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Hudson River Wind Meditations + Words & Music, May 1965 - Slipmat + LP Bundle

Light in the Attic

HUDSONRIVER-123-6

Bundle Black $50
Bundle Coke Bottle and Yellow $55
  • Produced in partnership with Light in the Attic, Laurie Anderson, and the Lou Reed Archive
  • Remastered by GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin
  • Packages designed by multi-GRAMMY®-winning artist Masaki Koike
  • Vinyl pressed at RTI
  • Hudson River Wind Meditations includes a 20-page LP book
  • Words & Music, May 1965 includes a 28-page LP book

LP Bundle Includes:

  • 1xLP of the multi-GRAMMY®-nominated release Words & Music, May 1965
  • 2xLP of the album Hudson River Wind Meditations
  • Words & Music yellow felt turntable slipmat
  • Available on either Black Wax or Coke Bottle Clear and Yellow Wax

Description

MORE ABOUT HUDSON RIVER WIND MEDITATIONS -

“I first composed this music for myself as an adjunct to meditation, Tai Chi, and bodywork, and as music to play in the background of life, to replace the everyday cacophony with new and ordered sounds of an unpredictable nature. New sounds freed from preconception. …over time, friends who heard the music asked if I could make them copies. I then wrote two more pieces with the same intent: to relax the body, mind, and spirit and facilitate meditation.” - Lou Reed

Lou Reed’s final solo album, Hudson River Wind Meditations, is one of his most personal musical works, combining Reed's love of creating drone music with his passion for Tai Chi, yoga, and meditation. The album's ambient soundscapes have been described as a counterpoint to his intense Metal Machine Music album—but they are similar outliers in Reed's 40+...

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Artist Bio

Long before he was at the forefront of New York’s underground music scene, two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed (1942-2013) was a young songwriter, seeking to navigate his sound and establish his career.

A self-taught guitarist, the shy, Long Island-bred artist spent much of his youth seeking refuge in rock‘n’roll. As a teenager, Reed released his first single with his high school doo-wop group, The Jades. Yet, aside from that 1958 single and a narrow selection of Velvet Underground demos, there has been little opportunity to experience the full scope of Reed’s early artistic development.

In their notes for Words & Music, Don Fleming and Jason Stern recall finding two particularly exciting tapes in the offices of Reed’s company, Sister Ray...

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