Both the finding aid and the collection itself are currently to be considered works in progress. Rather than wait until the entire collection is processed before making it generally available to researchers--our usual practice--we have decided to make each series available as it is completed.
The collection was amassed by John Corbett, a recognized scholar of Ra's work and its cultural and historical context, and his wife, writer and educator Terri Kapsalis. The contents of the collection were acquired by the couple in 2000, sparing the recordings and ephemera from destruction following the death of Alton Abraham, Sun Ra's business manager and the original owner of the materials. The recordings were donated to ESS in August 2007 and the Ra-related visual and written materials were given to the University of Chicago Jazz Archive.
An initial assessment of the collection content and condition was provided by Corbett. The majority of the tapes are unidentified; some tapes have been incorrectly labeled. Many items contain multiple recording formats and speeds spliced together, and a number of tapes were in fragile condition, making more than one play hazardous. The analog recordings were carefully transferred to digital format by Todd Carter, recording engineer. Closer analysis during playback yielded more details about the contents. Corbett's notes have been documented with the findings and processed into the collection inventory. Corbett will serve as the collection consultant to assist with further research on content, personnel, and probable dates for the recordings.
ESS develops interpretive programs based on the Sun Ra/El Saturn collection for the public to meaningfully engage with the archive and to aid in the continued study and interpretation of the collection. Programs include educational colloquiums and tours, artist commissions to research and present new compositions or visual artworks based on the holdings, curated online exhibitions of collection material, and exhibitions and performances presented on-site and throughout the city of Chicago.
The collection offers a rare and multifaceted glimpse into the working process of Sun Ra and his collaborators. Preliminary research on the tapes has already yielded some remarkable finds, including recordings of Sun Ra reciting his poetic-polemic texts in which he expounds some of the philosophical bases of his aesthetic; experiments with early electronic instruments; and rehearsals, performances, and sessions with legendary trumpeter Hobart Dobson, Chicago “doo-wop" groups, African musicians in New York, and with members of Sun Ra’s Arkestra, one of jazz history’s most iconoclastic and sophisticated ensembles.
The collection is filed by recording format. Temporary accession numbers were assigned to each item in the order of the numerical labels found on the tapes, where possible. Track listings referred to as "Contents" were retrieved from transfer log sheets that were identified by transfer engineer, Todd Carter, and the Creative Audio Archive interns. Titles of performances and related notes were retrieved from original labels and notes provided by John Corbett.
Material is available to interested researchers by appointment.
All material is copyright restricted to the individual artists that appear in the recordings. Copyright of the Sun Ra recordings is retained by Adam Abraham/Infinity Inc.
Originals and surrogate duplicates are located at ESS.
The bulk of the collection was acquired by ESS on in an audio VHS format. The collection was reformatted into three digial surrogate formats by ESS.
Sonia Yoon managed the organization of the collection and supervised the cataloging and digital preservation of the material. Recording engineer Todd Carter conducted the transfer of tapes to digital files. Archive interns Alex Wilson, Rowland Saifi, identified each recording by artist, date, location, duration, track listing and number.
The collection is cataloged by recording. Supplemantary information related to each recording was taken from preliminary notes provided by John Corbett.
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SIDE 1: [Untitled] (0:00-5:00) -- [Untitled] (5:00-10:30) -- [Untitled] (10:30-25:00)
SIDE 2: [Untitled] (25:34-50:17)
#204, one tape
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[Untitled] (0:02-?) -- [Untitled] (5:21-?) -- [Untitled] (10:16-20:10)
208, two tapes, A & B
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[Untitled] (0:00-7:00) -- [Untitled, tape delay] (7:00-15:19)
208, two tapes, A & B
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SIDE 1: ["Sun Rock Earth"] (0:30-4:58) -- ["The All of Everything"] (4:59-9:20) -- ["Impromptu Festival" (9:25-?) -- ["Blue Soul"] -- ["Narrative"] -- ["Outside The Time Zone"]
SIDE 2: ["The Night of The Purple Moon"] (1:40-?) -- ["A Bird's Eye View of Man's World"] -- ["21st Century Romance"] -- ["Dance of the Living Image"] -- ["Love In Outer Space"]
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["Sun-Earth Rock"] (0:13-4:45) -- ["All of Everything"] (4:50-9:04) -- ["Impromptu Festival"] (9:04-13:00) -- ["Blue Soul"] (13:00-16:57) -- ["Narrative"] (16:57-19:54) -- ["Outside of the Time Zone"] (19:54-25:10) -- ["Night of the Purple Moon"] (25:10-29:00) -- ["Bird's Eye View of Man's World"] (29:00-32:07) -- ["21st Century Romance"] (32:07-36:22) -- ["Dance of the Living Image"] (36:22-40:51) -- ["Love In Outer Space"] (40:51-45:04)
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[Leader, original] (0:00-0:05) -- ["Old Midnight"] (0:05-4:01)
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[Piano interlude] -- ["Can This Be Love"] -- [fuzz bass, left channel] -- ["(All You Have To Do Is Dream)" Dreams Come True] (?-15:42) -- ["Don't Blame Me"] (16:04-18:50} -- ["S Wonderful"] (18:56-21:00) -- ["Lover Come Back To Me"] (21:00-24:59)
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SIDE 1: [Untitled] (3:40) -- [Untitled] (6:35) -- [Untitled] (4:00) -- [Untitled] (3:05) -- [Untitled] (3:38) -- [Untitled] (2:52) -- [Untitled] (5:38) -- [Untitled] (3:25)
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["I'm The One"] -- ["Message to Earthman"]
Yochannan singles
Sunman Speaks/Message To Earthman
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appears to be CYMBALS (numbered 555 according to Markow), except "Land Of The Day Star" is much longer than released version and "The Order Of The Pharoanic Jester" is a diff version altogether (with bass clarinet) ; This is exactly like CRYSTAL SPEARS, which as two versions of the master.
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SIDE 1: [Untitled, cacophonous] (0:00-7:50) -- [Untitled, circuit bent intro] (7:55-15:05) -- [Untitled, high tones] (15:06-?)
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["The Others In Their World"] (0:00-2:30) -- ["Spacemates"] (2:30-?) -- ["Lites On A Satelite"]
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["Tiny Pyramids"] -- ["Between Two Worlds]" -- ["Music From The Year 25,000"] -- ["Angels and Demons at Play"]
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["Mu"] -- ["Lemuria"] -- ["Yucatan"] -- ["Bimini"]
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SIDE 1: ["Satellites Are Spinning" Plutonian Nights 2A] -- [Untitled] (0:00-5:40) -- [Untitled] (5:41-9:50) -- ["You Get that Marshall" (9:54-17:40) -- [Untitled]1(7:41-28:20) -- [Untitled] (28:22-35:10) -- ["2nd stop in Jupiter"] (35:10-38:33) -- ["Check"] (38:18-38:28) -- [Untitled] (39:03-40:23) -- [Untitled] (40:23-50:18) -- ["No Marsall, That's what's wrong w/Black People" @43:10] -- [Spot erase? Comments? Great saturation @50:16) -- ["You Get Thoose Different Harmonies in Diff way"] (54:45)
SIDE 2: ["Spon, SLAVC, Picturesque Scences REH" in white folks] -- [Great tune and saturation] (1:04:40) -- (cool vocals @49:11] ; [Great punch-in distortion) ["Unmask the Batman"] (1:04:48)
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SIDE 1: ["CCAGO, HOW HI THE/MOON/It ain't necessarily/so. CHINA GATE, 4"] -- [Heavy saturatio, -9 ,ims, heavy maelstrom] -- [tape drag @ end]
SIDE 2: ["CCAGO MASTER TAPE, 23/82/MASTER TAPE/ C.R. SPRING IS HER/ RAIN OR SHINE/ & CHICAGO2"]
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[Flute and congas, in mosque? from Senegal] (0:00-3:10) -- [introduction to Sun Ra and Mythical Science Orchestra] (3:19-?) -- [Applause] (14:56-?) -- ["Somebody Else's Idea of Being"] (15:05-?) -- [percussion breakdown @ 46:00]
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SIDE 1: [Eric Clapton broadcast on radio] (0:10-0:20) -- [Blank] (0:20-1:10) -- [Arkestra] (1:13-?) -- ["Song of the Stargazer"] (37:43-?)
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SIDE 1: [left channel good, right channel bad ; very low levels] ["How You Like Me gow?"] -- ["Two of A Kind"] (?-5:50)
SIDE 2: [Great, hot levels, soul ; 3 takes, instrumental] (5:55-?)
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[Drum machine?] (0:00-2:40) -- ["Another Order of Being"] (3:30-7:30)
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["St. Louis Blues" (harp @28:30)] -- ["Take The A Train"] (?-42:11)
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SIDE 1: [Blues ("ain't no playing blues in this house, boy!")] (0:05 -6:25) -- [Untitled, cowbell, cut] (5:30- 5:52) -- ["Why Do People Die if this is a Planet of Life"] (5:52-15:36) -- [Huge hum in right side @ 14:28] -- ["Death Disguised as Life" -- [Sun Ra collectibles] (15:50) -- [Acoustic guitar] -- [Two flutes, drums, cut] (16:27-26:15) -- [Untitled] (26:20)
SIDE 2: [Hot levels] (36:20-40:00) -- [Untitled] {10:15} -- ["Take the A Train" (cut)] (48:30-54:15) -- [Untitled] (54:20-54:45) -- [Untitled] (54:45-66:15)
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["Half-Fast" (take 1, a capella)] (0:00-1:42) -- ["Half-Fast" (take 2, @2:30 telephone rings twice)] (4:06-?) -- [false start] (4:06-?) -- ["Half-Fast" (take 3)] (?-9:33) -- [Leader 1] -- [Leader 2] -- [with guitar] (9:36-?)
