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www.comecloser.com/ikonowerk/christopher_lucifer_rising.mp3

That is the new link for the re-interpretation of the Jimmy Page soundtrack `Lucifer Rising.’  Had to consolidate servers a few weeks ago. So if you were looking for it and were getting a `not found’ error, here is all 27 minutes or so of it.

For the newly curious, the above is a cover of the Jimmy Page’s soundtrack for Lucifer Rising. More info can be found on this project in the `Lucifer Rising’ section of the blog.

www.comecloser.com/ikonowerk/christopher_lucifer_rising.mp3

Let’s get right into it.

Why?

After writing for 3 days I hoped to come to some sort of conclusion aside from the stock `ah well it resonated with me at the right time.’ Obviously there was something that pushed me really hard to do this project; I do know it certainly wasn’t for any sort of tangible satisfaction. Certainly not ego gratification or financial gain. (continue reading…)

The reason I killed my first blog (the Thoughts Section on my site) was because I knew it was becoming more of a talk-back box for my ego and had very little substance. After seeing all the horrifying poofests that people sometimes call blogs, I felt my own writing was at best equal to the garbage that aggravated me. So it was killed unceremoniously.
As long as people can post such insights like `OMG Global Warmin sUXX11!’ and other brilliant colloquialisms applauded by febreze scented syncophants, I think on occasion I can break silence for a bit and chat a little about some of the work I do. Writing about it helps me understand it and myself a little better. Maybe even understand the motives behind undertaking the project. I’ve never been proficient with diaries, journals or any sort of record-keeping.*

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So begins the second installment. Our conflicted quasi-hero talks about kinship, the Anger Curse, and the logistics of reworking music based on instinct rather than meddling with sephirots. 
What I immediately felt when I heard it was a sort of kinship I haven’t felt before with a piece of music. As soon as the first synthetic melodies slammed themselves on top of the tambura I was re-orchestrating it in my head as how I would do it. I’ve never, EVER had such a sympathetic resonance with a piece of music that quickly before. I don’t think I even heard the ending before I went into the studio and started to construct the drone that I would eventually employ.

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(Note: Posted last month) 

As reluctant as I am to post any type of blog, I thought it would be a nice change of pace to actually share some of my experiences with you regarding the Lucifer Rising recording. Which you can download HERE
This blog segment will run until Friday. After that, I go do whatever a Christopher does. I hear this weekend is the Death and Resurrection Show. I may go catch the matinee. (continue reading…)

Press release from April 3rd 2007. Excuse the faux awesomeness of the third person write-up.

Canadian solo artist Christopher recorded a 27 minute re-interpretation of Jimmy Page’s notorious `Lucifer Rising’ soundtrack which is available as a free MP3 download HERE and download the artwork HERE

Page’s 23 minute soundtrack was scrapped from the same-titled Kenneth Anger occult-themed film and has never been officially released.
“The film and music is shrouded in mystery, mishaps, a curse; and excess. They were ripe for re-interpretation and the invocative nature of the music and film resonated with me.”

“The soundtrack Page created was ahead of its time. The unsettling tibetan chants and the even tempered tambura that carries the whole soundtrack were used in a way that would be only looked into several years later by other composers. It’s a shame that the ideas Page employed were not committed to the final edit of the film. It truly does live up to its name.”
The re-recording is a tribute to a great piece of truly `underground’ and `unsettling’ music. (The Page soundtrack is usually found on various Led Zeppelin Bootlegs and recently was a feature in UK’s Classic Rock Magazine)

“Out of respect to Kenneth Anger, Jimmy Page, and the lunacy of modern copyright laws, this piece is available free and not synced up to the film. Someone more enterprising than I can sync it up starting at the 38 second mark.”