The Azusa Plane - Where The Sands Turn Gold

This luxuriously and lovingly packaged double CD with DVD is a labour of love in memory of Jason DiEmilio aka the Azusa Plane. Two CDs feature over two hours of music spanning the breadth of the Azusa Plane catalogue, while the DVD features a thirty-minute live set and eleven individual MP3 folders. Each folder contains rare MP3 tracks, never released Azusa Plane live recordings, an interview with Jason, and an unreleased track.  The expansive booklet included with the release includes essays, thoughts, reflections and memories of DiEmilio’s life and musical output.  As Richard Milward writes in his piece about the Azusa Plane: Your eardrums were designed to listen to the Azusa Plane. Leaving no electrical frequency untouched, the music of Jason DiEmilio, Jason Knight and sometime percussionist Quentin Stoltzfus is at once dense and sparse; the musical equivalent of sleepwalking on feathers with ton-weights attached to your hands and feet. At times heavily distorted—at others, light as cloud matter—the guitar sprawl swims back and forth from one end of the musical spectrum to the other; creating the most wondrous, devastating, effervescent soundwaves. It is music which both challenges and celebrates the senses.The album launch party should provide fans and the community surrounding the Azusa Plane with something similar.

Tracklist:

CD One 1/Two Views Of The New Zealand Landscape  2/Meander 3/Every Wave Has Its Own Integrity 4/Eric Gaffney 5/Tokyo Guitar Flashback 6/Death Of A Microphone 7/Shooting Speed With Lou Reed 8/Lou, Nico, Sterling, John And Maureen 9/Live At Leeds 10/Fender: Six Strings Of Tonal And Atonal Vibrations  11/You Said I Could Bring My Guitar
12/United States Direct Investment In Other Countries

CD Two 1/A Magnetic Breakthrough 2/Ode To The Mountain Goats 3//George Harrison Plays Sitar 4/Beyond Infinite 5/This Is Not Spacerock 6/Calvin Johnson Has Saved Rock For An Entire Generation 7/Cheltenham 1  8/Cheltenham 2 9/She Was Into S&M And Bible Studies. Not Everyone’s Cup Of Tea, She Would Admit To Me. Her Cup Of Tea, She Would Admit To No One. 10/The Last Of The Famous Electronic Playboys 11/Me And Wayne Rogers
12/Mechanical Sound Construction

DVD 01 RESONATING SUBTLETIES 1/Hi, How Are You 2/Ode To The Mountain Goats
3/Pop World 4/George Harrison Plays Sitar 5/Emeralds 6/Underground Velvet 7/Cambridge 8/Pop World II 9/Khyber 10/Dream 02 7" Singles 1996-1997 1/Fall  2/Meander  3/Beyond Infinite 4/Every Wave Has Its Own Integrity 5/Hal 6/A Minimalist Plot To Destroy Modern Rockism 7/Fender: Six Strings Of Tonal And Atonal Vibrations 8/Moog: 32 Keys Of Polar And Bipolar Oscilations 9/She Was Into S&M And Bible Studies.10/Calvin Johnson Has Saved Rock For An Entire Generation 11/Lou, Nico, Sterling, John, And Maureen 12/An Unrecognizeable Paradigm Shift 13/Mechanical Sound Constructions 03 7" Singles 1998-1999 1/The Last Of The Famous Electronic Playboys 2/Live At Leeds 3/Philadelphia 1999 4/Song For Claudia Cardinale 5/United States Direct Investment In Other Countries 04 10" and 12" Singles 1/Lou, Nico, John, Sterling And Maureen (Live) 2/Hi, How Are You (Live) 3/Autumn Lament (Live) 4/Pop World (Live) 5/Lou, Nico, John, Sterling And Maureen (Live) 6/Autumn Lament (Live) 7/1863 8/1872 9/1875 10/1875 Part 2 11/A Magnetic Breakthrough 12/Eric Gaffney 13/Cheltenham  1 14/Cheltenham  2 05 Compilation Tracks 1/Me And Wayne Rogers 2/Shooting Speed With Lou Reed 3/Two Views Of The New Zealand Landscape 4/Imperivm Neptvini Regis 5/Death Of A Microphone 6/Drinking Scotch With Delmore 06 Magazine Compilation Tracks 1/You Said I Could Bring My Guitar 2/An Acoustical Triumph
3/Song To The Killers 4/Tokyo Guitar Flashback 5/Implications Of Holomovement (Live) 07 Cassette Tracks 6/Erone 7/Panic On The Streets Of London 8/Nebraska 9/Listening For The Dinosaur 10/The Magic Of Psychoacoustic Sound  08 Terrastock 1 Live Outtakes (26thApril 1997) 1/Terrastock 1 Song 1 2/Terrastock 1 Song 2 3/Terrastock 1 Song 3 09 The Garage London Live Outtakes (14thseptember 1997) 1/The Garage Song 1 2/The Garage Song 2 10 Interview With Jason Diemilio / Unreleased Track 1/Jason DiEmilio Interview  2/Silver Simeon

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