Sonic Seasonings + [Enhanced CD]
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Before there was ambient music, in a time before the New Age, there was Wendy Carlos's Sonic Seasonings, a double LP released in 1972. Taking the form of Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Carlos orchestrated four side-long soundscapes designed, according to producer Rachel Elkind, to be "part of the decor." Using only her Moog synthesizer and environmental sounds, Carlos created prototypical ambient music, predating Brian Eno's similar work by a few years. Carlos weaves gentle, often reedy synthesizer melodies through chirping birds on "Spring," phase-shifted church organ drones across crystalline bells an
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Manufacturer: East Side Digital
Release date: 11 November 2003
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0021561813724 UPC: 021561813724
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Release date: 11 November 2003
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0021561813724 UPC: 021561813724
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