Transcendental Music for Meditation
Mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette sagely pre-empts the rise of dungeon synth on this 1976 private press oddity, using tinny analog synths and effects to fanfare to a darker dimension. As it says in his handbook: "Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!"
Not just a guitarist, Burchette was fascinated by synthesizers and the opportunity they provided for vibrational expression. 'Transcendental Music for Meditation' was his sixth album, and like its predecessors was advertised in postings in quirky publications like Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News alongside Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course". The music was intended to aid and accompany the study, and this set is the most vivid example - two side-long improvisations that aren't just ahead of their time, they're out of time completely. Burchette's wobbly melodies - played over wheezing white noise rhythms - come across like brassy medieval court themes and cycle until they fall apart. If it's supposed to be meditation music, it's a far cry from the new age and ambient material that'd emerge in its wake.
'Trancendental Music for Meditation' is far closer to the oddball transmissions that surfaced from the fringe of the US '00s underground tape scene, or Burzum's day-zero dungeon synth album 'Dauði Baldrs'. But it stands up on its own - these proto-industrial jams are fully out there, cosmic but not quite kosmische, and psychedelic without hitting on any of the expected markers. Seriously weird, seriously good stuff - massive recommendation!
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Mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette sagely pre-empts the rise of dungeon synth on this 1976 private press oddity, using tinny analog synths and effects to fanfare to a darker dimension. As it says in his handbook: "Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!"
Not just a guitarist, Burchette was fascinated by synthesizers and the opportunity they provided for vibrational expression. 'Transcendental Music for Meditation' was his sixth album, and like its predecessors was advertised in postings in quirky publications like Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News alongside Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course". The music was intended to aid and accompany the study, and this set is the most vivid example - two side-long improvisations that aren't just ahead of their time, they're out of time completely. Burchette's wobbly melodies - played over wheezing white noise rhythms - come across like brassy medieval court themes and cycle until they fall apart. If it's supposed to be meditation music, it's a far cry from the new age and ambient material that'd emerge in its wake.
'Trancendental Music for Meditation' is far closer to the oddball transmissions that surfaced from the fringe of the US '00s underground tape scene, or Burzum's day-zero dungeon synth album 'Dauði Baldrs'. But it stands up on its own - these proto-industrial jams are fully out there, cosmic but not quite kosmische, and psychedelic without hitting on any of the expected markers. Seriously weird, seriously good stuff - massive recommendation!
Mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette sagely pre-empts the rise of dungeon synth on this 1976 private press oddity, using tinny analog synths and effects to fanfare to a darker dimension. As it says in his handbook: "Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!"
Not just a guitarist, Burchette was fascinated by synthesizers and the opportunity they provided for vibrational expression. 'Transcendental Music for Meditation' was his sixth album, and like its predecessors was advertised in postings in quirky publications like Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News alongside Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course". The music was intended to aid and accompany the study, and this set is the most vivid example - two side-long improvisations that aren't just ahead of their time, they're out of time completely. Burchette's wobbly melodies - played over wheezing white noise rhythms - come across like brassy medieval court themes and cycle until they fall apart. If it's supposed to be meditation music, it's a far cry from the new age and ambient material that'd emerge in its wake.
'Trancendental Music for Meditation' is far closer to the oddball transmissions that surfaced from the fringe of the US '00s underground tape scene, or Burzum's day-zero dungeon synth album 'Dauði Baldrs'. But it stands up on its own - these proto-industrial jams are fully out there, cosmic but not quite kosmische, and psychedelic without hitting on any of the expected markers. Seriously weird, seriously good stuff - massive recommendation!
Mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette sagely pre-empts the rise of dungeon synth on this 1976 private press oddity, using tinny analog synths and effects to fanfare to a darker dimension. As it says in his handbook: "Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!"
Not just a guitarist, Burchette was fascinated by synthesizers and the opportunity they provided for vibrational expression. 'Transcendental Music for Meditation' was his sixth album, and like its predecessors was advertised in postings in quirky publications like Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News alongside Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course". The music was intended to aid and accompany the study, and this set is the most vivid example - two side-long improvisations that aren't just ahead of their time, they're out of time completely. Burchette's wobbly melodies - played over wheezing white noise rhythms - come across like brassy medieval court themes and cycle until they fall apart. If it's supposed to be meditation music, it's a far cry from the new age and ambient material that'd emerge in its wake.
'Trancendental Music for Meditation' is far closer to the oddball transmissions that surfaced from the fringe of the US '00s underground tape scene, or Burzum's day-zero dungeon synth album 'Dauði Baldrs'. But it stands up on its own - these proto-industrial jams are fully out there, cosmic but not quite kosmische, and psychedelic without hitting on any of the expected markers. Seriously weird, seriously good stuff - massive recommendation!
Black LP.
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Mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette sagely pre-empts the rise of dungeon synth on this 1976 private press oddity, using tinny analog synths and effects to fanfare to a darker dimension. As it says in his handbook: "Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!"
Not just a guitarist, Burchette was fascinated by synthesizers and the opportunity they provided for vibrational expression. 'Transcendental Music for Meditation' was his sixth album, and like its predecessors was advertised in postings in quirky publications like Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News alongside Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course". The music was intended to aid and accompany the study, and this set is the most vivid example - two side-long improvisations that aren't just ahead of their time, they're out of time completely. Burchette's wobbly melodies - played over wheezing white noise rhythms - come across like brassy medieval court themes and cycle until they fall apart. If it's supposed to be meditation music, it's a far cry from the new age and ambient material that'd emerge in its wake.
'Trancendental Music for Meditation' is far closer to the oddball transmissions that surfaced from the fringe of the US '00s underground tape scene, or Burzum's day-zero dungeon synth album 'Dauði Baldrs'. But it stands up on its own - these proto-industrial jams are fully out there, cosmic but not quite kosmische, and psychedelic without hitting on any of the expected markers. Seriously weird, seriously good stuff - massive recommendation!
Milky clear colour LP.
Available To Order (Estimated Shipping between 7-14 Working Days)
This item is to the best of our knowledge available to us from the supplier and should ship to you within the time-frame indicated. If there are any unforeseen issues with availability we will notify you immediately
Mail order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette sagely pre-empts the rise of dungeon synth on this 1976 private press oddity, using tinny analog synths and effects to fanfare to a darker dimension. As it says in his handbook: "Please do not listen to this album until you have prepared yourself!"
Not just a guitarist, Burchette was fascinated by synthesizers and the opportunity they provided for vibrational expression. 'Transcendental Music for Meditation' was his sixth album, and like its predecessors was advertised in postings in quirky publications like Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality and Gnostica News alongside Burchette's "Psychic Meditation Course". The music was intended to aid and accompany the study, and this set is the most vivid example - two side-long improvisations that aren't just ahead of their time, they're out of time completely. Burchette's wobbly melodies - played over wheezing white noise rhythms - come across like brassy medieval court themes and cycle until they fall apart. If it's supposed to be meditation music, it's a far cry from the new age and ambient material that'd emerge in its wake.
'Trancendental Music for Meditation' is far closer to the oddball transmissions that surfaced from the fringe of the US '00s underground tape scene, or Burzum's day-zero dungeon synth album 'Dauði Baldrs'. But it stands up on its own - these proto-industrial jams are fully out there, cosmic but not quite kosmische, and psychedelic without hitting on any of the expected markers. Seriously weird, seriously good stuff - massive recommendation!