Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millenia Music (2017)

RVNG Intl parse Pauline Anna Strom’s incredible new age recordings on this collection of boundary-smudging synth journeys, containing material originally released between 1982 and 1988. They've spent almost a decade trying to bring this collection to life, kudos to them once again for compiling and conceiving it with so much care and attention to detail.

Drawn from seven obscure tape and vinyl releases made between 1982 and 1988, Trans-Millenia Music lives up to its mantle with a sense of ancient knowledge transposed into the contemporary future of the 1980s, realising a latent, transcendent sound that was perhaps just waiting for technology to catch up so it could speak freely.

Through the circuitry of pioneering synth tools, the blind composer and keyboardist from San Francisco feels out a spectrum of unfathomably celestial and synaesthetically-heightened sound colour along myriad, psychedelic vectors, haptically connecting diffuse spatial coordinates with a gossamer web of FX and morphing filter envelopes.

It’s music for oceanic introspection, beckoning listeners to fall deep inside themselves and diffract profound visions through their own lens, where you can interpret her descriptions of sonic flight in Crusing Altitude 36,000 Feet and In Flight Suspension, or decode the entheogenic synth voices of Mushroom Trip according to your own understanding of the cosmos and its play of energies, and draw your own meanings.

Gorgeous music, highly recommended if you're into Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Speigel or indeed Midori Takada.

Tracklist:
01. Pauline Anna Strom - Freedom at the 45th Floor
02. Pauline Anna Strom - Virgin Ice
03. Pauline Anna Strom - In Flight Suspension
04. Pauline Anna Strom - Bonsai Terrace
05. Pauline Anna Strom - Energies
06. Pauline Anna Strom - Mushroom Trip
07. Pauline Anna Strom - Cruising Altitude 36,000 Feet
08. Pauline Anna Strom - Spatial Spectre
09. Pauline Anna Strom - Warriors of the Sun
10. Pauline Anna Strom - Rain on Ancient Quays
11. Pauline Anna Strom - Morning Splendor
12. Pauline Anna Strom - The Unveiling
13. Pauline Anna Strom - Gossamer Silk