Label: Psychic Sounds

現在はレア音源と化している3作品が纏められカセットボックスでアーカイヴ化!!ここ米Psychic Soundsを中心に多くの音源を発表してきた激ディープなサイケデリック世界を展開し続けるGrant Corum。2012年[Beguiling Isles: Born Of Earth's Torments]、2014年[Effigy Mounds: Ceremonial Music For Spore Alter]、2016年[Magic Mirror]、現在は高額で取引されている作品を含む、初めてのアーカイヴ音源を出版。ハイブリッドでありながらも土着性の強い構造は不気味な儀式を想起させる。フルカラーのスリップケース入り、フルカラー折り込みライナーノーツ仕様。













10 year anniversary edition of all 3 albums pro-dubbed on high-bias cassette tape housed in a full color slipcase. Includes all full color fold-out liner notes & artwork for each tape.

Sonic travelogue impressions, meditations & reflections on psychoactive experiences, projective imagination, magical speech, dance, and a sense of emergence with the maternal matrix.

"A gradual arc from low key tropical travelogue into full blown fantasy exotica. 'Born Of Earth's Torments' is the most varied of the three, registering somewhere between Martin Denny and Jules Verne. Tracks such as "Body Core" bubble and fizz roots and stems of various traditional styles, as though a transistor radio is simultaneously receiving Japanese percussion and music from the inside of a bazaar. 'Effigy Mounds' was created as "an imagined field recording in a hallucinatory cave, where collaged snippets of tape reveal the gradual opening of a deep portal". Meanwhile, other tracks such as 'Flight Of The Westward Star' are fuggy and intense, as though early indigenous psychedelics are permeating back through cave rock - a kind of stoned ape theory, conjuring images of eerie Neolithic ritual. 'Magic Mirror' mixes in 1960s sci-fi TV vibes, with tracks like "Tower Of Preserved Magus In Egg" suggesting unidentified artifacts glistening at the edge of your vision. Corum's work avoids the mere emulation of exotica and its tropes through the sense of adventure that his landscapes present." - Spenser Thompson, The Wire Magazine