ARTIST...: VA
TITLE....: Soul Jazz Records Presents Space, Energy & Light (1961-88)
YEAR.....: 2017
LABEL....: Soul Jazz Records
CAT.NO...: SJRD392
GENRE....: Electronic
TIME.....: 82:28
SIZE.....: 189,06 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44,1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2017/07/31
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com
TRACKLIST
01) (06:18) J.B. Banfi░-░Gang (For the Rock Industry)
02) (04:34) Michael Garrison░-░To the Other Side of the Sky
03) (04:09) Iasos░-░Lueena Coast
04) (04:56) Carl Matthews░-░As Above, So Below
05) (06:22) Tim Blake░-░Midnight
06) (05:32) Stratis░-░By Water
07) (03:05) Laurie Spiegel░-░Improvisation On a 'Concerto Generator'
08) (14:43) Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company░-░Ceres Motion
09) (08:01) Michael Stearns░-░In the Beginning
10) (07:10) Beverly Glenn-Copeland░-░Ever New
11) (04:36) Richard Pinhas░-░Variations VII Sur Le Theme Des Bene Gesserit
12) (01:57) Tod Dockstader░-░Piece #1
13) (06:18) Kevin Braheny░-░Ancient Stars
14) (04:47) Steven Halpern░-░Starborn Suite
Soul Jazz Records' new Space, Energy and Light is a collection of music by early
electronic and synthesizer pioneers (from the 1960s through the 1970s), mid-1970s
proto-new age gurus and 1980s guerrilla D-I-Y cassette-era electronic artists,
spanning in total over a near 30-year time frame.
"All of these artists used electronic advancements in music technology as a means of
exploring not only space and the idea of the future, but also of looking inwards to
the soul and of creating music in harmony with the natural world. From computer
software and hardware experimentalists and sound pioneers such as Laurie Spiegel and
Kevin Braheny, as well as Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company - the first
synthesizer ensemble created in collaboration with Robert Moog - through to the
earliest musique concrete experimentation of Tod Dockstader, the album shows how
technological advancements and creative artistic expression went hand in hand.
In the mid-1970s artists Steven Halpern and Iaxos were instrumental in creating
proto-new age music, experimenting in both the healing properties of sound and its
relationship with the natural world. These artists also pioneered a new self-
contained and underground D-I-Y approach to music, creating their own record labels,
forming new distribution networks (with albums sold in meditation centres, health
food stores and ashrams) far away from the commercialism of the mainstream music
industry. In the early 1980s after the revolution of punk, these D-I-Y attitudes and
ideas appeared once more in the growth of the distinctly anti-commercial and
underground cassette-only careers of artists such as Germany's Stratis and Carl
Matthews in Britain."
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