Illuminations (Buffy Sainte-Marie album)
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| Released | 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Studio | Electronic Music Studios at State University of New York, Albany, New York | |||
| Genre | Freak folk | |||
| Length | 35:51 | |||
| Label | Vanguard | |||
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| Pitchfork | 9.0/10 |
Illuminations is the sixth album by American singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1969 on Vanguard Records. From a foundation of vocals and acoustic guitar, Sainte-Marie and producer Maynard Solomon made pioneering use of the Buchla 100 synthesizer to create electronically treated vocals. It was also an early quadraphonic vocal album. The album's only single was "Better to Find Out for Yourself".
British experimental music magazine The Wire listed Illuminations amongst its '100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening'. Pitchfork ranked it the 66th best album of the 1960s.