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This is a pre-order item. It is due to be released on 7th December 2018.

The Expanding Universe is the 1980 debut album by computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The original album is reissued here as a massively expanded 3LP set, featuring all four original album tracks plus an additional 15 tracks from the same time period, nearly all previously unreleased and many making their first appearance on vinyl in this brand new edition.

Since this album’s first reissue in 2012, it has gone on to be widely established as a classic of 20th century electronic music. Some of the well-loved works included in this set are Patchwork, the Appalachian Grove series, East River Dawn and Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds, which was included on the Golden Record launched on board the Voyager spacecraft. The pieces comprising The Expanding Universe combine slowly evolving textures with the emotional richness of intricate counterpoint, harmony, and complex rhythms (John Fahey and J. S. Bach are both cited as major influences in the original cover's notes), all built of electronic sounds using the GROOVE system at Bell Laboratories during the 1970s.

3LP

Tracklist:

1. Patchwork

2. Old Wave

3. Pentachrome

4. A Folk Study

5. Drums

6. Appalachian Grove I

7. Appalachian Grove II

8. Appalachian Grove III

9. The Expanding Universe

10. East River Dawn

11. The Unquestioned Answer

12. The Orient Express

13. Clockworks

14. Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds

15. Wandering in Our Times

Barcode: 0766008587799

Catalogue Number: UW19LP

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