They have a bizarre combination of oriental music and instrumentation, with. SC3, for those who dont know, are project of weirdobearded Californian genius Trey. Welllllllllllllll This is, essentially, my absolute most favorite SC3 album- and thats saying something. Showing all collaborators reviews and last reviews preview Show all reviewsratings.īook of Horizons is an important album in the Secret Chiefs 3 discography because it was the. Individual tracks are credited to the (satellite bands) Artwork: Mike Bennewitz with Patrick Tremblay (logo) CD Web Of Mimicry - WoM 014 (2004, US). Welcome to the Theatron Animatronique (Forms) (5:11) Total Time: 52:26.įirst part of the Book of Truth trilogy (followed by 2013 Book Of Souls and. The band has played over 300 shows in 32 countries in the last few years, building upon a slew of other records they’ve released in the meantime, but without doubt, Book of Souls is definitely the one everyone’s been waiting for.On the Wings of the Haoma (The Electromagnetic Azoth) (5:08) 8. Enchanted by what can be unlocked in modern mediums by applying ancient processes, Secret Chiefs 3 remain blissfully ignorant of current musical fashions, as always. Everything is honed with love in one of the last hermetically sealed laboratories, a place of limitless fascination and dreams, where the simplest motifs have the freedom to radiate into complexities that are beyond description, or to refine down to a state of simple essence. Book of Souls: Folio A is a fully organic production. This album is the kind of titanic, almost Faustian undertaking that is uniquely appropriate to Secret Chiefs 3, and for all that pomp it’s easy to forget that everything is DIY to the core.
With productions based in studios in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, the UK and France over the last eleven years, the band’s leader Trey Spruance enlisted a small army of musicians-or actually not so small, since the orchestral tasks demanded by the music seem to be so unlimited.īut familiar names in the Secret Chiefs 3 canon form the backbone of the recording band: Timb Harris, Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily, Anonymous 13, Danny Heifetz, William Winant, with live-band initiates Matt Lebofsky, Kenny Grohowski and Toby Driver adding extra life. Over a decade in the making, it’s Secret Chiefs 3’s most elaborate work yet.įollowing the seven-band schemata laid out in Book of Horizons, Book of Souls thoroughly establishes the depth of Secret Chiefs 3’s journey into lost musical possibilities. True to expectation, Book of Souls: Folio A is a full-length album densely packed with musical skyscrapers. For Book of Souls, second in the band’s mega-trilogy (first being Book of Horizons, 2004), they demand nothing less than a vertigo-inducing follow-up. Listeners have come to expect a lot from Secret Chiefs 3.
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