Artist : Roj
Title : The Transactional Dharma of Roj
Genre : Psychedelic
Year : 2009
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 24
Label : Ghost Box 12
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 46:30 min
Size : 57,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.meditation on nothingness 03:04
02.yellow peel 02:04
03.your turn 00:42
04.transcommunication 01:17
05.morning break 00:48
06.bongo workout 01:34
07.the process revealed 01:06
08.clear channels 00:42
09.a beginning word 02:15
10.sighting in corridor 12 01:21
11.go without me 01:27
12.mountain tone 00:22
13.they are in the room with us right now 02:09
14.inhale. exhale. love! 03:16
15.intermission exercise 01:22
16.attaining the third state 01:25
17.brain sync 03:54
18.the gamelan threshold 02:35
19.trance and bilocation 00:48
20.modified apparatus test 03:34
21.'now you're channelling the real 00:20
thing'
22.rejoice! he is here 01:51
23.attainment of the final key 04:31
24.what i saw 04:03
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46:30 min
*Hauntology, Exotica and Radiophonic
Workshop styles mixed up on this
incredible album from ex-Broadcast
member Roj* Each Ghost Box release is
becoming quite an event for a growing
number of folks nowadays, keen to peek
through the looking glass into their
queerly quaint miniature-village world
of psychedelia. The latest trip was
invented by Roj Stevens, a former member
of close Ghost Box associates Broadcast,
and a fellow native of that sprawling
grey and green mid-section of England
that inspires much of the Ghost Box
sound and aesthetic. This release also
benefits from an accompanying text by
writer Ken Hollings, whose 'Welcome To
Mars: Fantasies of Science in the
American Century, 1947-1959' touches a
subject close to Ghost Box's heart, as
they say: "Hollings collaborated
extensively in the concept and hit upon
the perfect textual environment of
snappy, far out aphorisms. As if the
reality tampering tape experiments of
Burroughs and Gysin were neatly
delivered by Marsall McLuhan. This album
imagines a kind of cultural and psychic
revolution exploding in the rigid
confines of a small English town." Roj's
sound is debted to the sci-fi influences
of a bygone era, utilising alien analog
tones, ferric-affected percussion and an
assortment of disembodied voices. It's
these vocals that imbue the project with
its trippiest feeling of nostalgia, like
the lady on 'Clear Channels' or the
gentleman of 'A Beginning Word' flooding
back memories of turning the huge knob
of my gran's radio and picking up
foreign voices out of the ether from
waves of static and all manner of
frequencies in between. Percussion is
integral to much of the project too,
relying on hypnotic repetition to sync
us into his state of mind, like the
village fete dream sequence drums of 'Go
Without Me', exotic lounge affair of
'Bongo Workout' or rippling xylophonics
of 'Modified apparatus test'. 'The
Dharma Of Roj' will definitely strike a
poignant chord with anyone who grew up
in the early 80's or before, and comes
highly recommended to anyone with a
penchant for nostalgia or watching ITV4
at 3am on valium. Amazing.
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