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Every once in awhile an album comes along and sort of rewires your brain. Something or someone in the universe sees fit to gift your head and heart with a little aural magic; a tickle to your psyche that ignites something in the head and heart. For me that came in the form of Paul Riedl’s Ambient Mixtape Vol. 3, which dropped late in the year on SFI Recordings.

Andrew Crawshaw of Somafree Institute, Meridian Arc, and New Frontiers, as well as being label dude at SFI Recordings, is trying to bring the world of 70s and 80s Private Press synth music back into the fold. Shed some light on this fascinating and heady sound world. He started with New Frontiers’ (of)New Dimensions in early 2021. With the label’s next foray into the world of Private Press and ambient synth they released Riedl’s Ambient Mixtape Vol. 3, and man what a trip it is.

I listened to the album pretty much nonstop thru November and December, finding this circuital pocket of peace and light. Hitting Rudiger Lorenz, Lisa Bella Donna, and Steve Roach vibes, but with this sort of late night quality to it. Not lo-fi, but not studio sheen either. There’s a low key, improvisational spirit to Riedl’s work that gives it all the feeling of walking in on someone letting the cos

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Carlos Santana once said “I like new age music as long as it doesn’t put me in a coma or make me feel like I’m standing in line at a health food store” (Viva Santana liner notes, 1988). The tracks on Light in the Attic’s I Am the Center: Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990 are tracks you’re not likely to hear playing in your local health food emporium.

This is new age music before it became a commodity, before it evolved into aural wallpaper and background music. When it was the domain of outsider artists, eccentrics and experimentalists. As evidenced by this collection, the music’s goals were often lofty. No less than a connection to the Divine through sound, and to enable spiritual transformation for the listener, was the aim of many of these early new age musicians.

That’s not to say none of this music wasn’t created to simply soothe. Don Slepian’s “Awakening” is regularly used for yoga and meditation, and is said to have been used to accompany childbirth. Another track, “Waterfall Winds”, by Alice Damon is one of the most peaceful, tranquil tracks you’re likely to hear anywhere.

Compiled by record collector and independent new age music reissue label owner Douglas