A cool condensed version of the larger 4LP box set of work from the legendary Laraaji – a set that features passages from both his debut album and parts of six more extended tracks that were never issued at the time! That debut album is his legendary Celestial Vibrations – a beautifully trippy set of tracks from Edward Larry Gordon – an artist who's probably better known for his later Laraaji album recorded with Brian Eno, but one who sounds even better here on this debut set! The sound is very spiritual and meditative – long, drawn-out, side-long tracks that feature Gordon playing a weird, electrified zither – an instrument that's hardly the hokey, European-sounding one from mid-century – and instead a very tripped-out, abstracted one here – very spacey, with some great phase shifting employed in the studio, which creates an almost electronic pulse out of the acoustic instrumentation. The album features parts of two very long tracks – "All Pervading" and "Bethlehem" – done in a way that would make Alice Coltrane proud! Added to those cuts are parts of six other titles – all originally pressed only as acetates, and recorded around the same time – "Kalimba", "Ocean", "Koto", "Segue To Infinity", "Kalimba 2", and "Kalimba 4". LP, Vinyl record album

A beautiful tribute to the spiritual genius of Laraaji – a set that features both his debut album and six more extended tracks that were never issued at the time! That debut album is his legendary Celestial Vibrations – a beautifully trippy set of tracks from Edward Larry Gordon – an artist who's probably better known for his later Laraaji album recorded with Brian Eno, but one who sounds even better here on this debut set! The sound is very spiritual and meditative – long, drawn-out, side-long tracks that feature Gordon playing a weird, electrified zither – an instrument that's hardly the hokey, European-sounding one from mid-century – and instead a very tripped-out, abstracted one here – very spacey, with some great phase shifting employed in the studio, which creates an almost electronic pulse out of the acoustic instrumentation. The album features two very long tracks – "All Pervading" and "Bethlehem" – done in a way that would make Alice Coltrane proud! Added to that record are six side-long titles on the other three records in the set – all originally pressed only as acetates, and recorded around the same time – making for a hugely expanded set of early work from Laraaji. Titles include "Kalimba", "Ocean", "Koto", "Segue To Infinity", "Kalimba 2", and "Kalimba 4" – and the set also features a big booklet of notes, with dozens of rare photos. LP, Vinyl record album

The Numero group dive deeply into the new age underground of the 70s and 80s – moving way past the later, bigger hits on the larger labels – and focusing instead on the kind of homegrown indie material that really hits the right sort of meditative vibe! Sounds within are both acoustic and electric – and you'll recognize a few of the names from other Numero projects – like Iasos or Laraaji – but there's much more work here that goes way deeper, and is presented in the usual Numero sense of sonic exploration – with a hefty booklet of notes that's as dreamy as the music within! Titles include "Night In The Vortex" by David Storrs, "Silent Dream/The Real Dream" by Vernal Equinox, "Sea Of Bliss" by Don Slepian, "Carmel Valley Sunset" by David Casper, "Bethlehem" by Laraaji, "Crystal Cave (Back To Atlantis)" by Upper Astral, "Ocean" by Robert Slap & Suzanne Ghiglia, "Music For Earth Orbit" by Alex Johnson, "Somebodies" by Dervish, "New Snow" by Peter Nothnagle, and "After The Storm" by Georges Boutz. LP, Vinyl record album

The Numero group dive deeply into the new age underground of the 70s and 80s – moving way past the later, bigger hits on the larger labels – and focusing instead on the kind of homegrown indie material that really hits the right sort of meditative vibe! Sounds within are both acoustic and electric – and you'll recognize a few of the names from other Numero projects – like Iasos or Laraaji – but there's much more work here that goes way deeper, and is presented in the usual Numero sense of sonic exploration – with a hefty booklet of notes that's as dreamy as the music within! Titles include "Night In The Vortex" by David Storrs, "Silent Dream/The Real Dream" by Vernal Equinox, "Sea Of Bliss" by Don Slepian, "Carmel Valley Sunset" by David Casper, "Bethlehem" by Laraaji, "Crystal Cave (Back To Atlantis)" by Upper Astral, "Ocean" by Robert Slap & Suzanne Ghiglia, "Music For Earth Orbit" by Alex Johnson, "Somebodies" by Dervish, "New Snow" by Peter Nothnagle, and "After The Storm" by Georges Boutz. LP, Vinyl record album