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["Gonna take one, we can hear the record playing in here," Ra] (0:10) -- [False starts, "Tell Her"] (0:00-1:40) -- ["Tell Her" complete take (take1)] (1:40} -- ["Talk Loud about Nothin"] (4:55) -- ["Tell Her" (take 2)] (5:20) -- ["Tell Her" (take 3)] [False starts] (10:30-11:50) -- ["Tell Her" (take 4)] (12:00-14:50) -- [Just the Beat] 14:50-16:30 ; 10. [Studio Chatter] 16:30 ; 11. [Just the beat] (16:45) -- [Band joins "Tell Her" (take 5)] (17:12) -- [take 6] (19:30) -- [take 7] (22:15) -- [False starts (take 1)] (24:30-26:40) -- [All right take 2] -- ["Making Believe" (take 2)] (26:44-30:01)
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[Blank] (0:00-7:10) -- [Arkestra, low levels] (7:10-?) -- [bass solo, left channel] (17:40-19:10)
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[Paper tape, organ "Machineland"]
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SIDE 1: ["Stardust from tmr/opus springtime"] -- ["Everything Must Change/It is written/It is written that I/shall send Pharaoh"] -- ["I Could Have Enjoyed/Myself on this Planet"] -- ["Hold My Myth on a Satellite"] -- [Left side, Pat Patrick] -- [Right side, "Fireside Chat w/Lucifer"] -- "[The Secret is My Real Name is Lucifer, You are my Evil Little Children"] (15:20)
SIDE 2: ["I Could Have/Enjoyed Myself On"] -- [Organ intro/"Space is the Place/Spaceship Earth"] -- ["Give Me Neither/Glory nor shame/Uncle Sam/Ra"] -- [4 track monoural/truck Right, "Shadowworld"] -- [Organ: Farfisa/Mood & Organ/"We Travel the Spaceways"]
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[Solo synth, low levels, buzz] -- [Bad electrical 'pops'] -- [Bombastic. Over O?] (22:00)
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[Print-through @ head] (0:07-0:09) -- [Live concert] (0:09-6:40) -- [Signal drops to -00] -- [Both channels return, good signal] (7:00-9:45) -- [Applause] (9:45) -- [Untitled, organ intro] (9:45-12:00) -- [Applause] (12:00) -- ["Take the A Train"] (19:00) -- [signal drops 20 db]
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[Solo piano concert] (45 min. 36 sec.)
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[Concert] (0:00-19:29) -- [Untitled, little quiet bits] (19:30-24:43)
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[Clip of "Sympathy For the Devil"/Rolling Stones] (0:00-0:10) -- [PSA for Career Academy] (0 :11-1:30) -- [Sun Ra cut, "Somebody Else's Idea"] (1:37-5:20) -- [Interview of Sun Ra w/Jay (@6:30 music cue?)] (5:22) -- [Ref. Masonic Organizations, Rosicrucians @ 8:29) -- ["Lack of energy on this planet" @ 9:40) -- [Cueing music scratchbook @ 11:00} -- ["Nature doesn't care about righteousness"] (13:00) -- [Sun Ra cut] (13:40 -18:30) -- [Interview continues, "all Black music frommy times playing whatever they need, not what they want"] -- ["not playing Western chords, playing with feelings"] (24:15) -- ["I don't care anything about Freedom. Discipline & precision"] (25:20) -- ["Black People have been tricked by words"] (26:20) -- [Cueing up LP] (28:25) -- [Sun Ra cut] (35:40) -- [infinity Inc in SF) (40:27) -- [Setup Teleportation Machine] (41:00) -- [Moog made especially for Ra (special FX that others don't have)] (42:00) -- [Moog solo] (43:40) -- [MC/DJ] (46:18) -- [Juice bar commercials] (46:39)
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SIDE 1: [Tone] (0:09) -- [Short bit of talking, "and I'm right here, and I ain't go no fucking back"] (0:10-0:12) -- [Synth maelstrom (left heavy)] (0:12-5:00) -- [Piano intro] (5:00) -- [Piano interlude] (14:00) -- ["King Porter Stomp"] (19:20)
SIDE 2: [Untitled] -- ["I am Eternally Pharoah"] -- [great fade/cut] (28:00) -- ["Shadowworld by Sun Ra"] (41:00) -- ["Only 25 years before the Century 21, 21st Century"] (45:00)
recorded 4 track/4 mono /or/sereo/will not play on Otari
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SIDE 1: [splice point @ 10:54] -- [2 splice breaks]
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SIDE 1: [African percussion ensemble]
SIDE 2: [trombone intro] -- ["Pleiades"] (8:15-?) -- ["Why do people die?" @23:00] -- ["The universe is tired of being ignored by you" @ 40:00]
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[Interview concerning 'Ra" "EL," equations "Its All About Me Myth"] -- ["Is.ra.el = ra.is.el = el.is.ra"] -- ["book: Robinson's American History"] -- [United States Information Bureau] (2:00) -- ["Music is a deception to Races on the Planet"] (5:37) -- [Describing helocentric world 2 to 3 years of listening] -- [Ra's sound is "The Ultimate"] -- ["sub-underground"] (11:20) -- [US Info Agency books on Jazz] (12:00) -- [Vice Regent in the Quaran 1 is white, 2 is black] (26:00) -- [book "the Book of the Beginnings" "all based on Ancient Egypt"] -- [Sun Ra's ss#?] (41:00) -- [Book concerning symbols] (43:50) -- [Who is Richard, manager?] (45:00)
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[Electrical interference, pops] -- ["This is what magnetic loss sounds like"] (12:00) -- [Sound clears a bit] (21:00)
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SIDE 1 (L): ["Close Your Eyes"] -- ["July 16, 1971" rehearsal (@ top)]
SIDE 2 (R): [Untitled (@ 30:00 switches to FULL TRACK mono)] -- [Untitled, solo noise organ percussion intro] -- [Spaceways, inc (Great, distorted, intense)] -- [cuts to different tune, L channel] -- [1/2 track split mono] (41:36)
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[(Great sound! Percussion intro, heavy duty free jazz percussion)]
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[Continuation from Reel 61 (Reel #1)]
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[checked leader tape] (0:00-0:14) -- [continuation from Reel 62 ("Reel #3")] (0:15)
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SIDE 1: ["We're Living in T. Space AJ. ; Love in OUTER SPACE/Rocksilhord Intro DIO; Space is the Place/Ensemble & Sow's; 2nd Stop is Jupiter! Stargazers; Walkin' on The Moon!/ Angles & Demons" (Switch L to R) sax solo/intro] (0:08-0:30) -- [Full stereo] (2:47)
SIDE 2: Rocksilhord intro Oboe Rockilhord ; [buzz] ; [tape pause] (18:00) -- [Tape change @ 39:00] -- [Quiet talking, din in left channel]
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[Solo Synthesizer] (0:01-11:02)
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["A-train"] (0:00-13:00) -- ["Batman"] (13:00-29:40) -- [Untitled] (29:40-33:00)
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SIDE 1: ["Elaine's (Love In Outer Space)"]
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[Blank] (0:00-0:12) -- [Untitled, tape pause near end?] (0:12-42:45)
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[Takes and takes for edit] (0:00-6:15)
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SIDE 1: [percussion, "Somebody Else's Idea of being"] (0:01-?)
SIDE 2: [N.Y. ARTS TOUR, @ 7:00 tape slippage]
"SE" [pencil on masking tape]
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SIDE 1: [Applause (right heavy)] (0:00-6:37) -- [African Percussion/ language] (6:37-14:47) -- [witch to "Enlightment"]
SIDE 2: [Untitled] (0:05-0:10) -- ["Calling Planet Earth"] (0:10) -- [June Yelling!) (3:00) -- [Untitled (great recording)] -- [weird level change to left channel] (9:31) -- [Applause] -- [Tape change] (19:11) -- [Tape change] (19:18)
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[very bright and crispy, saturated sound] -- [@14:30 many electrical pops, intermittent] -- [@37:25 switch to backwards voices, buzz]
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SIDE 1: [Arkestra, left only, mono] -- [some blues] -- ["Unmask The Batman"] (25:10-31:40) -- ["Enlightenment!"] (31:40-?)
SIDE 2: ["Why Go To The Moon?"] (?-47:47)
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SIDE 1: ["Yeah, Man" -- ["Prelude To A Kiss"] -- ["Happy As The Day Is Long"] -- [Intro, "Discipline"] -- ["Nuclear War"] -- [Big Brother"]
SIDE 2: ["Nuclear War"] -- ["Outer Space"]
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["Never Neverland"] (0:00-2:27) -- ["Along Came Ra"] (2:27-14:39) -- ["Discipline 27B"] (14:39-23:22) -- ["Christopher Columbus"] (23:22-33:31) -- ["Sophisticated Lady"] (33:31-38:58) -- ["Lightning What Now"] (38:59-49:20)
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[Low level, backstage? Near horns? Bad electrical intermittents] ; ["Spaceways Inc."] (19:00)
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[Concert 1 "Space Is The Place"] -- [Concert 2, low level] (9:30-?) -- ["Spaceship Earth"] -- ["You Know That You're Wrong"] (69:30) -- [Blank]
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[Blank] (13:30-13:43) -- [(tape is really squealing)] (17:30-20:15) -- [end music] (33:33) -- [Hank (MT on N)] (33:33) -- [clarinet/oboes MT on N (empty on end)]
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[Tone/leader] (0:00-0:22) -- ["testing, 1, 2, 3, testing" (@5:25 splice solid ; @54:25 telephone rings)] (0:22-?)
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[tone] (0:00-0:07) -- [leader] (0:07-0:18) -- [music-concert, right-side only] (0:18-11:00) -- [Applause, "United Worlds of Outerspace" "SY" "When you dream in the Babylonian night, you dream of what you did before you died." "Anything can happen in a dream, even immortality" (@57:50 tape shedding ; weird noise, both channels, intermittent)] (11:00-?) -- ["Happy spaceday to you, America"] (?-77:40) -- [Applause] -- ["Face the Music" ] (79:44-?)
