(2021) The shamans of science : Al-Shaman Chapter I - Scripts and secrets

by Mathias Grassow

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Lost Tribe Sound It's difficult to find shamanic-styled works like this, that don't feel overwrought, or bogged down by some excessive vocals or other canned sounds. Mathias Grassow's approach is direct, minimal, and mildly dark with this series. Scripts and Secrets utilizes well-crafted and unobtrusive synths to carve out light progressions between the deeply satisfying percussive thumps.

BWR These works quickly take you deeper to a mindset in which you subject yourself to the sound and rhythm in a calm and peaceful way. The alchemy feeling resonates often during the different sessions.

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1.	Prologue 01:30	buy track
2.	Corpus alchemicum graecum 03:10	buy track
3.	Turba philosophorum 01:47	buy track
4.	Summa perfectionis 05:26	buy track
5.	The twelve keys 06:05	buy track
6.	Les admirables secrets d'Albert le Grand 02:29	buy track
7.	Aurora consurgens 10:12	buy track
8.	Ars magna 02:23	buy track
9.	Testamentum 04:40	buy track
10.	Corpus gabirianum 03:28	buy track
11.	Tabula smagdarina 14:52	buy track
12.	The eternal miracle of the one..... 21:08	buy track

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This album is the first in a trilogy dealing with alchemy and shamanism. The possible connection is only intuitively recorded musically and should give the listener space to find his own interpretation, or to experience something completely different.
Part 1 "Al-Shaman - Chapter I : Scripts and secrets" lists the old, well-known scripts - valuable documents that never reveal the whole secret.

Instruments : Several synths, frame & shaman drums, Djembe, deep voice, field recordings.

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released February 4, 2021

Thanks as ususal to my wife Cornelia Kern for cover paintings and layout.

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Mathias Grassow Bad Soden, Germany

Active since 1980. Training 80-83 at Synthesizer Studio Jacob in Wiesbaden. 1986 first cassette release, followed by first CD 1990. Mainly inspired by the "Munich school". Today specialized in ambient/drone with own style and strong spiritual orientation. "Ambient School" and "Sound Design" are currently under construction. Enquiries about : support@mathias-grassow.de. and www.mathias-grassow.de ... more

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