{"id":2052,"date":"2014-09-24T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wasserbassin.com\/site\/pages\/page-with-sidebar\/shop\/craig-leon-anthology-of-interplanetary-folk-music-vol-1-nommos-visiting-2lp\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T02:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:33:16","slug":"craig-leon-anthology-of-interplanetary-folk-music-vol-1-nommos-visiting-2lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/craig-leon-anthology-of-interplanetary-folk-music-vol-1-nommos-visiting-2lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Leon – Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos \/ Visiting – 2LP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Leon\u2019s<\/strong> seminal synthesizer albums Nommos<\/em> and Visiting<\/em> are finally re-editioned in definitive form as the Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1<\/em> for RVNG Intl.\u2019s archival series.<\/p>\n

Issued respectively by John Fahey\u2019s<\/strong> Takoma record label in 1980 and Leon\u2019s Arbitor private press in 1982, Nommos<\/em> and Visiting<\/em> were the twin brainchildren of studio wizard Craig Leon. Leon\u2019s production was pivotal in realizing the debut recordings by Ramones<\/strong>, Blondie<\/strong>, Richard Hell<\/strong> and Suicide<\/strong>. While those albums broke ground in new worlds of sound, Leon\u2019s own debut album was arguably, if not literally, more alien.<\/p>\n

Issued by Fahey with zero expectation of the same radio airplay Leon accomplished with his pop productions, Nommos<\/em> now stands as an innovative example of cosmic-synth composition that wasn\u2019t made for its time or any other. For this edition, Leon has in fact re-animated Nommos<\/em> by re-recording<\/em> the exact audio signals as preserved in the album\u2019s original studio notes. Every patch, tape-delay speed and outboard setting was transcribed as first scored, materializing the best possible audio of an album whose masters were unaccessible to Leon due to a major label merger milieu from years ago.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the re-master of Visiting<\/em> was supervised firsthand by Leon. As its title suggests, Visiting<\/em> materialized in 1982 as a conceptual continuation of Nommos<\/em>. The album is in equal measure more improvisatory and constructed than its predecessor. Both albums were intended to be listened to as a set in the first volume of Leon\u2019s Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music<\/em> (the title was an homage to Harry Smith\u2019s<\/strong> influential collection of folk music issued two decades prior). A creative evolutionist, Leon made subtle edits and compositional additions to both albums to enhance the connectivity and encourage infinite interpretation.<\/p>\n

While reissues and bootlegs have appeared to relieve the demand for these records, this collection will stand as definitive versions authorized by Craig Leon himself. The vinyl edition will be housed in a 2xLP set that includes detailed artwork and two essays by Leon. The first tells the complete story of the stargazing Dogon people and their prescient understanding of cosmology. The second details Leon\u2019s adventure in creating the Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1<\/em>, an epic story bookended on this side of history as one seamless synth classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Leon\u2019s seminal synthesizer albums Nommos<\/em> and Visiting <\/em>are finally re-editioned in definitive form as the Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1 for RVNG Intl.\u2019s archival series.<\/p>\n

Issued respectively by John Fahey\u2019s Takoma record label in 1980 and Leon\u2019s Arbitor private press in 1982, Nommos and Visiting were the twin brainchildren of studio wizard Craig Leon. Leon\u2019s production was pivotal in realizing the debut recordings by Ramones, Blondie, Richard Hell and Suicide. While those albums broke ground in new worlds of sound, Leon\u2019s own debut album was arguably, if not literally, more alien.<\/p>\n

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