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Album of the day: Expo 70 – Awakening

Posted on Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

Praise for Expo 70‘s Awakening from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: This long out of print cassette from kosmische explorers Expo 70 is now available on CD!!! (And, vinyl too, which we’ll have next week, just ask, and they even pressed it on cassette again as well, weirdly enough). Here’s what we had to say about Awakenings the first time around:

Less heavy than some of the other Expo’s, Awakening, features some super stripped down drumming (or drum machine, hard to tell), locked into an endless groove, pulsing over a swirling spacescape of smeared riffs and fragmented melodies. It sounds a bit like Goblin, very soundtracky and otherworldly, space-y and mysterious, and not at all cheesy, more sort of classic new age / krautrock, think Klaus Schulze, scoring some super abstract French sci-fi flick from the sixties, and you’ll sort of get the vibe.

Like all Expo 70 stuff, dark and dreamy, warm and warbly, drone-y and hypnotic, but the addition of drums really adds a new dimension, and the soundscapes swirling around the groove seem to be endlessly shifting and transforming. Awesome stuff as always. Total blissed out new age spacey krautiness, as only Expo 70 can do it. WAY recommended.

At 40 years old, Aquarius is the oldest independent record store in San Francisco. We try to only carry music we love, and we’re always searching for more new, cool, weird and wonderful music. All of which we then share with you, our loyal customers.

Listen to the album preview below.

Tags: Album of the day, Aqaurius Records, Awakening, EXPO 70, psychedelica, Sonic Meditations, space rock
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