Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent Sun Ra - Omniverse (3rd Edition — Expanded & Revised)

Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent. 304 Pages. Binding: French fold cover, metallic foil blocking on Faimei cloth hardback. Size: 290mm x 245mm Portrait. With many photographs of Sun Ra and His Arkestra in New York 1966 and Germany 1979 by Val Wilmer and Hartmut Geerken’s photographs from Heliopolis Cairo Egypt 1971. Updated Discography by Chris Trent. Comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography, including chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel and record label indexes. Shellac Records, 78RPM indexes, 45 RPM Singles indexes. Jackets and Labels indexes. Essays, photo documents by Hartmut Geerken, Val Wilmer, Amiri Baraka, Robert L. Campbell, Chris Cutler, Gabi Geist, Sigrid Hauff, Karl Heinz Kessler and Salah Ragab.

Art Yard present the fully revised 3rd edition of Hartmut Geerken’s long unobtainable book 'Omniverse – Sun Ra', a definitive hitch-hiker’s guide to the Sun Ra galaxy! Here as a hardback portrait 304 Pages with a French fold cover!

This new, completely revised edition features:

- A fully revised discography by Chris Trent, co-author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra including: comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography, chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel and record label indexes. Shellac Records, 78RPM indexes, 45 RPM Singles indexes. Jackets and Labels indexes, new full colour images of hundreds of Sun Ra album covers, posters, handbills and ephemera and reproductions of rare hand drawn LP sleeves.

- Articles by Geerken, Amiri Baraka, Chris Cutler, Robert L. Campbell, Salah Ragab, Sigrid Hauff, Robert Lax and others.

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