FILTER REISSUES
Eternity ring
The be-robed laughter meditation guru’s 1978 debut, accompanied by three discs of early recordings.
By David Sheppard.
Laraaji
Still on hold: Laraaji gets through to Eno.
★★★★
Segue To Infinity
NUMERO GROUP. LP
PERHAPS INEVITABLY, any narrative about Laraaji (including this one) must involve Brian Eno and the 1979 Sliding Doors moment when the producer happened upon the musician known first as Edward Larry Gordon, then Larry G (a pun on which led to his enduring fauxmystic moniker), busking in a corner of New York’s Washington Square Park. The chance meeting would result in the endlessly transporting Eno-produced Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released in 1980, which alerted the wider world to the free-flowing caresses of Laraaji’s music. However, as this release verifies, there is a significant prequel to this oft-repeated origin story.