Various Artists
I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America 1950-1990
Label:  Light in the Attic 
Date:  10/29/2013
Length:  0:00
Format:  LP box set
Genre:  New Age; Electronic
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Gurdjieff / de Hartmann - The Struggle of the Magicians Part Three    
      2.  
      		 Gail Laughton - Pompeii 76 A.D    
      3.  
      		 Nesta Kerin Crain - Gongs in the Rain    
      4.  
      		 Wilburn Burchette - Witch's Will    
      5.  
      		 Formentera Sunset Clouds - Iasos    
      6.  
      		 Steven Halpern - Seventh Chakra Keynote B (Violet)    
      7.  
      		 Joel Andrews - Seraphic Borealis    
      8.  
      		 Constance Demby - Om Mani Padme Hum    
      9.  
      		 Daniel Emmanuel - Arabian Fantasy    
      10.  
      		 Don Slepian - Awakening (Excerpt)    
      11.  
      		 Laraaji - Unicorns in Paradise (Excerpt)    
      12.  
      		 Peter Davison - Glide V    
      13.  
      		 Joanna Brouk - Lifting Off    
      14.  
      		 Michael Stearns - As the Earth Kissed the Moon (Excerpt)    
      15.  
      		 Aeoliah - Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate (Excerpt)    
      16.  
      		 Daniel Kobialka - Blue Spirals    
      17.  
      		 Larkin - Two Souls Dance    
      18.  
      		 Judith Tripp - LI Sun    
      19.  
      		 Mark Banning - Lunar Eclipse (Excerpt)    
      20.  
      		 Alice Damon - Waterfall Winds    
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      Vinyl box set includes three tip-on jackets, housed in a custom slip case with 20-pg book and download card for full anthology.

      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 it's 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. 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.