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Laraaji: Through Luminous Eyes
by Mark Sullivan
Ambient/New Age veteran Laraaji is best known for his meditative electrified zither playing, His first broad exposure came with the Brian Eno-produced Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (Editions EG, 1980). Recently he returned to the piano--his first instrument--on Sun Piano and Moon Piano (Self Produced, 2020). Although he considers the EP Through Luminous Eyes to be the final part of his piano trilogy, it is the fascinating result of Laraaji playing both instruments at once, in real time, in a ...
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by Jakob Baekgaard
In 2017, the Luaka Bop label released WORLD SPIRITUALITY CLASSICS 1: THE ECSTATIC MUSIC OF ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA and at the beginning of 2018, the time has come to unearth another cosmic classic: Laraaji's album Vision Songs Vol. 1. It was originally released in 1984, four years after his formal breakthrough with the album Day of Radiance that came out as a part of Brian Eno's ambient series, subtitled Ambient 3. Indeed, Laraaji could be considered a ...
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