BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND – Primal Prayer (2023 Reissue) – 2LP – Vinyl

2LP – 140g Black Vinyl.Reissue of the remarkable 2004 record Primal Prayer, available as a full album on vinyl for the first time.

First released in 2004 under the pseudonym Phynix, Primal Prayers 8 tracks are a wildly creative fusion of jazz, world, dance and classical influences. Sonically the album is almost without comparison, a life-affirming acknowledgement of the many paths we humans walk to enable us to open our hearts and lives to each other.

The black double vinyl includes a personal note from Romy (The xx) on the back sleeve, and it features La Vita, as sampled by Romy in her single Enjoy Your Life earlier this year.

Primal Prayer follows the re-issues of two of Glenns early works – Beverly Copeland and Beverly Glenn-Copeland, part of the Keyboard Fantasies anthology, available on CD and Vinyl on July 7th via Transgressive. Both originally released in the 70s these two out of print works have become widely sought after by collectors. Revered as modern jazz-folk masterpieces, they have been remastered and re-cut for release by Guy Davie.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland also announced his long-awaited new album, The Ones Ahead, due out July 28th via Transgressive. The Ones Ahead is Glenn-Copelands first studio LP in almost 20 years and the first since the extraordinary career renaissance triggered by the rediscovery of his now-classicKeyboard Fantasiesalbum.

Glenn-Copeland began his musical career in the 1960s, when he studied classical singing at Montreal’s McGill University and performed at Expo 67. A pair of self-titled, multi-genre albums released in the early ’70s showcased his powerful voice and songwriting talent. In 1986, while living in rural Ontario, Glenn-Copeland taught himself to use digital synthesis and recorded the album that would ultimately alter the entire course of his career. At the time, he self-released Keyboard Fantasies via a 200-copy cassette run, selling just a handful while the rest waited in storage. In 2015, a Japanese record collector emailed Glenn-Copeland about selling the remainder; a new generation had unearthed his art. The music spread globally, and a few years later, in his 70s, Glenn-Copeland embarked on his first European tour to share his songs with live audiences, a journey captured in Posy Dixon‘s 2019 documentary Keyboard Fantasies.

Primal Prayer, available as a full album on vinyl for the first time out September 1st onCD & Vinyl via Transgressive.

Tracklist:

1. La Vita
2. Back To Bachland
3. Heaven In Your Heart
4. On The Road
5. This Side of Grace
6. Primal Prayer
7. Between the Veils
8. A Song and Many Moons
9. In the Image
10. A Little Talk