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Brought up in New Jersey, Laraaji was a jack of all trades until one day in the 1970s when he swapped his guitar for a zither in a Greenwich Village pawn shop and, after a few years of busking with the instrument, graduated to the professional circuit where he met
Brian Eno, who produced this, Laraaji's debut album. Divided into two sections, "Dance" and "Meditation",
Day Of Radiance is a showcase for Laraaji's unaccompanied, electronically treated zither. The dance pieces have a hypnotic, dervish-like quality about them, while the meditative pieces are mind cleansing and gorgeous, swirling in great shoals, repetitive yet glistening with detail and tiny variations, occasionally swelling in dazzling clusters before retreating into distant drones. An album that cries out for rediscovery by a later generation of ambient and new age aficionados. --
David Stubbs