Nik Raicevic-Beyond the End... Eternity,LP,1971,USA

Another Nik Raicevic oddity!Here's an amusing story about this LP ,i found at RYM site:
"This has got to be one of the most unusual electronic albums I have ever heard! Talk about a forgotten relic from a forgotten era! Even the early works of Tangerine Dream on the Ohr label takes a back seat compared to this album from Los Angeles-bases synthesis Nik Raicevic. His albums have been pretty much known only by the most die-hard and fanatical LP collectors, those looking for the off-the-wall stuff that's never seen a CD reissue (and not likely to). I was exposed to Raicevic back when I was a small kid in 1979. My dad had a copy of _Magnetic Web_ (1973) for about a week and got rid of it. I liked it, but for some reason he did not. It took me years to find out who did _Magnetic Web_, and once I found out, I discovered it was Nik Raicevic. Little is known of this guy (finding info on him online is next to impossible), but one thing for sure was when he quit the music business around 1976, he sold his big modular Moog to none other than Steve Roach, then a former racecar driver, but later a big name in the New Age/electronic genre (yes, the same guy who teamed up with Australian didgeridoo player David Hudson in the 1990s, although of course he had no albums out in '76). Around the time he gave up on music, he did provide some sci-fi artwork to an Iowa-based pomp rock band called Locust (who released the album Playgue in 1976). Also I found out he provided some percussion on the Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup album, which I find extremely surprising, because the Stones were so much more mainstream than anything Raicevic was recording. I was trying to figure out why my dad got rid of _Magnetic Web_ so fast in my dark recesses of my early childhood. While much more recently the opportunity for me to get that album hadn't arised for me quite yet, I was given the chance to get this earlier release, _Beyond the End... Eternity_, and I got a copy! It all makes sense, if the "music" on this album is anything to go by, it's little wonder why my dad got rid of _Magnetic Web_, it must've been too far out for his likings. _Beyond the End... Eternity_ was Nik's first album after being kicked off the Buddah label following the release of _Head_ (the album with the coloring book included). This album was released on Narco Records, and it's basically a sound effects library album. It's nothing but electronic bleeps and laser sounds, with some droning Moog. Nothing remotely resembling a tune or a melody, Jean Michel Jarre or later Tangerine Dream this is not. The album cover is truly a time piece, with that trippy sci-fi cover done by Raicevic himself. The minute you hear the opening cut, "Beyond the End", you hear mainly electronic wailing sounds that sounds like sirens. The next cut, "To Go, To Do, Is to Be" features that odd droning Moog and more sound effects. The rest of the album is more or less the same, bearing titles like "The Mist that Drifts Away", "Deathless", "The Wanderer, "Life's Timelessness", and "Eternity". This is truly a wonderful album to clear parties with, because of all those relentless electronic effects. I also love that raw analog sound. This is truly one album you'll either give a one or a five star rating, but because I like this off-the-wall stuff, I give it a five star rating. And to think three more albums will be released from him before dropping out of the music business. None of his albums have ever been reissued on CD, so you have to get it on LP (or 8-Track). I know my parents would hate this album (like they did _Magnetic Web_), but that's not my problem, if you're looking for the most off-the-wall stuff, give this album a spin.

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