| Laraaji / Cosmic Tape Experiments |
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| Album: | Cosmic Tape Experiments | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Laraaji | Added: | Nov 2013 | |
| Label: | Mount Analog | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-11-28 | Pull Date: | 2014-02-07 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 28, 2015: | [press enter to exit] Unicorns In Paradise (1981) | 4. | Dec 11, 2013: | Brownian Motion Unicorns In Paradise (1981) | |
| 2. | Jun 04, 2014: | Minimum Entropy - In Memoriam Mister Unicorns In Paradise (1981) | 5. | Dec 11, 2013: | late night dryer (meow after midnight sub) I Am Sky (1985) | |
| 3. | Dec 13, 2013: | Aporeia recap of crazy a.d. 2013 Unicorns In Paradise (1981) | 6. | Dec 05, 2013: | The Sunset Life Sol (1987) |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2013-11-26 | ||
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Cassette only recordings spanning 1979-87. Autoharp street player who was found playing in Washington Square by Eno and appeared on Ambient 3: On Land. Compiled chronologically, theres a lot of variation over the years, even within single tracks, but most, especially the earlier works, involve the autoharp/zither type sound, beautifully treated, along with some tribal rhythms and an almost world feel. But low-fi 4 track tape permeates all. Super cool stuff. 1) (8:55) percussive, almost tribal worldy, with autoharp, funky, can hear the NYC/no wave tribalism of the late 70’s here, but overall spacey with a beautiful use of slow flange/phase shift in its mostly ambience 2) (11:26) basically drop dead gorgeous ambient, ends w/ a voice sample of metaphysical proselytizing 3) (2:22) spacey harp-like ambience 4) (6:26) upbeat pop song, ideas strung together, cheesy by todays context but also really freaky deaky play while stoned stuff, metaphysics appear 5) (9:50) effect laden zither, super trippy and cool, borders on indulgent efx use 6) (6:05) less treated zither, hypnotic and lovely 7) (3:56) 1987 brings higher quality, more polished “songlike” character that evaporates quickly to sound collage 8) (4:06) synthesizer piano, solo jame, almost proggy | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Lotus Collage (1979) | 5. | Sun Zither(1984) | |||
| 2. | Unicorns In Paradise (1981) | 6. | I Am Sky (1985) | |||
| 3. | I Am Ocean(1981) | 7. | Sol (1987) | |||
| 4. | Vision Song Suite (1984) | 8. | Eternity Or Bust (1987) |