April 2025 release; here's a fascinating overview of the work of Lindsay Bourke (aka Lindsay Blue); an Australian musican who achieved some level of notoriety after opening for Pink Floyd's premier down-under tour in 1974. Despite my somewhat feverish attempt to uncover just about every Aussie title in need of the C.P. treatment while living the Antipodean dream 10 years or so back, this one somehow eluded even the most exhaustive of scourings, and has been a major point of excitement amongst the "Cabal" while working on this 20th Anniversary batch.

Starting (here) with the Private-Press 1975 "Love All Life" LP (with its almost Annabelle McBride -esque cover) one could easily dismiss this, cosmetically, as yet another mid/life-crisis "Leave The City" caravan-folk enterprise... yet upon entry we're met with a series of (pastoral, given) soundscapes that quickly morph into a sort of Loner-Electronic-Psych feel, rife with Musique Concrète passages & endless atonal hand-played synth lines that all add up to something far more unique & central to our particular ways of thought. I've added Lindsay's eerie organ/electronic score for Chris Löfvén's 1970 film "Part Two: The Beginning" (itself a mad hippy/commune/naturalist romp around the outback, centering a Matti Suuronen/Peter Dermoudy Futuro "UFO House") as a bonus track at the end of disc one. 

Working backwards, the second disc contains the entirety of Lindsay's 1971 LP "Wilderness Awakening" to the proceedings; a wonderful 5-part thematic suite ("Discovery", "Contemplation", "Joy", "Absorbtion", & "Being") for solo piano that goes from the sort of plantive Willem Nyland / Gurdjieff -inspired modal exploration to more hamfisted Don Pullen / Cecil ranges on a hair-trigger, successively fêted by none other than Hans Pokora himself (the first appearance of a Pokora in the C.P. catalogue?)

Touchpoints range from the (similarly disconnected) Kai Harster "Return To Nature & Other Delights" LP ([CP 258 CD]), Steve Dunstan's "Magnetic Fields" ([CP 222 CD]), Giuseppe Morrocchi's "Aaffluss Raaffluss" ([CP 124 CD]), even William S. Fischer's solo hand-played Moog masterpiece "Omen" ([CP 200 CD]). Putting this one up as a "Two-For-One" title to sweeten the pot (mainly as I do really love the second disc/earlier LP & want people to check it out!)