Various - Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music From California

Download Links A collection of obscure and unheard metaphysical sounds, 1980-1992.. Lost Coast: Some Visionary Music from California assembles little-known sounds from California’s metaphysical underground. Each recording is stylistically different—dream pop, guitar soli, fourth world, avant-electronic—but they are held together by a regional ethos of the “visionary.” This is music that sees through the mind’s eye ("envisions") to conjure new worlds. Some people say that California is where “the nuts stop rolling”—where those too eccentric to fit in elsewhere often find themselves. What was meant pejoratively is easily reclaimed as a celebration of the free-thinking and the freely-freaking. Until the turn of the millennium, all manner of seekers rolled westwarduntil they hit the pacific. Stationed along this edge, music was a way to roll still further, imagining territories unencountered and wavelengths as yet unheard. Lost Coast is a commemoration of the people who made these journeys