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[solo synth intro organ, drums. Horns (Arkestra) ; [old spliced break, re-spliced]
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["Second Stop Is Jupiter" (great concert recording)] (0:00-7:00) -- [Applause, encore] (7:00) [Untitled (great synth solo @ end)] -- [Applause/clap]
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[Untitled, organ] -- [tape cut, organ] -- [Plice jumps] (6:13) -- [Alton & Sonny testing tape machine] (6:70) -- [Untitled, organ and drum] (6:48) -- [Untitled (sax walking bass B?)] (13:35) -- [Untitled, piano solo] (13:40) -- [bit off radio?] (15:36) -- [Untitled, piano solo] (15:50) -- [talking, chatting ambience] (23:00) -- [Untitled, piano] (24:10-25:30) -- [Laughter, "all right all right "(radio in right channel?)] (25:30)
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SIDE 2: [Live concert, continued]
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[Ra Poetry with Arkestra (@20:40 "Truth is bad, and truth is good. The truth of the earth is bad, must be calculated") (@25:30 tape delay)] -- ["The past is a dream, something that came…"]
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[Untitled (heavily distorted)] (0:00-1:41) -- ["Spaceship Earth" (better levels)] (1:41-?) -- ["Enlightenment"] (15:20-?) -- ["United Planets of Outer Space" (@ 21:30 less distortion, @ 27:00 African speech, crowed is amped!)] -- ["Lightning" (next composition is by Duke Ellington entitled "Lightning")] (34:27-?) -- ["21st Century"]
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[Untitled (Atlantis-era Arkestra, very out)] -- [Unitled (very strange vocals and drums. @28:25 "Satellites Are Spinning" motif)]
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["Always Remember" rehearsal (left side only, @25:27 loud drums and keys, stereo)]
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[Soundcheck, "You Ready?"] (0:00-0:24) -- [Untitled, rehearsal] (0:26-15:15) -- [Tuning, talking] (15:16-?)
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[Ambience, talk, cough] (0:05-0:16) -- ["You'll Never Walk Alone" (church choir, @0:23 pop)] (0:17-2:00) -- ["You'll Never Walk Alone" (Take 2)] (2:09-3:35) -- ["You'll Never Walk Alone" (Take 3, incomplete)] (4:10-6:30) -- [(with church choir, Tagalog, incomplete take)] (6:50-7:29) -- [talking, false starts] (7:30-7:50) -- [Blank] (7:50-8:45) -- [false start, false start, talking] (8:50-9:18) -- [Untitled] (9:53-?)
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[Leader/tone] (0:00-0:15) -- [Untitled, African percussion] (0:16-32:16)
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[Untitled, glockenspiel and cello (@0:04 splice broken tape, @1:30 drums, @1:50 horns)]
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Arkestra
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SIDE 1: [Untitled] (0:00-9:00) -- [Untitled] (9:00-?) -- ["Yeah, Man"] (?-31:25) -- ["King Porter Stomp"] (31:34-36:30) -- [Untitled] (36:30-64:24)
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Detroit, Michigan?
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["What's New"(tone-1dB)] (0:00-0:12) -- [Untitled (short musical blip, countoff by engineer?)] (0:12-0:15) -- [Untitled, bass, piano, synth] (0:15-0:20) -- [Applause, large] (14:00-14:10) -- [end? Audience mics up, then off]
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[tone/leader] (0:00-0:05)
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["It Don't Mean A Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing" (@24:00)] -- [Blank until end]
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[Untitled, organ, drums (@9:10 applause)] -- ["Satellites Are Spinning"] (12:00-?)
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SIDE 1: ["The Satellites Are Spinning" ("We sing this song to a great tomorrow to abolish sorrow")] (0:06-?) -- [(June and unknown man's voice, operatic, like Pail Robeson-verify name)] -- ["Space Is The Place"] (26:00-?)
SIDE 2: ["Astro-Black"]
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["Calling Planet Earth"] (15:30-32:10)
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SIDE 1: [Untitled, percussion (right heavy)] (0:00-?) -- ["Sound of Joy Is Enlightenment" (@ 25:46 great piano interlude)]
SIDE 2: [Untitled (shift Left to Right, Right heavy)]
Space Master Tape [in purple ink] / Concert [in red ink] / Space Master Tape / Board / Note / 9-28-70 [?] ; Re-trasferred (sticky-tape) twice
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SIDE 1: [Untitled (tape start, keyboard intro)] (0:00-6:00) -- [Introduction, "A Jazz Classic Fletcher Henderson" (level change)] (6:00-9:00) -- [tape stop]
SIDE 2: [Untitled (saturation)] (13:00) -- [Tape stop] (24:24)
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["Angel Race" (live concert)] (0:00-?) -- [Applause, encore clapping, sax, trumpet] (5:00-?) -- [Untitled (drums at end, clapping)] (8:55-?)-- ["Stranger From Paradise" / "Gone With the Wind" Sun Ra, acapella] (9:36-?) -- [Blank to end]
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[Untitled (heavy, amazing, severe keyboard)] (0:00-9:45) -- [tape splice] -- [Untitled, piano, bass, drums, horns] (9:45-15:59) -- [Untitled, harpsichord (vocal, Left)] (16:00-17:10) -- [(continued splice, vocal)] (17:10-?)
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[Review of rehearsal tape (left, tape speed varispeed, nutty)] (0:00-1:30) -- ["On the 6th day Chris was crucified"] (1:30-11:25) -- [Untitled] (11:27-14:45) -- [Untitled, organ] (14:45-23:40) -- ["This World Is Not My Home" (tape in room with Ra)] (23:40-33:28) -- [Untitled] (33:30-42:30) -- ["Batman" (@ 44:07 cul)] (42:30-44:00) -- [small bit, congas (Blank @ 44:23)] (44:00-44:40) -- [Untitled, more congas, flute] (44:40-46:00) -- [Blank( small bits, blank, small bit)] (46:00-47:30) -- [Blank] (47:35-?) -- [Untitled, congas, flute (in and out)] (49:00-?) -- [(carnival sounding organ and congas)] (57:70-62:52)
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["Interview Interview Intervie Denys Denys" (interview, Left FWD/Right RVS)] (0:30-?) -- ["The white leaders saw the Book was bad for them" ; "changed the bible langugae from R-7L to L -> R; origin of "leftist"-something else innovative ; great Sun Ra laugh] (3:15) -- ["More musicians have died on the Battlefield then soldiers" (telephone) "If someone is loved, they have nothing to destroy"] (9:00) -- ["plaintive instrument, fantastic sound"]
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John Gilmoure-tenor, Marshall Allen-alto, Ronnie Boykins-bass, Hason-trombone, Clifford-drums, John Jackson, Danny-Trombone
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[(Mostly blank 60%; personnel announced: John Gilmore, Boykins, Allen, some unintelligible)] (11:00)
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[Untitled, solo electronic insturment (Left)] -- [Blank]
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SIDE 1: [("Went to jail for refusing to fight in a was of aggression" @ 2:30)] -- [(Radio play? Loud flute)] -- [(sounds like room recording of radio broadcast)] (0:48-14:29) -- [Introduction to SunRa] (14:29-?) -- [Sun Ra talks about music] (15:15-29:38) -- [(reading, music @ 32:16) (29:38-?) -- [Sun Ra comments on "Somewhere Down the Line"] (34:53-52:56) -- [Untitled, flute] (52:56-?)
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excellent rehearsal!
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E. Village Inn, ?
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SIDE 1: ["Batman"?] (0:00-7:20) -- ["Intergalactic Space" (@12:20 tape speed fluctuation)] (7:20-14:00) -- ["Sound of Joy, Equations"] (14:20-?) -- [Untitled, key solo] -- ["Second stop is Jupiter" (@ 22:25 weird tape manipulation, rvs/fwd/rvs?)] (24:00-?)
SIDE 2: [Untitled (Right channel drops out, @ 4:00 weird tape speed change)] (13:00) -- [tape jump, jump, splice outs, pause] (13:00-?) -- ["Try Neptune" (@17:00 right channel back in)]
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University of California, CA
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[Ra lecturing (great sound quality)] -- ["Lots of confusion on this Planet due to God"] (6:30) -- ["You been dead 3000, may be 6000 years"] (13:20) -- ["Nature is the boss (Israel, Egypt) (book Missionary Travels-by Livingston)] (13:45) -- [From Central Africa, Sudan (southern)] (17:00) -- [Ethiopians hired "sambos"- the Maneaters] -- ["Even angels in heaven cryin about black folks"] (20:50) -- ["Diet" Deed, Dead, Die] (23:16) -- ["Act of God in a contract: earthquakes, tornado "Make Up Your Mind Who's Doing Bad Things To You, God or the Devil"] -- ["Eight, ate, occult, atheist"] -- ["No, I belong to the ninth-cult"] -- ["A particular song to move the planet"] (30:20) -- ["Love in Outer Space" piano solo] (32:30-37:00) -- [Book of the Beginnings] -- [Untilted, moog solo] (38:00-54:03)
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["The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" (@5:07 level drop)]
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Arkestra
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["Take Your First Step"] -- ["Batman"]
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[Live with sax solo (strange, concert similar to Atlantis, @ 25:00 female voice sounds great)]
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["If you don't pay your fare, you're gonna get left behind"] -- ["Space Is The Place" (left-heavy, what language? @ 22:30 great portanento/glissando)]
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[Intro to "King Porter Stomp"] -- ["King Porter Stomp"] (0:45-3:30) -- [Untitled] (3:31-5:00) -- ["Lightning" by Duke Ellington] (5:00-?) -- [Alan Burke Interview (@12:30 Sun Ra)] (?-17:42) -- [Music continued, low synth (@23:00 vari-speed vibes (right reverse 3.75?)] (18:10-?)
