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V.A. I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America 1950-1990

Light In The Attic | Item No: 331345
Vinyl 3LP | 2013 / US – Original | New
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Received an 8.3 Best New Reissue rating from Pitchfork.

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.
Item Details
Item No: 331345
Artist: V.A.
Title: I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America 1950-1990
Label: Light In The Attic
Catalog No: LITA107
Format: Vinyl 3LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: US – Original
Release Date: 2013
Genre: Rock & Indie
Style: Indierock | Alternative
Available since: 2013-11-22
Condition: New
Price: $ 49.96
Weight: 750g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Gurdjieff & De Hartmann - The Struggle Of The Magicians (Part 3)
A2 Gail Laughton - Pompeii 76 Ad
A3 Nesta Kerin Crain - Gongs In The Rain
A4 Wilburn Burchette - Witch's Will
A5 Formentera Sunset Clouds - Iasos
A6 Steven Halpern - Seventh Chakra Keynote B (Violet)
B1 Joel Andrews - Seraphic Borealis
B2 Constance Demby - Om Mani Padme Hum
C1 Daniel Emmanuel - Arabian Fantasy
C2 Don Slepian - Awakening (Excerpt)
C3 Laraaji - Unicorns In Paradise (Excerpt)
C4 Peter Davison - Glide V
D1 Joanna Brouk - Lifting Off
D2 Michael Stearns - As The Earth Kissed The Moon (Excerpt)
D3 Aeoliah - Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (Excerpt)
E1 Daniel Kobialka - Blue Spirals
E2 Larkin - Two Souls Dance
F1 Judith Tripp - Sun
F2 Mark Banning - Lunar Eclipse (Excerpt)
F3 Alice Damon - Waterfall Winds
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