Willem Nyland "Piano Studies" Psych Improv Gurdjieff
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Here is a real oddball of a record! I don't know how to classify it--other than to say that it was probably recorded in the "Turn On, Tune In Drop Out" psychedelic 1960s as a form of free expression. It certainly was privately pressed & I guess issued to a group of Willem Nylan's friends & never recorded for commercial release. Willem Nyland was a chemist by trade but also a gifted improvisational pianist. In the 1960s, at the height of the "Turn On Tune In Drop Out" LSD madness, Richard Albert (now known as Ram Dass) and Ralph Metzner became interested in the ideas of Gurdjieff. Alpert & Metzner were two thirds of the Harvard trio of professors who championed LSD and were asked to leave the University. Metzner was at that time the editor of "The Psychedelic Review". Alpert and Timothy Leary had formed the Castalia Foundation. Willem Nyland was widely known in those days as one of the most authoritative students of Gurdjieff. Altho Mr. Nyland always made it clear that he adamantly opposed all drug use, from marijuana to LSD, he wasn't one to summarily dismiss a person because of drug use. But the focus of his work with groups and with individuals was on pursuing the practical application of the Gurdjieff ideas in daily life, and not on drug rehabilitation. One day Alpert and Metzner approached Mr Nyland with a gift offering from Timothy Leary: A Steinway concert grand piano. It was probably on this piano that Willem Nyland recorded these improvesational "Piano Studies". The psychedelic COVER is in Good condition with seam openings on top & bottom. The VINYL is in Very Good condition with some light marks. If you are a fan of Gurdjieff or collect obscure Improvesational piano Lps from the hippiue era, then this might be for you!
