Essential Albums: Celestial Vibration (recorded as Edward Larry Gordon), Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, Unicorns in Paradise, Essence/Universe, The Way Out Is the Way In (with Audio Active), FRKWYS Vol.

Laraaji’s earliest work is getting a Numero Group reissue in a forthcoming package dubbed Segue to Infinity. It includes his first full-length, 1978’s Celestial Vibration, along with three LPs of ...

Anyone who’s written off new age music hasn’t heard Laraaji. The multi-instrumentalist and composer (born Edward Larry Gordon) is recognized as an ambient pioneer because his 1980 album, Ambient 3: ...

If you’re acquainted with avant-garde music history, you might already know the story. One day in 1979, Brian Eno happened upon Laraaji meditatively busking with an electric zither in Washington ...

Numero Group is set to release a 4xLP box set of Laraaji’s earliest material. Titled Segue To Infinity, the set takes in the US artist’s 1978 debut album, Celestial Vibration, and a further three ...

Laraaji still remembers the line that changed his life. It was a “lovely afternoon in Harlem'' and he was walking past a church with a sign outside that read, “Free Poetry Reading: All Are Welcome.” ...

Edward Larry Gordon’s calling wasn’t always music – he spent his late teens plying his wares as a stand-up comic and occasional actor (including a small role in black cinema classic Putney Swope).