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Land of a Thousand Trances

by A PRODUCE

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Harmonic Resonance Recordings Beautiful packaging with a chock full of information on AP and his music. The cd is as artistically curated as the music held within. As I did not own the bonus material in the original ver. I own from 1994 the bonus disc is well worth the price of admission. Sublime, sensitive music on a deeper level.. Favorite track: Land of a Thousand Trances.
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    The new deluxe remastered edition is housed in a package that proves one of Independent Project Records and Independent Project Press founder Bruce Licher’s most elegant designs (which, you’ll agree, is saying a lot). Evocative and seducing, it features some of Barry Craig’s sublime landscape photographs - a perfect accompaniment for the pictorial dreaminess conjured by the sounds contained within.

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about

Originally released in 1994, Land of a Thousand Trances acted as an even more ambitious counterpart to the previous A Produce albums, Reflect Like a Mirror, Respond Like an Echo (1992) and solo debut The Clearing (1988). Transcendental at heart, A Produce’s trance language encompassed ambient, industrial, new age and so-called world music, only to go further. It was eager to find a direct line from Gregorian chants to Erik Satie, while tending to the needs of a fractured post-modern world. To anyone who cares about etymologies, it was also properly psychedelic. There is certainly a parallel to be drawn between A Produce’s work and that of some of his guiding lights: Terry Riley, Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Harold Budd, Jon Hassell… But it is also true that the voracious, multitudinous nature of the perfectly titled Land of a Thousand Trances feels unprecedented and idiosyncratic. You could compare it to A Produce’s relationship with his city, Los Angeles, crucial muse since the post-punk days of his former band Afterimage: what he most loved about it was the simultaneous proximity of deserts, oceans, mountains and industrial metropolis. In 2007 A Produce worked on a remaster of the album, adding a second disc featuring bonus material from around the same time the album was recorded. This second chapter in the Land of a Thousand Trances journey is ultimately as hypnotic as the first and original one: there are cuts taken from the same recording sessions that didn’t previously make the tracklist, as well as live renditions and alternate versions. It’s a fascinating insight into A Produce’s mindset during a prolific, particularly inspired moment in his ever fascinating career.

credits

released August 4, 2023

Barry Craig (guitars, synth, percussion, bells, other) all tracks,
except with
tracks 2, 6, 15 - Ruben Garcia (keyboards)
track 3 - Chas Smith (keyboard)
track 2, 4 - Pierre Lambow (keyboards)
tracks 9, 10 - Scott Fraser (guitar)

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A PRODUCE Los Angeles, California

A Produce, the moniker used by the late Barry Craig (1952 – 2011), who was a prolific artist operating on the fringe of the experimental and DIY music scene in Los Angeles from the 1980's up until his premature death in 2011.

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