KENNETH ANGER + BRIAN BUTLER Technicolor Skull LP

KENNETH ANGER + BRIAN BUTLER Technicolor Skull LP

__________________________________________________________
(Ajna Offensive)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Just restocked this 2011 release from the ephemeral duo of Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler (a session player who has performed in the past with Christian Death frontman Rozz Williams and Mark Stewart of The Pop Band) called Technicolor Skull, a short-lived collaboration who released just this one single-sided LP on blood red 180 gram vinyl in a limited edition of six hundred and sixty-six copies via esteemed occult-centric label Ajna Offensive. Anger's name should be familiar to all enthusiasts of dark counter-culture cinema and the more occult-fixated corners of the underground art scene, foremost for his now iconic body of experimental films from the mid-20th century that included Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Scorpio Rising, Lucifer Rising, and Invocation of My Demon Brother.
   His latest project Technicolor Skull hardly sounds like the work of a man in his eighties. Released in conjunction with a one-time only live performance at the L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011, this record features a blast of improvised psychedelia from Anger and Butler that's just as grim as the morbid cover art of a red-hued skull suggests, sprawling out into a vast swirling psychedelic noisescape, the eerie wail and shriek of Anger's theremin rising and swooping across fields of crackling electronic noise and whirring cosmic effects like the cries of alien birdlife and blasts of incandescent laser. As the performance continues to unfold, waves of distorted guitar wash across the side likes tides of black lava, cascades of fractalized acid guitar shred tumble through space, and fuzz-drenched power chords strobe in the blackness. Walls of sputtering black static collapse in slow motion, while bursts of what sound like fluttering woodwinds are swept up in a chortling free-jazz style rush of notes. A massively distorted guitar sputters out a stream of malformed glitchery like the effluvium of a malfunctioning mainframe computer, right before an onslaught of crazed, violent drumming explodes into a storm of percussive power, rising and falling as the performance grows more sinister and more atmospheric, leading into the sound of distant funereal violin and droning electronics, fragments of creepy piano and plumes of howling, mesmeric feedback belching from overdriven amplifiers like incense over the sounds of sampled orchestral scores from ancient horror movies that thunder in the background. A real skull-fuck blast of ghostly black-hole psychedelia that's chaotic and creepy and pretty goddamn mind-melting; I can only imagine what this was like live, with Anger's otherworldly images towering on a screen behind the duo. Immense.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
THIS IS A NEW, UNPLAYED ITEM. Please note that for LP vinyl orders, we usually remove the vinyl from the jacket prior to shipment in order to avoid seam splits or any other kind sleeve/jacket damage that might occur during transit. This may require that we open the shrinkwrap on the record in order to carefully remove the vinyl from the inside of the jacket (if the record was originally shrinkwrapped). Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding this policy.

Crucial Blast is an independant underground label, online shop and micro-press specializing in cutting edge, transgressive, experimental heavy music and related cultural artifacts, with a particular focus on avant-metal, black noise/industrial, dark ambience, infernal psychedelia, and hardcore improv/free-jazz. You'll find everything from art-damaged European metalcore to amplifier-exploding psychedelic drones to earth-shaking post-Ayler destructo-jazz in our listings, which we update roughly every two weeks with both brand new releases and rare finds from the vaults.

ALL REVIEWS FROM CRUCIAL BLAST ARE COPYRIGHTED, AND ARE THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF CRUCIALBLASTSHOP.NET., AND ARE NOT TO BE REPRINTED, REWRITTEN, OR BORROWED IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST. ::: SHIPPING AND PAYMENT INFO :::

Payment for your order is expected within SEVEN DAYS from the end of auction/buy it now purchase. Our turnaround time for orders is listed at 3 days, but we usually ship within 24 hours of receiving your order.

WE DO COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE ITEMS ! PLEASE NOTE: In order to have us combine shipping, you MUST wait for us to send you a revised invoice for your order after you have clicked on BUY IT NOW for ALL of the items you want. Please contact us if you have any questions about this.

ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL (NON-U.S.) CUSTOMERS: Recent changes in the US postal system rates for packages going out of the US have raised the cost for sending small parcels internationally; you'll get a better value for your shipping cost if you order a minimum of 2-3 items at a time. Remember to let us send you a revised invoice for combined shipping for multiple items before sending your payment.

SHIPPING TIME: We will generally ship your order the same day that we receive your payment for the order. If there are any issues or potential delays with your order, we will contact you ASAP to let you know.

Don't forget to check out all of our other CRUCIAL BLAST-approved avant-metal/black industrial/trasngressive art items and releases that are available in our Ebay store and on auction. We also have many out-of-print and rare items available in our catalog as well... CRUCIAL BLAST: An online shop specializing in experimental metal, black industrial, black psychedelia, noise rock, dark ambience, and other forms of cutting edge and left-field heaviness. We also carry a carefully curated selection of books and other printed materials from the realms of black surrealism and transgressive thought.


Hit us up with an email
if you have any questions.