Black Utopia: Sun Ra Lectures & Rehearsals

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Release Date: 2012

Label: Drylongso

Edition of 40 hand numbered two record set plus DVD-Audio of the 2 LPs. Cover is hand numbered on spine and enclosed certificate is signed and numbered. Created by San Diego filmmaker Cauleen Smith for her Black Utopia Movie.

From an enclosed paper strip:
"Black Utopia directs the logic of string theory and the tactics of speculative fiction toward exploring the ephemeral Sun Ra - Alton Abraham Audio Archives at the Experimental Sound Studio, collected vintage Lp's, interviews and eavesdropping recorded in Chicago from 2010 to 2012, and performed commissions from Chicago artists Krista Franklin and Avery R. Young.

Edited by Cauleen Smith. Mixed and Mastered by Todd Carter at the Experimenal Sound Studio, June 2012. Produced by Threewalls, Chicago, Experimental Sound Studio, and Cauleen Smith.

Contents:
Two: 180 gram 12" records in hand screenprinted archival chipboard jackets
One: DVD-Audio
One: 32 page booklet
One: Signed, numbered certificate of authenticity

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