Pauline Anna Strom – Trans-Millenia Consort (1982/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:15 minutes | 743 MB | Genre: Progressive Electronic, Space Ambient, New Age
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Trans-Millenia Consort is the near mythical debut album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium Pauline Anna Strom. First released in 1982, the album is a bold and beautiful evocation of a life that exists between and beyond time. Evoking ancient rituals and primordial futures, the music of Trans-Millenia Consort glows with a strange iridescence; its pulsing embryonic waveforms flutter and drift, tones fall like raindrops of the long-ago, and melodies shimmer and dance across the ages like fireflies of a lost world. Restored and mixed from the original reels by Marta Salogni, and newly remastered, this is the album’s first ever official reissue, and the definitive edition of a visionary statement.“I consider myself the “Trans-Millenia Consort,” by which title I wish to be known. This to me is a personal declaration that I have been in previous lives, that I am in this life, and that I shall in future lives be a musical consort to time. My music is a timeless entity, clothed in the mists of prehistory, beautifully sensitive to the tortured and joyous emotions of the present, rich and voluptuously full of the glory and anguish of future worlds. And so, as the Trans-Millenia Consort, the living incarnation of this all-embracing entity of music; I endeavor through music to delve into all time spaces to tap resources of knowledge and power as ancient as the Universe and as young as unborn worlds, in the hope that I may bring a measure of peace and joy to emotional, spiritual, material and physical complexity that is humankind” – Pauline Anna Strom

Tracklist:

01. Pauline Anna Strom – Emerald Pool (03:21)
02. Pauline Anna Strom – The Unveiling (05:30)
03. Pauline Anna Strom – Cult of Isis (07:41)
04. Pauline Anna Strom – Phantom Dancer (04:17)
05. Pauline Anna Strom – Energies (05:57)
06. Pauline Anna Strom – Century C (04:37)
07. Pauline Anna Strom – Morning Splendor (06:06)
08. Pauline Anna Strom – Gossamer Silk (05:43)

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Pauline Anna Strom – Spectre (1984/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:16 minutes | 787 MB | Genre: Progressive Electronic, Space Ambient, New Age
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Spectre is the third album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium Pauline Anna Strom. First released in 1984, the album finds Strom exploring the darker corridors of human mythology under the influence of vampiric lore, evoking a hushed gothic solitude and showcasing her breathtaking dexterity of sound design. Despite its shadowy hues, Spectre offers generous glimpses of a vivid light that could only have come from a heart wide open to the cosmos. Restored and mixed from the original reels by Marta Salogni, and newly remastered, this is the album’s first ever official reissue, and the definitive edition of a visionary statement.“As for Spectre, the welding of mysterious vampire legends, modern violence and desolateness of which produces a cobalt mix of subtle gothic chills, fulfilled its purpose with a whispered gloss of steel. The sounds were culled from concrete, glass and steel, from cold arctic temperatures and elusive spacious voices” – Pauline Anna Strom

Tracklist:

01. Pauline Anna Strom – Tenement Stairwell (05:23)
02. Pauline Anna Strom – Spatial Spectre (07:01)
03. Pauline Anna Strom – Blood Thirst (07:27)
04. Pauline Anna Strom – Virgin Ice (04:43)
05. Pauline Anna Strom – Blood Celebrants (07:30)
06. Pauline Anna Strom – Freedom at the 45th Floor (04:39)
07. Pauline Anna Strom – Alpine Flight (07:30)

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Pauline Anna Strom – Plot Zero (1983/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:19 minutes | 631 MB | Genre: Progressive Electronic, Space Ambient, New Age
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Plot Zero is the second album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium Pauline Anna Strom. First released in 1983, Strom envisioned the album as a “mind trip without chemicals,” utilizing boundless imagination to cover a canvas with brilliant synthesized shapes and tones. The pieces on Plot Zero flow freely and infinitely, evoking a transportative momentum with Strom’s distinctive synthesizers soaring across infinite horizons into vast, colorful nebulas. Restored and mixed from the original reels by Marta Salogni, and newly remastered, this is the album’s first ever official reissue, and the definitive edition of a visionary statement.“Plot Zero is a mind trip without chemicals. I envisioned an enormous planetarium, the laser show and extreme brilliance of colors traveling through the infinity of the mind; getting lost with no limits or boundaries, experiencing the freedom of that kind of emotional and mental exploration. That is the essence of Plot Zero. I wanted all the tracks to travel through the infinite depths of the mind, and get lost in the nebula of exploration. The process of producing this album brought brilliant colors, so exquisite they defied description, to my mind. Leaving a feeling of limitless mental power to create from the third eye, the depth of the soul. Plot Zero came from that source.” – Pauline Anna Strom

Tracklist:

01. Pauline Anna Strom – Mushroom Trip (08:13)
02. Pauline Anna Strom – Freebasing (09:34)
03. Pauline Anna Strom – Symphonic Industry (06:39)
04. Pauline Anna Strom – Organized Confusion (06:09)
05. Pauline Anna Strom – Plot Zero (04:42)

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Pauline Anna Strom – Angel Tears in Sunlight (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:29 minutes | 396 MB | Genre: New Age
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Angel Tears in Sunlight is Pauline Anna Strom’s first album in over thirty years; an assemblage of music that refracts the expansiveness, and minutiae, of imagined realms while embracing the kaleidoscopic echoes of our distant epochs.The capacity to collapse time might elucidate the enigma of Pauline Anna Strom. A mystic force in music, emerging during the dawn of new age as the Trans-Millenia Consort, the pioneering synthesist channelled primordial energies into future-facing sound through a series of full-length releases between 1982 and 1988. Little was known about her, except by a constellation of devoted followers who saw a unique legacy forming amidst the (mostly male) synthesist canon of the time.

Following the 2017 release of Trans-Millenia Music, an anthology revitalizing the most evocative parts of Strom’s catalog, the Bay Area visionary sensed the universe telling her to return to music. As with her work in the 80s, Angel Tears in Sunlight was composed and recorded in the same San Francisco apartment where Strom has lived for almost four decades in synthesis with her machines and “dinosaurs.” Populated by a compact array of modern instruments that streamline the sound of her analog past and her beloved iguanas, Little Soulstice and Ms Huff, the terrarium of her home forms an intimate yet limitless ecosystem that defies the constraints of the outside world.

Within this sanctuary, Strom becomes lost in time, drawing on the ancient energies of her inner visions. Her hardware forms the crux of translating these ideas into sound. It’s the only way this stuff can be pulled out of myself, the universe, Little Soulstice, an ammonite…, Strom notes. It couldn’t be done without this machinery, because there’s no other way to draw and capture these frequencies into sonic interpretation.

Strom’s process of recording transient live-takes enriches the mystery of her work. She renders the machinery a composer itself, a cohabitation with a living other. Many musicians wouldn’t go that far because of ego, Strom muses. The equipment has to become part of you and your creativity. That’s how I think it all comes together. Music-making becomes a harmonic language of intuition with an instrument, where Strom cultivates sound for a harvest that defies season.

Shaped by circadian contours, Angel Tears in Sunlight is a celestial observatory of earthborn phonic mosaics. Strom uncovers a symbiosis between hardware frequencies and apparitions of nature in the record’s arena of organic tones, emulating the melodic pulses of primeval terrain. The album transcends both shadow and light, falling to hushed stretches of sound as if not to awaken antediluvian animals, before soaring through the treetops where ancient skies peer over reptilian traffic and unsparing rains.

Where Angel Tears in Sunlight opens a new passage in the transportive power of Strom’s work, the synthesist also nurtures space for restorative listening. During her absence from composing, Strom turned to a practice of spiritual healing, which she recognizes to have deepened her understanding of music as the connective link between the source and us.

Dedicating the album to her dear friend John Jennings who passed away during the making of Angel Tears in Sunlight, Strom titled the work to reflect the summation of processing life and loss, collapsed together in an eternal spectrum. Sunlight represents what we’re coming into. You bring the sadness with you, but you’re also prepared for the blessing of the new.

Tracklist:

1-1. Pauline Anna Strom – Tropical Convergence (02:41)
1-2. Pauline Anna Strom – Marking Time (04:30)
1-3. Pauline Anna Strom – I Still Hope (02:28)
1-4. Pauline Anna Strom – Temple Gardens at Midnight (04:25)
1-5. Pauline Anna Strom – The Pulsation (05:47)
1-6. Pauline Anna Strom – The Eighteen Beautiful Memories (04:03)
1-7. Pauline Anna Strom – Equatorial Sunrise (06:10)
1-8. Pauline Anna Strom – Small Reptiles on the Forest Floor (05:36)
1-9. Pauline Anna Strom – Tropical Rainforest (05:45)

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