Laraaji is in a place of peace. The 77-year-old New Age musician has spent the past several months the same way most people have — at home. For him that’s a Harlem apartment, which he leaves to take ...

Laraaji is ambient music’s prince of laughter. Since 1980, when he debuted with a sparkling collection of acoustic string compositions that became the third installment in Brian Eno’s famous ambient ...

Laraaji's songs always drift with a patient, resplendent glory. The shimmery "Ocean," which arrives ahead of Segue to Infinity — a four-LP box set highlighting his earliest recordings, out Feb. 10, ...

Anyone who’s written off new age music hasn’t heard Laraaji. The multi-instrumentalist and composer (born Edward Larry Gordon) is recognized as an ambient pioneer because his 1980 album, Ambient 3: ...

In 1969, Edward Larry Gordon—a standup comedian, part-time jazz pianist, and aspiring actor—walked into a New York City pawnshop, hoping to hock his guitar for rent money. Instead, Gordon found ...

For those well-versed in the history of New Age music, Laraaji’s origin story is elementary material. The account goes something like this: Brian Eno, walking in Washington Square Park one day in 1979 ...

Big Thief performed their song “Grandmother” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The trio expanded into a 12-piece band that included ambient music legend Laraaji making his television debut at ...

Fifty people in a London cafe are laughing their guts out – and their lungs, throats and heads, each in turn, as part of a meditation workshop. We're having our thyroids, pituitary glands and abdomens ...

New Age icon Laraaji worked New York’s nightclub circuit as a stand-up comedian before devoting himself to meditation and music in the 1970s. In 1978, he was performing his signature zither-based, ...

Ambient composer and multi-instrumentalist Laraaji makes his “celestially guided” music by channeling the energy around him. When he stopped by The FADER offices in May alongside Brooklyn collaborator ...

It begins with a small bell, a set of tiny wind chimes and a plucked, angelic zither sounding much like a harp. Laraaji and his musical partner Arji "OceAnanda" Cakouros came to NPR draped in ...