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- 180g Black Vinyl in Gatefold Sleeve with printed inner sleeve and postcard
- First ever release on vinyl
- Pressed with the full involvement of John Twink Alder and the Techicolour Dream
- Produced by Marco Conti & Fabio Porretti
- Recorded and Mastered at Pioneer Studio (Colchester) and Gulliver Master Studio (Rome) between May 2016 and July 2018
- Includes two unpublished tracks Your Grave Grey Eyes and Cinnamon Curls written by Aleister Crowley and Bernard F. Page, presented in their original score and in a rock arrangement.
- Includes postcard of Aleister Crowleys Mutts on the Mountain painting (c. 1920)
'Sympathy for the Beast', the new album by Twink and the Technicolour Dream, is based on the wonderfully imaginative poetical works of Aleister Crowley, whose natural and intrinsic musical quality Twink and the Technicolour Dream have tried to intensify with their psychedelic musical drive, using sections of the original poems as lyrics for their songs or narrations for their musical backgrounds. Jon Povey has given a significant contribution to this album as vocalist, composer and keyboard player. In addition, William Breeze, head of the Ordo Templi Orientis, the lodge presided by Crowley through most of his life, has provided the recently discovered manuscript scores of two unpublished songs by Crowley that Twink and the Technicolour Dream are presenting for the first time in their original form (piano + soprano) and a rock version.
Track Listing:
Side One
- The Vampire 6:11
- Fragment from Aha 4:33
- Your Grave Grey Eyes (rock version) 5:57
- Cinnamon Curls (rock version) 3:15
- One Star in Sight 5:36
Side Two
- In Manu Dominae (5:49)
- Hymn to Pan (7:30)
- The Jinn-Vision (4:15)
- Fragment from 'The Ship' (3:29)
- Your Grave Grey Eyes (original version) (1:32)
- Cinnamon Curls (original version) (0:48)
- The Poet (2:29)
sympathy for the beast – songs from the poems of aleister crowley (record store day 2019 exclusive, limited)