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Artist: Journey to Ixtlan
Title: Journey to Ixtlan
Format: CD
Label: Aurora Borealis
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180g 2LP to follow. “Pan pipes carry on the air as the eagle circles the mesa, your mouth full of sand and peyote mulch as the sun beats down. Riding out of the desert like the ghosts of future past in a dune buggy powered by dreams come Journey To Ixtlan. Totally heavy, very psychedelic, and utterly sunkissed this is the sound of New Age Doom & Occult Desert Rock. Journey To Ixtlan are an anonymous badass rock band of desert dwellers, in some cases living outside the law at the very margins of society, who converge infrequently to render their physical surroundings in psychotropic sound. Their heavy sound owes as much to Doom Metal as it does to Psychedelia, as much to Now as it does to Then, as guitar, bass, drums, keys and vocal chants intertwine like shamanic smoke. To listen to Journey To Ixtlan is to participate in a ritual out of time, to tread the path of Don Juan, to lay on the mesa as a 'man of power' and be touched by the sun at the heart of the cosmic stage. Miniature gatefold LP style CD packaging with suitably Owsleyesque graphics.” |
