Description
Unavailable for nearly 30 years, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been repackaged and remastered with new art. This classic album exists as a document of the soundtrack work Psychic TV created for some of the many films and videos of Derek Jarman.
The title track, ‘Prayer For Derek’, is intended as an invocationary prayer, based on Tibetan rituals; a collage of sounds including field recordings of the lulling waves running aground on the shingle beach opposite Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent alongside bird song, crying babies, and massed ritualized chants to aid the late film director on his after-life journey.
Other tracks feature elongated drones, washes of dissonance, melancholic guitar chime, evocative piano scoring, Burroughs cut-ups, gothic chants, and familiar snarling gods.
CD in matte finish digipak with 8-page fold-out booklet, with detailed liner notes written by Genesis P-Orridge in 1997, historical anecdotes and background facts for completeness.
Track List:
1. The Loops Of Mystical Union (17:55)
2. Elipse Of Flowers (10:58)
3. Mylar Breeze (Parts 1 & 2) (7:52)
4. Mylar Breeze (Part 3) (11:56)
5. Prayer For Derek (17:21)
6. Rites Of Reversal (7:40)
