Label: 4iB Records

一度聴いたら忘れられない異次元のオーバートーンシンギングで人気となっている、チベットボン教の伝統を受け継ぐロシア最強のリチュアル集団Phurpa。本作は世界中のフリージャズや宗教音楽を取り入れ独自のドローン、ノイズ、サイケデリアを生み出す米国フィラデルフィアのバンドQueen Elephantineとの共演タイトル。共作と言ってもPhurpa色が非常に強い完全リチュアルな内容に仕上がっており、Phurpaはお馴染みヘビーな喉歌詠唱を行い、Queen Elephantineのメンバーはホルン、巻き貝、ゴング、フルート、儀式用の鐘とボウル、ドラム、ギターでサポート。音数のバランスも非常に上手い大推薦タイトル。





CD in 6-Panel Digipak. 1st 40 label copies come with black plastic sleeve & numbered sticker. Also includes A4 Poster (Feat. Carved Skull Artwork by Victor Seiche).

This inner space journey features an international collaboration between PHURPA (phurpa.bandcamp.com), renowned Russian ritualists that perform the ancient Bon music of Tibet, and QUEEN ELEPHANTINE (queenelephantine.com), the avant garde rock group formed in Hong Kong and now based in Philadelphia, USA.

Together they weave history with the future into an offering that reflects the present moment, slowly teasing the tension of a dense electric buzzing chaos while seeking anchor and abandon in ancient knowledge. This chant and drone work goes incredibly deep, astronomically far out, and is the sound of death as much as of healing.

PHURPA provide the backbone with their transcendent thunderous throat chanting while QUEEN ELEPHANTINE create an otherworldly cloud around them, using gyaling horns, conch shells, gongs, flutes, ceremonial bells and bowls, drums, guitar, and electronics.

The artwork features a striking sculpture by Transylvanian skull-carver Victor Seiche, a fitting image for the sound of a dead wisdom tradition adored, adorned, and defiled with sincere devotion.