Squidco: Geerken, Hartmut / Chris Trent: Omniverse Sun Ra (Expanded And Revised 3rd Edition: 2026) [BOOK]

Omniverse Sun Ra (Expanded And Revised 3rd Edition: 2026) [BOOK]

Originally published in 1994, Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent's comprehensive reference of Sun Ra includes a pictorial and annotated discography, essays and photo documents, photographs; this 3rd edition adds new photographs, photo documents, and essays.

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Chris Trent-author

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304 pages, 290 × 245 mm hardcover, French-fold cover with metallic foil blocking on blue Faimei cloth.

UPC: 9780993351426

Label: Art Yard
Catalog ID: ARTYARD 001BK
Squidco Product Code: 37716

Format: BOOK
Condition: New
Released: 2015
Country: USA
Packaging: Book

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"Revised and expanded third edition of Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent's comprehensive reference Omniverse Sun Ra, originally published in 1994.

Omniverse Sun Ra features many previously unpublished photographs of Sun Ra and His Arkestra in New York in 1966 and Germany in 1979 by Val Wilmer, and Hartmut Geerken's previously unpublished photographs from Heliopolis in Cairo, Egypt, in 1971, in addition to an updated comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography by Chris Trent, including chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel, and record label indexes, as well as indexes of shellac 78RPM records, 45 RPM singles, jackets, and labels.

Also includes essays and photo documents by Hartmut Geerken, Chris Trent, Amiri Baraka, Robert L. Campbell, Chris Cutler, Gabi Geist, Sigrid Hauff, Karl Heinz Kessler, Robert Lax, and Salah Ragab.

Revised and expanded second edition of Hartmut Geerken and Chris Trent's comprehensive Sun Ra reference Omniverse Sun Ra, originally published in 1994. - Full-color 304-page hardcover book; French fold cover with metallic silver foil blocking on cyan faimei cloth; 290mm x 245mm portrait. - Features many previously unpublished photographs by Val Wilmer and Hartmut Geerken, an updated comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography by Chris Trent, essays and photo documents by Amiri Baraka, Robert L. Campbell, Chris Cutler, Gabi Geist, Sigrid Hauff, Karl Heinz Kessler, Robert Lax, and Salah Ragab, and more. "-Art Yard

304 pages, 290 × 245 mm hardcover, French-fold cover with metallic foil blocking on blue Faimei cloth.

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German writer, musician, composer, filmmaker, and archivist whose work ranged across experimental music, literature, radio art, and visual culture. A close associate of Sun Ra from the early 1970s, Geerken helped arrange the Arkestra's first Egyptian visit and assembled the extensive Waitawhile Sun Ra Archive, becoming one of the foremost documentarians of Ra's work. He died in 2021.

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Chris Trent: "British jazz engineer and Sun Ra expert. He co-authored, with Prof. Robert Campbell, The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra, Volume 2."

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/425665-Chris-Trent)
11/9/2026

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