Sun Ra - Nature's God (1972)

Following the Arkestra's European tour of 1971, they boarded a plane to Cairo and arrived in Egypt on December 7, 1971.  These titles are taken from a private concert at the House of Hartmut Geerken, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, December 12, and from a Cairo TV broadcast December 16, 1971.

Thoth Intergalactic KH-1272, Live in Egypt Volume 1, was issued in 1972.  It has also been issued as Saturn as Saturn 1272 and titled Dark Myth Equation Visitation and Nature's God.  There are varying covers for these releases, including a version of Nature's God with a "printed jacket incorporating a brown photo of Ra and entourage entering an Egyptian temple" (Peter Roberts).

From The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra 2nd ed.

 

 

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Sun Ra and his Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra
Live in Egypt 1
Dark Myth Equation Visitation
Nature's God
Saturn 1272
Thoth Intergalactic KH-1272 (1972)

Side A:
Discipline 27 (Ra)
Interview with Ra
Solar Ship Voyage (Ra)
Interview with Ra (concluded)
Cosmo-Darkness (Ra)
The Light Thereof (Ra)

Side B:
Friendly Galaxy No. 2 (Ra)
To Nature's God (Ra)
Why Go to the Moon? (Ra)

Sun Ra (Tiger org, Mini-Moog syn, upright p); Kwame Hadi (tp, cga;) Marshall Allen (as, fl, perc); Danny Davis (as, fl); Larry Northington (as, cga); John Gilmore (ts, perc, d); Pat Patrick (bars, eb); Danny Thompson (bars, fl); Eloe Omoe (bcl, fl); Hakim Rahim (as, fl); Clifford Jarvis  (d, perc); Tommy Hunter (d, as); Lex Humphries (d); June Tyson (voc, dance); prob. Cheryl Banks (dance, voc); prob. Wisteria el Moondew [Judith Holton] (dancae, voc); Richard Wilkinson (light show).

Side A: TV broadcast, Cairo, 12/16/1971;
Side B: House of Hartmut Geerken, Heliopolis, Cairo, 12/12/71. [Info from Geerken and Stahl]

The first trip to Egypt immediately followed the second European tour of 10-12/71. Discipline 27 hasn't gone through mitosis yet; it opens with the riffs later called Discipline 27-II then moves on to what is now called Discipline 27. Friendly Galaxy No. 2 is a completely different piece from the original Friendly Galaxy, though it retains the modal exoticism. To Nature's God is a space ditty unrelated to the performance on MBWI [rlc; thanks to Mark Webber for a tape] 

From The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra 1st & 2nd ed.

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