j.d. emmanuel “solid dawn • electronic works 1979-1982” compact disc

• movement into lightspeed (3:05)
  
• sunrise over galveston bay (5:52)
  
• 7 note trance (7:30)
  
• grandioso (10:18)
  
• march of the colossus (4:57)
  
• through the inner planes (9:45)
  
• whirlwind (8:53)
  
• changeling (22:31)

kvist press release...

kvist 004: solid dawn jd emmanuel release date: april 2009 limited run of 500 on cd collection of electronic works recorded between 1979 and 1982. i was first introduced to jd emmanuel’s work two years ago through the re-release of his “wizards” lp, hailed as “a transcendent blend of terry riley, the bbc radiophonic workshop, popul vuh and early kraftwerk”. the bottom line for me is that it sounded damn good, in the way that a couple of records i buy every year do - it remains in rotation on the bedroom turntable. without going into too much depth, a conversation about the aforementioned lp led to contact with mr. emmanuel and the tracks that make up solid dawn, a compilation of tracks written between 1979-1982 and originally released in very limited quantities on cassette. these are not dusty old tracks dug up from someone’s basement, they are sparkling new tracks resurrected from the recesses of forgottenness. basically, i am a seeker, someone who is always interested in learning more about my relationship to the “universe” and the “source of my being”. a seeker has two tasks in their life-path, to be a student and a teacher. it is sort of a metaphysical internet, ie, i take what i learn from my different teachers and become a teacher by sharing it with others. anything i get involved in, whether it is spiritual, business management, human resources, music, etc., i do so to learn how to create a better relationship to the universe and all the beings that make it up.

daniel emmanuel “wizards” c20 cassette

• part i: attaining peace
  
• part ii: prayer
  
• part iii: focusing within
  
  
• part iv: expanding into the universe
  
• part v: at-one-ment

north star productions press release...

wizards music of other memories wizards was my first deep trance electronic music album. this album was inspired by terry riley, one of the earliest people ever to compose and perform long, extended, cyclic pieces in the electronic format. this music was composed and performed in '81 and '82. i consider this album my best work. the instrumentation is three sequencial circuits pro-1’s, crumar traveler one and a yamaha sk-20, all real time recording to a teac 4-track reel-to-reel. i mixed the four tracks to a teac a-7300 master 2-track tape recorder using a deltalab dl-2 to create the delay track. in 2006, i used a tascam 34b 4-track to remaster all my master tapes to digital master of 196 khz/24 bit .wav files using soundforge 8 software. the original wizards lp was published in the summer of 1982 with the black and white cover. the initial tracks had not names and were call movements i-v. several years later sales had slowed down, in an effort to improve sales we tried the color cover and i created names for each track. here is a picture of me taken in 1982 during the creation of wizards.

j.d. emmanuel “wizards • music of other memories” compact disc recordable

• part i: attaining peace (4:34)
  
• part ii: prayer (4:59)
  
• part iii: focusing within (9:19)
  
• part iv: expanding into the universe (8:43)
  
• part v: at-one-ment (8:47)

north star productions press release...

wizards music of other memories wizards was my first deep trance electronic music album. this album was inspired by terry riley, one of the earliest people ever to compose and perform long, extended, cyclic pieces in the electronic format. this music was composed and performed in '81 and '82. i consider this album my best work. the instrumentation is three sequencial circuits pro-1’s, crumar traveler one and a yamaha sk-20, all real time recording to a teac 4-track reel-to-reel. i mixed the four tracks to a teac a-7300 master 2-track tape recorder using a deltalab dl-2 to create the delay track. in 2006, i used a tascam 34b 4-track to remaster all my master tapes to digital master of 196 khz/24 bit .wav files using soundforge 8 software. the original wizards lp was published in the summer of 1982 with the black and white cover. the initial tracks had not names and were call movements i-v. several years later sales had slowed down, in an effort to improve sales we tried the color cover and i created names for each track. here is a picture of me taken in 1982 during the creation of wizards.