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Release Date
10 May 2019
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Length
7 tracks
Craig Leon revisits the extraterrestrial origins of civilization in Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, a continuing chronicle of his early 80's albums Nommos and Visiting. Exploring the cosmic lore of Leon's earlier work, The Canon expands upon the conceptual cycle based on the alien and mathematical relationships that backbone the creation of art, architecture, science, and music.
The Canon picks up where Nommos and Visiting left off, tracing the path of ancient wisdom imparted by the Dogon's alien visitors spreading from Mali into Egypt and across the water to Greece as imagined in William Stirling's The Canon, an anonymous exposition of cosmic law published in a nearly invisible print edition in 1897.
Though the music - propulsive and spacious - is clearly of a part with Nommos and Visiting, the alien sounds of the Nommos become more familiar to western ears and musical vocabulary as the album narrative thrusts forward. The Canon implies - through ecstatic, contemporary sound and synthesis - that the origins of Western thought, and civilization itself, lie in the great beyond.
Nearly four decades since their first collaboration on Nommos and Visiting, Leon is once again joined by his partner Cassell Webb on vocals and album production. Leon composed, and both he and Cassell performed, and produced all of the music of The Canon, consciously engaging many of the same synthesizers and programs of Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1 for Vol. 2.
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