Sun Ra - Janus

Janus derives from a batch of tapes that Sun Ra sold to Black Lion Records in the early 1970s to fund travel costs for the Arkestra, but wasn't released until a 1999 CD from 1201 Music. Most of the information in the CD liner notes is incorrect or questionable. The first 3 cuts were released on the rare Saturn release Invisible Shield in 1974 as well as a confusing series of hybrid releases paired with various other Sun Ra album sides. The other 2 tracks were previously unreleased at the time and come from the same tour of New York state colleges in 1966 that produced the album Nothing Is (ESP-disk). It has been listed as a 2nd set from the same St. Lawrence appearance as that album, but my working hypothesis is that it is actually from a different show on the tour at the University of Buffalo. This release is obsolete as of the digital issues of Invisible Shield (sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-invisible-shield) and St. Lawrence 1966 (sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/st-lawrence-universi…) which is the same content as College Tour Volume One: The Complete Nothing Is 1 Island In The Sun A complete performance (10:23) sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/island-in-the-sun-co… 2a The Invisible Shield sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-invisible-shield 2b Janus sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/janus-stereo 3 Velvet sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/velvet-2nd-set 4 Joy This is an edit from sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/interplanetary-chaos… sunramusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-second-stop-is-j… CD 1201 Music 1999

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