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The earthling formerly (or sometimes) known as High Wolf has a rather interesting side project. It's called Annapurna Illusion and it's yet more sonic craftery. This record is one that will mystify and enchant. It's a heady collection of hums and drone style passages that makes you think that you're in a sensory deprivation chamber, a bit like the one William Hurt gets into in that film "Altered States". It could easily transport you to another realm. I'm not saying it will turn you into a monkey or weird looking simian, but you know what I mean. This record is full to the cosmic brim with synthetic drones, warm undulating squelches and atmospheric journeys into the realm of light and shade. It drifts by on solar winds. Or summat. It's not my thing but I can appreciate the fluidity of the compositions and how they make you feel slightly skewiff when letting them into your mind palace. It comes in the shape of a record that is purple and transparent. For fans of Tangerine Dream or Cluster or summat of that ilk.
In the highs of the Nepalese mountains, the spirits of the dead are alive and well, their mantra’s chant atop mossy ruined temples to the Kosmische jams brewed by the melted soul of the mysterious Annapurna Illusion. Rocket Recordings are proud to introduce the pyramidal meditationist ‘Life is an Illusion’ album by France’s Annapurna Illusion, the evil twin of Not Not Fun’s High Wolf.
Annapurna Illusion’s dark Krautrock aesthetic reveal itself in tracks showered in shamanic dust and rolled tight in a soupy, psychedelic batter. Life is an Illusion is scattered with fizzing electric guitars and ambient ragas which unfurl with the might
of a psychedelic blizzard, fogging the sponges of the brain and eyeballs with a wash of hallucinations where Ash Ra Temple jam for hours on end with Loop. Tropical repetitive rhythms drone and drift, guided by a swarm of breezy effects and celestial layered
synths that engulf the base of the mountain in hypnotic swirls of colourful head spinning rituals before zipping airborne to glide in a state of tranced euphoria. Escapism is bottled and prescribed with each dose of these 6 entrancing mysteries, Life is an Illusion draws from the same smoke filled breath as fellow explorers Emeralds, Stellar Om Space, Dylan Ettinger as well as those great
Kosmische artists, AR Machines, Klaus Schulze and Harmonia. Proceed from the dream outward and encounter the Annapurna cinerama in its full illusions.
Tracklist
(side a)
entering illusion (3.05)
dizzy vultures (13.46)
crane and bear (5.49)
(side b)
ambrosio (6.55)
long wandering (6.24)
i can see me through your devil’s eyes (6.35)
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