Hartmut Geerken & Chris Trent Omniverse – Sun Ra 3rd Edition

Label / ART YARD
Category / Music, Spiritual Jazz
Code / 978-0-9933514-2-6

Omniverse – Sun Ra by Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent Expanded and revised hardback 3rd edition Published by Art Yard – UK Over Thirty years after its first publication, ART YARD are proud to present the revised 3rd edition of Hartmut Geerken’s Omniverse – Sun Ra, a definitive hitch-hiker’s guide to the Sun Ra galaxy. The new, revised edition features: Photographs of Sun Ra and the Arkestra by Hartmut Geerken and Val Wilmer. Fully 2025 revised discography by Chris Trent, co-author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra. Articles by Geerken, Amiri Baraka, Chris Cutler, Robert L. Campbell, Salah Ragab, Gabi Geist and others. New full colour images of hundreds of Sun Ra album covers, posters, handbills and ephemera, including reproductions of rare hand drawn and coloured LP sleeves. For five decades, Sun Ra brightened planet Earth with his unique, provocative and esoteric musical philosophy. Touring the world with his formidable Arkestra, he represented and affirmed a new vision of Black history and culture, embodied and spread a new and powerfully influential Black philosophy, and revolutionised music with sounds from beyond the purple star zone. Ra accepted no limitation imposed on him by earthly powers: his vista was the universe, his travel was interplanetary, his music borne along the spaceways as he delivered messages of light to a sleeping world. Now more than ever, the value and radicalism of his protean musical inventiveness, his socially collective self-determination, and his philosophical and poetic profundity can be seen. Where Ra went, we are slowly going, and we will find his message for us waiting there. Omniverse – Sun Ra is a major contribution to Sun Ra studies, and a dazzling overview of its subjects astonishingly productive career on Earth – the definitive companion to the many worlds of Sun Ra. Omniverse Sun Ra 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.

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