The Lost Recordings

The following page showcases long, lost but not forgotten recordings from deep in the recesses of the archives of Oasis. Some of these are still available for purchase on older formats like cassette or LP. Many are long out-of-print, unavailable or were never released. This is the only place to discover and hear these rare and lost recordings. Enjoy!

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THE SUN ENERGY LABEL (NZ)

LIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE: Ao Rangi
Very rare New Age instrumental music from New Zealand. Originally released in 1986 on cassette on the Sun Energy Label, this somewhat ambient music features several musicians in a number of beautifully crafted improvisations inspired in part by Maori spirituality. Some of the instruments featured are bone and bamboo flutes, grand piano, vocalizations, acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers, bass and percussion. One of the rarest titles from the Oasis archives. In near mint condition. Only 2 copies available!

Track listing
1. Flying 5ths 2. Mangataipa 3. Turituri (Hush) 4. Haere Mai (Welcome) 5. Morning Light
6. Maranga (Awakening) 7. Ao Rangi 8. Albatross 9. Moana (Ocean) 10. Wairua (Spirit)
11. Io (Unknown).

$10.88 USD

PRIVATE MUSIC LABEL (USA)

ETOSHA - Private Music In The Land Of Dry Water: Sanford Ponder

Sanford Ponder Tomorrow and yesterday...

What was the first sound in the world? Who played the first note? When in our history did the wind and rain, sun and sand, rushing river and sky-tumbling thunder teach us to think beyond ourselves, and give birth to music?
That innocence is long behind us. Log drums, gourds, rattles and edge-cut reeds, all our imitations of the raw glory of nature, have been replaced by tamer, more predictable sounds. But go far enough and you return to the start. To grow up, truly grow up, is to regain the best of your beginnings. We have come full circle. The new technology of digital recording makes us magicians; we can sample the sounds of the world itself, the subtle, secret voices of cave and sea and forest, and make our music not in imitation of nature, but with the pure grace of nature itself.
Sanford Ponder is both a leading figure in computer synthesis and a prolific session musician, with credits ranging from Lou Rawls and Kurtis Blow to the soundtrack for the film Terms of Endearment. For Etosha, he sought out a myriad of natural sounds, from which he developed and enhanced as much as composed-this very special music, using a Fairlight CMI (one of the world's most sophisticated digital synthesizers) and a 32-track digital recorder....yesterday and tomorrow.
Today. -FREFF

Freff is a contributing editor for Musician Magazine, and American technologies correspondent for BBC Television.

Produced by Sanford Ponder Executive Producer/Peter Baumann
All songs written and arranged by Sanford Ponder
Published by 23rd Street Publishing/ASCAP Mastered at Masterdisk (NYC)

Musicians:
Sanford Ponder- Fairlighi CMI, Yamaha DX-7, Roland GR707 Guitar Controller
Thanks to Don and Rich at the Living Room, and to Clyde Criner for piano work on "Watergarden," "Alanna," and "Frontier"
Cover Photography by Pierre Cordier Back cover photography by
Caroline Greyshock
Art Direction by Ron Kellum

Private Music is a new record label providing a forum for artists to develop acoustic and electronic instrumental music which draws its voice from various styles and cultures.

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