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    Sun Ra Sleeping Beauty

    Art Yard
    • Sun Ra – Door of the Cosmos
    • Sun Ra – Sleeping Beauty
    • 1. Springtime Again
    • 2. Door of the Cosmos
    • 3. Sleeping Beauty

    The holy grail of Sun Ra albums! Utterly essential deep jazz with vocals and Sun Ra on electric piano - this is up there with Lanquidity as one of his best albums! Very highly recommended! If you like 1970s deep jazz then you need this album - it's as simple as that!

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        Sun RaLanquidity (Deluxe Edition)Strut
        Deluxe, definitive issue of the greatest Sun Ra album, recorded in NYC, 1978! Super-deep, funky odd-ball jazz with spooky whispered vocals! Cult classic...
        • – Lanquidity
        • – Where Pathways Meet
        • – That’s How I Feel
        • – Twin Stars Of Thence
        • – There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)
        • 4×LP Box (1.5kg) STRUT237LPB£52.00
          • Silver foil box, first 2LP set in a foil / magenta sleeve, 2nd set in 2x yellow A4 sheets incl. a 12-page over-sized booklet.

          • Remastered versions of main album and alternative versions cut at 45 RPM across 4xLPs

          • Includes unseen photos and extensive sleeve notes by Bob Blank, Michael Ray and Danny Ray Thompson of Sun Ra Arkestra and Tom Buchler of Philly Jazz
        • 2×CD STRUT237CD£16.00
          • 6-panel foil digipak w/16pp booklet.

          • Includes unseen photos and extensive sleeve notes by Bob Blank, Michael Ray and Danny Ray Thompson of Sun Ra Arkestra and Tom Buchler of Philly Jazz
        • LP STRUT237LPC£30.99
          (Strut 25th Anniversary Edition) - Standard Weight, Black Vinyl LP Housed In Tip-On Sleeve With OBI, Poster And Insert.
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        Sun RaSpaceways (RSD 16)Org Music
        LP - £28.99Record Store Day 2016 Release. Receiving its first ever vinyl release for Record Store Day 2016, 'Spaceways' features live performances by...
            Sun RaWhen Sun Comes Out (1963)Saturn Research
            When Sun Comes Out finds Ra working with the Arkestra once more.T he sound is given a cosmological context and cut with an exotic ambience.
              Sun RaSound Sun Pleasure (1970)El Saturn Records
              Recorded 59 in Chicago, released on El Saturn in 1970. Sun Ra - piano, celeste, gong Hobart Dotson - trumpet Marshall Allen - alto sax, flute James...
                Sun RaArt Forms Of Dimensions TomorrowSaturn
                Released on Saturn in 1965, but recorded four or five years earlier, this is often considered the first of Ra's 'outside' recordings, with a definitive...
                  Sun RaSun Ra And His Solar Arkestra Visits Planet EarthSaturn
                  Reissue of incredibly rare 1966 album, beautifully done on 180 gram vinyl
                    Sun RaMonorails And SatellitesSaturn Research
                    Incredible album of solo piano from Ra!

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                      Ian SimmondsThe Brunswick VariationsArt Yard
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                      • – Standing Man
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                      • LP (180 gram) ArtYardLP3021£26.00
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