{"id":1094,"date":"2016-05-10T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2016-05-10T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:34:23","slug":"lightdreams-1981-canadian-press-oddness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"LightDreams \u2013 1981 Canadian Press Oddness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Islands In Space<\/em>, the 1981 Canadian private press LP from LightDreams has just been reissued for the first time. Reviewed in the forthcoming\u00a0Shindig!<\/em> Issue #56 and achieving an elusive 5 star rating, the album is a hugely impressive sonic treat, all the more astonishing as it was recorded on such primitive equipment. LightDreams virtuoso, PAUL MARCANO, spoke to AUSTIN MATTHEWS\u00a0about the album<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shindig!<\/em>: <\/strong>Was there a sense of trying to “paint a picture” with Islands In Space<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Paul Marcano:\u00a0<\/strong>I come from a long genetic line of visual artists, but perhaps psychedelics helped in the cross-talk of “synaesthesia”, where my music and lyrics do tend to provoke visual elements. This is most evident in the work I\u2019ve recently completed on a virtual reality visualisation of the album for the Oculus Rift (a VR headset).<\/p>\n

SD!<\/em>: <\/strong>Do you think the way the songs were recorded (on a TEAC Portastudio) adds to the atmosphere of the final album?<\/p>\n

PM:\u00a0<\/strong>I think what you find with small home recording studios is the huge advantage of complete privacy and unlimited hours to hone things to a perfection that would otherwise be compromised, watching the clock and costs of recording in more professional surroundings. The TEAC 144 was one of the first affordable stereo recording devices available to songwriters and I saw it as the ultimate tool to expand on what I really wanted to create, which was primarily a stereo headphone experience about outer and inner space.<\/p>\n