Sun Ra Arkestra & Salah Ragab - The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt


Label:

Strut

Genre:

Jazz

Product No.:
ASTU 266
EAN: 4062548032413
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Vinyl Record



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Historic meeting of Sun Ra Arkestra and Salah Ragab!

Recorded for the Praxis label in 1983

Packaged in full original artwork with gold detail on the jacket

Includes unseen photos and extensive new liner notes by Hartmut Geerken and Paul Griffiths

Final release in Strut's definitive series of Sun Ra's recordings in Egypt during the 1970s and '80s

Album fully remastered by Technology Works

Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra's historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983.

Salah Ragab first encountered the Arkestra at a concert at the house of Goethe Institut ex-pat Hartmut Geerken during the Arkestra's first visit to Cairo and Heliopolis in December 1971 and, although Ra and Ragab did not meet in person on that occasion, they did meet and bond together when Ra returned to Egypt in 1983, resulting in these recordings. The Arkestra had been touring Europe in March 1983 and made their way to Cairo, playing a number of concerts during April at the Il Capo / Il Buco venue before recording the two superb studio versions of Ragab compositions, "Egypt Strut" and "Dawn," at El Nahar Studios in Heliopolis in May, featuring Salah Ragab on congas.

Kostas Yiannoulopoulos, organiser of the Praxis festival in Greece, released the recordings as the A-side of this album, with three tracks by Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Orchestra on Side B. "Ramadan" and "Oriental Mood" were first heard on the Cairo Jazz Orchestra album Egypt Strut released in 1973 while "A Farewell Theme," received its very first release on this record, written following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970; the piece was played at the much-loved President's funeral.

This first ever official reissue of the album features previously unseen photos and memorabilia alongside brand new liner notes by Hartmut Geerken and Paul Griffiths. The album is released in its original artwork and is fully remastered by Technology Works.



Side A
1. Egypt Strut
2. Dawn

Side B
1. Ramadan
2. Oriental Mood
3. A Farewell Theme

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