Michael Garrison or Garri was a synthesist from California, USA. He was born on November 28, 1956 in Oregon and died on March 24, 2004. At the age of 13 he wrote his first song and later, during his musical study at the Idaho University, he formed the basic for the first release on his own label Winspell Records, later Garrisongs Music. The original work was titled In The Regions Of Sunreturn and Beyond and based on the expeditions of Voyager 1 and 2. But when he managed to get a contract with BMG in 1980 the title changed to In The Regions Of Sunreturn and so he became also known in Europe. His style was typical strong sequences with monstrous solos played with various electronic instruments on top. Often a real wall-of-sound experience. An Earth-Star Trilogy differs from the rest of his work by having a much more calm atmosphere. He was strongly influenced by the European innovators of Electronic Music, like Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream.
Another space/minimal electronics gem!
You are NUTZ! I have been up for twelve hours now just trying to grasp the wealth of material you have on display...The NWW list material alone is enough to make my head nearly explode!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so such for your efforts to bring this music to light, I dedicate this weekend (at least) to 'Mutant Sounds' only ;-)
I was going to leave you one note, the 'Mnemonists - Gyromancy' seems to have some sort of encoding artifacts (especially side one) but someone pointed out it is available again at rerusa (and it is a download!) so I will just buy it.
Keep up the good work, can't wait to get to the non 'NWW List 'albums (that should be about thirty hours from now!!!
re: michael garrison sunreturn, very cool!
ReplyDeleteMy life started today after discovering your blog. Geeeeeee - where to begin?? Where???? I decided to go for Basil Kirchin's World Within Worlds, La Monte Young's Black Album, the two Günter Schickerts, plus bookmarked about a 100 others to get them in the next days. Thanks a million for your efforts, the great selection, the background info, cover artwork and all the time you have put into this. RESPECT. Your blog is at least as great as the music that it contains. Thanks again!! (and have a look at my tiny little blog just to reconfirm how great YOU are!). Adam from http://orpheusrecords.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteGreat record, thank you
ReplyDeleteI picked this LP up last summer on a whim and was pleasantly surprised by the sounds within. So I was glad to see this posted and went ahead and downloaded it. I'm listening to it now, and whatever you posted isn't the actual album..it all seems to be there, but there are some extra tracks as well...notably (and annoyingly) one with some awful vocals? Oh well, the rest is nice anyway..just have to skip that one.
ReplyDeleteA M A Z I N G !!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uHt-04xXaY&feature=related
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