Almost NEW but already RARE item!
Limited edition of 100 copies.
''Shekinah’ comprises
two side-long slabs of highly experimental music in the early Coil / Current 93
/ Organum vein with touches of Eastern (or is it North American?) mysticism
thrown in for good measure.
‘For The Dead & Unborn’ is a wild, chilling and
uninhibited chant-cum-invocation featuring wordless vocals set against a
hypnotic backdrop of percussion and bowed instruments.
‘Angels Gather Here
Between Purity Of Heart and Hopeless Despair’ is taken at a much slower pace
with far less accent on the chanting and more emphasis on the bowed strings and
singing / ringing percussion and at times had me glancing nervously over my
shoulder!'
‘In the ‘80s underground, Ritual Ambient and Tribal Ambient were both
coming to fruition and although they had a rough framework there wasn't yet a
concrete basis for how the genres were set to develop.
Masstishaddhu exploited
this potential to create a music that sounds like a well-executed modern Free
Folk album - in 1988, a good decade before the New Weird America scene
(spearheaded by the likes of Sunburned Hand Of The Man) began revolutionizing the idea of
Folk music operating under rhythmic constraints.
In this sense ‘Shekinah’ is
undoubtedly unique, perpetuating the 'ritual' side of ambient through
disconcerting vocalizations and chants. It is deeply embedded within the Folk
influence that uses atmosphere to sculpt instrumental improvisations, again,
much like well-executed modern Free Folk does.'
- BRAINWASHED
Masstishaddhu was: Mike Watson, Richard Rupenus, Sean Breadin, all of them was also Metgumbnerbone members.
Tracklist:
A. For The Dead And Unborn
B. Angels Gather Here Between Purity Of Heart And Hopeless Despair
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