Réimpression de ce classique de Light In The Attic et d’un disque que nous avions vendu à la tonne en 2013 quand personne ne s’intéressait encore à la musique new age et ambiante… Un must!
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– 3xLP housed in slip case w/ 3 tip-on jackets, 20-page book, and download card
– Notes by Douglas Mcgowan featuring interviews with artists and includes rare archive photos.
– Artwork by Gilbert Williams and Janaia Donaldson.
2- unreleased tracks, 7 others previously only on cassette
– Vinyl cut by John Golden. Pressed at RTI.
Remastered from original sources at 24 bit/ 96 kHz
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Forget everything you know, or think you know, about new age, a genre that has become one of the defining musical-archaeological explorations of the past decade.
I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990 is the first major anthology to survey the golden age of new age and reveal the unbelievable truth about the genre.
For new age, at its best, is a reverberation of psychedelic music, and great by any standard. This is analog, handmade music communicating soul and spirit, often done on limited means and without commercial potential, self-published and self-distributed. Before it became big business and devolved into the spaced out elevator music we know and loathe today, this was the real thing.
From mathematical musical algorithms to airport murder mysteries to Henry Mancini and Bugs Bunny, the connections to mainstream culture run in curious directions. (Did you know, for instance, that a track from the first modern private press new age album is featured on the Blade Runner soundtrack? It
Format | LP |
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Artiste | // Various |
Genre | Ambiant , New Age - Relaxation |
Date de sortie | 2020-09-25 |
Étiquette | Light In The Attic |