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Introduction: Music and the ‘occult’ 1
1 Cosmic Sounds
experiments with music and the supernatural 6
Claude Debussy {Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune}
Erik Satie {Vexations}
Karheinz Stockhausen {Stimmung}
Olivier Messiaen {Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine}
Zimbaria {Live} Review by David Kerekes
2 Jazz and the Spirit World
improvisation and revolutionary jazz forms 30
John Coltrane {Om}
Miles Davis {Bitches Brew}
Graham Collier {Day of the Dead}
Alice Coltrane {Universal Consciousness}
John Dankworth {Zodiac Variations}
Garrick’s Fairground {Mr Smith of the Apocalypse}
Sun Ra {Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy} by Marcel Swiboda
Neil Ardley {Harmony of the Spheres}
Return to Forever {Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy}
Terry Riley {Persian Surgery Dervishes}
3 Freaky Folk
weird manifestations of a documentary form of music 85
Barry Dransfield {Barry Dransfield}
Robbie Basho {Venus in Cancer}
Incredible String Band {Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending}
David Fanshawe {Africa: Witchcraft and Ritual Music}
Graeme Allwright {a long distant present from thee… “becoming”}
Brian Jones {Pipes of Pan at Joujouka}
Paul Giovanni {The Wicker Man}
Third Ear Band {Alchemy}
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4 The Law of Octaves: esoteric music
esoteric philosophies, religion and the law of octaves 131
Gurdjieff {Harmonium Improvisations}
Alex Sanders {A Witch is Born}
Ol’ DirtyBastard {Return To the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version} by Thomas McGrath
Upsetters {14 Dub Blackboard Jungle} by Jill Good
Moondog {Moondog}
Meredith Monk {Dolmen Music}
Louise Huebner {Seduction Through Witchcraft}
Barbara, The Grey Witch {Barbara, The Grey Witch}
5 Psych-Out and Countercultural Occult
the peace and love flipside 175
Alan Watts {This is It}
Captain Beefheart {Troutmask Replica} by Richard Woodcock
David Axelrod {Songs of Innocence}
Ken Nordine {Colors}
R.D. Laing {Life Before Death}
The Group Image {A Mouth in the Clouds}
The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds {The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds}
6 SORCERY AND THE CINEMA
the spirit world on film 212
Marc Wilkinson {Blood on Satan’s Claw} by Jeremy Dyson
Alain Pierre {Des Morts}
Krzysztof Komeda {Rosemary’s Baby}
Bobby Beausoleil {Lucifer Rising}
Jerry Goldsmith {The Illustrated Man}
Various {Zabriskie Point}
Peter Whitehead {Daddy}
Alejandro Jodorwosky {Holy Mountain}
Mick Jagger {Invocation of My Demon Brother}
Popo Vuh {Aguirre Wrath of God}
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Pink Floyd {La Vallée}
Jack Nitzsche {Performance} by Kevin Donnelly
The Monkees {Head} by Peter Mills
Gil Melle {The Andromeda Strain} by Gary Ramsay
Delired Cameleon Family {Visa de Censure X}
7The Devil’s Interval
the rock horror show: rock music and the occult 290
Black Widow {Sacrifice}
Coven {Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls}
Bathory {Blood Fire Death} by Simon Trafford
Changes {Fire of Life}
Rudimentary Peni {Cacophony}
Holy Magick {Holy Magick}
The Rolling Stones {Beggar’s Banquet}
The Fall {Dragnet}
The Monochrome Set {Eligible Bachelors} by David Kerekes
Furekaaben {Prinsessevaerelset}
The Beatles {The Beatles} by Mark Reeve
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds {The First Born is Dead} by Mick Farren
Satan And Deciples {Underground} by Patrick Glen
8 Mindfuckers
cult groups, Outsider Artists and their sounds 366
The Lyman Family with Lisa Kindred {American Avatar}
Jim Kweskin {Jim Kweskin’s America}
Charles Manson {LIE}
YoHoWha 13 {Penetration}
People’s Temple Choir {He’s Able}
The Trebus Project {The Trebus Project}
Molly Drake {‘Private Recordings’}
Irma Glen {A Bridge to a Higher Consciousness}
Yvette Mimieux/Ustad Ali Akbar Khan {Baudelaire’s Flowers Of Evil}
Joel Andrew {Locrian Invocation}
John Fahey {Yellow Princess}
Nico {The Marble Index}
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9Electric Storm in Hell: weird soundscapes
modernist mood music 426
White Noise {An Electric Storm in Hell}
Basil Kirchin {States of Mind}
Pierre Henry {Le Voyage}
Throbbing Gristle {The Second Annual Report}
Deathpile {G.R.} by Jennifer Wallis
Jacques Lasry {Chronophagie}
Bibliography & Filmography 454
Contributor Notes 458
Index 462
About This Book 470
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