Plot Zero by Pauline Anna Strom
Plot Zero is the second album by the late West Coast composer, healer, and medium Pauline Anna Strom. First released in 1983, Strom envisioned the album as a “mind trip without chemicals,” utilizing boundless imagination to cover a canvas with brilliant synthesized shapes and tones. The pieces on Plot Zero flow freely and infinitely, evoking a transportative momentum with Strom’s distinctive synthesizers soaring across infinite horizons into vast, colorful nebulas. Restored and mixed from the original reels by Marta Salogni, and newly remastered, this is the album’s first ever official reissue, and the definitive edition of a visionary statement.
Tracklist
| 1. | Mushroom Trip | 8:14 |
| 2. | Freebasing | 9:34 |
| 3. | Symphonic Industry | 6:40 |
| 4. | Organized Confusion | 6:09 |
| 5. | Plot Zero | 4:42 |
Credits
released November 10, 2023
All music composed, arranged, and performed by Pauline Anna Strom
Original recording sessions engineered by Pauline Anna Strom and Peter Buffet, and produced by Pauline Anna Strom and Illuminé Productions at home and at Independent Sound across 1982 and 1983 (San Francisco, California).
Mixed by Marta Salogni for Studio Zona across 2021 and 2022 (London, United Kingdom)
Mix assistance from Jeremy Harris, John Also Bennett, and Euan Hinshelwood
Tape transfers by Sonicraft (Red Bank, New Jersey)
Mastered and cut by Anne Taegert for Dubplates & Mastering (Berlin, Germany)
Cover artwork by Karma Moffett
Design by Will Work for Good
Research, development, and freebasing: Zonder Titel
Originally released on Trans-Millenia Consort Recordings in 1983. Licensed under permission from the estate of Pauline Anna Strom.
“Plot Zero is a mind trip without chemicals. I envisioned an enormous planetarium, the laser show and extreme brilliance of colors traveling through the infinity of the mind; getting lost with no limits or boundaries, experiencing the freedom of that kind of emotional and mental exploration. That is the essence of Plot Zero. I wanted all the tracks to travel through the infinite depths of the mind, and get lost in the nebula of exploration. The process of producing this album brought brilliant colors, so exquisite they defied description, to my mind. Leaving a feeling of limitless mental power to create from the third eye, the depth of the soul. Plot Zero came from that source.” - Pauline Anna Strom
All music composed, arranged, and performed by Pauline Anna Strom
Original recording sessions engineered by Pauline Anna Strom and Peter Buffet, and produced by Pauline Anna Strom and Illuminé Productions at home and at Independent Sound across 1982 and 1983 (San Francisco, California).
Mixed by Marta Salogni for Studio Zona across 2021 and 2022 (London, United Kingdom)
Mix assistance from Jeremy Harris, John Also Bennett, and Euan Hinshelwood
Tape transfers by Sonicraft (Red Bank, New Jersey)
Mastered and cut by Anne Taegert for Dubplates & Mastering (Berlin, Germany)
Cover artwork by Karma Moffett
Design by Will Work for Good
Research, development, and freebasing: Zonder Titel
Originally released on Trans-Millenia Consort Recordings in 1983. Licensed under permission from the estate of Pauline Anna Strom.
“Plot Zero is a mind trip without chemicals. I envisioned an enormous planetarium, the laser show and extreme brilliance of colors traveling through the infinity of the mind; getting lost with no limits or boundaries, experiencing the freedom of that kind of emotional and mental exploration. That is the essence of Plot Zero. I wanted all the tracks to travel through the infinite depths of the mind, and get lost in the nebula of exploration. The process of producing this album brought brilliant colors, so exquisite they defied description, to my mind. Leaving a feeling of limitless mental power to create from the third eye, the depth of the soul. Plot Zero came from that source.” - Pauline Anna Strom
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