Saturday, 3 November 2018

Egisto Macchi - Il Deserto



Ayna 1974 / Cinedelic Records 2015

01 L'Eco Delle Gole
02 Segni Preistorici
03 Cammelli
04 Suoni Per Un Rito
05 La Notte Del Deserto
06 Le Genti Del Deserto
07 Ghibli
08 Sabbia Mobile
09 Il Sahara

I haven't posted any Egisto Macchi in a while, so here is one of his finest; 1974's 'Il Deserto'.

Avant classical that goes places few recordings do, highly recommended.

Note; this 2015 Cinedelic reissue has longer edits than the original album, rejoice!

The Heartwood Institute - Live at Warwick Bazaar 28/07/18



Self Release 2018

Border
Intro
Witch Phase Four
Dandelion
Age of Aquarius
The Calling
Aradia
Greenside
Witch Phase Three
Sun Wheel
Karnayna

This summer saw Warwick Bazaar host it's first live performances.

The Heartwood Institute is electronic music from my home county of Cumbria. Field recordings, hauntology, public information films, ambient, Krautrock and all with folk horror overtones.

Fantastic live set from one of my favourite electronic performers.

Free download here.

Brocken Spectre - Abstractions//Attractions



Treehouse Orchestra Recordings 2018

01 Beyond Nostalgia
02 Clap Hands
03 Downtown Abstractions
04 Art Defacer
05 Colour Fucker
06 Stockholm Cancelled
07 Ended Here
08 (In) Dreams
09 UYA

The latest release from the stable of musicians and artists to which I belong; the new Brocken Spectre album is post punk, art rock, alt-rock noise. I play guitar and sometimes sing.

Free download and limited CD available at Bandcamp.


Monday, 15 October 2018

Various Artists - Halloween 2014




01 Former Selves - In Waves
02 Gal Costa - Segunda
03 The Monkees - You Just May Be the One
04 Eugene Ormandy - No. 7 'Aquarium'
05 James Blackshaw - Fantômas- Le Faux Magistrat, Pt. 2
06 Michael Stearns - As the Earth Kissed the Moon (Excerpt)
07 Kaki King - Night After Sidewalk
08 Tess Parks - Somedays
09 Francis MwaKitme - Sikepa Inongwa Mukaye
10 Ahmed Abdul-Malik - E-lail (The Night)
11 lubos Fiser - Matching Mirrors/Morgiana's Prowl
12 Ryan Mcgregor - Variation One
13 Nico - Frozen Warnings
14 Foresteppe - Sedniv

Bonus posts in time for Halloween.

Here's a mixtape, still played around this time of year, nice feel.



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:


Anton LaVey - The Satanic Mass



Murgenstrumm 1968


1 The Satanic Mass
2 Prologue
3 Book Of Satan, Verse I
4 Verse II
5 Verse III
6 Verse IV
7 Verse V
8 Hymn Of The Satanic Empire, Or The Battle Hymn Of The Apocalypse

Since it's Halloween, here's an early occult artifact. Recorded live at The Church of Satan, San Francisco, Anton LaVey recites The Satanic Mass.

Originally released in 1968, this Amarillo Records CD reissue contains the bonus track 'Hymn Of The Satanic Empire, Or The Battle Hymn Of The Apocalypse'.

Monday, 1 October 2018

Ghosts Of Hobbs End - Amsterdam/America



Treehouse Orchestra Recordings. TOR58.

01 Amsterdam
02 America


The latest offering from my own label of friends and artists is a new one; Ghosts of Hobbs End is myself, Jill Wallace (Brocken Spectre) and Davis Thompson (Cat of Tomorrow, The Dead West).

This cassette release is a mix of improvised jams, radio, field recordings and drones. Recorded over the last year and a half, the final collages were performed in May and July of this year.

Artwork by Britany Gunderson.




As always, there is a free download at Bandcamp. The cassette version is available for a limited time.