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Release Date: 2017-11-24

Label: Modern Harmonic

Released for Record Store Day Black Friday 2017. Limited to 1000 copies. Tracks C2, C3, E1, F4 Stereo. All other selections Mono.

Recordings produced for Sun Ra and Enterplanetary Koncepts (BMI), except: "Tiny Pyramids" by Ronnie Boykins, Enterplanetary Koncepts (BMI) and "April in Paris" by Venom Duke and Yip Harburg, Glocca Morra Music Corp., Kay Duke Music, and Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP).

Recordings produced by Sun Ra for Saturn Records, under the business aegis of Alton Abraham
Album produced by Irwin Chusid
Audio transfers by Michael D. Anderson, Sun Ra Music Archive
Audio restoration by Michael D. Anderson and Irwin Chusid
Mastered by Brendan Ford at Sundazed Studios North
Project Management: Jay Millar
Text Editing: Austin Gray and Brian Thompson
Production Coordination: Stephanie Kennedy
Art direction: Laura Lindgren

Cover art: "Antares" by Chesley Bonestell, restoration by Laura Lindgren. Original cover artwork reproduced courtesy of Bonestell LLC

Back cover photo of Ronnie Boykins photographer unidentified, courtesy Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. Thanks to Christine Colburn and Patti Gibbons

Thanks to Christopher Trent, Robert Campbell, John Szwed, Br. Cleeve, Paul Youngquist, Piet Schreuders, Garrett Shelton, Peter Dennett, Lisa Capuano, Jim Elferdink, and Byron Werner

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