Take me on a mystic journey in 10 choons (NO YOUTUBE)

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
No pootube embeds permitted. Hyperlinks are permitted and links to pootube playlists.

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I want you to describe the stage on the journey each choon represents. This can be as elaborate as you like. You can make up a story, with symbolic animals.

Your interpretation of 'mystic' is up to you. You can be as cliched or non-cliched as you want, so long as you can justify it.

But FTR, here's Google's definition of a mystic:

a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I wanted to do a thread about why psychedelic aesthetics are often so disgusting but maybe we can fold that in here
 

droid

Well-known member
I have 120 tune mystic journey in the works, but you'll have to wait for it.
 

mvuent

Void Dweller
good topic but this feels like a school assignment. are we allowed to cite wikipedia in our descriptions?
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
Give this a listen Corps. I did it for Waxidermy CD Swap a year or two ago. The idea was all vinyl, mostly cheap, most unknown to me when I bought 'em. Lots of random punts out the back of the avant section in MVE.

I think it's pretty woozy and odd so has a few elements of the mystic journey:
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
my list is gonna do this. at least, once bbart man lays down the criteria. will probably have to wait till after ramadan though.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
This idea occurred to me (from the mystic?)

It didn't seem fully formed but I felt I had to post it before it disappeared back into the numinous
 

luka

Well-known member
1. Multiplying Voices at the Heart of the Body of Sound.
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir.

https://www.discogs.com/The-Harmoni...-À-LEcoute-Des-Vents-Solaires/release/1019287
Recorded by Radio France on the nights of 6th and 7th of August 1982 at l'Abbaye du Thoronet, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery in Provence.

2. Akazehe par deux jeunes filles
Musique du Burundi

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Musique-Du-Burundi/release/1786958

3. La Sorrela
Marion Brown

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/marion-brown-why-not-by-clifford-allen.php?width=768

4. Raga Bilaskhani Todi
Kushanl Das

https://www.allmusic.com/album/inde-du-nord-north-india-mw0000097546

5. Naa Kore
Gbaya Music

This was my favourite discovery from Matthew Ingrams famous top 100.

https://www.discogs.com/Gbáyá-Empire-Centrafricain-Musique-Gbáyá-Chants-Penser/master/319986

6. Populat Naubat Shahna'i
Music From The Shrines Of Ajmer and Mundra

This is one of the best things you can listen to when you're on the acids. It's what these deeply
Religious, devoted musicians would have wanted.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Music-From-The-Shrines-Of-Ajmer-and-Mundra/release/1853917

7. version dub
Yabby You

https://www.discogs.com/Yabby-U-King-Tubbys-Prophesy-Of-Dub/release/2058393

8. Mahrabu
Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders

https://www.discogs.com/Maleem-Mahm...ers-The-Trance-Of-Seven-Colors/release/395993

9. The Force
Underground Resistance

10. New Grass
Talk Talk
 

luka

Well-known member
I have lazily and problematically equated cosmic with world, ethnic, native of course. Some of those things are deliberately cosmic, others not. It's really just ten pieces of music from my 12 hour tripping playlist. Stuff that works when in a cosmic state.
 

luka

Well-known member
Please remember that I was the only person to complete this task for you next time I ask you to do something please.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Well it was blatantly aimed AT you

But I am interested if there's a different idea of mystic in other people's minds

Btw the twelve hour tripping playlist with explanatory notes plz
 

luka

Well-known member
Well its long. So that would entail a lot of typing. More probably than I can be bothered to do. It's over 100 'songs'
 

luka

Well-known member
You're not going to listen to the ten tunes I just listed anyway are you lets be honest
 

mvuent

Void Dweller
not a good writer at all but this is a fun topic. (maybe it'll give you an example for your point about psychedelic aesthetics, corpsey)


1.
really just the video. you're floating in a vast, groundless space that could be in the sky or ocean. lights and shapes flicker around at the periphery of your vision and occasionally seem to speak to you. you feel a deep sense of "wrongness" in the air, as if you shouldn't be here. but there's also a ceremonial quality, as if everything here was waiting for you for a very long time.

2.
whatever forces had gathered have dispersed. you feel lighter (in the sense of being more playful) and able to move quickly and intentionally through the air. you're now fully in the midst of bright clouds, unable to see very far ahead. you encounter airships and floating buildings that might be engaged in some kind of war, mostly obscured from vision.

3.
now it's dark, I guess. you're not sure what things are moving around you--some even sound like people, with varying degrees of corporeality--but none seem limited by our intuitive or learned understanding of physics. one moment they're moving rapidly toward you from miles away, then suddenly they're right beside you (almost like that scene in the holy grail.) it's a transmission from another planet; some highly advanced civilization staging a play for you from light years away.

4.
traces of the free, often abrupt aerial maneuvers of the last one. but slower and heavier, hitting with the force of concrete. at the same time, joyful.

5.
you're back home. everything feels normal, except that, in a surreally idyllic turn, the landscape you're standing in extends almost perfectly flat and featureless in all directions.
 
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