condition (record/cover): NM / NM - Gatefold sleeve. Jean-Claude Eloy pushed duration beyond every concert convention. Shānti on Erato occupies two LPs, though the complete version extends even further: hours of music designed to alter consciousness, to induce the peace (shānti in Sanskrit) that the title promises. Eloy studied with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, but surpassed both masters in the radicality of temporal dilation.
The market wasn't ready for such durations. Now that Éliane Radigue and ambient drones have retrained ears, Shānti sounds prophetic. Eloy understood that transformation requires time, that ecstasy cannot be reached in three minutes. The double LP becomes ritual object, demanding commitment before it yields its secrets.
