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V/A I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990 / 3x LP NEW VINYL BOX SET / Light In The Attic 2013

3xLP housed in slip case w/ 3 tip-on jackets, 20-page book, and download card!

“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.

A1 –Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff / Thomas De Hartmann The Struggle Of The Magicians Part Three 3:37
A2 –Gail Laughton Pompeii 76 A.D. 2:22
A3 –Nesta Kerin Crain Gongs In The Rain 1:47
A4 –Wilburn Burchette* Witch's Will 4:57
A5 –Iasos Formentera Sunset Clouds 4:51
A6 –Steven Halpern Seventh Chakra Keynote B (Violet) 3:40
B1 –Joel Andrews Seraphic Borealis 12:37
B2 –Constance Demby Om Mani Padme Hum 9:51
C1 –Daniel Emmanuel Arabian Fantasy 2:34
C2 –Don Slepian Awakening (Excerpt) 5:18
C3 –Laraaji Unicorns In Paradise (Excerpt) 5:14
C4 –Peter Davison Glide V 6:21
D1 –Joanna Brouk Lifting Off 2:58
D2 –Michael Stearns As The Earth Kissed The Moon (Excerpt) 7:38
D3 –Aeoliah Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (Excerpt) 11:33
E1 –Daniel Kobialka Blue Spirals 10:08
E2 –Larkin Two Souls Dance 13:18
F1 –Judith Tripp Li Sun 6:39
F2 –Mark Banning Lunar Eclipse (Excerpt) 9:17
F3 –Alice Damon Waterfall Winds 7:59

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