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Title
I AM THE CENTER: PRIVATE ISSUE NEW AGE MUSIC IN AMERICA, 1950 - 1990
Format
Three (3) 12" vinyl LP Box Set
Released
October 29, 2013
Country of Manufacture
USA
Label
Light In The Attic Catalog LITA 107 826853010719 Condition New, mint, original factory sealed condition
Info
RARE remastered compilation pressed on limited edition (only 150 copies worldwide) 180g clear vinyl.

“Sound created the universe. It wasn’t a word. Sound created atoms; sound and light are the original manifesting principles for worlds… A musician sources that primeval, eternal sound, and it comes out as music.” – Constance Demby

Forget everything you know, or think you know, about new age, a genre that has become one of the defining musical-archaeological explorations of the past decade.

I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990 is the first major anthology to survey the golden age of new age and reveal the unbelievable truth about the genre.

For new age, at its best, is a reverberation of psychedelic music, and great by any standard. This is analog, handmade music communicating soul and spirit, often done on limited means and without commercial potential, self-published and self-distributed. Before it became big business and devolved into the spaced out elevator music we know and loathe today, this was the real thing.

From mathematical musical algorithms to airport murder mysteries to Henry Mancini and Bugs Bunny, the connections to mainstream culture run in curious directions. (Did you know, for instance, that a track from the first modern private press new age album is featured on the Blade Runner soundtrack? It’s called “Pompeii, 76 A.D.”, and we’ve got it here.)

I Am The Center is a knowing, but never cynical overview that invites listeners at last to the mainspring of a misunderstood genre’s greatest lights. Many of the biggest names are present — Iasos, inter-dimentional channeler of “paradise music”; Laraaji, discovered by Brian Eno playing for spare change in Washington Square Park; and the recently famous JD Emmanuel, icon to a new generation of drone, ambient, noise musicians. Call it what you will — before it was anything else, it was new age.

Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented, I Am The Center features stunning paintings by the legendary visual artist Gilbert Williams, and liner notes by producer Douglas Mcgowan, who weaves the words and images of the wizards and sorceresses of new age into a prismatic portrait of music that can finally be recognized for what it is: great American folk art.

Vinyl box set includes three tip-on jackets, housed in a custom slipcase with 20-page book and download card for full anthology
Covers by legendary visionary artist Gilbert Williams
In depth liner notes by Douglas McGowan with rare photos and album covers
Features unreleased tracks and others previously only on cassette
Audio remastered from original sources at 24 bit /96 kHz
Vinyl lacquers cut by John Golden and pressed at RTI"

Tracklist
A1  Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff/Thomas De Hartmann  The Struggle Of The Magicians Part Three  3:37
A2  Gail Laughton  Pompeii 76 A.D.  2:22
A3  Nesta Kerin Crain  Gongs In The Rain  1:47
A4  Wilburn Burchette  Witch's Will  4:57
A5  Iasos  Formentera Sunset Clouds  4:51
A6  Steven Halpern  Seventh Chakra Keynote B (Violet)  3:40

B1  Joel Andrews  Seraphic Borealis  12:37
B2  Constance Demby  Om Mani Padme Hum  9:51

C1  Daniel Emmanuel  Arabian Fantasy  2:34
C2  Don Slepian  Awakening (Excerpt)  5:18
C3  Laraaji  Unicorns In Paradise (Excerpt)  5:14
C4  Peter Davison  Glide V  6:21

D1  Joanna Brouk  Lifting Off  2:58
D2  Michael Stearns  As The Earth Kissed The Moon (Excerpt)  7:38
D3  Aeoliah  Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (Excerpt)  11:33

E1  Daniel Kobialka  Blue Spirals  10:08
E2  Larkin  Two Souls Dance  13:18

F1  Judith Tripp  Li Sun  6:39
F2  Mark Banning  Lunar Eclipse (Excerpt)  9:17
F3  Alice Damon  Waterfall Winds  7:59

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC
Copyright (c) – Light In The Attic Records & Distribution, LLC
Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated
Artwork By – Gilbert Williams, Janaia Donaldson
Compilation Producer – Douglas McGowan, Matt Sullivan
Coordinator – Patrick McCarthy
Design – Henry Owings
Liner Notes – Douglas McGowan
Other [Licensing] – Sandy Wilson
Remastered By – John Baldwin Payment & Shipping PayPal is the preferred method of payment.

