Long Awaited collection of ULTRA RARE tracks previously released on cassette in limited quanities.  Here we have some very nicely remastered versions of some of J.D.’s finest moments.

Below is a review from Other Music.

”The reissue of JD Emmanuel’s 1982 private-press obscurity Wizards in 2007 sent underground heads scrambling for copies, and for those lucky enough to have gotten their hands on one, or those who have heard those tracks and wish they had, Solid Dawn will doubtlessly be an essential acquisition. Emmanuel occupies an amazing/mystifying zone somewhere between Terry Riley’s time-lag flights, new age, ’70’s kosmische (a la Popul Vuh, Tangerine Dream, etc.), and Texas. This is a sprawling collection of newly resurrected pieces recorded between 1979 and 1982 and previously released in meager cassette editions. Emmanuel works with a couple of synths and digital delays and tends to go at them with both hands so he can set a mesmerizing pulse/rhythm and soar free at the same time. This is certainly music in the minimal vein — more than once it sounds straight out of “A Rainbow in Curved Air” — but there’s an outsider/psychedelic feel to it all that sets it entirely apart. Indeed, this should greatly appeal to anyone with a taste for “outsider” sounds in general. Numerous releases over the past few years have combined this kind of synthesized potency and rare-archival/out of nowhere/loner appeal — the Edmond de Deyster series on Ultra Eczema, that Ursula Bogner record — but as those have kept the darker, more blip-oriented end of the spectrum in vogue, Solid Dawn is a straight shot of light, a pulsing, soaring, often ecstatic music. A major collection for sure. [AOK] ” — Other Music

Here’s a pic from the maestro’s website. Taken in 1982 during the Wizards period.

You can listen to sound samples and purchase the CD from KVIST here.

Or listen to a sample of 7 Note Trance here.