Live in Egypt 1

{{Short description|Live album by Sun Ra}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Live in Egypt 1

| type = live

| artist = Sun Ra and his Arkestra

| cover = SunRaInEgypt1Cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1972

| recorded = December 12–16, 1971

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Free Jazz

| length =

| label = El Saturn Records / Thoth Intergalactic

| producer =

| prev_title = It's After the End of the World

| prev_year = 1972

| next_title = Nidhamu

| next_year = 1972

}}

Live in Egypt 1 is a recording by the jazz musician Sun Ra and his Astro-Intergalactic-Infinity Arkestra, documenting their first visit to Egypt.

Tracks 1-4 are from a television broadcast on December 16, 1971 and include an interview with Sun Ra; tracks 5-7 are recordings made at a domestic concert in Heliopolis 4 days previously.{{cite book | last=Szwed|first=John F| title=Space is the Place: The life and times of Sun Ra | url=https://archive.org/details/spaceisplacelive00szwed1| url-access=registration| publisher=Pantheon| year=1997|isbn=0-86241-722-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/spaceisplacelive00szwed1/page/292 292–293]}}

In various editions, the record has sometimes been known by other titles, "Dark Myth Equation Visitation" and "Nature's God" {{cite web| accessdate = 2008-08-17| title = Sun Ra' discography| url = http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/disco.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080921165546/http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/disco.html| archive-date = 2008-09-21| url-status = dead}}

Track listing

  1. "Discipline 27"
  2. "Solar-Ship Voyage"
  3. "Cosmo-Darkness"
  4. "The Light Thereof"
  5. "Friendly Galaxy No 2"
  6. "To Nature's God"
  7. "Why Go To The Moon?"

Personnel

References