This is the second Vanity LP, released in 1978. It is mostly synth/ambient music w/ a bit of piano, sitar and other instrumentation including a bit of percussion.As the description from Music magazine below mentions, this could be considered pre-new age music, particularly side A, washy synths and a little piano... side B explores a little more and this is where most of the other instrumentation comes into play. This may be the one Vanity LP that sounds the least like any other. I think this is partly due to the instrumentation, the higher-production level of this album compared to some of the other Vanity titles, and possibly the musicianship of SAB & friends. Not mentioned below in the article is that SAB did a lot of the music on the Morio Agata LP for Vanity.
SAB: CRYSTALIZATION (Vanity 0002/LP/1978) A 19-year-old Sab produced this spacey-electronic music almost entirely by himself using multiple recording and such instruments as guitar, synth, and various electronics. Here, Sab creates crystal-clear electronic music comparable to Magical Power Mako, Kitaro, and the Sky label. Pre-new age music. Since this talented musician went to India, nobody has known his whereabouts.
Two tracks per side are listed, but I think it might be one on side A and three on side B. I have left the vinyl rip as two whole sides. Here is the tracklist according to the sleeve/label:
Side A
1. Yume-no-ishe
2. Marble
Side B
1. Menou
2. Agate
Enjoy.
2 comments:
Shwweet.
What of the Vanity LPs have not been offered via the web? My guess:
0005 AGATA MORIO- NORIMONO ZUKAN s/t
0001 DADA Jyo
0009 NORMAL BRAIN Ready made
(Mutant Sounds mislabeled his post of the flexi disc as the vinyl LP, pretty sure...so this is still unavailable)
Andrew:
If I ever find the Dada LP, I'll post it. I may post the LP they did after the Vanity release some day.
I think the Agata LP was reissued on CD a while ago, so I've stayed away from that one.
As for Normal Brain, per your comment on it, I checked out MS's rip and at first also thought it was the flexi due to the file size. Once I checked out the tracks & lengths it looks like this is just side A of the LP and at a low bit rate (128K).
I'll check w/ MS and see if he wants to re-post the whole LP, or wants me to do it. I already have a 256K rip I did myself on my HD and can post more pix too.
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