Sun Interlude (Volume 1: 3rd August 1970) (8:47)
Love In Outer Space (2:34)
Shadow World (Excerpt) (2:31)
Cosmic Explorer (Continuation) (4:31)
Piano Solo (Untitled) (15:40)
Friendly Galaxy No 2 (0:48)
Why Go To The Moon?/It's After The End Of The World (5:36)
Spontaneous Simplicity (5:41)
Percussion Interlude (4:40)
Interstellar Low Ways (6:16)
Tone Science (interlude) (1:28)
Satellites Are Spinning (3:48)
Sun Ra & His Band From Outer Space (1:57)
Calling Planet Earth (2:42)
We Travel The Spaceways (2:42)
The World Of Lightning (7:00)
Blackmyth; I) Shadows Took Shape II) Strange Worlds III) Journey Through The Outer Darkness (7:53)
Myth Tone Poem (Untitled) (1:58)
Three Cheers For Ra (1:47)
Prelude (Volume 2: 5th August 1970) (10:17)
Theme Of The Stargazers (7:17)
Satellites Are Spinning (1:20)
Second Stop Is Jupiter (6:16)
Spontaneous Simplicity (10:40)
Friendly Galaxy No 2 (8:55)
Pleasant Twilight (14:16)
Outer Spaceways Incorporated/You Better Get Ready (7:21)
Calling Planet Earth (3:02)
Space Bop (Untitled) (7:28)
Sun Ra & His Band From Outer Space/Theme Of The Stargazer/I’ll Wait For You (3:35)
Somebody Else’s Idea/Walking On The Moon/It’s After The End Of The World (7:49)
We Travel The Spaceways (2:07)
Tone Science (interlude) (3:45)
Days Of Wine & Roses (5:38)
Satellites Are Spinning (1:38)
Review: Captured over two nights in August 1970, Sun Ra's landmark sets at Fondation Maeght mark his first performances outside North America and document one of the Arkestra's most potent live iterations. Set in a modern art gallery in southern France, the concerts land Ra, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen and co. amid a cross-disciplinary festival alongside Albert Ayler and LaMonte Young, and show the Arkestra in full visionary flight. 'Love In Outer Space' and 'Shadow World' blend ritual chant, sci-fi groove and volcanic improvisation, while 'Cosmic Explorer' and 'Spontaneous Simplicity' show the group folding modal jazz into galactic swing and freeform abstraction. Organ blasts, interstellar percussion, surreal monologues and projections of Egyptian gods and rockets made this a total work. Caux's recollections of stunned audiences match the recordings' scale: volatile yet tightly bound, cosmic but rooted in Black American avant-garde traditions. This new Strut edition spans four CDs and adds extensive liner notes and restored photos by Philippe Gras, pulling the Maeght nights from myth into focus. It's not a mere live document - more like a transmission, decoded decades later. If Ra was right that "space is the place," this is one of its clearest signals.
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