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

Over thirty years after its first publication, Art Yard present the revised third edition of Hartmut Geerken's Omniverse - Sun Ra, a definitive hitch-hiker's guide to the Sun Ra galaxy. This new revised edition features a fully revised discography by Chris Trent, co-author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra. Includes hundreds of images of Sun Ra album covers, posters, handbills and ephemera, including reproductions of rare hand drawn and colored LP sleeves. Bound in French fold cover, metallic foil blocking on blue Faimei cloth hardback. Comprehensive pictorial and annotated discography, including chronological discography and alphabetical record title, composition, personnel and record label indexes. Also features jackets and label indexes and hundreds of photographs of Sun Ra and His Arkestra in New York 1966 and Germany 1979 by Val Wilmer and Hartmut Geerken from Heliopolis Cairo Egypt 1971 an updated discography by Chris Trent, co-author of The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra. With essays, photo documents by Hartmut Geerken, Val Wilmer, Amiri Baraka, Robert L. Campbell, Chris Cutler, Gabi Geist,Salah Ragab, Sigrid Hauff, and Karl Heinz Kessler.