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Master Musicians Of Bukkake unleash details of their final record in the Totem trilogy (and arguably their best!)
Following the success that was Totem 2, Important offers you Totem 3. This is the final offering before entering the new wave of the failed future from Master Musicians Of Bukkake.
Totem 3 journeys from quiet Bardo womb choosing meditations and instrumental mantras to the delusional glee of Kali Yugafied Indian rock. Totem 3 is the most diverse and heartfelt of the Totem trilogy. A steady pulsating musical mirror prison expressing the atrophy of our "Modern World" through no-age hallucinations of passionate and unfolding melodies. A blissful mirage filled caravan with no destination pushing onward through a mercurial blue sanded desert between what is and what was. A place where disembodied nomadic djinn join in lament attempting to push through the cell phone interference with a message of no return. Culminating finally in the Totem Trilogy's finale the John Carpenter nodding synthetic 80's horror film decay and the utter realization of our "FAILED FUTURE"...what is veiled, what was, what will be and what will never be, what will we do when we go from living to only surviving?"...Totem 3.
This is spiritual music made for healing by people who are pursuing the betterment of the mind and body. We live in an age of anxiety and this is music that pushes back against it. This is music that wants, above all, to be joyful. There's nothing more useful than pushing against this contemporary anxiety and Master Musicians Of Bukkake does it with humour, style, brains and substance.
Featuring seven new pieces influenced by the music of Satyajit Ray, Tuareg music of the Sahara, Early Music, and John Carpenter, and the writings of French philosopher René Guénon. Totem 3 features guests from Secret Chiefs Three and Alan Bishop from the Sun City Girls as well as many more luminaries from the Seattle music scene.
Featuring artwork by Seldon hunt completing the connecting art of all three of the Totem records. Produced By Randall Dunn.
Totem 3 is a record that sounds as good to your ears as it does to your mind. Important will release this beautiful disc in the UK this June, digital promo is now available. Please play it loudly.
Additional notes for editorial:
Randall Dunn: Rag-Dun Tibetan long trumpet, throat singing, Korg MS-20,
Mellotron, Micromoog, Korg Poly Six, Guitar, Audio hallucinations.
Don McGreevy: Drums, percussion, gong ritual, Acoustic Guitar, eternal thirst
Milky: Electric guitar and Vocals and yugas
Dave Abramson: Drums and percussion, singing bowls, Kalibash
B.R.A.D: Divination, Gongs, Vocals, Atrophy, 80’s Italian fear
Jim Davis: Electric Bass, keyboards, Nylon String Guitar, fair
Timba Harris: Violin and Viola, middle way
Special Guests:
Alan Bishop: vocals on 2,4
Faith Coccolia: Text and literagy on tack 6
Hans Tueber: Flute
Josiah Boothby: French Horn
Taiana Karr: English Horn and Oboe
Steve Moore:Trombone
TorDietrichson: Tabla
Track listing: Seven Pieces Descending:
1) BARDO SIDPA
2) IN THE TWILIGHT OF KALI YUGA
3) ILLUMINATING THE TEN DIRECTIONS
4) PROPHECY OF THE WHITE CAMEL/NAMOUTARRE
5) 6000 YEARS OF DARKNESS
6) REIGN OF QUANTITY AND THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES/PATRIARCH OF THE IRON AGE
7) FAILED FUTURE
Thank you for reading!
