Laraaji is ambient music’s prince of laughter. Since 1980, when he debuted with a sparkling collection of acoustic string compositions that became the third installment in Brian Eno’s famous ambient ...
Anyone who’s written off new age music hasn’t heard Laraaji. The multi-instrumentalist and composer (born Edward Larry Gordon) is recognized as an ambient pioneer because his 1980 album, Ambient 3: ...
The groundbreaking composer performs in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto next month in collaboration with Ambient Church ...
Laraaji has been doing a few reissue campaigns this year. Over the summer, he put out All In One Peace on Leaving Records, which collected select works from 1978 to 1983. Just two weeks ago, he ...
Psychedelic duo Blues Control collaborated with zither master Laraaji (known for the Brian Eno-produced Ambient 3: Day of Radiance) and musician Arji Cakouros for a release that was part of RVNG’s ...
Laraaji is best known to some for his ambient work with Brian Eno in the late '70s. He brings his meditative calm to the Tiny Desk in this... Prepare to be calmed. It begins with a small bell, a set ...
For those well-versed in the history of New Age music, Laraaji’s origin story is elementary material. The account goes something like this: Brian Eno, walking in Washington Square Park one day in 1979 ...
Laraaji's songs always drift with a patient, resplendent glory. The shimmery "Ocean," which arrives ahead of Segue to Infinity — a four-LP box set highlighting his earliest recordings, out Feb. 10, ...
So the story goes: Brian Eno happened upon ambient music maker LARAAJI while the latter was playing in Washington Square Park in the late '70s and they recorded an album together, Day of Radiance, Eno ...
Laraaji still remembers the line that changed his life. It was a “lovely afternoon in Harlem'' and he was walking past a church with a sign outside that read, “Free Poetry Reading: All Are Welcome.” ...
The pioneer of ambient music, now 79, rediscovered some of his earliest recordings for a new four-disc set. By Jon Pareles Laraaji, a pioneer of ambient music, barely remembers recording most of ...
It begins with a small bell, a set of tiny wind chimes and a plucked, angelic zither sounding much like a harp. Laraaji and his musical partner Arji "OceAnanda" Cakouros came to NPR draped in ...
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