These albums are important because they are Sun Ra’s first recordings before the Saturn sessions, made in 1956 when the Chicago musicians were searching for something more, something beyond.
In 1957, Transition Records gave us Volume 1, but before Volume 2 could be released, the label went bankrupt, and it took more than a decade for it to finally be released on the Delmark label. Today, for the first time, both volumes are available, as they were meant to be from the beginning.
Volume 2 is presented here for the first time with the silver cover originally planned by Transition!

Tracklist:
A1 El Is The Sound Of Joy 3:53
A2 Overtones Of China 3:22
A3 Two Tones 3:39
A4 Paradise 4:28
A5 Planet Earth 4:21
B1 Ankh 6:28
B2 Saturn 3:57
B3 Reflections In Blue 6:18
B4 El Viktor 2:29