Sold Date: September 1, 2014
Start Date: August 13, 2012
Final Price: $35.99 (USD)
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Howdy and welcome to my store! Music Is Painting In the Air is a collection of new mixes and unheard music from Sensations’ Fix’s prolific output between 1974 and 1977. Revered as one of the great articulations of progressive music, Music Is Painting offers guide posts to those familiar with Sensations’ Fix’s amorphous catalog and an approachable primer to those just journeying on the sensational trip. The story of Sensations’ Fix begins—and never quite ends—with Franco Falsini. Falsini, born in Florence, Italy in 1948, blazed a trail for home-recording that has impressed upon inward resourcing and reflecting musicians and DIY enthusiasts in the decades since. A technology stalwart, Falsini employed a floor model MiniMoog and a tricked-out Teac 4-track machine to transform the Virginia and Florence basements into cosmic conduits for Sensations’ Fix. The reach for space from a personal place is nowhere more apparent than on Fragments of Light, early basement recordings solicited by Falsini as deal demos and surprisingly flipped into the first of six Sensations’ Fix albums released in under five years. The up-close fidelity of Fragments creates a private quality that separates the album from other extravagant progressive rock productions contemporary to its 1974 release. After Fragments release, Falsini (re-located to Italy), alongside American expats drummer Keith Edwards and bassist Richard Ursillo, charged through another two Sensations’ Fix albums, Portable Madness in 1974 and Finest Finger in 1976, and a stunning solo album Cold Nose (Naso Fredo) in 1975. Falsini and his band of psychedelic renegades left Italy for the golden shores of California, releasing Vision’s Fugitive on an independent label and fulfilling their major label obligation shortly after with Boxes Paradise. In the years since, the clandestine spirit of Sensations’ Fix enabled a legend to grow. On his 2002 album, The Private Press, DJ Shadow sampled from two Sensations’ Fix songs. More recently, Sonic Youth curated a career retrospective titled Sensational Fix at Life Gallery in Saint-Nazaire France. For Music is Painting in the Air, Falsini set forth on a year-long voyage to restore and revisit the original Sensations’ Fix analog tapes. The sequence is chronologically defiant, encouraging the listener to free associate the recurring themes’ origins and immerse in the body of music as a its own universe. Once this celestial body suit is occupied, it becomes apparent why the forwardthinking yet emotionally-accessible quality of Sensations’ Fix’s music is still finding the universal audience for which its intended. Falsini’s disregard for time and insistence on reinvention provides an infinite reach for his music. The end-goal was seemingly unmarketable by the industry then, but perfectly harmonious with a culture constantly evolving now. Music is Painting in the Air is RVNG’s second archival project following last year’s acclaimed reissue of Harald Grosskopf’s Synthesist. The first time Sensations’ Fix music has been made available on vinyl since the original, out of print releases. Sensations’ Fix legacy has been acknowledged time over by forward thinking artists, from DJ Shadow and Sonic Youth to Ariel Pink and John Maus. Features 12 previously unreleased / unheard Sensations’ Fix tracks. Vinyl version come in custom slipcase and includes a booklet with expansive liner notes and pictures. 2xLP Track Listing: A1 Barnhause Effect A2 Cold Nose Part 3, A3 4th Movement A4 Leave My Chemistry A5 Acudreaming A6 Grow On You B1 Scraping Delay B2 Warped Notions Of A Practical Joke (Instrumental) B3 Dark Side of Religion B4 Cosmic Saudade B5 Cold Nose Part 3, Movement 2 B6 Fragments of Light B7 Into The Memory C1 Cold Nose Part 3, Movement 5 C2 C’e Nessuno C3 Map C4 Moving Particles C5 Cold Nose Part 3, Movement 3 C6 Music Is Painting C7 Left Side Of Green D1 Chelsea Hotel (Room 625) D2 Fix A Water Fountain (Instrumental) D3 Overflowing Ashtrays D4 Strangelands D5 Cold Nose Story D6 Slow Motion Movie D7 Fortune Teller D8 Fortune Teller Coda Record Condition: This record is brand new and unplayed! Check out my other acutions and save on shipping! PLEASE NOTE: This is a presale. The official release date for this album is September 18, 2012. All orders will ship to arrive around this date however on occasion there are release delays. If this happens all winning bidders will be notified. Checkout my other auctions for lots more records and CDs. Only $2 shipping to add any other record in the USA! Win more then one item and save on shipping (only $2 for each additional LP in the USA!).

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