Illuminations (Buffy Sainte-Marie album)

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".

Illuminations
Studio album by
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Released1969 (1969)
Recorded1969
StudioElectronic Music Studios at State University of New York, Albany, New York
GenreFreak folk
Length35:51
LabelVanguard
Producer
  • Maynard Solomon (tracks 1 to 6, 8 and 12)
  • Mark Roth (tracks 7, 9 to 11)
Buffy Sainte-Marie chronology
I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again
(1968)		 Illuminations
(1969)		 She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina
(1971)
Singles from Illuminations
  1. "Better to Find Out for Yourself"
    Released: 1969
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Pitchfork9.0/10

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.

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