music of the future

some recent explorations of 'fate in a pleasant mood' and 'holiday for
soul dance' led me to read about the unreleased album 'music of the
future'. from 'the earthly recordings' discography (thanks messrs.
campbell and trent!!!), i gathered:

Further confirmation of the common origin of many of these tracks is
provided by a Saturn test pressing found in a Montréal record store by
François Lamarche. The test pressing was made at Sheldon Recording
Studios (aka the Chess studios in Chicago) and titled simply, Music of
the Future by Sun Ra Arkestra. Side A contained "Space Mates," "But
Not for Me," and "The Others in There [sic] World." Side B had
"Lights on the [sic] Satellite," "Day by Day," "Ankhnaton," and
"Holiday for Strings." The pressing contains Alton Abraham's old
address at 4115 South Drexel -- and gives a Montréal address and phone
number for Sun Ra. It was therefore cut in the summer or early fall
of 1961. However, Saturn did not actually issue any LPs from this
session until 1965, and when they began to appear, the tracks had been
redistributed.

so the questions start...

does anyone have any further info about that test pressing? how many
of them were there? plain old white jacket? full color cover and
labels?

> Alton Abraham's old address at 4115 South Drexel

that would be for saturn research, right?

> gives a Montréal address and phone number for Sun Ra

i do get to montreal every so often. would anyone have that address
and phone number? it would certainly incentivize me to do a road trip
and look that up.

any help with those? thanks, ahead of time, for your replies!

I-) ihor
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