Cyclobe - Sulphur-Tarot-Garden
Artist: Cyclobe
Rating: DECENT
Genres: Dark Ambient
Released: 2012
Type: EP
Label: Phantomcode
Link: Spotify
Sulphur-Tarot-Garden is a new soundtrack album by Cyclobe, recorded to accompany three alchemical dream pieces by the filmmaker and Queer activist Derek Jarman. Originally shot between 1972 and 1978 on silent Super-8, the films were recently premiered with their new soundtracks at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. For this triptych of recordings, Ossian Brown and Stephen Thrower are joined on Sulphur-Tarot-Garden by Michael J. York, Cliff Stapleton and John Contreras. This is Cyclobe's fifth album to date, following Luminous Darkness, The Visitors, Paraparaparalellogrammatica and Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window. Brown and Thrower were previously members of the sidereal musick group Coil. "the poets of the sulphur baths in seven crystal tiers star shaped, with the laughter of ghosts in its water" Derek Jarman.
Editions:
2012 Original Release
Phantomcode | NAOS 02CD | CD
  01. Sulphur (15:18)
02. Tarot (7:29)
  03. Garden of Luxor (8:13)