Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millenia Consort (1982)

“Imagine being able to create music that enables the spirit to soar to realms never before experienced, and imagine creating that music if you were blind.”

Pauline Anna Strom is a blind composer and keyboardist, who claims to be a musical consort to time and the living incarnation of an all-embracing entity of music. Celestial and harmonious, her music invites the listener to travel into the profound realm of his psyche. A call to transcend the concepts and standards of his existence. Drifting through a vivid scope of an unformed pulsating myriad of colours and shades, the discover of the spirit. 

Serenity and peace rein throughout the entire musical experience, sometimes breaking the boundaries of a sci-fi oriented ambient-era. From the profound mellow mood overflowing in this new age work, arises a unruffled affinity to internal perception and solipsism. Numinous fields and spectacular sceneries; creations of the mind.

Trans-Millenia Consort

A1 Emerald Pool

A2 The Unveiling

A3 Cult of Isis

A4 Phantom Dancer

B1 Energies

B2 Century C

B3 Morning Splendor

B4 Gossamer Silk

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Yuka Ijichi - Peanuts Butter

One needs merely to gaze at the cover art and listen to the first chords to find himself floating through space alongside fish bones and clew balls (a kitty's dream!!). The high, airy and buoyant voice offered by psych-folk artist Yuka Ijichi (occasionally accompanied by the more subtle vocals of Hiiragi Fukuda) invites us to a dreamy land of folky and spacey guitars. Doronco, ex-bassist from the Japanese noise rock band Les Rallizes Dénudés, has allowed himself to switch his famous biting guitar for a more jaunty acoustic twee sound. 
Recorded on tape, this original combination of gentle echoes sung in an exotic language makes this a perfect album to listen in dim light.

Peanuts Butter! Another great suggestion by the underground label Sloow Tapes. 

Peanuts Butter

Side A

A1 Ride Your Pony

A2 Doo Dah

A3 People Around Me

A4 Hand Glass

Side B

B1 Sunday Afternoon 

B2 Nawashiro Strawberry 

B3 A Sand Dune 

B4 Doo Dah (Closet Mix)

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Paul Roland - Cabinet of Curiosities (1987)

Thrown into this world directly into the midst of fine arts (his mother gave birth to him backstage while playing Ophelia in a production of Hamlet), Paul grew in a universe of mysticism, tales and the imaginary. It didn’t take long for this young man, fascinated by the bizarre and the occult, to find his passion for music. At 19 he made his first single and a few months later he had his first album out. Labeled, by his friend and artist Robyn Hitchcock, as “the male Kate Bush”, Paul released a hefty number of albums throughout his musical career, where he was able to incorporate his visions of 19^th century murders, medieval grotesques and a cadaverous and obscene Victorian lady.

Powered by a bizarre, dark whimsical tone, his music falls many times into an “early Pink Floyd” disposition where a dreamy psych-pop finds his companions, a folkish guitar and warm baroque strings. This album follows that exact same mood: a symphonic reverie of gloomy characters.

A Cabinet Of Curiosities

1. Madhouse

2. Wyndam Hill

3. Jumbee

4. Gary Gilmores's Eyes

5. Burn

6. Stranger Than Strange

7. Walter The Occultist

8. Demon In A Glass Case

9. Green Glass Violins

10. Berlin

11. Cairo

12. Madame Guillotine

13. Madeleine

14. Gabrielle

15. Happy Families

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