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laraaji - celestial music 1978-2011 - all saints - vinyl

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Genre: Jazz - Spiritual / Cosmic & Soul Jazz

1. Lotus Collage (1979)
2. Unicorns In Paradise (1981)
3. I Am Ocean (1981)
4. Rhythm'n'Bliss (1982)
5. Vision Song Suite (1984)
6. Sun Zither (1984)
7. I Am Sky (1985)
8. Sol (1987)
9. Eternity Of Bust (1987)
10. All Pervading - excerpt (1978)
11. The Dance No.3 (1980)
12. Quiet Space Pt.2 with Jonathan Goldman (1986)
13. Kalimba (1988)
14. Space Choir (1992)
15. Laraajingle with Audio Active (1995)
16. Airbass Laraaji with Bill Laswell (1988)
17. Moon Shadows (2001)
18. Staccato (2008)
19. As Light (2008)
20. Astral Jam with Blues Control (2011)

Triple Vinyl career retrospective featuring 20 classics and rarities. Check!

Celestial Music' is a long overdue career retrospective documenting the highlights from over 30 years of spiritual music by Edward Larry Gordon aka Laraaji. Like many others, we were first turned onto Laraaji by Universal Sound's recent(ish) reissue of his 'Celestial Vibration' (1978) debut,
Inspired by Eastern Mysticism and played on an electronically modified zither, Laraaji's music is a spiritually transcendent sound used for meditation and personal enlightenment. This double disc set collects some of his most effective compositions, including collaborations with Bill Laswell ('Airbass' 1998), Blues Control ('Astral Jam' 2011) and Jonathan Goldman ('Quiet Space' 1986) and best heard in highlights such as the sublime 'Space Choir' and rarities like the gritty, groove-driven 'Staccato' or the remarkably Arthur Russell-esque 'Vision Song Suite'.