CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Breathing Flowers
Album....: Magical Order Of The Seven Sacred Planets
Label....: Sonic Meditations
Size.....: 36,1 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 33:28 min
Genre....: Psychedelic Rock
Release..: Jul-30-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
Track List:
01 04:29 Eagle, Snake And Scorpion (Saturn)
02 05:15 The Roar Of The Universe Crashing Into War (Sun)
03 03:55 The Lion Serpent Begets God (Mercury)
04 03:50 Solve Et Coagula (Jupiter)
05 05:11 Most Secret Seed Of All Life (Moon)
06 06:19 The Goat God Leaps In Wild Lust (Mars)
07 04:29 Witch Mmoon (Venus)
Release Notes:
"Breathing Flowers leads us away from the cliches of the
sweaty indie-folk mass through green fields, winding
mountain paths and thick forests to a leafy and secluded
grove where child-nymphs and faun frolic in the speckled
sunlight by the lake, a pasty-faced magician casts runes
under a white oak, and Sarah Palin climbs down from her
SUV and peels away her skin, revealing herself to be a
hideous lizard from outer space.
The comparison might seem an odd one, but "Magical Order
of the Seven Sacred Planets" has a cousin in Ruth
White's "Seven Trumps from the Tarot Card" from 1968.
While the latter explores primitive electronic
composition, both are occult discs that develop symbolic
narratives through the use of collage and contrast. Odd,
at times na∩ve melodies sit alongside darker passages in
a solitary ritual outside time.
Breathing Flowers' invocations are organic song
fragments stitched together from acoustic guitar, analog
synthesizer, wordless chanting, percussion and droning
electronics. These vignettes inspired by the Book of
Thoth and the pull of the planets are ripe with
contradiction and draw on a sophisticated emotional
palette. The melodies and arrangements are reminiscent
of Morricone in giallo mode, though each sound is
weighted with symbolism and would sit comfortably as the
soundtrack to a film like Jaromil Jires' "Valerie and
Her Week of Wonders" with its eccentric structure, dream
logic, shapeshifting characters and softcore incest
fantasy. "