Bobby Beausoleil - The Lucifer Rising Suite

The Ajna Offensive 2014

Disc 1:

1 Lucifer Rising I, 1967
2 Dark Passage
3 Hellion Rebellion
4 Sleeping Dragon
5 Dance Of The Fire Demons

Disc 2:

1 Fallen Angel Blues, Pt I
2 Fallen Angel Blues, Pt II
3 Electric Blue
4 Tear It Down
5 No Going Back

Disc 3:

1 Metamorph
2 Penumbra
3 Beacon

Disc 4:

1 Motion Picture Soundtrack:Lucifer Rising, Pt I
2 Motion Picture Soundtrack:Lucifer Rising, Pt II
3 Motion Picture Soundtrack:Lucifer Rising, Pt III
4 Motion Picture Soundtrack:Lucifer Rising, Pt IV
5 Motion Picture Soundtrack:Lucifer Rising, Pt V
6 Motion Picture Soundtrack:Lucifer Rising, Pt VI


This is the full tale of the Lucifer Rising soundtrack by Bobby Beausoleil.

The first disc represents Beausoleil's first attempt at the soundtrack in 1967. Recording with The Magick Powerhouse of Oz in San Francisco, this was rejected by Kenneth Anger. World psych freak out jams played live with a Haight-Ashbury/San Francisco pysch vine.

The next two discs represent the recordings made by Beausoleil while incarcerated. Between 1976 and 1979, Beausoleil set about recording Lucifer Rising using constructed instruments via mail order and the battered old prison instruments. These recordings range from near ambient to blues to psych and back.

The final disc is a remastered version of the soundtrack. Some of the greatest dark psych ever made. The original entry on this blog can be found here.

This set was originally released as a vinyl box set in 2009.

As a side note, I purchased this box set on a trip to America a few years ago. It was in Irvington vinyl in Indiana, below this sign: