** condition: (records/covers) NM/EX+ / (cassette) NM/EX+ / (inserts) EX+ **
Cassette with xeroxed cover, LP's with all inserts. Comes with various original ephemera documenting the activity of the collective.
"In 1984 Pier Luigi Zoccatelli and Stefano Salzani founded the Italian detachment of the English esoteric group of the Temple of Psychic Youth better known as the Babalon Study Center. Rosemary's Baby was their direct musical emanation, formed by the two together with Dorella Giardini and Nicoletta Ferrari. The band, in an attempt to connect spirit and matter, drew inspiration from a spiritual-ritualistic sound research of different religious traditions, mixing them with sound images and cut-ups more linked to the world of mass communication, of which the name itself, taken from the famous film Rosemary's Baby - Red Ribbon in New York by Roman Polański, is a clear emanation of it.
Their first album entitled Magia Sexualis 1, first released as a self-production, then reissued with the label The League Of The Gloomers, develops soundscapes with noise and dark ambient hues, on which recordings of Tibetan choirs typical of the shamanic tradition of the Bön, Amazonian tribal sounds or Christian prayers and songs, often falsified by sound processing, with the same treatment reserved for samples and cut ups taken from films horror.
During the same year they released their first proper album on vinyl, Love Songs, produced by T.O.P.Y. - World Network System, directly linked to Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. The album centers around guitar loops and riffs over which are found Pope John Paul II sermons, Krzysztof Komeda lullabies, screams sampled from horror movies. See Woman See Human is the most listenable song on the record. After the release, the band went to the UK to discuss a collaboration with Genesis P-Orridge, but all ideas were left unfinished, documenting the end of their relationship with T.O.PY.. Rosemary's baby decided to release their last album by themselves and after the release of Andrew Woodehouse, the band called it quits.
