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k leimer - a period of review: 1975-1983 - rvng intl - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Ceylon
2. My Timid Desires
3. From A Common Center
4. Explanation Of Terms
5. From One To Ten
6. Entr'acte
7. Bump In The Night
8. aka Accident)
9. Facing East
10. At Daybreak
11. A Spiritual Life
12. Honey To Ashes
13. Stop It!
14. Two Voices
15. Lonely Boy
16. Practical Demonstration
17. Commercial
18. Gisella
19. Archie's Dub
20. Ikumi
21. Reassurances
22. Assemble & Diffuse
23. Eno's Aviary
24. Almost Chinese
25. Agfa/Lupa
26. The Phonic Chasm (Excerpt) (feat Dawn Seago)
27. Acquiescence
28. Malaise
29. All Sad Days
30. Porcelain (feat Nancy Estle)

Previously unreleased ambient, experimental electronica and new age.

It would be wrong to say that Seattle-based electronic explorer Kerry Leimer made his name in the late 1970s and early '80s, as few picked up on his work at the time. Of course, this may have something to do with the obscurity of his albums; he famously put out just a trickle of cassettes and LPs - mostly on his own Palace of Light imprint - during the period. Thankfully, RVNG are fans, and here present a 30-track archive of previously unheard material recorded in his home studio - mostly using tape-loops and cheap synthesizers - between 1975 and '83. For those interested in ambient, experimental electronica and new age, it should be essential listening, containing as it does thrillingly fuzzy but wonderfully melodic sketches influenced by Eno, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and acid-friend 1960s pop.