Sun Ra - Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC

released October 29, 2024

Personnel

Sun Ra: piano, Prophet VS synth, Yamaha DX7, vocals
John Gilmore: tenor saxophone, percussion, lead vocal ("East of the Sun")
Danny Ray Thompson: baritone saxophone, percussion
Marshall Allen: alto saxophone, flute, percussion
Al Evans: flugelhorn
Fred Adams: trumpet
Tyrone Hill: trombone
Eloe Omoe: bass clarinet
James Jacson: bassoon, Infinity-drum
Bruce Edwards: electric guitar
John Ore: bass
John Brown: drums
Atakatune: conga, percussion
June Tyson: vocals
Dance, gesture, and Virtual Reality: Michael Ray, Barday (Williams), Eddie Thomas [Thomas Thaddeus]

Produced for first commercial release by Irwin Chusid
Original sessions produced by Sun Ra and Bill Sebastian
Recorded at Mission Control Studios, Westford, Massachusetts, August 25, 1986
Session recording engineer: Sidney Burton
Assistant engineer: Kent Wagner
VHS mix engineer: Jimi Randolph

Original 24-track tapes transferred by Joe Pires and David Minehan at Woolly Mammoth Studios, Waltham, Massachusetts, May 17 and August 31, 2016
Tape baking: Jonathan Wyner / M-Works
Mixed by Sean Slade and Brother Cleve at Woolly Mammoth Studios, October 3, 2016; March 27–28 and April 27–28, 2017
Engineer: David Minehan
Digital editing by I.C., 2020

Mastered by: Peter Beckmann and Joe Lizzi
Vinyl cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery

Cover photo by Charles Steck, courtesy Dorothy Steck
Photo tinting by Edward ODowd

Release co-ordination: Quinton Scott and Hugo Mendez

Thanks to Thomas Jenkins, Jr./Sun Ra LLC, Christopher Trent, Quinton Scott

This album is dedicated to Brother Cleve, who passed away in September 2022.

All compositions by Sun Ra © Enterplanetary Koncepts (BMI)
except "East of the Sun" by Brooks Bowman © Anne Rachel Music (ASCAP)
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