J.D. Emmanuel
J.D Emmanuel (aka James Daniel Emmanuel) is a multi instrumentalist and electronic researcher from United States. His whole music catalogue is in touched with mass meditation and mantric spiritual vehicles. His album Wizards (1982) and the recent retrospective Solid Dawn (2009) feature dreamy musical journey through floating abstract synthscapes, hypno loops and multi textured atmospheres sometimes punctuated by minimal pulses.
Wizards
"Wizards was my first deep trance electronic music album. This album was inspired by Terry Riley, one of the earliest people ever to compose and perform long, extended, cyclic pieces in the electronic format. This music was composed and performed in …
Rain Forest Music
On Rain Forest Music (1981) J D Emmanuel builds gentle, short cycles of notes into floating clouds of sound, mostly improvising around single chords. The "minimalism" in his music lies not in repetitive patterns that barely change but more in the spa…
Trance-Formations I Ancient Minimal Meditations
A forgotten classic! Created between 1981 and 1985 by JD Emmanuel, a new age composer who has received a lot of praise from people like Lieven Martens and John Olsen. These recordings signify Emmanuel's praise to the course of the day. Starting off s…
I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990
An exploration into the golden era of New Age music in America. Spirituality and psychedelia, gentle waves of analog music often made and distributed in the most DIY of ways with a radical spirit. Overall, an essential insight into an often misunders…
S. Talks #1
S. Talks # is a series of uncut interviews with electronic contemporary musicians. Each interview is individually published in a zine and distributed for free. Originally from Houston, Texas, James Daniel Emmanuel is a pioneer of electronic minim…
Time Traveler
Kudo’s to Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future for bringing J.D. Emmanuel back into the spotlights. In 2007 Lieven dug up the masterpiece album Wizards and re-issued it on his own label. A few years later, in 2011, J.D. was asked to tour throug…
Solid Dawn
JD Emmanuel's privately-pressed 1979 album Wizards accumulated a cult following through the early part of this decade, culminating with a vinyl reissue by Bread and Animals in 2006, which quickly sold out. Influenced by the organ works of Terry Riley…