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Club Gibus, France
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SIDE 1: ["Images"] (0:00-3:37) -- [tape splice] -- ["Sound of Joy/"Enlightment"] (3:37-6:20) -- ["Somebody Else's Idea"] (6:20-11:16)
SIDE 2: on reel side 2
All-gold label tape, two small gold circle stickers on label
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[Untitled, live concert] -- [Untitled (@ 22:00 level very between left and right)] (12:00-?) -- [Untitled] (?-27:40) -- [tape cut] (27:48-36:17) -- [Blank to end]
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SIDE 1: ["The symbol of this festival is the little Hannukah candle"]
SIDE 2: [Mic check/test: "1, 2, 3. More volume on it?" (subject of Israel and Egypt today @ 68:30 )]
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["Take Care Business, Erase This Side" (discussing title of piece)] -- ["Asalamalakum" groove]
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[Religious readings (right heavy)] -- [Untitled] -- ["What a Lovely Day" (piano and vocal)] (6:00-?)
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["Hall of the Mountain King"] (0:00-5:55) -- [False start] (6:00) -- [Untitled, vocal (Blues)]
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[(Circuit bent organ solo, poor level, left only)] -- [ "Sound of Joy" (drums come in)] (4:05-4:38) -- [Tape cut] -- ["Space is the Place"] (19:00) -- [(Feed back at last moment]) (33:51)
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["They'll Come Back" (very high freq. Tone, NR?)] (0:05-4:07) -- ["Dawn Over Israel"] (4:08) -- [(Weird drop outs) (11:25)
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[Untitled] (0:00-0:15) -- [Arkestra, Rehearsal] (0:15-?)
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["The World is Waiting for Re Sunrise" (tone @ -10db)] -- [(tape delay? Room delay?)] -- [Untitled, saturated tape/clip @ 8:00, buzz on Right)]
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[Untitled] (0:02-4:05) -- [Untitled, synths] (4:12)
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SIDE 1: ["As used by super-scientists all over the world"] (3:40) -- ["Superpower memory"] -- ["The superconscious Mind"] (6:20)
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Seattle, WA
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SIDE 1: [" The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"] (0:03-2:00) -- ["Discipline 27"] (2:10) -- ["Space Is the Place"] -- ["King Porter Stomp"] (32:50) -- ["Fate In A Pleasant Mood"] (37:00) -- ["Take the A Train"] (42:30) -- [Leader 1] -- [Untitled, oboe solo] (52:00) -- [" Astro Black"] (60:00-69:23) -- [Leader 2] -- ["Somewhere Over the Rainbow"] (80:30) -- ["Space Blues (St. Louis Blues)"] (86:00) -- [Leader 3] -- ["Journey to Saturn"] -- [Leader 4]
SIDE 2: [Leader] (0:00-0:30) -- [Untitled] (0:30) -- [Untitled] (21:30) -- [Untitled (tape speed wavering?)] (21:30-31:00) -- [Untitled] (21:08-39:00) -- ["on Park Avenue" (fade out @ 4:50 tape speed wavering?)] (39:10-46:55) -- [Blank to end]
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["Plutonian Nights"] -- ["The Golden Lady"] -- ["Star Time"]
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["The sociophonic key"] (0:02-42:30) -- [Blank]
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["Itchy Scratchy"] -- ["My Mistake"]
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SIDE 1: [(Left FWD: Arkestra, Left RVS: Electric Blues)]
SIDE 2: [(Left FWD: Arkestra, Right RVS: Electric Blues)]
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["Dleiades" (great reverb)] (0:02) ["White House on the Moon"] (60:00) -- ["If you want a better world, give me the blueprints"] (87:30)
Beautiful green leader tape on box, silver paint pen
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SIDE 1: [Untitled, concert (saturation @ 16:00)]
SIDE 2: [Untitled, concert]
"ART/INSTIITUTE/SAN FRAN (red label tape)" ; "FILED 3/22/87" [red marker]
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["(LADY BIRD)"] -- ["HALLOWEEN IN HARLEM"] -- ["OUTER SPACE AGE CROP"] -- ["LASTEST NEW'S FROM NEPTUNE"] -- ["SATURN JOURNEY/OOO"]
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[Untitled] -- [Untitled, @ 7.5 ips] -- [Untitled, @ 15 ips] - [Untitled (cymbals @ 8:51)]
very right-heavy sax
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SIDE 1: [Untitled (great concert recording)] -- ["All Right, Better Get Yourself together"] (27:00) -- ["Theme of the Stargazer"] (35:30-35:45)
SIDE 2: ["Somebody Else's Idea" (@ 2:00 super saturated)] (0:02-7:00) -- ["Equation Ra" (unaccompanied home recording)] (7:00-12:00) -- [Untitled, percussion solo (concert)] (12:00) -- [Untitled (large amount of stauration)] (20:00)
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Newport Jazz Festival
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[Untitled, ambience] (0:02-0:03) -- [Introduction] (0:05-0:30) -- [Blowing (great levels)] (0:32) -- [Untitled, keyboard solo] (3:49) -- [Untitled, concert continues] (32:16)
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California
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SIDE 1: [Untitled] (0:00-0:46) -- [Untitled (rehearsal/very ambient space)] (0:46) -- ["We getting' ready to record"-Sun Ra (irritated)] (12:13) -- ["You drownin' out the melody, you gotta play up, under that" re: drummers] -- [Untitled, backwards bass] (15:25)
SIDE 2: ["REH G. E. Theather Blues 9-19-71" / "Mr. Ra (Blue label tape)/California]
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[Untitled (very old pipe organ?)] (0:02) -- [Untitled] (2:54) -- [Untitled (band rehearsal, talking at top)]
[Left/Mono Right Blank]
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Los Angeles, CA
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Los Angeles, CA
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5 Spot, New York, NY
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SIDE 1: ["Astro Black Americans"] (0:00-27:33) -- [Untitled] (28:45-41:00) -- [Untitled] (41:05-63:47) -- [Untitled] (63:47-78:12) -- [Untitled] (79:00-83:40) -- [Untitled] (83:40-88:01) -- [Untitled] (88:10-92:45) -- [Untitled] (92:50-99:10) -- [Untitled] (99:15-112:30) -- [Untitled] (112:30-128:36)
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SIDE A: [Untitled (begins with horn chords)] (0:08-0:33) -- [tape cut, Abraham, back to horns)] (0:40-4:54) -- [tape pause] (5:00) -- [tape pause] (7:57) -- [Untitled] (10:02) -- [pause, bass tuning] (23:11) -- [pause, "pick it up"] (26:55) -- [tape cut] (42:26
SIDE B: ["This one's number 3" Gilmore] (0:04) -- [tape pause, rehearsal continues] (4:08-24:50) -- [(10 second drop out/pause)] (25:01) -- [tune over and over and over] -- [tune] (40:00-44:38) -- [(Happy tune (@ 46:00 phone rings/answer)] (44:53-46:38)
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SIDE A: ["Yeah Man"] -- [Sun Ra speaks about jazz in Russia ("America Better Watch Out")] (1:54) -- ["Big John Special"] (3:00-6:20) -- ["Further Notions" Coleman Hawkins] (6:36-9:16) -- ["King Poker Stomp" Jellyroll Morton] (9:46-13:38) ["Lightin" Duke Ellington] (13:53-16:30) -- ["Slippery Home" Duke Ellington] (16:50-19:51) -- ["A-Train" (great noise ending)] (19:55-29:23) -- [Untitled] (29:40)
SIDE B: ["Outer Space Employment Agency"] (0:08) -- ["Shadow World" (noise bursts)] (23:57) -- [Untitled] (24:09-29:35) -- [beginning of "Yeah Man"] (29:38-30:32)
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[Untitled] (0:30-4:58) -- [Untitled] (5:01-9:16) -- [Untitled (11:14 around buzz-11:24)] (9:17-13:09) -- [Untitled, keyboards solo (15:30 noise reduction change-10:14)] (13:10 -16:30) -- [Untitled (more upbeat key playing)] (16:30-1942) -- [Untitled, synth] (19:43-24:38) -- [(Album LP side change?)] (24:49-24-40) -- [Untitled] (25:09-28:49) -- [Untitled] (28:50-31:48) -- [Untitled] (31:49-35:49) -- [Untitled] (35:50-40:17) -- [Untitled (42:04 Left side noise interference)] (40:19-44:01) [Untitled (tape jump in with violin, piano, organ)] (44:10-48:16) -- [Untitled, piano solo)] (48:20-50:09) -- [Untitled, piano (50:45 level bump up, @ 51:29 bass)] (50:11-55:59) -- [Untitled (env sounds)] (56:00) -- ["Dreams Come True/All You Have To Do Is Dream"] (56:05-59:08) ["Don't Blame Me" (female vocal)] (59:24-62:11) -- [Untitled, conga intro, "It's Wonderful" (female vocal)] (62:16-64:26) -- ["Love, Come Back To Me"] (64:30-67:12) -- [(End DAT timecode: 67:37]
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SIDE A: ["Just Let Me Love You" (rehearsal female and male vocal)] (0:10-2:25) -- [Blank] (3:06-END)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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SIDE A: [Untitled (heavy distortion, autolevel/gain control)] (0:13) -- [Untitled (left side only, wide range radio interference)] -- [Untitled (dropouts)] (6:08-6:20) -- ["Via Our Space World" (piano intro)] (8:30-10:40) -- [Untitled] (10:43) -- [Untitled (stopped transfer @20:16 due to horrible constant noise)] (16:00) -- [Untitled (continued noise)] (32:21)
SIDE B: [Untitled, operatic female vocal] (2:24) -- [Untitled (multiple radio station print through)] (7:45) -- [Untitled, (all noises cease)] (13:10)
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SIDE A: ["Calling Planet Earth"]
SIDE B: [Untitled (tape clicking until 0:30. Bent? Right-heavy] (0:06) -- [Untitled, vocal breakdown] (9:35-17:05)
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SIDE 1: ["King Porter Stomp"] (14:05-17:09) -- [(tape cut)] (21:09-23:28) -- [Untitled] (23:30-28;00) -- [Untitled] (28:05-30:42)
SIDE 2: [Untitled (@ 3:52 cool guitar wah-wah)] (0:05-8:28) -- [Untitled (great synth solo section, @ 16:20 long micro-drone, @ 18:36 vocal enters)] (8:28-21:31) -- ["Space Is The Place" (@24:00 great guitar)] (21:32-30:59)
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SIDE A: [Live, TV Duke Ellington] (0:08) -- [Untitled, big ban(d)] -- [Timex commercial] -- [Duke Ellington] (4:00) [[ [Timex commercial "The Marlin"] (16:00) -- [Dave Brubeck] (18:00) -- [Timex commercial] (28:30)
SIDE B: [(End of tune, applause)] (0:08-0:22) -- [Sun Ra reading poems on telephone with Alton Abraham] -- [Second poem "How Do I/Air" Melody with Air @ 12:26, Page 17 "Natures Law" @ 13:47] -- [Page 049 "Where Am I Now"] (16:30) -- [Page 49] (17:50) [#36 Music] (18:50) -- [Alton and Sun Ra talking] (19:51-20:44)
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SIDE 1: [Insert contents] -- [LP SIDE 2] (25:53-?)
