Live in Egypt 1

Infobox Album |
Name = Live in Egypt 1
Type = Live album
Artist = Sun Ra and his Arkestra


Released = 1972
Recorded = December 12-16, 1971
Genre = Free Jazz
Length =
Label = El Saturn Records / Thoth Intergalactic
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "It's After the End of the World"
(1972)
This album = "Live in Egypt 1"
(1972)
Next album = "Nidhamu"
(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 | publisher=Pantheon| date=1997|isbn=0862417228|pages=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]

Track listing

#"Discipline 27"
#"Solar-Ship Voyage"
#"Cosmo-Darkness"
#"The Light Thereof"
#"Friendly Galaxy No 2"
#"To Nature's God"
#"Why Go To The Moon?"

Personnel

*John Gilmore - tenor saxophone
*Danny Davis - alto saxophone, flute
*Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute, oboe
*Kwame Hadi - trumpet, conga drums
*Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone
*Elo Omoe - bass clarinet
*Tommy Hunter - percussion
*Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute
*June Tyson - vocal
*Larry Narthington - alto saxophone, conga drum
*Lex Humphries - percussion
*Clifford Jarvis - percussion
*Hakim Rahim - alto saxophone, flute
*Sun Ra - organ, Mini Moog, piano

*Tam Fiofori - Engineer

References