A beautiful cover for a truly beautiful album full of peace, harmony, and good licks like wholesome vanilla ice cream.
Simple database info here. Note that it's labelled as new age and was released in 1985 but still has enough of the progressive element to entertain us thoroughly. The song titles: Pentacle, Wilderland, Spirit of the Waterfall, Valley of the Lord, pretty much tell the tale here. It reminds me a little of the work of Lenny Mac Dowell whom I love dearly especially in the album Balance of Power.
As is consistent with the New Age genre there is never any hint of a dissonance or tritone to upset the birkenstock-wearing 'crunchies' and their neurotic coloured hair dyes. The track called So Near, So Far is what really reminded me of Lenny:
On the other hand the classical musical education shines through on a track (and only on the track) given the title of the ancient seventies term "Thingamajig:"
A good album, which I will presume to be totally unknown out there.
US-- make zippy great again:
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EU minus theUK of course:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ulj673
New up of Pape Satan by Fabio Fabar by request
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/eij5bc
LOL! Thankfully, that'll be Zippy's job, not US voters. For a while Zippy was pretty deep into spam redirects. I imagine that's why a lot of European countries blocked them. Looks to me like they shot themselves in the foot. THAT'S something US and British electorates are good at!
ReplyDeletehi,
ReplyDeletejust found your amazing blog!
may i ask you to re-up the mike mainari albums please?
some great j-jazz on here,sadly most links dead..
thank you
I think all sendspace links still work, just zippy goes down quickly
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Catero records put out some real oddball stuff. Do you or have ever been antiquated with Paul Speers Spectral Voyages?
ReplyDeleteYes that new age dude who made a killing in the 1980s with um.....David Lanz. His solo disc on Catero is brilliant atmo guitar and synth driven instrumentals. No its not progressive rock but there is.....a real live drummer and 4 long tracks. Really an underrated gem but I never considered it new age just new contemporary instrumental music.
I'm not familiar with it, are you able to share that one?
DeleteExcuse the type I meant acquainted!
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ReplyDeleteSuddenly, out of nowhere, splitting the silence,
ReplyDeletea huge, heavy hum set the air trembling.
Was it your ship which was landing on the beach that day?
Soon the saucer appeared to our eyes. From beyond the horizon,
the vessel reached us in little time and, surprise,
it did not settle on the water, but softly came to rest on the shore...
the hovercraft had arrived.
Yes, it was from this extraordinary experience that the seeds of our music grew. Like the Yellow Submarine, once a private universe where heroes and villains remained "submerged beneath the awareness of the outside world" while creating wonderful music.
All good music, with no words. Space music. A lot of electric sounds.
No loud trash music. Mind-lifting sounds.
A hearty thank you for this unknown beauty, a real keeper :)
Strong all the way through, morning rays-of-sunshine music, passages remind me of the great US group October, if they made an 80s Lp after their 1979 epic 'After The Fall' ...and the track 'Spirit Of The Waterfall' brought to mind fellow 'new-ager' (space music!) Raphael and his most-excellent 1991 Lp 'Music To Disappear In II'....
Thanks again bro, very very much appreciated :) :) :)
And I totally concur with the above commenter and thanks for bringing Paul Speers' Spectral Voyages up :) right on Team!
....courtesy of our esteemed colleague over at Opium_Hum (TY!!!):
Paul Speers - Collection 983-Spectral Voyages [1984]
www120.zippyshare.com/v/uYiQNDMP/file.html
;)
Opium Hum has an amazing blog. Opened me up to a lot of new music as he is quite diverse in his tastes(to say the least!).
DeleteMusic to Disappear In(1) is a stone cold neo-ambient classic mainly because Raphael managed to draw in Euro romanticism(Debussy I am guessing) and Native American primitivism(flues and percussion) somehow conjuring something musical thats quite beautiful and deep.