SIDE 2: [LP SIDE 1] (0:05-22:30) -- [LP SIDE 2] (22:30-?)
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SIDE A: [Untitled, piano, Sun Ra solo (lots of auto-gain compression action ; tape machine is close to/or on the piano.)] (0:05-18:25) -- ["Summertime"] (18:25-31:33) -- [pause break (@ 32:05 dropout)] (31:33-39:45) -- ["That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick (Sun Ra humming)] (39:45-40:50) -- ["Can't Take That Away"] (40:53-46:50) -- [Applause] (46:50-47:25)
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SIDE A: [Blank]
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:08-36:54)
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SIDE A: [Untitled (organ begins-from vinyl? Live performance? Very energetic, noisy, free, some guitar)] (0:05-46:13)
SIDE B: [(from LP, thumpy, over-the-top noise music])
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SIDE A: [Untitled (jumps into soul music)] -- [Untitled] (4:10-8:00) -- [Untitled/announcement] (8:00-9:55) -- [Live Soul0 -- [Untitled, thumb piano] (9:55-11:00) -- [(Radio? "Egyptian Lover"?)] (11:00-13:00) -- [(Tape jumps, cuts, radio)] (13:15-15:07) -- [That Big Chorus Sound (Sun Ra play synth with ?)] (15:09-?) -- ["Rainbows for Me" (2) (@ 16:30 level fades "Make Me Rainbows")] (17:40) -- [Radio DJ Announcement, Cinderella Story]
SIDE B: [Untitled, Arkestra, live] (5:08) -- [Untitled (in recording studio)] -- [Alton, Beautiful, Beautiful] (28:00) -- [Untitled] (29:15)
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SIDE A: [Untitled, voices fading in/out "Sony cassette w/ auto shut-off" ; "It's a very scientific thing"] (0:05-0:54)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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SIDE A: ["Velvet"] (0:00-7:47) -- ["Savoy"] (7:48-10:52) -- ["Space Is The Place"] (10:53-23:20)
SIDE B: [Untitled, percussion and trombone] (0:00-8:30) -- ["New York in June/Springtime in Chicago" and flute duet] (8:30-16:00) -- ["Outer Space Employment Agency/Discipline"] (16:00-30:00) -- ["Calling Planet Earth/Journey to Saturn" (amazing synth solo)] (30:00-37:00) -- ["Somewhere Over The Rainbow"] (37:00-42:00) -- ["How Am I To Know" (end cut off)] (42:00-47:00)
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SIDE A: [Untitled] (0:00-5:30) -- [Untitled (rewinding tape) (Engineer? Language or technical barrier)] (5:30-7:35) -- [Untitled (first tune of the day)] (7:35-28:21)
SIDE B: [Untitled (chatter, tape jumps)] (0:00-1:00) -- [Untitled] (1:00-31:17)
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SIDE A: [Untitled, solo piano (piano bar?)] (0:00-5:00) -- ["What A Wonderful World"] (5:00-7:30) -- ["Feel Like Makin Love"] (7:30-30:00) -- [(calling for requests)] -- ["Summertime" (cut/end tape)] (30:00-?)
SIDE B: [Untitled, solo piano (piano bar?)] (0:14-?)
unlabelled clear Memorex cassette
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SIDE A: [Insert contents]
SIDE B: [Sun Ra playing in piano bar] (0:20-2:00)
unlabelled JVC GI-90 clear
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SIDE A: [Insert contents]
SIDE B: [count-in] (0:23)
E audio tech ; rehearsal tape "123 play"
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SIDE A: ["Sunrise, Sunset, too" (Sun Ra singing to himself)] (0:12-0:51) -- [Untitled, rehearsal/performance, John Gilmore talking, someone says "Mission Impossible"] (0:51-?)
SIDE B: [Sun Ra: "seems to be empty check, possibly. This is April the 20th, 1980."] (0:00-0:15) -- [Blank]
Grand Master II Ampex 90 High Bias
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SIDE A: [Untitled (poor quality, dull, high frequency waves)] (0:10-?)
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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Savoy Inn, Shelby
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SIDE A: [Untitled] (0:00-10:45) -- [Untitled] (10:50-?) -- ["Oh World, Listen to Me" male voices (left) and Sun Ra (right) (radio voice)] (47:21-59:10) -- [Untitled] (59:15)
SIDE B: 1. [Continued from Side A] (0:06-?) -- [Untitled] (47:00-?) -- ["Universe, I Don't Want To Die"] -- ["The Universe Sent Me"] -- ["Only Those Who Are Dead ask for freedom"] -- ["There is no Freedom except for those who are dead"] -- [Untitled (great synthesizer)] (62:00)
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The Quiet Knight?
Contents:
SIDE A: [Untitled (very saturated, phasing in/out)] (0:02-6:00) -- ["… in springtime"] (6:05-31:25)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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The Quiet Knight
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SIDE A: [Untitled (insane guitar solo @ 2:00)] (0:02-?)
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:00-2:00) -- [Untitled (insane guitar solo)] (2:00-4:30) -- [Untitled, vibe solo] (4:30-?)
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SIDE A: ["Ancients-Rehearsal"]
SIDE B: [Untitled (@3:00 Sun Ra comes in)] (5:05?)
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SIDE A: [Untitled (@0:34 loop)] (0:53-1:28)
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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SIDE A: [768-1390 Answering machine, outgoing call] (0:00-6:00) -- [Untitled, drums] (11:00-?)
SIDE B: ["recorded messages this side" (rehearsal tape?)]
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St. Paul, MN
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["Take the A Train"] (0:05-3:00) -- [Untitled, synth/organ] (3:00-?) -- ["Space Is The Place"] (9:00-10:10) -- [Untitled] (10:16-20:20) -- [Untitled, piano] (20:27-27:35) -- [Untitled] (?-34:00) -- [Applause, club ambiance] (34:20-?)
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SIDE A: [Untitled, live show (@ 13:49 pause break)]
SIDE B: [Blank] (0:00-1:00) -- [(Room recording of rehearsal? Wow and flutter)] (1:00-?)
