Starting (here) with the Private-Press 1975 "Love All Life" LP (with its almost Annabelle McBride -esque cover) one could easily dismiss this, cosmetically, as yet another mid/life-crisis "Leave The City" caravan-folk enterprise... yet upon entry we're met with a series of (pastoral, given) soundscapes that quickly morph into a sort of Loner-Electronic-Psych feel, rife with Musique Concrète passages & endless atonal hand-played synth lines that all add up to something far more unique & central to our particular ways of thought. I've added Lindsay's eerie organ/electronic score for Chris Löfvén's 1970 film "Part Two: The Beginning" (itself a mad hippy/commune/naturalist romp around the outback, centering a Matti Suuronen/Peter Dermoudy Futuro "UFO House") as a bonus track at the end of disc one.
Working backwards, the second disc contains the entirety of Lindsay's 1971 LP "Wilderness Awakening" to the proceedings; a wonderful 5-part thematic suite ("Discovery", "Contemplation", "Joy", "Absorbtion", & "Being") for solo piano that goes from the sort of plantive Willem Nyland / Gurdjieff -inspired modal exploration to more hamfisted Don Pullen / Cecil ranges on a hair-trigger, successively fêted by none other than Hans Pokora himself (the first appearance of a Pokora in the C.P. catalogue?)
Touchpoints range from the (similarly disconnected) Kai Harster "Return To Nature & Other Delights" LP ([CP 258 CD]), Steve Dunstan's "Magnetic Fields" ([CP 222 CD]), Giuseppe Morrocchi's "Aaffluss Raaffluss" ([CP 124 CD]), even William S. Fischer's solo hand-played Moog masterpiece "Omen" ([CP 200 CD]). Putting this one up as a "Two-For-One" title to sweeten the pot (mainly as I do really love the second disc/earlier LP & want people to check it out!)
Tracklist Love All Life (Private, 1975) 1-01. Birth, Sea Life (5:40) 1-02. Youth in Spring, Flora, Carnival of the Frogs (12:14) 1-03. The Passover, Children's Realms (6:12) 1-04. Lunar Eclipse (3:26) 1-05. Laughter, Song-Love All Life, Chorus-Rejoice in the Kingdoms, Lament, Praise the Creator, Mergence and Renewal, The Timeless Dance, Mantra (20:49) Part Two: The Beginning (dir. Chris Löfvén, 1970) 1-06. Part Two: The Beginning [Original Sound Track] (9:48) Wilderness Awakening (AAVR Custom Recording #CJ-70022, 1971) 2-01. Discovery (5:34) 2-02. Contemplation (6:06) 2-03. Joy (2:04) 2-04. Absorbtion (9:07)
