Thursday 18 July 2019

Bobby Beausoleil ‎– "Dreamways Of The Mystic" (White Dog Music ) 2005



Bobby Beausoleil's New Age Ambient Prog concept album seems to last as long as he's been in Jail.Like one of those post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd albums,but without the tunes.
If you're an old Hippie dabbling in the pseudo-spiritual with a readily available darkened room at hand, then this will take you on a trip into the wasted life of Bobby B.
Thanks, or otherwise, to progressive prison governors, Robert spends all his spare time....of which I assume there is plenty in the Big House.....making masses of this New Age space rock on his GM synth modules and computers. It's very programmed,rather like the kids in The Manson Family, and the factory synth sounds have a familiar late nineties ring to them.
Remember when you got your first GM synth module,and got excited by the multitude of sound possibilities,only to find out everyone had the same noises,then binned it off for proper synthesisers with knobs on?...well this is before Bobby realised every ex-hippie and his granny were making the same New Age nonsense.
The difference is that this was made by ,if not a member, an associate of The Manson Family,and he's been in the Slammer for nigh on fifty years. So there's a misplaced ingredient of tragic romance in there that make this double CD something more than a couple of coasters for your coffee table. This one may even be left out alongside your John Coltrane CD's as a conversation starter for your wine tasting evening.

Tracklist:

1-1 Dreamways Of The Mystic, Part 1 Overture
1-2 In The Temple Of The Moon - Interlude 1
1-3 Punjab
1-4 In The Temple Of The Moon - Interlude 2
1-5 Return To Punjab
1-6 In The Temple Of The Moon - Interlude 3
1-7 Songs Of The Forest People
1-8 In The Temple Of The Moon - Interlude 4
1-9 Dreamways Of The Mystic, Part II
1-10 Dreamways Of The Mystic, Part III: Alchemical Reactions - (With Robert Ferbrache)
1-11 Dreamways Of The Mystic, Part IV - Finale
1-12 Untitled
2-1 Mantra - Prelude
2-2 Miles And Miles
2-3 Mantra - Interlude 1
2-4 Island Girl
2-5 Medicine Man - (With Jeffrey Cree)
2-6 Exiled King, The
2-7 Mantra - Interlude 2
2-8 Alien Dialogue
2-9 Mantra - Interlude 3
2-10 Tar Pit
2-11 Mantra - Interlude 4
2-12 Distant Thunder
2-13 Mantra - Interlude 5
2-14 Third World Industry
2-15 Mantra - Finale


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tracklist is all fucked up, this is how it appears in the file:

1-101 Dreamways of the Mystic, Part.mp3
1-102 Dreamways of the Mystic, Part.mp3
1-103 Dreamways of the Mystic, Part.mp3
1-104 Untitled.mp3
1-105 In the Temple of the Moon - in.mp3
1-106 In the Temple of the Moon - in.mp3
1-107 Return of Punjab.mp3
1-108 Songs of the Forest People.mp3
1-109 In the Temple of the Moon - in.mp3
1-110 Punjab.mp3
1-111 Dreamways of the Mystic, Part.mp3
1-112 In the Temple of the Moon - in.mp3
2-201 Distant Thunder.mp3
2-202 Third World Industry.mp3
2-203 Medicine Man (with Jeffrey Cre.mp3
2-204 Tar Pit.mp3
2-205 Mantra - interlude 1.mp3
2-206 Mantra - prelude.mp3
2-207 Mantra - interlude 2.mp3
2-208 Miles and Miles.mp3
2-209 Mantra - Finale.mp3
2-210 Alien Dialogue.mp3
2-211 Manrta- interlude 5.mp3
2-212 Island Girl.mp3
2-213 The Exiled King.mp3
2-214 Mantra - interlude 3.mp3
2-215 Mantra - interlude 4.mp3

Jonny Zchivago said...

thank you anon.....i blame discogs