Theremin With Voices & Orchestra Featuring Les Baxter, Harry Revel & Dr. Samuel Hoffman - Music Out Of The Moon & Music For Peace Of Mind (2025)

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Title: Music Out Of The Moon & Music For Peace Of Mind
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Modern Harmonic [MHCD-8295]
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Easy Listening
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 33:54
Total Size: 102 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

Music Out of the Moon (1947)
01. Lunar Rhapsody (3:02)
02. Moon Moods (2:54)
03. Lunette (2:54)
04. Celestial Nocturne (3:03)
05. Mist o' the Blues (2:46)
06. Radar Blues (3:08)
Music for Peace of Mind (1950)
07. This Room Is My Castle of Quiet (2:23)
08. The Darkness Gives Me You Again (2:37)
09. Remembering Your Lips (2:49)
10. My Troubles Float Away Like Falling Leaves (2:24)
11. Your Soft Hand on My Brow (3:04)
12. I Dream of Past Love (2:50)

Originally released in 1947 & 1950

Theremin With Voices & Orchestra Featuring Les Baxter, Harry Revel & Dr. Samuel Hoffman - Music Out Of The Moon & Music For Peace Of Mind (2025)

One of the earliest forms of electronic music, from the originators of the genre!
Though the theremin is often used in science fiction and film scores depicting the macabre, this album shows the theremin’s vibrant sweetness and gentle vibrato. It explores the instrument, using exotic harmonies, timbre and composition to play upon the more remote realm of human emotions. Includes all tracks from Music Out of the Moon & Music for Peace of Mind!
Harry Revel created the basic "idea" and themes, while Leslie Baxter, arranger and conductor, has given them appropriately unique tone color and unusual instrumental effects with woodwinds, strings and brass. The artist who plays the Theremin is Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman, whose brilliant technique was heard in the music of "Spellbound," "Lost Weekend," "Spiral Staircase" and "The Red House."
"Music out of the Moon" is a landmark album that was released in 1947. It was the first commercial recording to feature the theremin, which had been invented just a few decades earlier. With its lush, atmospheric arrangements, the album was an instant success, selling over 100,000 copies in its first year and helping to popularize the theremin as a musical instrument. It also paved the way for the development of the exotica genre.