Hiroshima

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 1985-11-10

Label: Saturn Research

One of these releases Sun Ra sold from the Orchestra bus on tour.

White labels, some of them were handwritten e. g. with golden Edding: HIROSHIMA SUN RA + THE ARKESTRA.

Generic white cover which the band used to handpaint e. g. with yellow squares.
On it with silver Edding:
SUN RA
HIROSHIMA
and one more line with phantasy signs (see images)

On the bottom of the cover some brown edding hatching.
Back of cover stayed plain white.

Some came with a sticker:
Imported exclusively & supplied by RECOMMENDED RECORDS, 387 Wandsworth Rd., London SW8

From the Sun Ra discography page:

103. Sun Ra
Hiroshima
(Stars that Shine Darkly, vol. 1)
Saturn 10-11-85 (1985)
matrix Sun Ra 11-83 A/B

Side A:
Stars That Shine Darkly (Ra) (part 1)
Ra- p; with the Sun Ra All Stars: Lester Bowie-tp; Don Cherry-tp; Archie Shepp-ss only; Marshall Allen-as, EVI; John Gilmore-ts; prob. Eloe Omoe-cacl; Richard Davis-b; Philly Joe Jones-d; Clifford Jarvis-d. Live in Montreux, Switzerland, between Nov. 2 and 5, 1983.

[Ted Panken on WKCR, via Fitzgerald; presence of bass clarinet noted by Trent]

Side B:
Hiroshima (Ra)
Sun Ra-pipe org. Live in Atlanta, GA, 1984 or 1985

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