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Practitioners
of thee poison path revel in
the pharmocognosy: providing
both powers and perils.. Artists
for this compilation provide
sonorous explorations of psychotropic
wort cunning..
Two elements that only detract
slightly from this astounding
document shall be dealt with
here in short order; first:
it is only available in mp3
format which one must elect
to pay for {fair enough}.. second:
it all comes as one mp3 which
is nearly an hour and fourty
minutes long.. Neither of those
elements can detract from how
irrefutably desirous of a document
that Visions From The Garden
is..
Planetaldol begin the compilation
with warm yet ominous sensations:
subtle delayed tones, breaths,
clanking, ringing, synths..
The plant of association is
ereriba: an undetermined species
of Homalomena, which is a stout
herb reported to have narcotic
effects when its leaves are
taken with the leaves and bark
of agara.
Next Hybryds bless with the
anandamide sacrament marijuana.
Followers of occult ritual electronics
should have little problem in
recognising that Hybryds have
presented a copious back catalogue
of releases, and here grace
us with a tale intitially in
this piece of a woman overcome
by the erotic philosophy of
a dying man with whom she is
making love who convinces her
that "everything is erotic".
Following this introductory
tale are looming synth lines,
beatific female voices, ritual
tones, and the ecstatic thrall
of industrial dance music.
Arizona's Satyr Masterchasm
delve into the chemical substance
Lysergic acid diethylamide:
synthesised from lyserigc acid
derived from ergot: a grain
fungus that typically grows
on rye. The effects of the audio
for this piece are paranoid
attention to minutiae of inverted
sounds and animal howls evoking
a primal confusion.
Magnetic Lucifer present an
homage to the psychotropic effects
of Morning Glory seeds. The
sounds are a strange pulsasting
sequence shifting in filtering
dynamics with oscillating sounds
forging their way through to
the front, but continuing in
a progression of dynamic filtering
of resonances. Perchance this
is a resemblance of the the
ingestion of the seeds for the
purposes of divination..
Gydja {Abby Helasdottir) presents
a piece for Wasson's "entheogen"
amanita muscaria. This fungus
is said by some to be the cause
of the birth of religion. It
is even said amongst some that
"Jesus" may have been
a codeword for amanita muscaria
amongst particular early christian
amanita muscaria cults. The
sounds are quiet reverberations
stretching out with shining
arcs slightly illuminating a
darker cavernous space. The
piece hinges upon a feeling
of expansiveness kept near mute
listening for the sounds of
ethereality slightly piercing
though to the point of touching
sensation.
For their work dedicated to
Psilocybin Cubensis: Nequaquam
Vacuum (Noah Mickens) deliver
a ritual acoustic piece utilising
unique percussive elements and
strange bowed metal sounds that
have shrill yet beautifull effects
that open even further the strange
consciousness engendered by
the imbibing of this fungal
ally.
Children Of The Apocalypse {the
folk behind Sonick Sorcery}utilise
remarkable pulsating synth textures
and sequences to portray that
strange psychonautic space of
dimethyltryptamine from which
it is said to be difficult to
return usefull descriptive information..
Coming from perhaps "the
city of angels" The Master
Musicians of Hop Frog deliver
a jilted work dedicated to a
vine of sud-american shamans:
Ayahuasca. The vine of the soul
/ the vine of the dead is rendered
in this work via strange twitterings
and a minimal plodding beat
that carries throughout the
piece.
Belborn deliver a piece for
the highly prevalent excitant
caffeine. Along with the sounds
of the sorting of coffea beans
are layered in percussive sounds
of an awakening of spirits which
culminate into the sounds of
the java being poured..
The transisition in tracks is
very much immediate with Phaul
delivering a strange sound collage
combining popping, sawing, edgy
twittering analog synth, amongst
reversed tones: all manipulated
in a most peculiar way to present
for the second time on this
compilation a piece for the
sud-american "yage"
vines-the vines of the spirits.
.
Sikhara utilise ritual percussion
and analog synth tones accompanied
by indecipherable electronically
processed vocal incantations
to present a tribute to the
soporific opiates of the poppies.
Sleighted deliver an uptempo
almost drum and bass piece with
wierd synth twerkery in the
second tribute for this compilation
dedicated to dimethyltryptamine
extracted from the toad Bufo
Alvarius . Not entirely strange
for this southerly acclimated
amphibian: the piece ends with
processed banjo..
Psilisybin Cubensis is the substance
which evokes the piece by Pacific
Northwest black ambient project
Sacrificial Totem. Suprasensorial
illumination is attained through
the darkened processing of many
layers of blackened samples..
Sacral visions ensue from the
ingestion of this living substance
which thrives upon decomposition..
The blotter sheets of lysergic
acid diethylamide provide strange
effects to the fabric of conscious,
and Xeno Volcano incite imaginal
inspiration from this: eliciting
a strange sonic tapestry of
bizarre glimmering synth drones.
Late in the piece are brought
in strangely processed female
vocals echoing riplets upon
themselves and slowly dissipating.
Not Breathing utilise an amasing
collection of analog synth tones
and gongs met with what sounds
to be short wave inebriated
conversations in odd characture
of the psychotropic effects
of salvia divinorum.
For the final piece of this
compilation Natural Order generate
an inspiring sonic scape from
field recordings of birds, streams,
and sounds which encompass one
as deliriously as the tropane
alkaloid datura from which this
piece draws it's inspiration.
Attention is drawn in a very
unique way to the peripheral
sounds of ones environment.
In these beautifull sounds of
living creatures one is comforted
and carried as though by these
herbs associated from times
past with flight
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