Cat No ESD81552

Beauty In The Beast is Wendy Carlos's haunting "world music" album: released only briefly in 1986, it is considered by many to be one of Wendy Carlos's most important works. This new edition has been completely remastered and restored by Wendy Carlos and contains additional enhanced material.

The eight compositions explore instruments and musical forms such as Tibetan gongs, Balinese gamelan, African rhythms, and Bulgarian melodies - a fusion of exotic styles that long predated the fashion for such an approach. Even the phrase ‘world music’ was not in common usage when this album was recorded.

The music on Beauty can terrify you at one moment, with its bestial strangeness. Then in the next moment it will seduce you with its rare beauty. Enjoy this highly praised, long unavailable "soundtrack to a dream."