In May, 2024, Strut Records released Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The OVC. Described as a “musical treasure from the enigmatic Sun Ra‘s expansive discography,” this full length album draws on unreleased recordings of Sun Ra’s collaboration with Bill Sebastian and the OVC.
Bookmat gave the album a rave review, writing: “These particular sessions were dubbed in 1986 at Mission Control Studios in Massachusetts, and since they were never intended for release they’d never been properly mixed. Chusid got together with engineer Joe Lizzi and they gave the material the royal treatment, making sure the Arkestra’s visceral performance was rendered precisely. And it’s phenomenal stuff – crystal clear, with Sun Ra’s bizarre organ parts and oddball DX7 interludes taking the focus. There are renditions of plenty of well-known Sun Ra standards here, but the cherry is a blistering 22-minute performance of ‘Discipline 27-11’.”
Sondohm wrote: “Introducing a musical treasure from the enigmatic Sun Ra’s expansive discography, Strut Records proudly presents “Inside The Light World: Sun Ra Meets The OVC”. This extraordinary album unveils previously unreleased recordings from the year 1986 for the very first time, showcasing a unique chapter in the Sun Ra catalogue, officially released for Record Store Day 2024. Introducing the inaugural release of “lost” sessions from 1986, where Sun Ra encountered the OVC.”