Name: High Mountain Tempel: Gnosis
Brand: High Mountain Tempel
SKU: 26530932
Price: 11.98 USD
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Format: CD

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Description

Title: Gnosis
Artist: High Mountain Tempel
Label: CD Baby
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 888174798127
Genre: Rock

It's been a long gestation on the quivering meat wheel of creation. In the dust and stones of a dry riverbed seeds cracked, opening themselves to any deluge. When the flood waters finally came everything became the Mud of Chaos. Now swollen with water the seed burst forth with roots and tendrils seeking both Earth and Sun. High Mountain Tempel Rising! "Gnosis" is the fifth release from these seekers of sonic dissolve and drift. Tapping into their deep love of the Pacific, the Sierras, the Sacred Freeway Off-Ramps and the Emerald Tablets of California Mythology they have carved out new roads and new paths leaving Golden Ashes to light the way. Tempel Monks Eric Nielsen and Keith Boyd welcomed many honored pilgrims for this voyage in sound and time. Kawabata Makota and Hiroshi Higashi from the impeccable Acid Mothers Temple joined in providing bowed guitars and swirling, hymnal synth lines. Alpha-Crone and Source Family Dragon Lady Isis Aquarian beamed in from Hawaii to breathe the Father Yod Family lineage into our hearts and minds. Charles Curtis blessed us with spacious and gigantic piano tones. Bruce McKenzie, the Sage from high atop Mount Washington was as always the Koan Master and Alchemist gleaming gold amidst the ruins and molding clay into Golems. Leila Dear brought her artistic mastery, informed by the esoteric and geometric to Square the Circle for the cover art. It was a wonderful collaboration spanning time, distance and space. This distillation we offer up with the hope of pleasing and challenging the listener. Listen deeply. Go FURTHUR. Traveling Monks Bruce McKenzie - Sings on Track 1 and plays Recorder on Track 4 Charles Curtis - Plays Piano on track 3 Isis Aquarian - Alpha Crone Incantations on Track 3 Makoto Kawabata - Bows Guitar on Track 4 Hiroshi Higashi - Plays Synth on Track 5 Mixed by Bruce McKenzie, Artwork by Leila Dear, Photo and Layout By Krista Nielsen, Mastered by Kenseth Thibideau Recorded in the Upper Chamber of The High Mountain Tempel Oceanic Lodge and the Leper Colonies of Arrakis Dedicated to The Ancestors, Pacific Ocean Mineral Spirits, The Offspring of the Sun, the Waders of the Slipstream, All Blessed Journeymen, John Muir riding the lightning, high above the world and in memory of Hetch Hetchy.

Tracks:
1.1 Processional (An Invocation to Thee Angelic Sister)
1.2 The Wormwood Parchments (Navigating By Cameron's Star)
1.3 Once Upon a Golden Mountain (Yodmother Isis and the Mount Washington Working)
1.4 Root Food, Deer-Mating (Moon Psalm)
1.5 Vu Lan Ghost (A Solemn Sharing)

Audio Sample:
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