Telepac Blue
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SIDE A: [Untitled, rehearsal with Arkestra] (0:00-14:01) -- [Untitled, solo piano] (14:01-15:27) -- [Applause and intro for Sun Ra] (15:27-20:03) -- ["Reflecions in Blue"] (20:03-24:34) -- [Applause and dedication of blues tune] (24:34-25:08) -- [Untitled (blues)] (25:08-30:13) -- [Applause and dedication of next tune] (30:13-31:00) -- [Untitled, solo piano] (31:00-35:36) -- [Applause and intro of next tune] (35:36-36:32) -- [Untitled, solo piano] (36:32-41:43) -- ["Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (tape ends before tune)] (41:43-45:23)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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Chicago, IL
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SIDE A: [Applause] (0:00-0:54) -- [Untitled, drums] (0:54-1:25) -- ["Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (piano)] (1:25-3:25) -- [Untitled, full dnsemble, sax, keys solos] (3:35-9:48) -- ["Last Light interested me so that I dared to knock at the dooor of the Cosmos" (vocals)] (9:48-14:02) -- ["Its Spring Time Again" (vocals, followed by solos, then "Some Call Me Mr. Ra, others call me mystery"] (15:03-26:40) -- [Applause and closing remarks] (26:40-29:04)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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SIDE A: [Untitled, live solo piano arrangements] (0:00-47:27)
SIDE B: [Untitled, live solo piano arrangements including Christmas tunes, "Sweet George In Brown," etc. (poor sound quality)]
Maxell 90 ; SIDE A has better sound quality than side B, wide variety of tunes
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SIDE A: [Untitled, bass and horns (first rehearsal)] (0:00-13:27) -- [Untitled, bass, horns, keys, synth (second rehearsal, take ends with "Non Marshall")] (13:27-14:42) -- [Untitled, rehearsal (new take)] (14:42-16:25) -- [Sun Ra on the Shape of Notes] (16:25-23:11) -- [Untitled (second rehearsal, new take)] (23:11-29:29) -- [Sun Ra on perfection] (29:29-47:31)
SIDE B: [Untitled, rehearsal] (0:00-2:12) -- [Sun Ra on rhythm and the Earth "The Earth is Changing"] (2:12-5:34) -- [Untitled, rehearsal] (5:34-12:18) -- ["Everybody's Talking About It," rehearsal] (12:18-16:51) -- [Sun Ra on listening, obeying laws "they" (overdub interruption 24:08-24:19) (Moorish Science, Black Man's Development Center @ 26:17) ( "Took the Book of Adam & Eve out of the Bible @ 27:25)] (16:51) -- [Untitled (6 multi-rhythms "multi-man") "My Disciples" @ 35:09)] (32:45-39:06) -- [Untitled, rehearsal (5/4 time)(43:15) (5/4 time, 7/4 times)] (39:08-46:51) -- [Sun Ra on "Rhythms of the Spheres"] (46:51-47:20)
Fuji Film FX Pure-Ferr; x C-90
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Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA
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SIDE A: [Untitled, rehearsal] (0:00-13;45) -- [(Mixed sound quality/over-dubs)] (13:45-14:16) -- [Untitled, rehearsal (@ 17:00 poor sound/silence)] (14:16-18:12)
SIDE B: [Untitled, rehearsal] (0:00-0:14) -- [(Fade out)] (0:14-0:28) -- [Untitled, rehearsal] (0:28-19:33)
SWI compact cassette instant loading tape cartridge
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SIDE A: [Untitled (sax finishes one piece, applause, keys intro new piece)] (0:00-7:54) -- [Untitled (intense horns)] (7:54-8:34) -- [Untitled (intense sax solo)] (8:34-12:20) -- [Untitled (other reeds share solo)] (12:20-15:04) -- [Untitled (wild synth)] (15:04-18:28) -- ["You are on the Spaceship Earth" (vocals)] (18:28-19:39) -- [Untitled (wild synth)] (19:39-20:33) -- [Untitled (low synth and vocals "You haven't met the captain of the spaceship yet")] (20:33-21:20) -- [Untitled (wild synth)] (21:20-21:46) -- [Untitled, full ensemble] (21:46-23:18) -- [Untitled (new piece: keys, sax intro, full ensemble enters, tape ends before piece)] (23:20-31:28
SIDE B: [Untitled, sax solo (unaccompanied)] (0:00-2:10) -- [Untitled, sax solo (over ensemble)] (2:10-3:14) -- [Applause] (3:14-3:22) -- [Untitled, synth intro (horn parts and solos follow, vocals interspersed)]
Memorex 60
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SIDE A: [(piano being tuned? octaves, played separately, ascending chromatically)] (0:00-21:23) -- [(phone interruption @ 23:40)] -- [(phone interruption @ 15:13)] -- [(Chord progressions)] (21:23-24:42)
SIDE B: [Blank]
SIDE A: Unlabeled
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SIDE A: [Applause] (0-0:17) -- [Untitled, keys intro, then drums, then electric guitar and bass, then ensemble] (0:17-7:00) -- [Untitled, sax solo] (7:00-8:10) -- [Untitled, trombone solo] (8:10-9:37) -- [Untitled, full ensemble to end of selection] (9:37-12:18) -- [Untitled, conga intro, then sax, then drums, bass, tubes, then strange synth] (12:22-18:50) -- [Silence] (18:50-19:01] -- [Untitled, synth, then drums, then sax] (19:01-23:11) -- [Untitled, bass solo (quiet)] (23:18-25:02) -- [Applause then keys intro, then bass, then drums (intense keys/synth throughout)] (25:09-43:38)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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Blank tape
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New York, NY
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SIDE A: [Insert contents]
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:08-4:54) -- [Untitled] (5:54-52:30)
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Boston, MA
Contents:
SIDE A: ["Deck The Halls" (Christmas medley), drum solo/intro] (0:08) -- ["Early Autumn" (?) vocal] (9:30-24:22) -- [Untitled] (24:23-29:20) -- ["Wonderful, Marvelous"] (29:30-39:42) -- [Untitled] (39:50-48:29)
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:05-8:50) -- [Untitled] (9:05-16:05) -- [Untitled (23:45 synth breakdown)] (16:08) -- [Untitled] (23:00-26:13) -- ["Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire"] (26:13-31:44) -- ["Slumming On Park Avenue"] (31:40-40:20) -- [Applause] (40:20-40:56)
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5 Spot, New York, NY
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SIDE A: [Untitled (intense sax and keys with full ensemble)] (0:00-37:16) -- [Untitled, sax solo] (37:16-39:09) -- [Untitled, full ensemble] (39:09-40:03) -- [Untitled, keys intro (then upbeat)] (40:03-41:17) -- [Untitled, percussion solo] (41:17-48:08)
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:00-10:18) -- [Applause] (10:18-10:26) -- [Untitled] (10:28-16:18) -- [Applause] (18:18-16:25) -- [Untitled (mellow keys intro, slow tune with flute melody)] (16:25-20:00) -- [Untitled (fast blues)] (20:05-25:23) -- [Untitled (overdubs cut in, vocals @ "Desire, Passion & Ecstasy"] (25:23-32:06) -- [Untitled, keys and drums intro (then vocals @ "stargazers")] (32:00-35:45) -- [Untitled, bass, keys intro then vocals "You give some credit to have credit is due then the same thing is gonna happen to you"] (35:45-44:27) -- [Applause] (44:27-44:49) -- [Ambient sound, multiple conversations between musicans and audience] (44:49-45:50)
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SIDE A: [Untitled, drums (tape cut)] (0:04-0:13) -- [Spacious rehearsal room] (0:13-0:50) -- [Untitled] (0:52-12:31) -- [Blank to end]
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:00-1:00) -- [Sun Ra lecturing] (1:00) -- ["The Whole Race has a history against opposing progress"] -- ["The White Race has only one chance, that's me"] -- ["Sun Ra is an ambassador from the creator"] -- [Only one voice saying " Its not too late and that's me"] -- ["Fairwell to America"] (9:45) -- ["The greatest crime in America has committed is against me"] (11:00) -- ["I'm dealing with equations not theories"] (13:00) -- ["Muslims talking about peace in NYC"] (13:30) -- ["Writing Freedom Equations on blackboard"] (14:25)-- ["Be able to do justice"] (26:00)
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SIDE A: ["Nuclear War"] (0;05-7:39) -- ["Retrospect"] (7:40-?) -- ["Make Up"] -- ["1984"] -- ["Celestial Hours"] -- ["Sometimes I'm Happy"] -- ["Interstellar"] -- ["Blue Intensity"]
SIDE B: ["Celestial Love"] (0:08-5:20) -- ["Sometime I'm Happy"] -- ["Interstellarisen"] -- ["Blue Intensity"] -- ["1984"] -- ["Sophisticated Lady"] -- ["Nameless One #1"] -- ["Nameless One #2"] -- ["Smile"]
ZX90 Sony tape
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5 Spot, New York, NY
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SIDE A: [Insert contents] ; SIDE B: ["5 spot 11-21-75 two"]
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New York, NY
Contents:
SIDE A: [Introductory remarks and prayers] (0:00-4:06) -- [Untitled, piano solo] (4:06-8:08) -- [Spoken tribute] (8:08-17:18) -- [Various invitations to speak] (26:49-28:33) -- [Spoken tribute] (28:33-32:10) -- [Introductions and piano tribute (brief interruption @ 34:37 but improved sound quality afterwards)] (32:10-41:36) -- [Introduction and piano (cut off by tape)] (41:36-46:46)
SIDE B: [Piano continued from Side 1, then applause] (0:00-2:57) -- [Reading of Scriptures] (2:57-9:32) -- [Spoken tribute] (9:32-24:00) -- [Introduction for Arkestra] (24:00-34:30) -- [Arkestra] (34:30-48:16)
Audio dub made from the audio track and tape made during the Sun Ra Memorial Service, tape 1 of 2
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New York, NY
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SIDE A: [Arkestra, continued from side 2 on first tape] (0:00-4:02) -- [Intro for Randy Jordan(?)] (4:02-7:19) -- [Untitled, solo piano] (7:19-16:53) -- [Concluding remarks and thanks] (16:53-18:25) -- [Arkestra] (18:25-23:34) -- [Untitled, percussion solo] (23:34-28:06) -- [Full Arkestra] (28:08-35:12) -- [Concluding remarks, crowd dispersing] (35:12-39:11)
SIDE B: [Blank]
Audio dub made from the audio track and tape made during the Sun Ra Memorial Service, tape 2 of 2
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SIDE A: [Untitled, piano/drums/bass (poor sound quality, interruption @ 3:45, upbeat)] (0:00-5:13) -- [Untitled, drum solo)] (5:13-6:34) -- [Untitled, piano/drums/bass (conclude first song)] (6:34-7:10) -- [Untitled (slower)] (7:11-9:01) -- [Audience/Background noise] (9:01-9:16) -- [Untitled, (upbeat)] (9:16-12:22) -- [Untitled, drum solo] (12:22-13:05) -- [Untitled, sax takes lead to female] (13:05-16:15) -- [Background noise] (16:15-17:10) -- [Untitled (slow, minor key song)] (17:10-21:10) -- [Untitled, (uptempo)] (21:13-25:43) -- [Untitled (bluesy, mid-tempo)] (25:43-45:55) -- [Background noise] (45:55-46:22) -- [Untitled, blues tune cut off by tape] (46:22-49:09)
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:00-20:00) -- [Untitled] (20:00-34:45) -- [Untitled] (34:45-48:32) -- ["Sweet Georgia Brown" (cut off by tape end) (48:32-49:09)
JVC Normal Position GI-90 unlabelled, poor sound quality
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SIDE B: [Blank]
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SIDE A: [Interview concerning Black Colleges off of TV, Dr. Williams and Dr. Medeville] -- [Interview Dr. Gary re: Acupuncture] -- ["Electromedicine as analgesic"] (5:20) -- ["Nerve plexis"] (8:40) -- ["The Meridian Theory"] (9:15) -- ["12 bilateral meridians"] -- ["6 yin, 6 yang"] (12:00) -- ["Amoxi stick, herb"] (18:20) -- [Chinese Dr. Wu"] (19:13-20:40) -- [Sports news] (20:40) -- [Untitled, live show (distorted)] (21:20) -- [Untitled] (24:14) -- [Untitled, blues] (32:23) -- ["Gonna take a Journey to Saturn" (vocal)] (43:47)
SIDE B: [Untitled, female vocal, continued, June ?] (0:00-?) -- ["The Wake of Nature is God"]
SIDE B: Unlabeled
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SIDE A: ["Space Is The Place" rehearsal] -- [(Tape twisting or bad recording?)] -- [(Field recording?)] (6:45-7:26) -- [Untitled, rehearsal continues) (7:27-?)
