#18 - Preludiene And Exaltations

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Jean-Paul DuQuette Noise and experimental instrumental black metal kind of stuff. If Merzbow's your bag, have at it. Favorite track: Reverential Maestoso.

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1.	Setting The Scene 04:36
2.	Reverential Maestoso 08:01
3.	In Search Of The Circle Of Delirium 10:48	lyrics
Track originally called 'Reflection Hypnosis' under the project pseudonym 'Whoever', sometime around May 1996, I think.. but, now it has been absolutely demolished and restructured.
4.	It Is Time To Rest, My Friend 06:45

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Bass, piano, keyboards, drums, vocals, produced & mixed - The Owl
Structured and mixed during all of June & July 2020.

1 & 2 = Originally bass played live 21/03/19.
3 = Original music made sometime around May 1996, as part of my first recording project, Whoever. It sounded nothing like this!
4 = Played and initially assembled 13/07/20. All sounds apart from the drums are piano.

Main musical influences for this recording...
Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Godflesh, Midnight Odyssey, Almyrkvi, Yob, Bismuth, Ommadon, Sunn o))), Treha Sektori, Mz.412, film soundtracks, holding your arms aloft to the sky when the big riffs come in!

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released August 21, 2020

I have made this into a new soundtrack for Lucifer Rising by Kenneth Anger, please have a look here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YunyLPPmEV0

This album is also available on the immense Trepanation Recordings page, which is full of other awesome noise, ambient, doom, heavy and intense sounds from Catafalque, Bosphorus, Noosed, Upcdownc, Still, Agvirre, Bogwych, Mairu and plenty more, so get digging for some treasure! trepanationrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/preludiene-and-exaltations

And 'It Is Time To Rest...' also appears on a massive double CD label compilation available here: trepanationrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/trepanned-volume-one

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The Owl Orlová, Czechia

A/V experiments since first DIY tape in 1994

Many bands and projects until The Owl was born in 2018

The Owls were formed in December 2021.

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