The Scriptures of Illumina

by Edward Ka-Spel

The Scriptures of Illumina cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Terminal Kaleidoscope
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:04:52
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The enigmatic Legendary Pink Dots frontman delivers a profoundly strange, highly atmospheric solo effort with 'The Scriptures of Illumina'. The album masterfully submerges his distinctly eerie, heavily accented vocal narratives beneath vast, deeply psychedelic ambient drones and unsettling electronic tape loops. It functions as a terrifyingly surreal, highly immersive descent into experimental electronic psychedelia.

Genres

Descriptors: experimental, avant-garde, theatrical, conceptual, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Illumina (7:29)
  2. Memoires of Dr. Bliss (8:01)
  3. A Grain of Salt (2:14)
  4. Homage (4:16)
  5. Gomorrha (5:02)
  6. Mayday (6:51)
  7. The Never Man (6:57)
  8. Laughing Venus (7:25)
  9. There Was a Crooked Man (5:20)
  10. Illumina 2 (4:36)
  11. The Last Door On the Left (6:36)

Credits

  • Ryan Moore - drums, percussion [perc], bass, electric guitar
  • Elke Skelter - electronics [machines], keyboards [keys], artwork [graphics]

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