Repress of 500 copies of the sold out LP as a picture disc w/ new artwork & design by Seldon Hunt. Totem 3 coming soon on Important.
Randall Dunn: analog synths, electronics, percussion, fog drone meditations, mellotrons, rag-dun tibetan trumpet, vocals, further schisms,
Don McGreevy: drums, percussion, bells, electric and acoustic guitar, feedbacker
Bill Horist: electric and acoustic guitar, prepared guitar, mellotron flutes,
electronic disturbances and fire purification
James Davis: pipe organ, harmonium, mellotron choir, electric bass, leprosy synth,acoustic guitar
B.R.A.D.: ancient vocal portal drones, deity vocal meditations, gongs and percussion,choir vocals
Dave Abramson: drums, percussion, tingsha, vajra bell,
Milky: slide guitars, electric fuzz guitars, acoustic slide guitar, vocals
LP is pressed in an edition of 1000. Cut at Chicago Mastering & pressed at RTI for the highest possible fidelity.
Release date: Feb 22, 2011
Echoing like a long lost Werner Herzog soundtrack Totem 2 is a record of subtle Meditations and Deep electric Hallucinations from the Crystal Caves of the Northwest to the orchestral desert portals of Turkey.
Totem two finds MMOB exploring the disappearance of the Mystic and the schisms of our age. Iin times when forces move against our souls these are the first sounds of music that can only be described as NO-AGE , a resistance is making itself known. Featuring members of EARTH, ASVA, BURING WITCH, THE DIMINISHED MEN, and more and special guests from Secret Chiefs 3 and the thriving Istanbul music scene.
MMOB has now solidified into a 7 piece cosmic psyche force. Like a reverse dark side of the New Age sound, on the Totem series Master Musicians of Bukkake perform ritualistic electric excursions into the outer and inner reaches. Relying more on the electric power of psyched guitars, analog synth chants, and exotic heavy percussion. This Totem Trilogy echos with the delusions of a west coast death cult. Outer spaced gamelan, dusty fuzz rock from celestial deserts, meditations of a deranged Krishna gathering, and the Blurry acoustic guitar majesty of The Cascade mountains all reveal themselves here in epic form. Master Musicians Of Bukkake’s newest offering in the Totem Trilogy, Totem Two marks yet another psychic and sonic shift from their first record “Visible Sign Of the Invisible order” (Abduction records 2005/LP via Important Records 2010) and it’s predecessor in the trilogy Totem One (Conspiracy records 2009). On Totem Two Master Musicians explores and meditates deep on the death of the Mystics, the Forgotten Ones, the Schisms of our time, and the inability to realize the primary clear light for what it is. Totem Two shifts from electronically altered Bön cult rituals to outer spaced Sufi Sects. Finally succumbing to the fully orchestrated No-age darkness of the religion of the future only to end in delusional “enlightenment” atop Mt. Shasta scrawling the deranged rambling of new age psychosis on the crystal walls of a cave. Every sound and note played put to tape by a group with a singular purging purpose.
Recorded Mixed and Produced by Randall Dunn (Six organs of Admitance, Sunno))), Earth ,etc), at Aleph studios in Seattle Wa.MMOB features members of EARTH , BURNING WITCH, DIMINISHED MEN , ASVA, and more. Perede Kaldirma was recorded in Istanbul,Turkey at the legendary ADA studios, November 2009. Featuring a collaboration between MMOB and Turkish musicians from the Istanbul music scene it features amazing Ney Solos by Serkan Bagkenesen. Over the years ADA studios in Istanbul has been the host for records by Erkin Koray and Baris Manco to name a few.
inspired by and for lovers of: Popul Vuh’s work with Werner Herzog, early Vangelis and Tangerine Dream and Philip Glass’s Kundun soundtrack.
TOUR DATES:
Mar 26 2010 8:00P
Kenyon Hall West Seattle, Washington
Apr 9 2010 8:00P
The Greenhouse Seattle, Washington
Apr 16 2010 8:00P
Roadburn Festival Tilburg, Netherlands
Apr 18 2010 8:00P
Islington Mill Manchester, UK
Apr 19 2010 8:00P
Corsica Studios London, UK
Apr 20 2010 8:00P
The Croft Bristol, UK
Apr 21 2010 8:00P
Hector’s House Brighton, UK
Apr 22 2010 8:00P
Trix Antwerp, Belgium
Apr 23 2010 8:00P
Nijdrop Opwijk, Belgium
Apr 24 2010 8:00P
Occii Amsterdam, Netherlands
Apr 26 2010 8:00P
Les Caves du Manoir Martigny, Switzerland
Apr 27 2010 8:00P
Le Kab Geneva, Switzerland
Apr 28 2010 8:00P
Spazio 211 Torino, Italy
Apr 29 2010 8:00P
Locomotiv Bologna, Italy
Apr 30 2010 8:00P
Init Club Rome, Italy
May 1 2010 8:00P
PMK Innsbruck, Austria
May 2 2010 8:00P
Arena Vienna, Austria
May 3 2010 8:00P
Matrix Club Prague, Czech Republic
May 4 2010 8:00P
Oetinger Villa Darmststadt, Germany
May 5 2010 8:00P
Kulturbunker Koln, Germany
May 6 2010 8:00P
UT Connewitz Leipzig, Germany
May 7 2010 8:00P
Friction Fest Berlin, Germany
May 8 2010 8:00P
Goteberg Art Sounds Gothenburg, Sweden
May 9 2010 8:00P
Loppen Copenhagen, Denmark
May 10 2010 8:00P
Cafe Lobby Arhus, Denmark
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