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MASSTHISHADDHU - Shekinah

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Old Europa Cafe OECD292 Release Year: 2021 Note: the only LP (United Dairies 1988) by this project with 3 of the METGUMBNERBONE members, creating "archaic" sounding ritual / occult folk industrial (chants, percussion, blow instruments) on two side-long tracks... this new re-issue has a 30 min. bonus track, previously unreleased... "Whatever words are spoken during this procession of yearning melodies and utterly ethereal voices is perhaps best left for the Gods." [Brainwashed]; re-master: COLIN POTTER, lim. 300 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info Re-Edition of a rare cult album first out on Steven Stapleton's (NWW) own label UNITED DAIRIES in 1988. Plus as bonus for this special re-issue, a never heard, unreleased track of 30 minutes! Masstishaddhu members were Sean Breadin, Mike Watson and Richard Rupenus, all of whom were also members of METGUMBNERBONE; Richard is also a member of TNB... Tribal & Droning Psychedelia from over three decades ago - a very special album to be re-discovered. Mastered from the original tapes by Colin Potter (NWW). Shekinah comprises two side-long slabs of highly experimental music in the early Coil / Current 93 / Organum vein with touches of Eastern (or is it North American?) mysticism thrown in for good measure. ‘For The Dead & Unborn’ is a wild, chilling and uninhibited chant-cum-invocation featuring wordless vocals set against a hypnotic backdrop of percussion and bowed instruments. ‘Angels Gather Here Between Purity Of Heart and Hopeless Despair’ is taken at a much slower pace with far less accent on the chanting and more emphasis on the bowed strings and singing / ringing percussion and at times had me glancing nervously over my shoulder! - AUDION Shekinah could be described as very dark Gothic Ritual Folk with a sprinkling of occult allure. The title, cover and music all suggest bloodied altars, unfathomable rituals and mystical learning. The low and buzzing drone underscores a lava flow of chants, cellos and percussion. Whatever words are spoken during this procession of yearning melodies and utterly ethereal voices is perhaps best left for the Gods. Whatever secrets the music holds, they are simultaneously a fountain of spiritual beauty and unknowable terror. It's as if its character changed with my dispositions: if I was feeling fear then fear is what I heard. If I was feeling joyous, then the joy of the Gods shone down upon me and relaxed every fibre of my being. - BRAINWASHED In the ‘80s underground, Ritual Ambient and Tribal Ambient were both coming to fruition and although they had a rough framework there wasn't yet a concrete basis for how the genres were set to develop. Masstishaddhu exploited this potential to create a music that sounds like a well-executed modern Free Folk album - in 1988, a good decade before the New Weird America scene (spearheaded by the likes of Sunburned Hand Of The Man) began revolutionizing the idea of Folk music operating under rhythmic constraints. In this sense Shekinah is undoubtedly unique, perpetuating the 'ritual' side of ambient through disconcerting vocalizations and chants. It is deeply embedded within the Folk influence that uses atmosphere to sculpt instrumental improvisations, again, much like well-executed modern Free Folk does. - A TERTIARY SOURCE "Wiederveröffentlichung des Masstishaddhu-Albums Shekinah auf Old Europa Café Veröffentlicht am 11. Januar 2021 von Michael Old Europa Cafe bringt das ursprünglich auf Steven Stapletons Label United Dairies 1988 veröffentlichte Album „Shekinah“ von dem Metgumbnerbone-Seitenprojekt Masstishaddhu, bei dem auch Richard Rupenus von den New Blockaders mitwirkte, auf CD neu heraus. Mit den teils perkussiv-tribalen Momenten, seltsamen Blasinstrumenten und merkwürdigen Stimmen, die zwischen Kehlkopfgesang und Delirium changieren, lässt sich das Album in die Tradition industrieller Ritual-Musik einordnen. Shekinah“ klingt in Passagen, als sei der Nekrophile-Records Backkatalog (der im Laufe des Jahres von Vinyl-On-Demand wiederveröffentlicht werden wird) von David Jackman neu abgemischt worden. Neben den zwei ursprünglich enthaltenen je eine Albenseite füllenden Tracks enthält die CD ein bisher unveröffentlichtes 30-minütiges Bonusstück, das einen stärkeren Free Folk-Charakter zu haben scheint." [African Paper]