SIDE B: ["Images-Reh 7-15-72"]
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SIDE A: ["Reh D-45"]
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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Contents:
SIDE A: ["Along Came Ra Carden"]
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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Philadelphia, PA
Contents:
SIDE A: [Untitled] (0:00-4:00) -- [Untitled] (4:30-8:00) -- [Untitled] (8:30-12:00) -- [Untitled] (12:00)
SIDE B: ["Rocks 1 Phila Jan 81 Reh Plan"]
SIDE A: tape delay?
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SIDE A: ["P:A-2 reh Aug 79"]
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
SIDE B: Unlabeled
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New York, NY
Contents:
SIDE A: [Blank]
SIDE B: [Columbia University NY May 15, 1975]
SIDE A: Unlabeled (ScoEh Highlander C-90)
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SIDE A: ["Buddy Milligan 4-15-88"]
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SIDE B: Unlabeled
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SIDE A: [answering machine tape, busy/off-hook signal] (0:00-0:40)
SIDE B: [Blank]
unlabelled Cepilo Cassette C120
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SIDE A: ["Pentecostal Preacher"] (0:00-2:20) -- [Untitled, organ] (2:20-46:45)
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
SIDE B: Unlabeled
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SIDE A: [Insert contents]
SIDE B: [Untitled, congas] (0:00-?)
SIDE B: Unlabeled
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SIDE B: Unlabeled
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SIDE A: ["Halloween In Harlem" (synth intro)] (0:00-?)
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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SIDE A: [WBEZ history of Sun Ra (@4:10 "Reflections InBlue" released] (0:00-?) -- [From the Jazz Fest] (5:05-?) -- [Sponsors] (5:30-6:00) -- [Tuning, warm-up] (6:02-7:26) -- [Intro to Sun Ra & The Solar Arkestra/chatter] (7:26-?) -- ["Love Adventure Arkestra"] (12;50-?) -- [Applause] (26:40-?)
SIDE B: [Untitled, starts with piano] (0:07-11:30) -- [Applause, comping (?)] (11:30-1:01:00) -- [Description by DJs] (1:01:00-?)
SIDE B: Unlabeled
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SIDE A: "Vintage CPD CHI w QT" ; low-level rehearsal tape ; backwards answer machine over rehearsal? ; @11:30 "I Won't Be Happy Til You're Happy Too" ; voices from a car? ; SIDE B: [UNLABELLED]
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Orleans, France
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SIDE A: "Sun Ra & His Arkestra w/Strings "Jazz Symphonique"" ; 1. 0:00-14:44 ; 2. (@30:20 great groove) 15:05-31:43 ; 3. Piano opens 31:48-44:56 ; 4. Drums open/cacophonous, sax solo cuts off at end 45:05-47:26 ; SIDE B: "Sun Ra & His Arkestra w/Strings "Jazz Symphonique"" ; 1. Piano opens 0:21-13:28 ; 2. Strings/piano open 13:35-20:00 ; 3. Piano opens 20:03-23:12 ; 4. "Love In outer Space" 23:18-30:08 ; 5. Piano opens 30:15-40:12 ; 6. Strings/horns open 40:40-47:29
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Tucson, AZ
Contents:
SIDE A: [Untitled, 1970s groove] (0:09-8:33) -- ["A Train"] (8:37-12:56) -- [Untitled]
SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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Atlanta, GA
Contents:
SIDE A: ["Space is the Place" (jumps right in)] (0:08-10:27) -- [Michael Heiler, DJ] (10:27-12:10) -- [1977/78 Solo piano "Sky & Sun" from St. Louis Blues] (12:10) -- ["I Am We Are One" (record skip @ 17:52)] -- ["Thoughts on TOTH"] (31:25) -- [DJ Michael Heiler: PSA's] (31:25-43:45) -- ["State Street Chi" fine Reflections in Blue] (43:45-?) -- [Sun Ra messin' with his boom box] (46:16-47:24)
SIDE B: ["State Street Chicago" ("Reflections in Blue" Side 1) (Jumps right in)] (0:08-4:19) -- ["Nothing for Nothing"] (4:20-8:44) -- ["Yesterday" (midi keyboard)] (8:45-16:29) -- [DJ Mark Heller] (16:29-19:09) -- [PSA against apartheid, Military] (19:10-23:24) -- ["Say It Ain't So"] (23:25-29:36) -- ["I Dream to Much"] (29:30-34:40) -- ["Reflections in Blue"] (34:42-42:59) -- [DJ Sharon] (43:05) -- ["The Sign of the Ages" Gil Scott Heron] (47:09) -- [Sun Ra? messin' with the boom box] (47:09-47:23)
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Durham, NC?
Contents:
SIDE A: [Untitled] (0:08-10:42) -- [Untitled] (0:48-14:15) -- [Untitled] (14:15-20:35) -- ["I Dream Too Much" (vocal)] (20:36-30:40) -- ["Space is the Place"] (30:40-40:00) [Sun Ra speaks] (40:00) -- [Set break (Steely Dan) and crowd] (40:50-47:33) -- [Untitled] (47:42)
SIDE B: ["Slumming on Park Avenue"] (0:05-18:20) -- [Untitled, piano solo] -- [Untitled] (22:04-29:00) -- [Untitled] (29:08-33:30) -- ["Mack the Knife"] (33:30-40:30) -- [Encore, great synthesizer] (40:30-47:37)
Side A: @ 2:45 check for digital overs
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Chicago, IL?
Contents:
SIDE A: ["A Peculrar Dimension"] (6:00) -- [Applause] (10:05) -- [Q & A] (10:17) -- [Sun Ra speaking] (12:45) -- [Applause] (28:35-28:48) -- [Sun Ra music (bleed through)]
SIDE B: ["It's After the End Of The World"] (0:00-20:33) -- [Untitled] (20:33-31:45) -- ["Space Is The Place"] (31:45-32:05)
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Chicago Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL
Contents:
SIDE A: ["Pleiades" (line buzz, 60 HZ hum)] (1:25-6:05) -- ["Living in the Space Age"] (6:22-18:03) -- ["….Satellites"] (18:03-22:18) -- [Untitled] (22:19-31:39)
SIDE B: [Untitled, end of track] (0:33-17:30) -- ["Lightning" Dedicated to Cadillac Bob] (17:43-20:40) -- [Untitled, organ intro] (20:45-24:35) -- [Untitled] (24:40-27:07) -- ["You Know that You're Wrong/Face the Music"] (27:07-41:36)
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SIDE A: [Ra lecture: "…Knowledge is laughable"] (0:00-?) -- ["Astro Black"] (1:00-?) -- [Ra: "Might as well practice and prespare for it"] (3:40-?) -- ["Astro Black" (continued)] (?-31:33)
SIDE B: [John Gilmore talking] (0:08-2:14) -- [Untitled, piano/flute intro] (2:14-?) -- ["The Say History repeats itself. What's Your story?"] (26:48-?) -- [Applause, Q & A] (27:30-31:260
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SIDE A: ["Sun Ra 5Spot 11-21-75"] ; SIDE B: [Insert contents]
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SIDE A: ["Air Is Space, Air Is Melody O Air Mana or Spirit"] (@ 5:47)
SIDE B: [music possibly from radio?] (0:03-?)-- [Ra humming "He Was Alone, The Whole World Turned"] (@26:40)
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SIDE A: [untitled, children singing] -- ["Interplanetary Music"] (@ 13:40)
SIDE B: [rehearsal]
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[Untitled, great space, reverb @ 0:03] -- [Untitled, monstrous horns, organs, drums @ 9:00] -- [Untitled, wow & flutter @ 20:00. Copy?]
SIDE B: [Untitled, weird slow speed. Wrong speed dub.]
