Magic Mountain - Martin Glass Stack Records

"Like the other residents, Martin didn't know how long he had been on the mountain. Blissed with fever, he stayed out on his balcony late into the night, eyes blurring on the flatlands below. Books, cognac, morning walks and movie star chess club - this place was an X-ray for the soul, a rest cure for the international jet-set. 'Marcello, I feel..saturated. Take my temperature, will you?' It was in the sanatorium, he thought, that Martin truly felt his best." Magic Mountain is the third full-length album from the itinerant American businessman, composer, and producer Martin Glass. Inspired by German electronic music pioneer Edgar Froese, Vangelis, early Warp Records releases, The Orb, and The Future Sound of London, the album is a Fellinian memory maze of new age wellness culture, mid-20th century Hollywood glitz, exhaustion, dreams, fantasy, desire, and listless ennui. The less sense it makes, the more we can't stop listening to it. Drawing from the impressionistic recollect...