Since the 1990s, many albums from the YES group's family tree have come out on CD but Esoteric’s 2021 2-disc version of the debut solo album from Jon Anderson, Olias Of Sunhillow is no doubt the best sounding and most informative release of this particular landmark recording. Liner notes by famed rock journalist Malcolm Dome coaxes Anderson into sometimes humorous memory lane terrain as you can read in the main booklet, while a second booklet features the lyrics alone. 45 years after the original Lp release in the summer of 1976, Olias Of Sunhillow has seen release as several CD reissues but this remaster on U.K. based Esoteric is better and more rounder-sounding and more easy on the ears than even the 2014 SACD audiophile version on Audio Fidelity records. A veritable prog-pioneer that came to the fore as the voice of YES at the close of the 1960s, prog-rock legend Jon Anderson attempts to explain the original Olias album concept from 1976 once again to Malcolm Dome in the liner notes, yet, as for we mere mortals clearly, Olias Of Sunhillow remains one of the first essential science fiction-inspired prog-rock concept albums of its time. Spinning the album again after some years, Olias Of Sunhillow is still probably my favorite YES-related solo album. Another thing I thought of when writing this CD reissue review is that if Olias Of Sunhillow  was recorded one hundred years ago, perhaps as an orchestral symphonic instrumental work, Anderson would have surely been spoken of in the same breath as Stravinsky or Holst but just maybe some Yes fans already thought that way in 1972! For those in the know, inside the Esoteric double disc set of Olias Of Sunhillow there’s also a DVD version featuring a 5.1 surround sound mix and a high resolution stereo mix.