This Is It!, by Alan Watts

This Is It!

by Alan Watts

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1.	Love You 03:16	buy track
2.	Onion Chant 04:38	buy track
3.	Gagaku-Ku 00:53	buy track
4.	Fingernail Poem 02:14	buy track
5.	Umdagumsubudu 07:50	buy track
6.	Metamatic Ritual 13:58	buy track
7.	The End 06:14	buy track

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Psychedelic music all began with the tiniest possible bang: a minuscule pressing of a self-produced LP by Zen Buddhist scholar Alan Watts. In one cosmic flash of inspiration and group improvisation, the next two decades of musical innovation was pre-supposed: psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz, and even new age. As this micro pressing barely made it out of the ashram, it was his writings that actually spread his ideas, usually through osmosis: he was profoundly influential on the beat poets and the subsequent counter-culture. He became the forebear of '60s counter-culture's spirituality, much as William Burroughs was the forebear of its hedonism.

Released in 1962, This Is It is an imaginative cacophony of percussion, non-verbal chanting, and free-flowing expression, punctuated occasionally by leisurely passes at a terrestrial piano, marimba, or french horn. It is at once, experimental, intellectual, and experiential. Three years before Ken Kesey's inaugural Acid Test, This Is It! constitutes the first transmission for a tuned-in counterculture of hippies, beats, and psychedelic revolutionaries of all stripes.

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released February 17, 2015

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