Illuminations (Buffy Sainte-Marie album)

Illuminations
Studio album by
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Released1969 (1969)
Recorded1969
StudioElectronic Music Studios at State University of New York, Albany, New York
GenreFreak folk[1]
Length35:51
LabelVanguard
Producer
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[2]
Pitchfork9.0/10[3]

Illuminations is the sixth album by American singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, released in 1969 on Vanguard Records.[4] 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.[5] The album's only single was "Better to Find Out for Yourself".

British experimental music magazine The Wire listed Illuminations amongst its '100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening'.[6] Pitchfork ranked it the 66th best album of the 1960s.[1]

  1. ^ a b Pelly, Jenn. "The 200 Best Albums of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Illuminations – Buffy Sainte-Marie – Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
  3. ^ Zoladz, Lindsay (February 4, 2020). "Buffy Saint-Marie: Illuminations". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Leo, Geoff; Woloshyn, Roxanna; Guerriero, Linda (October 27, 2023). "Who is the real Buffy Sainte-Marie?". CBC News. Archived from the original on October 27, 2023.
  5. ^ Frank, Alex (2022-11-15). "How Buffy Sainte-Marie innovated electronic music in the 1960s | American Masters | PBS". American Masters. Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  6. ^ "RTX Archive: The Wire 175 [September 1998]". 13 June 2007. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2019.