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LARAAJI: biography
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Edward Larry Gordon was a comedian/musician attempting to work his way through the Greenwich Village clubs in the '70s when one day he impulsively traded in his guitar for a zither, adopted the name Laraaji, and began busking on the sidewalks. Brian Eno, living in New York at the time, heard his music and offered to record him, resulting in the singular, unusual album, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance.
Laraaji uses an open-tuned instrument with some degree of electrification (and, presumably, with studio enhancements courtesy of Eno), which creates a brilliant, full sound. The first three pieces, The Dance, Nos. 1-3, are rhythmically charged and propulsive, with tinges of Irish hammered dulcimer music mixed with a dash of Arabic influence. The layered production gives them a hypnotically captivating quality and an echoing vastness, inducing a dreamlike state in which the listener happily bathes. The two parts of Meditation are arrhythmic, ethereal wanderings, still effective if less immediately riveting. Day of Radiance is considered an early new age masterpiece and, while it shares certain aspects with the genre (including a heady mystical aura), it has far more rigor, inventiveness, and sheer joy of playing than the great majority of its supposed descendents. It possesses a sense of timelessness that has enabled it to quite ably hold up over the years
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Laraaji (Biography)
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Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (Brian Eno / Laraaji)
UK cd album (1992)
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Cascade (Laraaji)
US cd album (1997)
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Celestial Reiki (Jonathan Goldman & Laraaji)
US cd album (2001)
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Flow Goes The Universe (Laraaji)
US cd album (2003)
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Islands (Laraaji / Roger Eno)
US cd album (2000)
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The Way Out Is The Way In (Laraaji, Audio Active)
US cd album (1995)
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Laraaji (Biography)
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CDS / MEMORABILIA IN STOCK: (Laraaji)
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Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
Brian Eno / Laraaji
UK cd album
(1992)
Originally released 1980
Number of Discs: 1
Label: EG
Track listing:
- Dance #1
- Dance #2
- Dance #3
- Meditation #1
- Meditation #2
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Cascade
Laraaji
US cd album
(1997)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Relaxation
Track listing:
- Concentration
- Circulation
- Activation
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Celestial Reiki
Jonathan Goldman & Laraaji
US cd album
(2001)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Etherean
Track listing:
- Equinox
- Quiet Space
- Light of the Ocean
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Flow Goes The Universe
Laraaji
US cd album
(2003)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: United States Dist
Track listing:
- Being Here
- Space Choir
- Cave in England
- Immerson
- Zither Dance
[Live]
- Mbira Dance
[Live]
- Laughing in Tongues - Michael Brook
- Deep Celestial
- In Continuum
Producer
- Michael Brook
- Laraaji
Guest Musicians
- Roger Eno
- Michael Brook
Recording time
- 72 minutes
Album description:
Personnel includes: Laraaji (vocals, zither, mbira, keyboards, percussion). Wondrously atmospheric and involving, Laraaji's purity of essence has become a virtual unknown quantity on the in-vogue ambient horizon. Largely shedding keyboards and samples for the sparklingly lustrous zither, he creates panoramas that are shimmering and dreamily effective. And while the addition of producer Michael Brook's--as well as Roger Eno's--contributions to "Laughing in Tongues" add a quasi-funky and trendy "pop" element, they are for the most part superfluous. Being Here, the 25-minute epic opening excursion, is indicative of Laraaji's sterling ability to render mysterious environments all the more palpable, free of technological underpinnings
Review:
Down Beat (1/94, p.50) - 3 1/2 Stars - Good Plus - "...Laraaji creates music that seems to come from another world or culture..."
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Islands
Laraaji / Roger Eno
US cd album
(2000)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: La Cooka Ratcha
Track listing:
- Kalimba
- Zaragoza II
- Radiance
- Music for Two Islands
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The Way Out Is The Way In
Laraaji, Audio Active
US cd album
(1995)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Gyroscope
Track listing:
- New Laughter Mode (The Way In)
- Music & Cosmic (Feel Yourself)
- Think Cosmically
- How Time Flies (When You're Having Note)
- Laraajingle
- Space Visitors for Tea, That Lump on Your Head
- Hither and Zither
- Blooper's Dance Floor
- New Laughter Mode (The Way Out)
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Laraaji (Biography)
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Brian Eno (Biography)
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Mick Karn
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Dalis Car |
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Porcupine Tree
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Mark Isham
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