Label: Sub Rosa

様々な音カテゴリーを横断する重鎮の2CD大作!!スケールのデカい作風が最高!!タイトルの通り、フランスの小説家ルネ・ドーマルによるアドベンチャー小説[Mount Analogue]を題材とした、あの魅惑的な神秘と魔法の世界のサウンドオマージュ作。説明不要のベーシスト兼音楽家ビル・ラズウェルが、Henry Kaiserを含むエレクトロニクス・ユニットP.STと共に作り上げた2CDタイトル。ディスク1には50分の楽曲が収録されており、多様な楽器、音、そして声による豊かなタペストリーが織り成す6楽章で表現。ディスク2にはホドロフスキーの映画"聖なる山"(この作品もドーマルの小説に触発されたもの)からのインスピレーションを落とし込んだ、Henry Kaiserの即興エレキギター演奏5曲を収録。







This musical journey pays tribute to René Daumal and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic. The album shares its title with Daumal's novel, Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing, published posthumously in 1952, eight years after the author's untimely death.

Mount Analogue is a classic allegorical adventure novel. The novel describes an expedition undertaken by a group of mountaineers to travel to and climb the titular Mount Analogue an enormous mountain
on a surreal continent, that is invisible and inaccessible to the outside
world and can be perceived only by the application of obscure knowledge. The central theme of mountaineering is extensively explored through literary and philosophical lenses. Daumal died before the novel was completed, providing an uncanny one-way quality to the story, which ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence.

The first disc features a fifty-minute composition divided into six chapters: Introduction, Meeting, Supposition, Crossing, Arrival, and Conclusion. This album weaves together a rich tapestry of diverse instruments, sounds, and voices that collectively tell the story of this conceptual work, loaded with a synesthetic multitude of colors, aromas, meanings, textures, and moods..

The second disc disc presents five improvisations for solo electric guitar by Henry Kaiser. The first solo, Jodorowsky's Peradam, draws its inspiration from Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film The Holy Mountain, which was inspired by the Daumal novel. Kaiser's initial forty-eight-minute guitar solo serves as a foundational guide for his four subsequent, Rashomon-esque, solo musical interpretations of Mount Analogue, as seen through the psychedelic labyrinth of Jorodrowsky's cinematic masterpiece.