Sunday 31 January 2021

Five Thousand Spirits – A Tapestry For Sourcerers (1995)


Country: Italy

Tracklist
1. From Sea To Sea 02:18
2. Enter, So Far From This Sky 10:37
3. Alphamantra 04:37
4. Onyx 06:38
5. Eskdalemuir 16:39
6. Lais 07:57
7. Haat-Lunis 08:00
8. Limahians 07:25

Five Thousand Spirits is a collaboration project from Italy,
founded by Stefano Musso (Alio Die), Raffaele Serra (Talharion) and Claudio Dondo (Runes Order, Atom Infant Incubator).
Their first album, "A Tapestry For Sorcerers" was released in 1995 by Sempiterna Mutatio,
mainly consisted of low drones and evocative mystical synth layers, reminiscent of the Runes Orders style.
After this album Claudio Dondo quit the group, and Five Thousand Spirits became the duo of Musso and Serra.
A second album was released in 1999 entitled "Mesmeric Revelation", with a more minimal and meditative sound.
The duo returned in 2006 with two albums, "Schwarzschild Radius" and "Quantum Consciousness
both characterized by an electronic vitality and a style reminiscent of the 1970s cosmic music.
From 2007 to 2014 three more albums were also released by the project.

Thursday 28 January 2021

John Corigliano – Altered States (1981)


Composer: John Corigliano

Tracklist
1. Main Title And First Hallucination (Ritual Sacrifice And Religious Memories) 04:43
2. Love Theme 03:39
3. Second Hallucination (Hinchi Mushroom Rite And Love Theme Trio) 05:15
4. First Transformation (Primordial Regression) 03:40
5. Primeval Landscape (In The Isolation Chamber) 02:18
6. Second Transformation (The Ape Man Sequence)
(Escape From The Laboratory, Stalking The Dogs And The Fight, The Zoo And FInal Hunt) 08:06
7. Religious Memories And Father's Death 02:07
8. The Laboratory Experiment: Jessup's Transformation,
Collapse Of The Laboratory, The Whirlpool And Journey To Another Dimension, Return To Reality 06:16
9. The Final Transformation 04:16

Altered States is a 1980 American science-fiction horror film directed by Ken Russell
based on the novel of the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky.
The film was adapted from Chayefsky's only novel, published in 1978, and is his final screenplay.
The film follows the experiments of a psycho-physiologist with drugs in a sensory-deprivation tank
and his visions that he believes are genetic memories.
Both the novel and the film are based in part on John C. Lilly's research conducted in isolation tanks 
under the influence of psychoactive drugs like mescaline, ketamine, and LSD.
Altered States marked the film debut of William Hurt and Drew Barrymore.
Chayefsky withdrew from the project after disputes with Russell and took his name off the credits, 
substituting "Sidney Aaron," his actual first and middle names.
The film score was composed by John Corigliano (with Christopher Keene conducting)
and was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Sound Mixing.
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of classical music.
His scores, numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards
Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition, and an Oscar for his score for the film The Red Violin (1998).
He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University Of New York
and on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School.

Saturday 23 January 2021

Blot Mine – Porphyrogenesis (1998)


Country: Sweden

Tracklist
1. Greater Than Life 04:37
2. Sha Nagba Imuru 04:34
3. My Soul In Fury Flew 04:27
4. Dumu-Abzu-Ke 04:10
5. Without Words 05:22
6. Fragmented Red Sun 04:09
7. Off To War 04:11
8. Shadows From High-Hell 06:07

Blot Mine was formed in the autumn of 1995 by Thorn (ex-Egregori, ex-Setherial),
Zathanel (Blackwinds, Midvinter, Setherial, Sorhin) and Thunaraz (Setherial).
Soon they joined by Steril Vwreede (ex-Egregori, ex-Gloom) on vocals.
About a year later they recorded the five track demo cassette "Kill For Inner Peace", that was released by the band in 1997.
The same year Athel W. completed their line up as a second guitarist.
In 1998 Blot Mine released their first album "Porphyrogenesis" through Near Dark Productions.
The album was recorded and mixed at Los Angered Recordings and co-produced by Andy Larocque.
In 2000 the band started the recordings of their sophomore album "Ashcloud" in the The Abyss Studio.
Eight new songs were recorded and finally "Ashcloud" was released in 2004
by World Terror Committee
 as a limited edition gatefold vinyl and a year later on CD by Metal Fortress Entertainment.
By 2006 the band was writing new material for a forthcoming album but since then no news have surfaced.