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Bio
Light In The Attic Records is an independent record label established in 2002 in Seattle, Washington by Matt Sullivan, known for its roster of reissue projects, and for its distribution catalog. As reissue label, Light In The Attic has re-released works by artists such as Betty Davis, Serge Gainsbourg, Jim Sullivan, Jane Birkin, The Free Design, and many more. The record label has also released albums by contemporary bands like The Black Angels and Nicole Willis and The Soul Investigators.

Already in high school, Sullivan was interested in starting his own label. "I always wanted my own label," Sullivan told The Stranger in 2006, "but it was always the wrong time."

After high school and college at the University of Arizona, Sullivan interned for Seattle, Washington-based record labels like Sub Pop and the now-defunct Loosegroove Records. Susie Tennant, Sub Pop’s then radio-promotions director, offered Sullivan a chance to intern with Madrid, Spain-based record label, Munster Records. Munster Records focused primarily on reissues of bands like The Stooges and Spaceman 3, inspiring Sullivan to begin rethinking his own concept behind the still active idea of starting a record label.

Upon Sullivan’s return to the states he began producing live shows in the Seattle area including performances by performers like Saul Williams, Clinic, and Kid Koala under the name Light In The Attic. With a stronger interest in the production of records, Sullivan returned to his original idea of a reissue label.

Major projects were, among others:
a reissue of The Last Poet's first two releases - The Last Poets and This Is Madness. the reissue of the soundtrack to 1974 blackploitation film Lialeh composed by Bernard Purdie. the reissue of several works from The Free Design. Wheedle's Groove, a collection of songs from forgotten soul and funk groups from Seattle, including, amongst others, Patrinell Wright, The Black & White Affair, Kenny G, Ron Buford, Overton Berry in 2006, Light in the Attic released the album "Passover" from the psych-rock group The Black Angels. This was their first contemporary release. the reissue of Betty Davis' albums Betty Davis and They Say I'm Different. Davis agreed with the project, but did no co-operate. In 2009, the label acquired the rights to distribute deceased Serge Gainsbourg's classic album Histoire de Melody Nelson. This was their first project with an already established artist. In 2010, they launched their 50th album. This album was a release of old demos by folk-country singer Kris Kristofferson and was named Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends: Publishing Demos 1968 - 1972.
In 2010, Light In The Attic announced their first imprint, cinewax, for vintage and contemporary film. The imprint has released the "Winter's Bone Original Soundtrack, "Winter's Bone Original Score by Dickon Hinchcliffe, the Project Nim Original Soundtrack also by Dickon Hinchcliffe, and Jennifer Maas' Wheedle's Groove film.

Light In The Attic's second imprint, Modern Classic Recordings started in 2011. The imprints first release, Mercury Revs' Deserter's Songs was released in November 2011. Their second release, Morphine's Cure For Pain will follow in 2012.

As well as their own products, Light In The Attic distribute a large portfolio of smaller American and hard-to-find international labels. Light In The Attic currently distributes: "Cultures of Soul", "Delmore Recordings", "Favorite Recordings", "Flat Field Records", "Heavenly Sweetness", "Heavy Light", "Hot Casa", "Kindred Spirits", "Lion Productions", "Masstropicas", "Medical Records", "Now Again", "Paradise of Bachelors", "Regenerator Records", Rhino Handmade, "Secret Seven", "Secret Stash", "Strawberry Rain", "Timmion", Trikont, "Vadim Music", "Votary Disk/Roundtable" and "Golden Pavilion"

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