Bobby Beausoleil - Lucifer Rising

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Jun 3, 2020 Sold Date

Aug 29, 2018 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Lucifer Rising
Genre: Pop/Rock Produkt Typ: CD Label: Arcanum Ent. Titelanzahl: 10 Dauer: 102:07

Trackliste LP - 1

1. The Freedom Orchestra - Part I 4:10 2. The Freedom Orchestra - Part II 5:57 3. The Freedom Orchestra - Part III 5:43 4. The Freedom Orchestra - Part IV 1:45 5. The Freedom Orchestra - Part V 15:44 6. The Freedom Orchestra - Part VI 10:16

Trackliste CD - 2

7. The Orkustra - Punjab's Barber 3:02 8. The Orkustra - Flash Gordon 3:08 9. The Magick Powerhouse of Oz - Lucifer Rising Recording Session 24:21 10. The Freedom Orchestra - Lucifer Rising Sessions 28:01

Beschreibung

Everyone reviewing this record seems to get hung up on the fact that Bobby BeauSoleil is an inmate, serving a life sentence for murder, who had ties with the Charles Manson cult and who recorded and produced this psychedelic prog rock soundtrack, in prison, for a film extolling the virtues of Lucifer. If these are the only things that lend credence to this album, someone forgot to actually listen to it. Lucifer Rising is a beautifully realized work, no matter what the circumstances were surrounding its coming to be. BeauSoleil is a talented arranger and a fine guitarist, with a knack for guerilla recording that most D.I.Y. engineers, on the outside, would be envious of. Layers of guitar, processed through handmade effects units, and hot-rodded junkshop synthesizers issuing indescribable tones arc and dive throughout BeauSoleil's spacious soundscapes. The soundstage is wide and horizon-less with dark-toned movements rising up from stygian depths and then ascending heavenward with gorgeous chordal fusillades. For a compact introduction to BeauSoleil's epode-like songsmithing, "Part III" offers a strata-revealing overview. Moving from Piper at the Gates of Dawn-era Floyd motifs, the song evolves into an intricate and vacillating progression reminiscent of Air's "Don't Be Light" with all of the dazzling chordal movement, but none of the pomp. Floyd and Air comparisons aside, the most accurate description of BeauSoleil's trajectory would be psych-prog by way of Claude Debussy, and hard rock as it may have been envisioned by Ennio Morricone. Lucifer Rising is far too beautiful to be labeled as hard rock, far too focused to be written off as meandering prog, and too full of merit to be judged solely on the heteroclite life of its composer. [Arcanum's ten-track, two-CD edition was issued in 2004.] ~ J. Scott McClintock

J. Scott McClintock