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SIDE A: [Untitled, long silence @ 22:46] -- [Untitled] -- [short pause in tape @ 28:30] -- [blank @ 36:00-end]
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SIDE A: ["The world ended 3,000 years ago"] (@ 3:00) -- ["Space Is The Place"]
SIDE B: [Untitled, organ] (0:00-2:00) -- [Untitled, cuts to Ra and other voices] (2:00 -?) -- ["Sun Ra is a wandering philospher" (reading, translating Egyptian?)] -- ["The Sincere Call of Fathers and Grandfathers"] (5:50) -- [Untitled, typewriters in background] (22:40) -- [Untitled, music, huge reverb, Mosque] (22:40-31:04)
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SIDE A: ["Anything is music, feelings, even a picture from outer space, Human is an Egyption word. Man, mankind…"] (@12:06) -- ["People pass away, time passes"] (@30:00)
SIDE B: [Untitled] (0:07-?) -- ["Humanity on a treadmill"] (@ 0:30) -- [Book called "God's Children" Archibald Rutledge] (@ 21:30)-- ["White people have to restore what they've destroyed"] (@ 41:30)
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SIDE A: ["Symmetry is Music"] (@ 6:25) -- ["Year 2000 is destruction and doom"] (@ 25:25)
SIDE B: "Ptah is used as the basis of the Catholic Chrurch"] (6:00) -- ["Heiroglyphics are word of God, heavy phontics"] (19:50) -- ["Spelling" (in the loop)] (20:20) -- ["Golden Temple with UFO book & Jesus in Space Cape"] (27:30) -- ["I'm Not Telling You The Truth, I'm Telling You the Egyptians"] (29:20) -- ["Book- Clothes of the Sun"]
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SIDE A: ["Carefree/P.A. 4"] -- ["Interplanetary Music" (childresn's voices)]
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SIDE A: [begins In Progress in Solo] (0:06-5:00) -- [Untitled, new track] (16:29-27:42) -- ["Images"] (27:46) -- [Untitled, sound quality drops] (38:13) -- [Untitled, sound quality improves] (43:35) -- ["The African"] (47:10) -- [Untitled]
SIDE B: ["2-20-76 Jazz Showcase"]
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SIDE A: ["When they Burn the Body that has been beheaded"]
SIDE B: ["12 cell salts (print through from side A)] -- ["Anything below 7 will destroy you"] -- ["Carbon based life: C, H, O"] -- ["Electricity, life is electrical"] -- ["I don't know everything"] (45:00) -- ["Holistic Sun Village"]
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SIDE A: [Untitled, sounds like P-Funk, Dig Underground style)] -- [(bad copy, phase in 'n' out)] (5:00-5:20) -- ["R & B"] (5:30)
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SIDE A: ["Nuclear Musical Explosion" (Acoustic guitar and vocal)] (0:08-?) -- ["Stand Up, Jump Back} (Acoustic guitar and vocal)] -- ["This Disco's Under Attack" Acoustic guitar and vocal)] (?-4:05) -- [Untitled, instrumental] (4:05-5:45)
SIDE B: [Untitled] -- [Untitled, child humming] (0:03-0:32) -- [random static and bumps]
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SIDE A: ["Seminar on Nutrition Health"] (10 sec.) -- [Untitled] (0:10-?) -- ["Vitamin E and belakevotin and selenium"] -- ["heaping teaspoon of chicken cartilidge"] (32:38) -- [Tape stop] -- [(continued) "Alzheimer's (vitamin E)"] (32:42) -- ["grey hair, wrinkles (copper)"] (42:39)
SIDE B: ["Selenium (liver spots)"] (6:48) -- ["Twinkie Defense, low blood sugars"] (7:30) -- ["Chromium, Tin, Boron"]
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SIDE A: [{beginning audio blank) "to Seduce a nation"] (0:08-?) -- ["I Will Not Be A Salve"] (3:17) -- ["The European National Bank 666"] (7:00) -- ["President Regan in under house arrest"] (7:55) -- ["Mr. Bush, trilateral comission"] (9:05) -- ["Executive orders 1-4"] (16:57) -- ["Casualty Assistance Team"] (20:30) -- ["The American People Have Had Enough"] -- ["I Will Not Be A Slave"] (28:55-33:09) -- [Applause] (33:09) -- [list of books by Lindsey Williams] (35:04)
SIDE B:["Four most critical subjects today: Currency, Churches, Constituition, Control"] (0:14) -- ["Inflation set to Federal Reserve, a privately owned corporation 1913"] (9:25) -- ["Federalized Farmland"] (11:40) -- ["State Corp. vs. Ind. Const."] (38:00) -- ["Pledge of Allegiance" spoof/breakdown] (41:40)
Side A and B labels reversed on tape
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SIDE A: [#19 Ritual To Rid home of Negative Thought-Forms and/or Entities"]
SIDE B: ["#20 Invocation of Gronky-/Doddles & Other Nature Spirits"]
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SIDE A: ["Hypnosis-Arm Rising: Permissive Hands clap and Progressive Relaxation Tests"] (0:17)
SIDE B: ["Hypnosis-Intermittent Counting & Suggestion Method: Permissive Sensori-Motor Arm Levitation Method- HR"]
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SIDE A: ["Visual Fixation"]
SIDE B: ["Visual Fixation" (continued)]
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SIDE A: ["Concerning the 5th plane, astral, mental, soul body projection"] (0:10-5:32)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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SIDE A: ["Music Meet Divine Flame"] (0:08)
SIDE B: [Blank]
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SIDE A: ["Solar Plexus"]
SIDE B: ["Primal Scream"]
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SIDE A: [Narration begins] (0:58)
SIDE B: [Narration begins] (0:58)
instructional tape for astral projection, very low level
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[Concert]
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["My Soul Is A Thirst For God"] (0:02-3:10) -- ["My Soul Is A Thirst For God"] (3:15-6:45) -- [old splice blips] -- ["Shall Be No More"] (6:50-8:59) -- ["Shall Be Rejoice"] (9:00-13:10)
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[BOX: stick figure drawing]/#7 Special/11-20-67 Handel's Messiah 17 1/2 / (Chicago Music Association/ National Assocation of Negro Musicians) / Holy City- By Gaul / 12-12-67 / Shiloh ; 1. Eye Hath Not Seen-Contaltosolo_ 2.-3.- ; 1. "Eye Hath Not Seen"-Solo 0:-4:00 ; 2. Choir 4:00
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Chicago, IL
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SIDE 1 (7.5 ips) ["Astro Black"] (36:00) -- ["Astro Black Americans"] (39:59) -- ["Enlightment," cut off] (47:40)
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Richard Simmons (bs) , Albert St. James (dr) , Jeter Thompson (pno)
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SIDE 1: ["Match Maker "] (0:02-5:40) -- ["How Insensitive"] (5:40-10:00) -- ["Goodbye Summer"] (10:10-14:00) -- ["Girl Talk"] (14:15-17:30) -- ["Tribal Festical"] (17:30-21:07)
SIDE 2: ["Somewhere"] (0:02) -- ["The Joker"] --["Strangers in the Night"] -- ["Yesterday"]
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["Sermon, as recorded by Luke"] -- ["power of the Logos (the Gospel)"] (1:47) -- [Untitled, ecstatic screaming/singing towards end] (23:45) -- ["Power of the Logos"] (24:01)
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["Sound of Joy"] (0:00-7:28) -- ["Westerdays"] (7:28-24:00) -- ["King Porter Stomp"] (24:40-28:20) -- ["Yeah Man"] (28:29-31:40) -- ["Lightnin'"] (31:40) -- ["How Am I To Know"] -- ["Enlightment"] -- ["Shadow World"] (48:33)
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[rehearsal, very ambient]
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Scotland
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["There's Only Darkness"] -- [Untitled, left side distorts] -- [Untitled, synth] (8:00) -- [Untitled, hand clap groove @ 37:00] (41:20) -- [Untitled] (41:20-49:40) -- [tape pause] -- ["Space is the Place"] (49:40-55:29) -- [Untitled, baritone sax] (55:29) ["Round Midnight"] (70:00-84:30) -- ["Somewhere Over The Rainbow" piano solo] (84:30-87:20) -- ["Theme of the Stargazer"] (87:20-96:37)
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SIDE 1: ["The Planet You are Residing Has Entered the Space Age"] (34 sec.) -- ["Extrasensory Perception"] (2:00) -- [Untitled, Travers City, Michigan] (3:46)
SIDE 2: [transferred @ 3.75 double speed, Left mono] (0:07-10:35) -- [(@ 6:00 synchronicity point) Blank] (10:35) -- ["Extrasensory Faculty of Mind That Operates Like a Computing Machine"] -- [Right reverse blank] (0:00-4:00) -- [RVS] (4:01-44:50) -- [#2] (44:50-55:27)
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SIDE 1: [Untitled] (6 min.) -- [Records in and out] (6:30-7:10) -- ["O Holy Night (someone singing with radio)] (7:10)
SIDE 2: [Great saturation] -- [Blank]
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SIDE 1: [Unknown theme, 7 1/2 ips] -- [Little Blip] (0:00-0:05) -- [Blank, leader] (0:05-0:39) -- ["Unknown Theme"] (0:39-5:34)
SIDE 2: ["As Long As I May Live (A-LA-JAZZ)" (hot output)] (5:42) -- [Many splices dried out] (13:27)
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[Live concert, African Percussion Ensemble] -- [Horn solos]
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SIDE 1: [stereo] (0:02-4:00)
SIDE 2: [mono Left] (4:00-15:03) -- [mono Left] (15:04-19:50) -- [Blank]
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[(forward) Percussion and Rhodes] (0:00-6:50) -- [Percussion and Rhodes] (6:50-12:30) -- [Percussion and Rhodes, continued] (12:30-28:00) -- ["Lullaby"] (28:00} -- [El train, kids playing in background] (47:30) -- [Live Concert] (55:00)
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[Rain on the air conditioner?] (0:00-6:47) -- [Blank]
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[Left Blank, Right concert] -- ["Passion Place" (synth voice?)] (16:11) -- ["Worshipping Death" (strangers in paradise)] (23:00) -- [Untitled, funky] (29:30) -- [African Percussion Procession] (95:43)
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[Commercial vocal demo reel] (0:00-1:10) -- ["Chum 1050"] (1:10) -- [endless examples of 'Music Radio…' (great synths)] -- [Untitled, mellow] (3:00) -- [Untitled, country] (4:00) -- [Untitled, militant banjo?] (6:20) -- [Untitled, wah-wah and synths] (8:50) -- [CKLW! Detroit] (9:05) -- [WASH, stereo] (10:05) -- [Rock 'n' Roll parodies] (14:00) -- ["Thank You"/Johnny Mann] (18:33) -- [End of LP] (19:10) -- [rest blank]
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[Untitled, concert recording] (0:02) -- ["Sky Is A Sea of Darkness", a capella] (25:00) -- ["Somewhere Over The Rainbow"] (34:00) -- [Untitled, piano] (34:20)
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[Busch Bavarian Beer, 22 takes, track 1-24] (13 min.) -- ["Tap Top"] (13:00-21:00) -- ["Busch Beer"] (21:00-27:00)
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[Untitled] (0:00-0:30) -- [Untitled, concert, with wah-wha guitar] (0:30-28:03)
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SIDE 1: [Mic/ voice check] (0:05) -- [little clicks and squeaks] (1:00) -- [little beeps, partially erased] (2:51)
SIDE 2: [intermittent noises] (0:00-0:25) -- [Untitled, great recording] -- ["Calling Planet Earth"] (0:25-21:00) -- [intermittent noises] (21:00)
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[Mr. Ra, left side only] -- [solo piano] (0:02-32:01) -- [right side is blank]
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["Dleiades"] -- ["The Work of Nature is GOD"] (40:00)
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[Untitled] (0:00-3:10) -- [Untitled] (3:20)
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