Laraaji - Celestial Music (1978-2011) (full album)

“Released by All Saints in 2013, Celestial Music 1978-2011 is a generous, much-needed overview of the musical career of Edward Larry Gordon, otherwise known as Laraaji Nadabrahmananda. One of new age’s most distinctive artists, Laraaji is best known for playing instruments such as the zither and hammered dulcimer, as well as his association with Brian Eno, who encountered him busking on the New York City streets during the late ’70s, and produced his 1980 album Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. While that album deservedly remains Laraaji’s most well-known recording, it only focuses on one aspect of his sound. Since making his debut in 1978 with the privately released Celestial Vibration (credited to his birth name), Laraaji has issued dozens of cassettes and CD-Rs and collaborated with numerous experimental, rock, and dub musicians, and his catalog is as vast and overwhelming as it is fascinating and first disc of this anthology collects highlights from his early self-released cass