Larry Heard’s Alien LP due for reissue

The sci-fi themed album by the legendary Chicago house producer will recieve a double LP reissue courtesy of Clone and Alleviated. 

Clone’s distribution partnership with Larry Heard’s Alleviated Records was expanded last year when they joined forces to issue fully remastered editions of the two cult Gherkin Jerks records that the producer originally issued anonymously on the Chicago based Gherkin Records label in the late ’80s. Details have now surfaced of Alleviated’s plans to resurrect another archival Heard project with the assistance of Clone, focusing on Alien, his 1996 LP for the Black Market International label.

Alien is described as a “recording & sound-development experiment” that saw Larry Heard indulge his interests in science fiction to the fullest, taking clear visual inspiration from Ridley Scott’s film of the same name. The nine tracks were largely put together using a Korg O1/W workstation keyboard lent to him by fellow Chicago house type Victor “Melodious Myles” Houston, with the beats taking a back seat as Heard focused on melodic futuristic soundscapes that come across like a more polished Tangerine Dream.

Originally released in CD and pared down single LP format, this new edition is due in April and sees all nine tracks make the transition to double LP for the very first time. Those unfamiliar with the album can preview all nine tracks below.

Alleviated will release Alien by Larry Heard on double LP in mid-April.

Tracklisting:

1. Faint Object Detection
2. The Dance Of Planet X
3. Micro-Gravity
4. Flight Of The Comet
5. DNA-RNA
6. Galactic Travels Suite
7. Cosmology Myth
8. Two Journeys
9. The Beauty Of Celeste

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