XXD29101465729Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Keyboard Fantasies LP

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Beverly Glenn-Copeland Album: …Keyboard Fantasies… Released: UK, 2021 Tracklist: A1 Ever New 7:06 A2 Winter Astral 6:25 A3 Let Us Dance 7:20 B1 Slow Dance 6:40 B2 Old Melody 4:32 B3 Sunset Village 7:20 Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Some records feel like they were made in a quiet conversation with the future. …Keyboard Fantasies…, the six-song suite Beverly Glenn-Copeland recorded in 1986 at home in Huntsville, Ontario, is one of those. Working with a Yamaha DX7 and a Roland TR-707, he built a world that sits somewhere between new age serenity, folk hymn and bedroom soul. It was self-released on cassette and barely heard outside a small circle for decades, but the songs never sound like they were chasing a scene. Theyre patient, glowing and stubbornly themselves. Drop the needle on Ever New and the room shifts. The DX7s glassy tones ripple like morning light on water, and Glenn-Copelands voice moves with the calm authority of someone easing a crowd into a long exhale. The drum machine ticks in gentle patterns, less a beat than a heartbeat. People talk about ambient music that just sits in the corner, but this is hymnal. Its music that looks you in the eye and suggests there might be another way to be in the world. The palette is spare, yet packed with character. FM synths can be cold in the wrong hands, though here they feel tactile and bright. Winter Astral is exactly what its title promises, a soft starfield of chords and a melody that seems to hover above the speakers. Let Us Dance and Slow Dance trade in simple, pulsing sequences that invite movement without demanding it. The TR-707 is key to that feel. Its crisp, unfussy thud keeps everything grounded, so the vocal lines and synth pads can climb without drifting away. Glenn-Copelands singing is the anchor. He wasnt trying to hide behind reverb or mystique. He sits up front, open-hearted, and sings with a clarity that gives even the lightest lyric a sense of purpose. Old Melody feels like a postcard from an earlier folk life, reframed through this new electronic language. Sunset Village closes the record in a slow drift, like a train pulling out of a small-town station, still visible through the trees long after its gone. Part of the albums legend is its path back into the world. After that tiny cassette run in 1986, it lived quietly until a wave of renewed interest brought it back to the surface. A 2016 reissue on Invisible City Editions put …Keyboard Fantasies… on vinyl for the first time, and a new generation of listeners finally heard what had been hiding in plain sight. Critics lined up to praise it, but the real proof is how it has settled into peoples lives. These are songs you see in friends end-of-year lists long after the reissue buzz fades, or you catch them slipping Ever New onto a playlist for a long drive up the coast. Its tempting to slot this music into neat boxes, but it tends to wriggle free. Call it new age if you like, though theres a singers core here that owes as much to spiritual jazz and folk as to meditation tapes. Glenn-Copelands story matters too. A Black trans artist building this radiant, self-contained universe on limited means in mid-80s rural Canada is not a footnote, its the frame. The grace in these songs feels hard won, and that gives them weight. For anyone digging through bins, this is the Beverly Glenn-Copeland vinyl to start with. The reissue pressings are clean and do the shimmering highs real justice, while the low-end pulse of the TR-707 sits just right. If youre hunting for …Keyboard Fantasies… vinyl, you wont need to look too far now, and its the sort of record youll keep within arms reach. Ive seen copies float in and out of a favourite Melbourne record store, and they never stay on the shelf long. You could buy Beverly Glenn-Copeland records online, sure, but theres something special about spotting it in the wild and rushing home to play it. Either way, it belongs in the stack for anyone building a thoughtful corner of Beverly Glenn-Copeland albums on vinyl, whether youre browsing in person or trawling the usual haunts for vinyl records Australia wide. Thirty-odd years after those DX7 patches were dialled in, these songs still feel like instructions for gentle living. Not escapist, not kitsch, just quietly radical in how much care they extend. Put it on when the house finally goes quiet, or when you need to bring a little light into a grey morning. Its a small record with a big soul, and it keeps finding new rooms to brighten. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review