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sun ra - space is the place: book, dvd, cd - harte recordings - books

The 40th Anniversary Celebration of Sun Ra's Space Is The Place. This limited edition release will include a hardcover book, a DVD of the film with new producer commentary, and a CD of the soundtrack, Check!

It was forty years ago when Sun Ra's galactic-sploitation epic Space Is The Place was released to theaters around the USA. For the first time, Earthlings were able to look into the reality of Sun Ra; jazzman, alien, legend spaceman. Space Is The Place is a movie beyond explanation, and yet it still remains one of the craziest, psychedelic, music-powered head-twisting fest ever to hit the theaters.

Book:

Essays from screenplay writer Seth Hill and director John Coney
Forward by Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips
Interview with Ray Johnson (who played the Overseer in the film)
Comments about the film from Arkestra members Marshall Allen and Danny Thompson
Dozens of never-seen-before photos, taken on and off set during the filming of the movie
Over 40 pages of commentary
125 pages

DVD:

Restored versions of both the original cut of Space Is The Place and the uncut version
New DVD commentary from producer Jim Newman
Sun Ra & Arkestra home movies
NTSC all region, 153 minutes

CD:

Soundtrack with two additional tracks added that were never present on the soundtrack release, but are in the film