Pauline Anna Strom, who expanded synth music s color palette in the 1980s, died in December at 74. The posthumous album em Angel Tears in Sunlight /em , out Feb. 19, is her first in over 30 years.
On the cover of Pauline Anna Strom s 1982 debut, a Dali-esque eye hatches from a skyborn egg, framed by a rainbow wrapped around the cosmos. The image, painted by Richard Karma Moffett, sits against a plateau of perfect white; ornate calligraphic text is superimposed at the top and bottom, powder blue like the atmosphere. Like that visual introduction, the alias under which Strom recorded, Trans-Millenia Consort, instantly conveyed the epoch-spanning otherness of the Bay Area synthesist s instrumental space music. Initially, it took the form of mellow waves and pulses, evocative soundscapes with titles like Emerald Pool. The sonics would grow sharper and more discordant, but her work never strayed from its freewheeling take on memory and consciousness, always committed to exploding th
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