Lightdreams – Islands in Space

I was listening to this album hardcore at the same time I started reading William Gibson's Neuromancer. They seemed to compliment each other well, each depicted a world in space so daring and different. Paul Marcano, the mind behind Lightdreams, dedicates the album to the colonization of space and this really sets the tone for the record. Wavering between a synth drenched psychedelic folk manifesto and new age music for the space traveler, this Vancouver Island private from 1981 is able to deliver a convincing soundtrack to the future. There is an element of conviction in Marcano's work that prevents this from becoming cheesy Windham Hill fodder. Personally, my favorite track is the most stripped down. A blissful finger-picked journey into the sky. The album was mixed under different states of mind to produce maximal…

Paul is currently a visual artist specializing in virtual reality. He can be contacted via the Lightdreams website www.islandsinspace.com and has some copies of this album for sale.

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