The meditative New Age album Sojourn reshaped including unearthed tracks from the archives produced in that time frame now for a long time overdue worldwide release !
Young, the percussionist and marimba player in the seminal New York art-wave group, recorded a series of cassette-only releases in the '80s after Liquid Liquid disbanded. A couple of these were picked up at the time for Korean release, which is where Daehan Electronics, a South Korea-based label dedicated to tracing the history of electronic music in the land of the morning calm, comes in. Sojourn was one of these albums, part of a biorithmically-aligned New Age serie, each one meant to be heard on specific days of the week.
DE has worked with Young to restore and remaster the original masters for this new release, bringing out the full warmth of the analog synthesizers used to create it. It is the second in a series of collaborations with Young, which will delve deeply into both the scarce cassette issues and other, unreleased material newly discovered on tapes. Liner notes outline the history of the record and include Young's own pathway.
Side A
1- Creating Peace *
2-Heartsong *
3-Fantasia
4-Magic Forest
Side B
-Ancient Past *
-Journey to Ixltan
-Trio
-So Far…
* Previously Unreleased Tracks, also produced in 1989 while working on Sojourn.
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Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
On par with any of our most timeless recordings. Satsuki Shibano's playing manages to be simultaneously dazzling, completely authentic & transparent - you only ever hear and feel the compositions.
The fact that it makes up one of the three incredible records on Wave Notation fits perfectly.
Very happy to finally be able to get this on vinyl! Thanks WRWTFWW! peretmako
The one and only release from Maryland duo Circus Underwater is a Rosetta Stone for ambient music, dub techno, electronica and beyond. Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 19, 2023