Browse by Label: HOLY MOUNTAIN

Artist:	SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
Title:	Dust & Chimes
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 1165

"A limited edition reissue of Dust & Chimes by Six Organs of Admittance, Ben Chasny's second amazing, underground folk-psych project from behind California's Redwood curtain. Heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jamming in a style that has been compared to guys with LPs on Takoma, though Dust & Chimes is actually closer than anyone else is ever going to come to pantsing the first two Tyrannosaurus Rex albums. The sun is tanging, people."

Artist:	SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
Title:	Six Organs Of Admittance
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 121964

"Rare 1998 LP reissued on CD with two rarer bonus tracks, all on CD for the first time. In 1998 Ben Chasny self-released an LP of his 'acoustic based project[ions]' under the name Six Organs of Admittance. The resulting five-song LP is a masterpiece of diverse elements using acoustic and electric guitars, a detuned violin, organ, electronics and koto. The material covers a lot of ground: there's an acid folk duet, an epic, three-part space suite, and two short concrète-like pieces that entice hidden memories of having bees in your mouth. The final sting is the magnificent chaos of 'Race from Visnu' -- a nine-minute raga in which the strings of the acoustic guitar are battled by Chasny who ruthlessly punishes them for their ability to make sound."

Artist:	SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
Title:	Dark Noontide
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 1240

"Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasny's out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar. Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasny's electric guitar as a lead instrument."

Artist:	DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD, THE
Title:	Ewige Blumenkraft
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 16845

"The Davis Redford Triad is the solo vehicle for occasional Faust guitar player Steven Wray Lobdell. His previous album, The Mystical Path of the Number Eighty Six was hailed as 'a limber sonic attack that sounds like 1,000 chattering meth-soaked bats being chased through the caves of Sun Ra's Atlantis by a litter of ax-wielding Chihuahua vampire pups, who just need some lovin'.' The unique, distortion-laden guitar playing on this album has endeared Mr. Lobdell to many who revere him as an untouchable 'liquid bitch'. This is not just some guy with a guitar and a talent pedal."

Artist:	MAMMATUS
Title:	Mammatus
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 17974CD

"Named for the ominous clouds that are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed, Mammatus is a lean sludge machine that shoots giant burritos (carne asada) from their instruments. They have no known enemies in the natural world and share symbiotic relationships with hamburgers, sub-goths and dragons. Their album was mastered by a wizard so mighty he has no name. They assure you that his abilities far exceed those of any 'terrestrial' engineer, for they send the tapes back in time to be woven with spells of the nameless ones that were spoken of before rock could speak. So, what was the last record you bought that was recorded in 'Dragonfidelity' or 'Drag-Fi'?"

Artist:	LA OTRACINA
Title:	Tonal Ellipse of the One
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 181106CD

"La Otracina was formed in Brooklyn, NY, in the summer of 2003 by drummer Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano (now of Tee Pee Records' Titan) to penetrate the deepest and most surreal realms of psychedelia, prog, and Krautrock, with an emphasis on exploration. Taking heavy nods from psychedelic forefathers (Flower Travelin' Band, Guru Guru, King Crimson, Neu!, Yes, Agitation Free, Blue Cheer, Amon Duul, etc.), their music is also rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of free jazz/improvisation and the wizardry of minimalism -- not to mention the extreme sounds of the Japanese underground. La Otracina's brew of cosmic music is a ride across the galaxy, a slice of magical lemon wedges, a rainbow of crystallized comet dust. La Otracina is Adam Kriney on drums, Ninni Morgia on electric guitar, and Jordon Schranz on electric bass. KindaMusik listed La Otracina's Love Love Love 2 CD as one of the top 20 best psychedelic albums of the new millennium, along with releases by Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Ghost, and Tower Recordings."

Artist:	WRAY LOBDELL, STEVEN
Title:	Live at Club Donut
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 21203

"If a city's astrological sign is determined by the day it is incorporated, then how is a sign determined for a sound recording -- by mastering date? The day it is pressed? Or its release date? In the interests of simplicity, it has been decided that Steven Wray Lobdell's second full-length solo album for Holy Mountain is a Sagittarius. Recorded live in December in a small Portland, Oregon, donut shop (actually on a loft above the toilet), Live at Club Donut unleashes some of Lobdell's most over-the-top torrents of Echoplexed guitar frenzy. Elliptical, psychedelic rhythms merge with his trademark fat guitar signal to produce intense leads that demand comparison to an ocean on fire or planet-sized sunspots."

Artist:	SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
Title:	For Octavio Paz
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 21852

"CD reissue of sold-out limited edition vinyl. Since the release of Six Organs of Admittance's self-titled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshippers is that Chasny's pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon -- Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example -- not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a Stratocaster. This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs of Admittance."

Artist:	SHINING PATH, THE
Title:	The Shining Path
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 301235LP

"The Shining Path is the 'rock band' version of minimalist duo Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff. Like This Heat or Metabolist, The Shining Path are a Can/Faust-loving group that also exhales expansive psychedelic guitar excess with hints of Greg Ginn and the High Rise discography while tripping balls to a violent, throbbing, not-always-so-steady, Suicide-like rhythm. Lusciously packaged in an old school tip-on jacket, the package includes a CD version of the album because, seriously, it's what you'll want to listen to wielding a golf club with your upper body outside the sunroof of your car as you steer with your feet. The soundtrack to all that is good and true in this world."

