Cloaked in robes, floating in white clouds off the coast of California, High Mountain Tempel collide across oceans with eight beautiful cuts called The Glass Bead Game. This abstract homage merges cells of Father Yod, far fair Abion, as well as meetings in shrouded rooms, hills and gardens of Mt. Washington, Ocean Beach San Diego, Vista East, and Topanga Canyon.

From darkness to light, these songs represent High Mountain Tempel's version of Hesse’s novel, "The Glass Bead Game", through sound. From node to node, the music shifts on a dark sea of layered sounds, vibrating in a resonant relationship of souls.

Ripped, trapped, torn and connected, this shrouded duo lay out long inspired sounds of Terry Riley, Father Yod in the enlightened heightened time, dark SunnO))) Oracle blackness, and incantations of Pink Floyd synths, in these most spiritually darkened, yet thrilling times.

The Asterism lends ancient ambiance to the opening and closing pieces on the disc. The Glass Bead Game moves between secret blessed gems and midnight covens under full moons into commune inspired living.

From Wikipedia:
The Glass Bead Game takes place at an unspecified date, centuries into the future. Hesse suggested that he imagined the book's narrator writing around the start of the 25th century. The setting is a fictional province of central Europe called Castalia, reserved by political decision for the life of the mind; technology and economic life are kept to a strict minimum. Castalia is home to an austere order of intellectuals with a twofold mission: to run boarding schools for boys (the novel is thus a detailed exploration of education and the life of the mind), and to nurture and play the Glass Bead Game.

All the way to hopeless and infinity black.

"You Think I’m Kidding You? Go Check it Out For Yourself." - Father Yod

Tempel Monks:
Ras Al H’nout: Guitar, Theremin, Moog Voyager, Mandala Drum, Voices Inside your Head, Freak Power and Eldritch Vapors
Eric Nielsen: Guitar, MicroKorg, Accordion, and Air
The Asterism: MiniKorg 700s and DSI Evolver - The Glass Bead Game is bookended by two long synth tracks by The Asterism (Humming in the Night's Skull and The Glass Bead Game).

Track Listing:
1.Humming in the Night’s Skull
2.Umwelt
3.Alchemical Space Station
4.Moon Machinery
5.The Motherhouse
6.Throat Hope Savage
7.The Ascended Master Moves On (Hang Gliding In Heaven)
Click link for 8 minute mp3
8.The Glass Bead Game

57 minutes

Limited release from Lotushouse Records (150 hand numbered) double sided silk screen with a black on black disc (CDR).

http://www.Lotushouserecords.com – LHRCD12 - Sold Out

A darker ritual and a new herald. From California duo High Mountain Tempel, "A Screaming Comes Across The Sky" is the soundtrack to your next Apocalypse. Arising from the golden ash of their last release "Pacific Sky Burial" (Lotushouse) this outing finds our intrepid travelers exploring new sonic and thematic terrain.

HMT is the eternal sound questing project of Eric Nielsen and Keith Boyd. Eric has done time in and with Maquiladora, Buzz or Howl and various Japanese underground outfits such as Acid Mother's Temple, Astro and High Rise. Keith is a self-made musical alchemist weaving strands of aural gold from base material and mud. Together they bring you a fine distillation of ritual music for these blackened times. Drawing inspiration from sources such as Robert Rich, SunnO))), Terry Riley, Lustmord, Phillip K. Dick, Arthur Rimbaud and HP Lovecraft, High Mountain Tempel is an introspective yet outward reaching labor of love.

This is music as voyage, dragging your nervous system out to the Cosmos with no plans on returning.  Continuing in the tradition of their last disc this project is an intensely beautiful hand-screened work of art. So don your cloaks and grab your tomes, the ceremony is about to begin.

Track Listing:
1. Mektoub
2. Dispatch 23 from the Kali Yuga
3. Fluctuat Nec Mergitur - Click link for an mp3
4. Ruins of the Empire
5. Swimming in an  Ocean of Throats
6. A Screaming Comes Across The Sky
7. Buotkem

 

Tempel Walk - Click link for an mp3