Various – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990

Label:
Light In The Attic
Art.Nr.:
0152430
Kat.Nr.:
LITA 107

Released:
29.10.2013
Cover:
BOX
Format:
3LP
Pressung:
US - Original
Zustand:
Neu
Vinyl:
Cover:
Genre:
Broken Beats / Headz + Beat Art + Synth-Pop / New Wave + Electronic + Pop & Various + Rock / Indie + Psychedelic / Postrock
Stichworte:
steven halpern, joel andrews, gail laughton, don slepian
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Various - I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990
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“Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance Demby

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’s called “Pompeii, 76 A.D.”, and we’ve got it here.)
 
I Am The Center is a knowing, but never cynical overview that invites listeners at last to the mainspring of a misunderstood genre’s greatest lights. Many of the biggest names are present — Iasos, inter-dimentional channeler of “paradise music”; Laraaji, discovered by Brian Eno playing for spare change in Washington Square Park; and the recently famous JD Emmanuel, icon to a new generation of drone, ambient, noise musicians. Call it what you will — before it was anything else, it was new age.
 
Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented, I Am The Center features stunning paintings by the legendary visual artist Gilbert Williams, and liner notes by producer Douglas Mcgowan, who weaves the words and images of the wizards and sorceresses of new age into a prismatic portrait of music that can finally be recognized for what it is: great American folk art.
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TitelFeaturingProducingLänge
A1. The Struggle Of The Magicians...03:37
A2. Pompeii 76 A.D.02:22
A3. Gongs In The Rain01:47
A4. Witch's Will04:57
A5. Formentera Sunset Clouds04:51
A6. Seventh Chakra Keynote B (Vio...03:40
B1. Seraphic Borealis12:37
B2. Om Mani Padme Hum09:51
C1. Arabian Fantasy02:34
C2. Awakening (Excerpt)05:18
C3. Unicorns In Paradise (Excerpt)05:14
C4. Glide V06:21
D1. Lifting Off02:58
D2. As The Earth Kissed The Moon ...07:38
D3. Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (Excerpt)11:33
E1. Blue Spirals10:08
E2. Two Souls Dance13:18
F1. Li Sun06:39
F2. Lunar Eclipse (Excerpt)09:17
F3. Waterfall Winds07:59
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