Iasos, the pioneer of latest age music, died on Saturday (January 6). Iasos’ producer and pal Carlos Ninō confirmed the information in a message shared by Douglas Mcgowan of Numero Group—the label behind the 2013 compilation Celestial Soul Portrait. Iasos was 77 years outdated.

Born in Greece and raised in Upstate New York, Iasos graduated from Cornell College and relocated to Berkeley, California shortly after. There, he engaged within the area’s psychedelic music scene. Iasos has mentioned that whereas attending Cornell College within the late Sixties, he started listening to what he known as “paradise music” in his head.

He outlined paradise music, which he additionally known as inter-dimensional music, as an “Earth copy of music that exists right here and now in different dimensions.” He firmly believed the sounds he heard in his head have been literal transmissions from a being on a special airplane named Vista.

“Round ’67 or ’68, I simply began listening to it in my head,” Iasos mentioned in a 1979 documentary. “I didn’t know the place it was coming from, it was like a radio station inside. So I’d be operating round listening to it and loving it. That occurred for a number of years. After which round 1973, I had a profound expertise the place I sensed a selected being from a better dimension and I knew in that on the spot that he was one that each one this time that had been purposely, thoughts to thoughts, transmitting into my thoughts. And I additionally remembered him from earlier than I used to be born. I understand it’s onerous so that you can imagine, however no less than I’m telling you what I imagine and also you’re free to deal with that actuality any manner you want.”

Iasos started creating a number of the earliest new age works by using digital results on acoustic devices, like slide guitars with suggestions loops, compressors, and an Echoplex. He was initially proof against early synthesizers. “I couldn’t stand the way in which they sounded,” he mentioned in 2011. “It was very chilly, sterile, inorganic, didn’t flip me on in any respect.” That modified when he turned fascinated with the RMI Keyboard Laptop.

His first album, Inter-Dimensional Music, was launched in 1975; that very same 12 months, he performed electrical flute on one other pioneering new age album, Steven Halpern’s Spectrum Suite. Throughout a long time, he launched heaps of music with titles like Crystal Love, Jeweled Area, and Realms of Mild. His most up-to-date piece was “The Backyard of Salathooslia,” which was launched in September.