recorded a trio of treated piano albums for the label in the mid-'50s with kitschy space age cover art: , , and the Christmas set . uses an image from the motion picture on its cover to express the otherworldliness of the sounds within, which are very strange but not overtly spacy in the manner of 's 1955 album . Any discussion of and is complicated by the fact that the mono has the same track list as the stereo version of and vice-versa. For the purposes of this review we will compare the mono versions. has a Latin theme, but is more varied, with an assortment of quiet pieces ( ), mutated boogies ( ), and the only real reference to space in the series, accomplished the album's unusual sounds by using treated pianos and electronic effects, creating something that sometimes resembles a Moog album long before such a thing existed. is less manic and disorienting than , and as a result may be slightly less desirable to listeners who want to experience the full effect of 's weirdness. ~ Greg Adams