{"product_id":"charles-esposito-accidental-music-1987-1991","title":"Charles Esposito Accidental Music 1987-1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eUltravillage is a collective and burgeoning community of new age music devotees, private press fanatics, and underground ambient, minimal, and progressive electronic aficionados. Their website at ultravillage.com is fast becoming the go-to guide for the most obscure entries in the American new age and minimal music canon – a crucial hub for diggers, archivists, and label runners recovering lost sounds from by-gone eras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark Griffey, the man behind Ultravillage, has recently made the venture into releasing albums, with the intention of reissuing forgotten personal masterpieces of 1980s and 90s private press synth culture on the new label Mid-Air Museum. MM’s first vinyl record release is a collaboration with Scottish reissue label chOOn!!.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, they present \u003cem\u003eAccidental Music 1987-1991\u003c\/em\u003e by Charles Esposito, a career retrospective of the experimental composer from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The cinematic and the sacred swirl around on \u003cem\u003eAccidental Music\u003c\/em\u003e, which gives new life to intriguing self-released tapes that Esposito put out in the 1980s and 90s. Heard by few on its original release, the music featured on this compilation ranges from Palace of Lights percussive sonics to an almost minimal techno palette, a meeting of pop and twisted electronics with the hypnotic immediacy of ancient ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAccidental Music 1987-1991\u003c\/em\u003e develops a series of resonant harmonic spaces by adding layers of instruments and played objects. Rather than work as acoustic maps of specific locations, these pieces eddy and gather into positive physical presences. But Esposito’s real strength lies in creating depth of field. The foreground might be dominated by glassy chimes or resonant prayer bowl-like timbres, but beyond it, a series of sonic veils seems to recede towards murky imperceptibility. There’s also a kind of surreal decorum at play, passages that sound like an immaculately laid dinner table being shaken by an earth tremor while the tinkling complaints of the silver, glass, and muffling linen are scrupulously recorded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable for the first time on vinyl, \u003cem\u003eAccidental Music 1987-1991\u003c\/em\u003e by Charles Esposito is an exploration into many inner worlds and dreamscapes, an analogue mirage of avant-garde gems. Produced in cooperation with the artist for Mid-Air Museum and chOOn!!. Remastered for vinyl and digital and featuring liner notes from Mark Griffey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable for the first time on vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA career retrospective which gives new life to intriguing self-released tapes circa 1980s and 90s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemastered for vinyl by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgotten personal masterpieces of private press synth culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n MM231 -Artist-Charles Esposito\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JIT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Charles Esposito","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53422776582328,"sku":"DK91DY-RJSX-4A","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9222\/8280\/files\/charles-esposito-accidental-music-1987-1991_ntuXE.png?v=1777533039","url":"https:\/\/musicrecordshop.com\/products\/charles-esposito-accidental-music-1987-1991","provider":"Music Record Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}