Ohmmmmm… Sedative new-age dream sequence from NYC cold-caller Arsenii for in-house mixtape series Tabi Tapes.  Nag champa at the ready…

An unsolicited email dropped into the inbox not so long ago from US-based record dealer and cassette fanatic, explaining how a strong passion for collecting / documenting otherwise ‘lost’ music has led to uploading to YouTube, sharing and assembling mixes.  It was accompanied by a 90 minute recording comprised of pieces culled from private new age cassettes found throughout the US.  For us, few genres stray as close to the borderline of acceptability as New Age music.  But when it’s good, it’s incredible.  And this really is incredible.  

Stitched together as one hypnotic celestial assemblage, all the stylistic signifiers are in attendance.  Wind-chimes gently flutter amongst a soft running stream and twitters of birdsong.  Rising flutes, gently lapping piano keys, probing synth pads and sprinklings of questionable ethnic percussion.  Call it a guilty pleasure, but what’s not to love and whilst the world increasingly melts around us, why not seek solace in divine sound, if only for a moment.