Sun Ra Arkestra & Salah Ragab – Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt – New LP

Strut present the final instalment in their series of reissues of Sun Ra’s historic recordings in Egypt with The Sun Ra Arkestra meets Salah Ragab in Egypt plus the Cairo Jazz Band, originally released on Greek label Praxis in 1983.Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt by Sun Ra Arkestra & Salah RagabSalah Ragab first encountered the Arkestra at a concert at the house of Goethe Institut ex-pat Hartmut Geerken duringr> the Arkestra’s first visit to Cairo and Heliopolis in December 1971 and, although Ra and Ragab did not meet in person on that occasion, they did meet and bond together when Ra returned to Egypt in 1983, resulting in these recordings. The Arkestra had been touring Europe in March 1983 and made their way to Cairo, playing a number of concerts during April at the Il Capo / Il Buco venue before recording the two superb studio versions of Ragab compositions, ‘Egypt Strut’ and ‘Dawn’, at El Nahar Studios in Heliopolis in May, featuring Salah Ragab on congas.K