Richard Lainhart: Pre-Eno Ambient piece rediscovered after 30 years

Pioneering Synthesizer poet Richard Lainhart has made one of his early pieces, “White Night”, available on CD on the Ex Ovo label – after it spent over thirty years in his archives. The track, a just under thirty minute long drone composition, realised in the late fall of 1974 at the State University of New York, has a tender taste of early Ambient to it, even though it was composed well before Brian Eno first began his own experiments in the field of discreet music. After it was finished, “White Night” strangely enough never made it to LP or CD and wasn’t even featured on the Lainhart-retrospective “Ten Thousand Shades Of Blue”, which received a lot of media attention, including an enthusiastic BBC feature. Almost completely by chance, the piece was rediscovered in the year 2005, when Richard Lainhart made his entire backcatalogue available on the web and already featured on Ex Ovo’s “I, Mute Hummings” sampler, in a remixed version of nine minutes. Only now, however, after three decades in the vault, “White Night” is finally available worldwide again in its full-length version.