Has anyone heard the "Lucifer Rising" soundtrack?

[Dick Sirloin]

http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/Lucifer-Rising.html



My friend just sent this to me. Am I going to live through the night?

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I think I have to see this movie.

 

[neal]

i also think i have to see this movie.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

How could anyone not want to hear this?

Composed and recorded in prison between 1977 and 1979, BeauSoleil worked in a makeshift studio on bare bones equipment with an ensemble of fellow inmates. Collectors have circulated bootlegs of the sessions for years, copied from the limited vinyl pressing BeauSoleil once made for family and friends. But this new edition — authorized by BeauSoleil and Anger — has been cleaned up and digitally mastered. Tight budgets and antiquated technology notwithstanding, the music now has the breadth of a major studio recording. All things considered, this could be the most important soundtrack release of the year.
The complete soundtrack runs nearly forty minutes on one disc, and the second CD serves up stages of its evolution. Tapes thought to be lost (or nonexistent) were tracked down, including two unexpectedly clear instrumentals by The Orkustra. There’s also a 1967 session of the Magick Powerhouse of Oz doing an embryonic Lucifer Rising that shows the influence of jazz fusion, and rehearsal tapes of the Freedom Orchestra recorded ten years later, that occasionally drift into vibrant solo improvisations.
Performed on mostly electric instruments by non-professionals, the music has a palpable organic texture and is rooted in the blues. The film could ask for no better accompaniment, and it’s nearly impossible to imagine Anger’s vision working as well as it does without this sound. “It not only perfectly suits the mood of Anger’s film,” wrote Michael Moynihan, “but even seems to have been scored precisely to coincide with certain visual images that occur onscreen.” This is either good fortune or symmetry with the gods, because there wasn’t a finished print of the film to work off of. BeauSoleil had to rely on description and a partial slash print. He supplies a few buoyant passages that invite movie Mickey Mousing (such as the playful “Part IV&#8221, but the rejection here of Hollywood cliché is a given. (In the film, this piece accompanies Marianne Faithfull’s ascension of Star Mountain.) Offsetting the electronic foundation, a lone trumpet is used in moderation adding an underlying sense of melancholy — and brought to mind Ennio Morricone’s work of the 60’s. Most of the score revolves around a predominant riff, an infectious cascading chord progression that has the cyclical flow of an acid trip churning toward its peak.

 

[NAD]

i'm gonna go watch Brazil.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

i'm gonna go watch Brazil.

Dude. DUDE. Best. Movie. Ever!

Seriously, my fave of all time.

 

[NAD]

cool! actually i'll probably watch it tomorrow. soon as i'm done dicking around here imma read some more Pale Fire. shit rules!

 

[Dick Sirloin]

You are doing well for yourself, young man!

Try to pay attention to Brazil when you watch it, though. I've heard plenty of nimrods say it's "too confusing."

"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain..."

 

[NAD]

and i'm listening to Genesis right now!!! :shocked:

okay no, but i am listening to Type O Negative.

netshitz doesn't have this here Lucifer Rising btw. sucks.