Ashra - New Age Of Earth

 Hearing Ashra's "New Age Of Earth" for the first time was a turning point for me, for my listening habits/what i was looking for in art. I was at the tail end of playing hardcore and  i was ready to put that aside, and I started listening to Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Neu and Can. So I was hungry for those kinda sounds, and I came across this LP on some random blog that I couldnt tell you the name off. These 4 tracks transported me outer space, deep into the ocean and myself. Manuel Gottsching had previously led Ash Ra Temple, who were a seminal krautrock band I had listened to, especially "Seven Up" with Timothy Leary (highly recommend the book "The Harvard Psychedelic Studies"), but this is a as far as a I can tell his solo debut. The combo of blissed out synth washes, proto techno drum machines and stream of conscious guitar solos make these 4 tracks soooooooar into transcendent life affirming pleasure. Something that has always struck me about this album is the song titles and how the describe the precise feeling of the song itself, its truly magical. Listening to this album would directly lead to me listening to more new age/ambient music, and falling in love with stuff like Iasos, Pauline Anna Strom, Laraaji and new stuff like Bitchin Bajas, Wume, and Forma. Who all carry the torch of new age/electronic/krautrock......which informs my music stronger than ever. So, this LP doesn't have a bandcamp, so in what I hope is a rare occurrence, because I want people to support actual artists....a borrowed download link is below. Enjoy

https://mega.nz/#!T4NwVIyJ!MpRS66qy5UxDpLTV74aDn_7-9e8Ii9xBidwSneVHiKc