Marc Barreca is a Seattle-based composer who has been making electronic music since the mid-1970s, inspired by Brian Eno and the ambient school but taking that influence into more textural and multi-layered territory than most of his contemporaries. By 1980 he had already recorded three cassettes: In a Foreign Land (1977), Raw Fish and Green Tea / Surrogate Religions (1979), and Currents (1979/80), all released and distributed by Eurock in tiny quantities. That year he also released his first LP, Twilight, on K. Leimer's Palace of Lights label, one of the earliest releases from that important Seattle imprint. During the late 1970s and early 1980s he performed with James Husted and Roland Barker as the electronic trio Young Scientist, and he was a member of the Leimer circle that would go on to define the Pacific Northwest's independent electronic music culture. His instruments included synthesizers, Mellotron, tape loops, and later MIDI accordion, digital samplers, and field recordings.

This double LP (VOD150MB), Recordings 1978/79, presents the complete audio from his second and third cassettes, Raw Fish and Green Tea / Surrogate Religions and Currents, both in full for the first time on vinyl. The music is measured, atmospheric, and formally coherent: ambient in the strict Eno sense of music that is as ignorable as it is engaging, but with a textural richness and a documentary intelligence that keeps it grounded. Barreca resumed composing after a lengthy hiatus and has since released multiple duo CDs with K. Leimer on Palace of Lights.