NEW MEXICAN STARGAZERS - SELECTED RITUALS (2019)

NEW TUNES FOUND ON AN UNMARKED CASSETTE OBSCURED BY NEON ROBES AND JEWELRY IN THE BACKSEAT OF A STRANDED, SAND-FILLED JEEP WITH ITS GPS SET TOWARDS THE REPTILE CINEPLEX JUST A FEW MINUTES OUT FROM THE WHITE SANDS OF NEW MEXICO.

THESE TWO TRACKS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN POPULAR SELECTIONS USED IN RITUALS BY THE IGUANA GOD CULT TO MEET THE IGUANA GOD HIMSELF AND TO ACHIEVE THE STATE OF ESOTERIC AQUAMARINE, WHERE INDIVIDUALS LIVE IN HARMONY AND AWARENESS OF ALL REPTILIAN AND AQUATIC CREATURES. THE DICHOTOMY OF THESE TWO FAMILIES OF CREATURES IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE IGUANA GOD CULT BUT NO ONE KNOWS AS TO WHY

FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF IN ‘SELECTED RITUALS’, OUT NOW ON BIG BIG JADE N RUBY JEWELS RECORDS. 2019.
COMING SOON ON 4D-REPTO-VISION IN YOUR LOCAL CINEPLEX.

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does anyone give a shit about this :shrug:
have some pathworker rips from the spooky scary ARCHIVES
 
PATHWORKER - THE WANDERERS (2008)

"chalcolithic europe on wax!!
recorded on location at the spiritual volga headwaters by gus levesque
saginaw, tx, 2008" 
 
recorded to C60 may 2008 and released on cd-r in june. gus had just moved down from the mpls burrrrbs.
ruthy provided some vocal loops for him to use on this piece, debby also hops on the mic at the end. i had this idea for the amp to be plugged into itself and continuously feedbacking, and rob set everything up. also did the art.
very much a 'paganism of old europe' vibe going for this one but not at all in a fascist way, reminiscent of newage panther mistique or constance demby or theatre of eternal music.

PATHWORKER - STAR CORONATION

"recorded on location at DMT FLASH by gus levesque
saginaw, tx 2009"

recorded to one side of c90 some time in summer 09, released on cd-r that august.
gus on his gnostic/hermetic/milennarian/mcKenna bullshit, again.
musically, all done with famicom soundfonts and a midi controller. goopy glidey sugary EMO SYNTHESIZER christian goodness, interlocking arpeggiators and the rest.
very much part of that cultural moment (sky limousine, 0pn, latter day new age tapes + pacificity) but also perhaps resonant and affecting on its own terms.
the cover is a screenshot gus took of a sensationalistic 'evangelical' tape on THE BIG BAD OCCULT we were watching. gus thought it would be beautiful to take back this moment of ritual as its own christian statement, thelema is a crypto-christianity, after all...

paz.

CARWASH MIST - UNTITLED (2011)

"LIVE DECEMBER 28-31 2010, ENTANGO HOUSE ROCKS!"

excerpts from 4 longer live jams at the year's end concert series/showcase, 2010.

shared bills with COOL DOGS, GREMLINS SOUNDTRACK, NEW WORLD SATELLITE, CHURCH ON EARTH NIGHTLIFE BAND and a transitional-era ANCIENT ALIEN FANCLUB (on the verge of the LIGHTSURFER sound, this session produced 80SHYPNOBLOCKADE)

rich: there are some uncharacteristically high energy moments in these recordings for carwash mist, or for that matter any of your projects.
gus: the opening track, you mean?
rich: the energy in the room that night was intense. for everybody's sets.
ruth: i think bbj has cultivated this reputation of sleepy new age music, efortless casio jams. but you both can attest that all of us are keen on all sorts of music.
gus: there was always, kind of a shared interest in the 'ardcore continuum', techno broadly speaking. post-punk and early hardcore punk. nerdy 'progressive' music, synths and guitars.

rich: mm...
ruth: so we kind of wanted to blend more of that in with carwash mist than either of our other projects. at the time, it's still the case, electronic music in general was kind of saturated with this self-serious, theory reading, greyscale-industrial thing.
gus: that or the aggro/sex-obsessive power electronics thing ('oh, but it's a meta-comment!' bullshit. you people are creeps)
rich: bbj was definitely a space for... something else.
gus: something more relaxed.
ruth: and fun!