Herbcraft
Discovers the Bitter Water of Agartha

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...according to our Business Lady on 03 June 2010.

Bit short on info for this but from the looks of the label design it's evident this is a Woodsist off-shoot thang, and if Herb Craft ain't a reference to the smoking of the demon weed then i'll eat my own stash! From the moment this one kicks off it's obvious we are dealing with some blissed out, bonged to the eyeballs, psych-rock of the highest calibre. Real loose, nicely crafted and suitably drifty in it's approach 'Discovers the Bitter Water of Agartha' is a all out San Francisco style, counter culture aping hippy rock record. Songs are primarily made up of dual acoustic and electric guitar jams accompanied by ghostly boy/girl vocal lullabies/chants with the occasional audible lyric present to prevent the attention span drifting like a puff of smoke into the Woodstock air. For fans of Sun Araw, Pocahaunted and all that old school 60's counter culture type stuff. Ace.

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What their label says...

Days after returning to Maine following three heavy months on the road, Blows Against the Empire in one hand, Admiral Richard Byrd’s secret diary in the other, Matthew Lajoie (Cursillistas) awoke one morning having dreamt the existence of a lost 1973 concept record about the exploration of inner Earth and the advanced civilization thriving at its center - Agartha, the domain of the Arianni. Using Byrd’s account as the thematic framework for the album, he feverishly poured forth a representation of the imagined record, writing and recording the entire LP in a single 24-hour period - guided by sonic Ouija.

The result is a cosmic antenna with dials tuned to the Planet Earth Rock ’n’ Roll Orchestra, obscure psych-prog spacecasts, and classic rock radio, all refracted through the dusty, cracked and scratched Cursillistas prism. Performed entirely on a borrowed thrift store electric guitar and broken microphone, Herbcraft "Discovers The Bitter Water Of Agartha" was birthed in the Now to scatter the seeds of Agartha’s message in our Aquarian Dark Age.

Tracklisting:

1. Road To Agartha
2. Dark Deities
3. Bow To Drink The Bitter Water
4. The Domain Of The Arianni
5. Many Dark Ages
6. Outward Journey
7. No Hope For Mankind