Artist:	LESBIAN
Title:	Power Hör
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 31772CD

"Yep, the band's name is Lesbian. Why? Well, equally cool names like Black Sabbath, Venom and Pentagram were already taken. But also, the name Lesbian evokes pure, sexually charged freedom -- and that's what rock music is all about. But enough about the name, let's talk about the Lesbian sound; it's heavy, melodic, dramatic and dynamic. The Seattle-based quartet's multifaceted debut album Power Hör on Holy Mountain (OM, Six Organs of Admittance) heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the album's four tracks shifts moods, dynamics and styles. In any given song, Lesbian deftly lunges from black metal-style blast-beat-and-16th-note-guitar-lines into '70s-styled stoner rock riffing and then leaps into lush melodic passages reminiscent of Godspeed! You Black Emperor. The band blends the best elements of many styles of metal: doom, thrash, black, progressive and, yes, even good old 'heavy' metal."

Artist:	ZDRASTVOOTIE
Title:	2
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 43109CD

"Zdrastvootie 2 is a perplexing album. It folds the far corners of some of the world's most out-there progressive rock with deep, deliberate singer-songwriter type vocals and lyrics. It is both a collection of confusing, dark and fragmented meditations and defiantly odd music, yet it is far more accessible and playful than one would expect. The recorded debut of Drew Adam's vocals is imposing and grand -- he sings like a crooner. Zdrastvootie 2 is still marked by the group's gifts as songwriters and players as the songs are disjointed and the arrangements abrasive. The material is achingly beautiful, and lovely melodies appear throughout the album. This new album will sound, to most, like no other music on Earth."

Artist:	BLUES CONTROL
Title:	Blues Control
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 50320CD

"As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy working at a record store when some smelly, denim-clad dude walks in asking for the blues. If you're lucky, he's at least wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. That's just one scenario; who doesn't love those other blues fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation? And let's not forget that other queen of the blues -- Barbara from Just Farr a Laugh. Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and legendary experimentalist Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts (think Harold Budd), through which guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse cuts, whittles and lays to waste. It's a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian -- and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, I gotta mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album."

Artist:	DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD
Title:	Code Orange
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 5280CD

"Steven Wray Lobdell's guitar playing discovers colors and shapes at extreme volume levels. Astonished audiences have also found that Mr. Lobdell can call up each sound used in his myriad innovative recordings and exercises a control over them that is preternatural. Code Orange is a live collage from the Davis Redford Triad's Spring 2002 tour. The band played a variety of material from both of their Holy Mountain albums plus rocked-out electric versions of material from Mr. Lobdell's sublime solo album,Automatic Writing by the Moon. In addition, there are three new songs, 'Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years,' 'Loop 03,' and the title track of their upcoming studio album Blue Cloud.

Artist:	OM
Title:	Conference Of the Birds
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 5QXF3CD

"Comprised of two songs that build on OM's use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duo's new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by Billy Anderson and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production."

Artist:	ZDRASTVOOTIE
Title:	Zdrastvootie
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 72149

"A few years ago Santa Cruz avant-rock group Zdrastvootie decided to ditch their vocalist and concentrate on the unique interplay they had begun to achieve with two guitars and drums. This new configuration recorded an album of material that was eventually scrapped because their sound had morphed into something different by the time everything was ready to go. Zdrastvootie are currently a very focused entity, with increasingly complex songs a la King Crimson, Hampton Grease Band or Doc at the Radar Station-era Magic Band. While they have recently added a bassist, and guitar-player Drew Adams has begun to sing, Zdrastvootie still orbits this zone and will continue to until you are very aware that they practice all the time. Here's to going somewhere."

Artist:	OM
Title:	Variations on a Theme
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 77525CD

"OM reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music: Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums], both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. Variations on a Theme is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The album's numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. Variations on a Theme is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track,'On The Mountain at Dawn' is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. 'Kapil's Theme' furthers the motif while the closer 'Annapurna' breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite."

Artist:	LOBDELL, STEVEN WRAY
Title:	Automatic Writing by the Moon
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 777

"The first true solo recordings by Steve Lobdell (Baseball Astrologer collaborator, leader of both Davis Redford Triad and Sufi Mind Game, Faust guitarist). His whispery, fluffy-cloud dynamism will appeal to your desire for a little subtlety. Automatic Writing by the Moon's 13 tracks are a mixture of massive overdubbing, wondrous cinematic composition, folksy improvisation and studio experimentation. The backwards feedback of "Astral Projection" is vibrantly illuminating, while the instrumental arrangement of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara's "The Departure" evokes a cosmic Western scene. So, yes, this record is psychedelic- if it really must be dumbed down- but not in the burnt-tar hooliganism sense; despite healthy studio trickery, Mr. Lobdell still insists on playing the guitar with his fingers."

