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Track 4 is only made of eternal, infernal, “hallucinatory” organ chords. Track 5 contains heavenly trumpet melodies with slowing, touching organic motifs. Track 6 contains guitar manipulations, discreet, fragile “dreamy” like melodies for organ. The two bonus tracks (white dog music edition) surf on the experimental “kosmiche musik”, almost exclusively written for electronic materials. A very divine, unearthly atmosphere for droning sitar sequences and haunted synth sounds (closed to TD first era). A wonderful album dominated by very dark, melancholic, visceral organ sections and a few spacey-rock guitars. Top class album, highly inspired, constant in term of musical quality. At the same level of the best offerings from krautrock. Actually in my top 10 of favourite prog rock albums. ”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKenneth Anger on how he made Lucifer Rising:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"dcr-az7egx\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"dcr-az7egx\"\u003eThis was the first really big film about black magic or white magic or whatever you want to call it. I’m a member of \u003ca title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oto-uk.org\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"\u003ethe OTO\u003c\/a\u003e – Ordo Templi Orientis – an occult order founded by British genius Aleister Crowley, who was maligned by the gutter press. The Express’s rightwing jerk Lord Beaverbrook sold a lot of papers calling Crowley a satanist, with headlines like “The man we want to hang”, to provoke people to murder him. Crowley’s like a bogeyman, which was unfair. He wrote wonderful books and poetry. Lord Beaverbrook loved to call Crowley a cannibal: eating human beings makes good headlines, and Crowley couldn’t countersue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"dcr-az7egx\"\u003eLucifer Rising was about Egyptian gods summoning the angel Lucifer – in order to usher in a new occult age, in accordance with the principles of OTO. I used a bit of deception to film it in Egypt. I said I was doing a documentary on ancient Egyptian beliefs and needed to film in the actual settings: in front of the Sphinx, at Karnak, along the Nile where you see beautiful ruined temples. The authorities fell for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"dcr-az7egx\"\u003eI’d taken pictures of \u003ca title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/adst.org\/2012\/09\/the-cairo-fire-of-1952\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"\u003eBlack Saturday, the anti-British riots in Cairo in 1952\u003c\/a\u003e. When they burned down Shepheard Hotel, I filmed people jumping from the windows and being massacred in the street – they had their legs cut off by swords and were left to bleed to death because they were British. I sold those images to Picture Post, which paid for my trip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"dcr-az7egx\"\u003eMarianne Faithfull \u003cthe film star playing the goddess lilith\u003e says I hypnotised her and forced her to do things against her will. I didn’t. When I took her to Egypt, she was addicted to heroin and had the nerve to carry some in her makeup box under the face powder, so it just looked like just another form of powder. If she had been arrested or discovered, we all would have been shot – that was the penalty then. I think all drugs are crutches – you don’t need them to be creative. Lucifer Rising is not psychedelic, it’s a film by Kenneth Anger. It’s my style. I never said you should take LSD before watching it, that’s a lie – one of the papers invented it.\u003c\/the\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ad-slot-container \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"dfp-ad--inline1\" class=\"js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1 ad-slot--rendered\" data-link-name=\"ad slot inline1\" data-name=\"inline1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-google-query-id=\"CInko7PL4f0CFRmWAAAdcoENMw\" data-label-show=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/59666047\/theguardian.com\/film\/article\/ng_0__container__\" class=\"ad-slot__content\"\u003e\u003ca title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitedogmusic.com\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\"\u003eBobby \u003cbeausoleil\u003e, who acted and wrote the soundtrack\u0026gt; was a good kid who turned bad – he was a Scorpio. He was my protege at 19, which is approaching the legal age but not quite the legal age of 21. 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As black music notches up another\u003cbr\u003e\nthree-year cycle of whoredom, it’s best bunch of sprinters exhausted but\u003cbr\u003e\nrich, a new white noise which understands the complex, curiously simple,\u003cbr\u003e\nbeauty of colour and shade, lurches coughing into the playroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolution” is pure as the driven snow, outspoken but inarticulate,\u003cbr\u003e\nraucous but hazy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I’m so sick… of people telling me what I can and can’t do with my life,”\u003cbr\u003e\nmumbles Sonic Boom over a monstrous monotone fireworks display of electric\u003cbr\u003e\nguitars, “…and I’m so tired of people who can’t get off their arses… wait a\u003cbr\u003e\nminute, I smell burning! I see a change coming around the bend. 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Spacemen\u003cbr\u003e\n3’s back catalogue sounds f***ing fantastic. I think we’d better start the\u003cbr\u003e\ninterview before Spacemen 3’s back catalogue causes me to, like, let it all\u003cbr\u003e\nhang out, and like, freak out. So come on, take a little trip with me…\u003cbr\u003e\ngosh, I’m frightfully sorry, what I mean is – here we go then. Sonic Boom’s\u003cbr\u003e\nname is Peter Kember. I want to know what sort of revolution he wants\u003cbr\u003e\n(though the romantic gesture of calling for one has its own mountainous\u003cbr\u003e\nvalidity), and if his background has any relevance to it. Sadly I cannot\u003cbr\u003e\nform sentences anymore, so just concentrate very hard now and see if a\u003cbr\u003e\nprobing interview doesn’t appear before your very eyes, which are as\u003cbr\u003e\nlagoons. All three of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I think it’s a classic punk record, yeah. 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Second track “Cover Me” whips in like a charging bull and settles on a groove-laden bass, only to dive into chaos with Mohanty’s box-cutter tone and Lamb’s pleading, urgent vocals. In “Play Opposites”, she begs the question, “Is this what you wanted Mother? Empty shells to fill your hole?”, as the music slowly unravels into a wash of noise. On songs “Love Again” and “Hesitation”, the trio walks the fine line between pure pleasure and madness, encouraging you to thrive in between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt would be best to listen to Opposites in a giant cavern around a fire surrounded by your tribe for one last dance before you head out to fight the revolution. 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Over eight tracks, Cloud Becomes Your Hand affirm their position in the secret lineage that links the pingings of the BBC Radiophonics Workshop to the happy goofing of Syd-­era Pink Floyd (like if the busted gearwork at the end of “Bike” started its own band?), a line that connects the energy dome power of Devo to the collage-­happy Frosted Ambassador wing of the Elephant 6 Recording Company. Feed your head, right? 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