The Master Musicians of Bukkake released Totem One on Conspiracy Records this spring. The first in a “Northwest trilogy” from this Stumbling Brotherhood, the album embarks on ritualized adventures into the sonic noosphere, as this psyched out seven piece logs miles tromping through astral realms in search of far-out field study! Formed as a freak collective of black artisans in 2003 from the deep ranks of the Northwest’s Mystery Cults, MMOB’s hazy membership includes Infernal Luminaries such as Brad Mowen (Burning Witch), Randall Dunn (ALEPH Studios), Don McGreevy (Earth), Bill Horist, Dave Abramson (Diminished Men), as well as psychic godfather of ceremonies Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies Label).CONTINUE READING
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On their first release, Visible Signs Of The Invisible Order, fogged out forest folk and inter-dimensional field recordings drummed and chanted their way from the strangest realms of the fabled Cascades. Released on Allen Bishop’s Sublime Frequencies/Abduction Records Label, the album was assembled from ritualized field events made at “undisclosed coastal/forested locales”, as well as improvised ensemble sessions recorded at Dunn’s Aleph Studios. Like much of Bishop’s work with Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies, the album brilliantly combined a wicked and black humor, an ethnographer’s zeal for obscure cultural detritus, as well as a genuine interest in achieving extended ceremonial states through inspired musical travel. On their second release, Totem One, we again find our High Priests traveling the Etheric Highways & Byways, stumbling through Asian bazaars to record the rituals of Ampibian Death Cults or strumming in blissed out circles from The Acoustically Perfect Caves of the Sonic Bardos. While Totem One is more plugged in than the previous record, dislocating travels via re-contextualized uses of drone, gamelan inspired percussive freak-outs, the strange chantings of drunk monks once again serve to disorient, landing the listener far afield of World Music. The result feels like some Inverse of the New Age, or as MMOB would have it, the first sounds of the No-Age.
