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Temple Music - Volume II [Shining Day - 2007]

As this projects name suggests they make ritual and occlutic tinged Sonics that fall somewhere between expansive guitar scalping, haunted drone, prog-rock, ritual ambience with touches of weird folk, choral elements & world elements. This is the projects 3rd release from last year.

The project is based in Lancashire uk and is centered around Stephen Robinson who handles bass, synch, loops, Tibetan bells, bodhran, ect & Alan Trench who handles electric & acoustic guitars, synths, loops, electric lute ect. With extra instrumental and vocal textures from Tracey Jeffery on a few tracks and fiddle by Julie Brakenbury on one track. The album features 6 long mainly dark, haunted and psychedelic unfolds and jams that run between just under 10 minutes to just under 20 minutes each. First up we have Persephone (A Meditation) which is built around Tracey Jeffery’s haunted and drifting vocalising, eastern tinged chilling ritual ambient and building bass and guitar creepscapes. Later on Hypnos (A Meditation) takes in slow descending melodic clear guitar element & mixers it with spacey drone wisps & flute mystery and add’s on top Alan Trench's eerier macabre natural/ oculttic themed spoken word elements. All to feel almost like  coil meets subdued space rock. And finishing the album off we have Hades (A Meditation) which mixers church like organ tones with juddering, haunted string elements, acoustic melodic guitar picks with a creepy and echoed ambient backdrop. It feels like finding a once Christian church overgrown by nature and taken over by a strange cult in the middle of forest. All making an haunted and off-angle end to the album.

As a whole Volume 2 is highly atmospheric & at times haunted and creepy mix of ambience, prog, electronics, ritual ambience and folk, which I can see appealing to fans of the great Glass throat records output as well as fans of general ritual and occltic tinged sonics. To find out more & order direct go to here

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Roger Batty
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