. Last time I checked, anyways...

I didn't know he recorded with Pharaoh!

did you say anything?

Astro-Black. (I haven't actually heard the whole thing, and for that matter I haven't heard anything from it in years, but I trust it to be good based on what I remember hearing and based on hearsay.)

Somewhere I have a list someone else made of Sun Ra albums that need to be reissued.

Secrets of the Sun is the one of my favorites. 1965, increasingly spacey and coming apart at the edges, check out the instrumentation on 'solar differentials'.

Seconding 'Disco 3000' and 'Strange Strings', those two are fantastic.

are there plans to reissue these or can i slsk them in good faith?

Don't think this has been reissued -- one called "Playing 'The Satellites Are'". I have it on vinyl in the white sleeve, bought at a show. No date info but it definitely has June Tyson and John Gilmore, sounds liek early '70's. Great stuff.

I really wanna hear Disco 3000.

There are plenty of sun ra albums that need to be reissued.

The Reissue of Lanquidity is all kinds of amazing.

vahid- 'strange strings' is on slsk.

It's very crackly but that doesn't matter when the music is good.

I got this off the saturn list awhile ago. Some of these may have been reissued now.

Below is a chronological list of 61 x Sun Ra albums that are not
available
on CD. All but four of them *have never been on CD*.

(#'s are from the Robert Campbell online discography at Joe Moudry's
amazing online resource).

18.Secrets of the Sun
19.The Invisible Shield Janus; A Tonal View of Times Tomorrow, vol. 2; Satellites Are Outerspace....
20.What's new?
25.Strange Strings
26.Featuring Pharaoh Sanders & Black Harold
33.Monorails & Satellites, v. 2
38.Continuation
39.My Brother the Wind, v.2; Otherness (i've left this on because the vinyl I have is a different mix altogether to the CD - and I much
prefer it).
40.My Brother the Wind v 1
41.The Night of the Purple Moon
43.Space Probe
46.Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, v.1 (i'm not counting those bootleg
CDs mastered from LP)
47.Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, v.2
49.Live In Egypt Dark Myth Equation Visitation; Nature's God
50.Horizon; Starsnatchers
51.Nidhamu
52.Universe in Blue
53.Astro Black
58.Discipline 27-II
59.Live at the Gibus
62.Celebrations for Dial Tunes (Tones) (I've always assumed this is
non-existent/bootleg)
63.Out Beyond the Kingdomn Of; Discipline 99
64.The Antique Blacks Interplanetary Concepts; There Is a Change in
the Air
65.Sub Underground; Temple U; Cosmo-Earth Fantasy
66.Live at Montreaux
70.Somewhere Over the Rainbow; We Live to Be
71.Some Blues but Not the Kind that's Blue; Nature Boy; My Favorite
Things
72.The Soul Vibrations of Man
73.Taking a Chance on Chances
74.Unity
75.New Steps
76.Other Voices, Other Blues
77.Media Dream; Saturn Research
78.Disco 3000
81.Sound Mirror; Live in Philadelphia '78
83.God Is More than Love Can Ever Be; Blithe Spirit Dance; Days of
Happiness; Trio
84.Omniverse
85.Song of the Stargazers
86.On Jupiter; Seductive Fantasy
87.Sleeping Beauty; Door of the Cosmos
88.Of Mythic Worlds
90.I, Pharaoh; Interplanetary Concepts; There Is a Change in the Air
91.Sunrise in Different Dimensions(hasn't been issued *completely* on
CD)
92.Voice of the Eternal Tomorrow; The Rose Hue Mansions of the Sun
93.Aurora Borealis; Ra Rachmaninov
94.Beyond the Purple Star Zone; Immortal Being
95.Dance of Innocent Passion
96.Oblique Parallax;Journey Stars Beyond
97.A Fireside Chat with Lucifer
98.Celestial Love
99.Nuclear War(Unheard Music CD is from vinyl, and could be
bettered)
100.Ra to the Rescue
101.Just Friends
103.Hiroshima; Stars that Shine Darkly, v.1
104.Outer Reach Intensity-Energy; Stars that Shine Darkly, v.2
109.When Spaceships Appear; Cosmo-Party Blues; Children of the Sun
111.John Cage Meets Sun Ra
116.Hidden Fire
117.Hidden Fire
120.Blue Delight (OOP)
121.Purple Night (OOP)

Oh yeah, I forgot about all those Horo ones (74-76); there is some good stuff on those. Space Probe is supposed to be another good'un, though I've not heard it.

Also there is a pretty common vinyl reissue of Strange Strings floating around. Dunno if it is "semi-legit" or what, but you can buy it at a number of reputable outlets.

brg30, that's got to be the list I had, which also, by coincidence, was from the SATURN mailing list (where I mostly lurk, incidentally).

There was an announcement that some of the Horo stuff would be coming out a year or two back, but the reissues didn't materialize.

Some of the stuff on that list has been released though. How long ago was that list put together?

"Secrets of the Sun", "Strange Strings" are the biggies that have never been released officially. Judging by the two tracks on "Out There a Minute" then "Continuation" sounds pretty good too plus the masters must exist for the tracks to have been released at all. "Astro Black" is supposed to be pretty good too.