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Ancient Hymns & Incantations

by Black Tempel Pyrämid

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Ekur 04:54

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Recorded March 2021 at the FoCo Zodiak Sound Lab in the Horsetooth Mountains.

Releases on limited edition (50) clear cassette from Ethereal Mother Tapes, Summer 2021.

Glimmering Kraut folk sludge stoner doom that results in some serious ear fuzz conjurations.

Worship Ancient Alien civilizations by tuning into their spirit soul channels via crushing sonic sound waves. This soundtrack will assist.

Ancient Hymns & Incantations is a fever dream, cast out with head-nodding stoner-sludge-doom frequencies that slowly gives the ears a reprieve when briefly entering some weird psycho folk desert abyss.

Ultimately the fever returns, concluding with more soul crushing guitar and bass to actualize the encrypted primitive message delivered from our alien overlords.

Enjoy ;)

A1 - Kesh Temple Hymn (4:47)
A2 - Excerpt From An Excorcism (6:57)
A3 - Liturgy To Nintud (7:55)
A-Side Total - 19:37

B1 - Myth Of Cattle And Grain (4:10)
B2 - Anu (3:27)
B3 - Lament For Ur (7:27)
B4 - Ekur (4:54)
B-Side Total - 19:57
Total - 39:34

"Ancient Hymns & Incantations contains seven songs over forty minutes and it is heavily loaded. The music is not insidious and spiteful as were some of BTP's lockdown sounds, but it is dark and weighty and unapologetic.

We are pretty fortunate that the ancient gods appear to have had no time for S Club 7 and what they revel in are repetitive refrains full of twisted notes played over a backdrop of the world splitting in two.

'Kesh Temple Hymn' has a pulse of iron that pushes it through savagely shredding guitars and rumbling synths, while 'Excerpts From An Exorcism' sees stabbing guitars attack woozy keyboards and whispered incantations.

Liturgy To Nintud', the Mesopotamian mother goddess, sees her take light steps over a shuddering drone, while her kin 'Anu', the divine personification of the sky and ancestor of all the deities, bewitches rather than crushes as he breaks through the hastily constructed melodies that are thrown up around him. 'Lament For Ur' is wistfully disjointed, and closing track 'Ekur', the house of the gods, rattles with authority. It taps and grates and frowns and bridles with righteous power.

Classed as a "fever dream" by Pärk this collection is hauntingly atmospheric and it would be some fever that managed to bring on these visions. Ethereal Mother have produced just fifty clear cassettes with a gold slipsheet and they won't be around for long." - Adam Hammond, Isolated Records (UK).

credits

released July 2, 2021

Written and Performed by Patrick R. Pärk
Cover by Brittany Pärk
Layout by Tiny Little Hammers
Special thanks to the Pärk Family Orchestre

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Patrick R. Pärk / Black Tempel Pyrämid / Kösmonaut / Teeth Of Glass Trinidad, Colorado

Patrick R. Pärk is a Deep Diver of Primitive Droning Kosmische Territories.

He's a serial CD / tape releaser.

He performs as Black Tempel Pyrämid, RUFFINI, Kösmonaut, LIFE ED and Teeth Of Glass.

He also releases music under his own name.

His sound is Klaus Schulze mixed with Pierro Umiliani with a dash of John Carpenter / Con Schnitzler

He operates Ethereal Mother Tapes and his PRO is B.M.I.
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