Illuminations

by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Illuminations cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1969
  • Label: Vanguard
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 35:58
  • Community rating: 4.12/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Groundbreaking for its early use of the Buchla synthesizer in a folk context, Buffy Sainte-Marie's 'Illuminations' is a wildly experimental psychedelic folk album. It balances intensely passionate acoustic protest songs with incredibly mysterious, deeply spiritual avant-folk and eerie electronic textures.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, Avant Garde, occult, political, protest, female-vocals, electronic, folk, experimental, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot (4:51)
  2. Mary (1:30)
  3. Better To Find Out For Yourself (2:12)
  4. The Vampire (2:05)
  5. Adam (5:05)
  6. The Dream Tree (2:34)
  7. Suffer The Little Children (2:53)
  8. The Angel (3:41)
  9. With You, Honey (1:48)
  10. Guess Who I Saw In Paris (2:25)
  11. He's A Keeper Of The Fire (3:21)
  12. Poppies (3:26)

Credits

  • Buffy Sainte-Marie - primary artist, vocals, guitar, music by, written-by
  • Peter Schickele - arranged by
  • Eric Oxendine - bass
  • John Craviotto - drums
  • Bob Lurie - engineer
  • Ed Friedner - engineer
  • Bob Bozina - lead guitar
  • Jack Lathrop - mixed by
  • Maynard Solomon - producer
  • Mark Roth - producer, photography by [infra-red]
  • Michael Czajkowski - score [electronic]
  • Leonard Cohen - words by
  • Richie Havens - written-by
  • Ed Freeman - written-by

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