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Corum

Beguiling Isles Trilogy (3 Tapes & Slipcase)

Label: Psychic Sounds

Format: 3 Tapes & Slipcase

Genre: Electronic

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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

Details
Cat. number: PSR07 / PSR14 / PSR18
Year: 2024
Notes:
"For the first time ever we offer this completed vision of the Beguiling Isles (Beguiling Isles / Effigy Mounds / Magic Mirror) as a limited edition black cloth clamshell box set. The interior of the box features color stills from the toured movie by Corum & A.R. Faust. A multicolor screenprinted cover image is mounted to the case displaying a multi-colored image of the Isles' symbology on the front and the album & song titles on the back. Every copy is hand numbered. - www.psychicsounds.com" -Limited edition of 33 A / B - Born of Earth's Torments C / D - Effigy Mounds E / F - Magic Mirror -Approximate running time: 118 minutes