Ashra - New Age Of Earth (2025 Reissue)

After an initial European release in 1976 on the Isadora label New Age Of Earth was reissued on Virgin Records in Summer 1977 and fast became a beacon for electronic music and what was becoming known as ambient. Some cite  its very title as helping introduce 'new age' music 

New Age Of Earth is a record full of contrasts: the throbbing, techno- predicting "Sunrain" opens the album; with its waves and crickets sound effects, "Ocean Of Tenderness" pulses gently like a space- age early Fleetwood Mac; "Deep Distance" brings elements of surf music into glacial electronica. At 21 minutes long, "Nightdust" occupies all of the album's second side, a ruminative, slowly unfolding piece that, after its crescendo, gives way to Gottsching's impressively celestial electric guitar solo.