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Spectra Ex Machina / A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol.2 artist: VA year: 2023 label: Sub Rosa catalog_no: svr 462 country: Belgium discogsID: 29312194 format:
1xLP
tracks:
A1: David Behr - A Seance with Elvis (1979)
(4:13)
A2: Rosemary Brown - Intro (1973) & Grubelei (1969) (4:49) A3: Jack Webber - The Spirit of Reuben sings (1939) (2:20) A4: Robert - Les premiers pas (c. 1975) (1:54) A5: Rita Goold - Gwen Byrne and her spirit son Russel (1983) (2:48) A6: Leslie Flint - Seance with Chopin (1956) (1:23) A7: Leo - E lucevan le stele from Tosca by Puccini, transmitted by Caruso (1993) (2:18) A8: Carmen Rogers - The Elvis Presley Seance (1979) (2:54) B1: Uri Geller - I Cannot Answer You (1974) (2:47) B2: Jean-Louis Victor: - Reincarnation (1982) (3:43) B3: Joe Meek - I Hear A New World (1960) (2:38) B4: Howard Menger - Intro & The Song of Saturn (1957) (2:22) B5: Aleister Crowley - The Call of The First Aethyr (1942) (1:55) B6: Alex Sanders - Initiation (1970) (3:02) B7: Anton LaVey - The Satanic Mass (1968) (1:25) B8: Barbara, The Gray Witch - Witch's Love Song (1971) (2:52) B9: Rev. Patrick J. Berkery, Ph. D. - Ron Aimee Fugue (1974) (2:24) |
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['Non-Music', 'Folk, World, & Country']styles:
['Occult', 'Field Recording']tags:
['Mono', 'LP', 'Compilation', 'Stereo']notes:
The Anthology Spectra Ex Machina brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology through the exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses (vol. 1); musician mediums (vol. 2); experiences of extrasensory perceptions (clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc.) and electronic voice phenomena (vol. 3). The link between music, sound and the paranormal is manifested in many different ways. Gerard van der Leeuw, the Dutch historian and philosopher, wrote "Music represents the great struggle of reaching the wholly other, which it can never express". Furthermore, "The effect of music on the emotions is so mysterious as to seem magical. There is no logical explanation why a particular combination of musical notes, whether in the form of a tune or of a simple chord, can affect the heart. Nothing in nature has perhaps so persistently resisted explanation", as said Derek Parker, the British journalist. Since music is arguably the most intangible of the arts and since the paranormal, in all its manifestations, continues to intrigue people, the placing of these two subjects together seems obvious. This second volume of musical and audio anomalies continues and expands upon the... more credits released December 5, 2023 'Have a gramophone in every grave...' James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) Archive and sound documents curated by Philippe Baudouin