Artist:	DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD
Title:	Blue Cloud
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 8023

"Like a long cloud that casts a shadow for miles, the Davis Redford Triad are a heavy group. Over three years in the making, Blue Cloud is a stupendous new effort by guitarist / engineer Steven Wray Lobdell (Sufi Mind Game / Faust) and leader of one of the preeminent power trios working today (see Code Orange). After the album's subtle opener takes you to the noisy scraped loops and menacing guitar of 'Violent Stupid Friend' featuring The Baseball Astrologer with a 'right on' rant, you are taken to the screaming backwards ecstasy of 'Loop 03.' The album continues with heavy, guitar-based psychedelic jams ('Temple of the Jaguar') that overload the senses and a spacey improvisational piece ('Mellowed for Over 80 Million Years') that both centers the album and folds time, while allowing the rest to flow from a bizarre pop song ('Bubble Wrap') to the title track, which is the sonic equivalent of a cloud taking a day to pass through your world."

Artist:	SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
Title:	Compathía
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 82614

"While the 'acoustic based project[ions]' of Six Organs of Admittance have been pigeonholed by some as a chance-operated celestial jam unit, the group has always been about songs, and nowhere is this more apparent than on their fourth full length album, an eight-song cycle that mixes the strengths of Ben Chasny's acoustic and electric guitar with his knack for placing this on top of disparate and subtle atmospheric backgrounds. The live favorite (and rare single) 'Somewhere Between' has been redone and finalized in a fantastic new version featuring sitar by Comets on Fire's Ethan Miller. The delicate acoustic strum of the album is challenged at the end of the record on the epic 'Only the Sun Knows,' which features some extremely heavy 'electric destruction guitar' from Mr. Miller before Chasny takes back control and lands the album on solid ground."

Artist:	TIVOL
Title:	Early Teeth
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 8271940CD

"While the free folk music boom from Finland has recently grabbed the ears of many of this planet's less ape-eared, Holy Mountain is more than pleased to extend a hand to the darker -- not to mention more rocking -- side of this contemporaneous scene. Tivol plays a throbbing, violent and aggressive strain of acid rock that has nothing to do with subtlety. Their already hypnotic material is further enhanced by screamed vocals that do not seem to emanate from this earth. Comprised of four tracks from two extremely limited edition CD-Rs released on the 267 Lattajjaaa and Time-Lag labels, Holy Mountain gives this material a proper CD release with vastly improved sound quality and charming new artwork silkscreened by the talented hands and mind of the Free Porcupine Society's Robert Fisk."

Artist:	TIVOL
Title:	Early Teeth
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 8271940LP

"While the 'free folk' music boom from Finland has recently grabbed the ears of many of this planet's less ape-eared, Holy Mountain is more than pleased to extend a hand to the darker -- not to mention-more rocking -- side of this contemporaneous scene. Tivol plays a throbbing, violent and aggressive strain of acid rock that has nothing to do with subtlety. Their already hypnotic material is further enhanced by screamed vocals that do not seem to emanate from this earth."

Artist:	MAMMATUS
Title:	The Coast Explodes
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 8516CD

"Mammatus' second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. 'Excellent Swordfight' is a continuation of the same story told in the debut's 'Dragon of the Deep.' 'Pierce The Darkness' explores being a light in a dark world. 'The Changing Wind' is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been cited by Ghost's Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean."

Artist:	DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD
Title:	Mystical Path Of The Number Eighty Six
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 8655CD

"Holy Mountain released the first LP by Steven Wray Lobdell's Davis Redford Triad in the spring of 1997, following Lobdell's release from a mental institution and return to playing the guitar. The music just poured out of him. The heavy psychedelic guitar compositions on The Mystical Path -- think Takayanagi Masayuki backed by a Crazy Horse-like force attempting a 'version' of Sun Ra's 'The Invisible Shield' with organ, analog synth and various other electronics -- managed to pull down maximum sky. Since that time, Lobdell has recorded two more albums for Holy Mountain and has produced two albums by Hochenkeit. After the purchase of a tape deck similar to the one used for this recording, Mr. Lobdell located a few tracks presumed lost and became inspired to remix the entire album. This reissue restores the original sequence of the album and has new liner notes written by Lobdell."

Artist:	RESIDUAL ECHOES
Title:	Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 90156CD

"Phoenician Flu And Ancient Ocean is another seething mishmash of psychedelia, Krautrock and free-noise -- the perfect follow-up to last year's highly regarded self-titled debut LP. A combination of self-recordings and studio numbers, Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean is full of absolutely staggering material. The endless riff-sanity of 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is followed by billowing smoke, and a fuzzy pop number that shoots itself when the smell of smoke turns out to be a smoldering amp that has been on too long too loud. That piece of reverbed noise might've been all were it not for the depraved psychedelic dub and Monoshock tribute that follows. Odes to the acoustic guitar and former gods of the six-string close the album."

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Artist:	SUISHOU NO FUNE
Title:	Where The Spirits Are
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 261283CD

Artist:	BASEBALL ASTROLOGER, THE
Title:	Famine Of The Soul
Label:	HOLY MOUNTAIN
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HOLY 4934