We use cookies on our website to provide you with the best experience. Most of these are essential and already present.
We do require your explicit consent to save your cart and browsing history between visits. Read about cookies we use here.
Your cart and preferences will not be saved if you leave the site.
play
Out of stock
1
2
3
4
File under: Experimental

The Baseball Astrologer

Famine Of The Soul (LP)

Label: Holy Mountain

Format: LP

Genre: Psych

Out of stock

A limited, vinyl-only release (each containing a different baseball card from the 1972-1974 era), Famine of the Soul is a ready-made psych oddity destined to join the ranks of such mythologized artists as Maitreya Kali and Skip Spence
Like a Nam vet street-preacher having an acid flashback, the Baseball Astrologer's debut, Famine of the Soul, despite its outward absurdity (or maybe because of it), resists easy dismissal. Using baseball as a kind of metaphor for innocence lost, Douglas Berman (aka the Baseball Astrologer) delivers deadpan, apocalyptic, spoken-word mantras, laying bare (among other subjects) the horrors of Hiroshima and the contradictions within the human soul on songs like "Shadows of Fire" and "Deception of Doing Anything at All." Steven Wray Lobdell (of the Davis Radford Trio and latter-day Faust) adds Eastern-inspired guitar tonalities, drones, and sparse percussion to Berman's hallucinatory visions, making for a simultaneously creepy and relaxing listen (All Music Guide)

Details
File under: Experimental
Cat. number: 4934
Year: 1999
Notes:
Mixed at Giant Pipe Studios. Recorded in Portland OR, Olympia WA, and Hamburg. Insert. Each copy has a different baseball card glued to the reverse side of the sleeve.