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CSR 279CD
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"No death because there is no birth." The ambient drones and angular abstractions on Deathless Mind combine to carry the listener on a disquieting journey into dark recesses. Tunnels Of Ah pursue a singular sonic path. Each album has been recorded with a visualized location arising in; for Charnel Transmissions (CSR 256CD, 2018) it was a childhood landfill, Thus Avici (CSR 206CD, 2015), a field of pig arks in a Golgotha landscape. How these places emerge and obsess is a mystery. Deathless Mind is set on a half mile stretch of abandoned railway where various human transgressions have occurred. With contributions from Primitive Knot on "Ritual For The New Dumb" and Adam Probert (The Mannequin Factory) on "Saint of Slaves", Deathless Mind is an album recorded at the height of summer and sounding like the depths of winter. Tunnels Of Ah is Stephen Ah Burroughs (Head Of David).
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CSR 256CD
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Tunnels Of Ah is Stephen Ah Burroughs (Head Of David). Charnel Transmissions is the fourth Tunnels Of Ah release and once more the TOAH sound is taken into ever more oblique regions. Inspired by the "chime and gong stations" recordings of the Cold War era, Charnel Transmissions sets out to evoke rather than recreate the alienated spirit(s) of those recordings. With the ritual percussion of Francis P. weaving throughout the album alongside cracked electronics, Charnel Transmissions is a disquieting spiral into an ashen world of "mythostatic psychopomp" where this world is transformed into a charnel ground of gods, ghosts, and jackals. Crumbling drones, splintered bursts of noise, and buried voices make Charnel Transmissions unconventional and non-linear, much like those charnel dwellers who seek out the lowest to attain the highest. For lovers of ceremonial sounds and dark places. Digipak. File next to Coil, Z'ev, Arktau Eos, Head Of David.
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CSR 226CD
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Following the sulphureous sting of 2015's Thus Avici (CSR 206CD), Tunnels Of Āh's third album, Surgical Fires, is a dense, fermentative working. Asemic vocals are sunk beneath an alienated electronic landscape of seismic drones and paranormal frequencies. Loss, gain, conflict, resolution, decay and transformation as an initiatory path is the current running through Surgical Fires; the surgery alluded to in the title being psychic surgery. Surgical Fires is another singular Tunnels Of Āh release evasive of categorization. Vocal contributions from London-based ritual artist, Soror Anji Cheung. Original album artwork by Stephen Ah Burroughs (Head Of David).
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"Firstly, the punishment is meted out day and night, kalpa after kalpa, without a moment's interruption or relief. Thus Avici." Thus Avici is the second album from Tunnels of Āh, led by Stephen Āh Burroughs (Head of David). The title references "the sutra of bodhisattva Ksitigarbha's fundamental vows," a section that Burroughs reads daily in homage to Ksitigarbha, to whom Burroughs pledged "entreaty and supplication" under solemn tantric oath in 1995. Tantric Buddhism, Christian mysticism, and personal magick make up the subject matter for Thus Avici. While traces of 2013's Lost Corridors (CSR 184CD) can be heard, Thus Avici is a harder, more focused offering. Shards of distorted noise, ritual drums, caustic drones, and haunted vocals make Thus Avici a dark, hallucinatory swoon into the hinterland of the Tunnels of Āh. The dull blue light of brute-world calls.
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Tunnels Of Āh is the new project from former Head Of David vocalist Stephen Āh Burroughs. Lost Corridors is the first Tunnels Of Āh release and features Burroughs' "industrial esoteric," evoking the spirit of the pioneering underground experimental scene in the new dark age. This is psychick war.
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