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01. THE HOST - Begin
02. THE HOST - Praxis I
03. THE HOST - World Citizen
04. THE HOST - Submersion
05. THE HOST - Peri-Natal Imprinting
06. THE HOST - Praxis II
07. THE HOST - Primate Change
08. THE HOST - Suggestogen
09. THE HOST - Sunset Induction
10. THE HOST - Minerva Dreamstate
11. THE HOST - Subproject 58
12. THE HOST - Belief Formation
13. THE HOST - Neo-Primitive
14. THE HOST - DARPA Spectrum
15. THE HOST - Praxis III
16. THE HOST - See Sharp
ARTIST
TITLE
Esalen Lectures
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
TOUCH 003LP TOUCH 003LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/24/2017

2015 release. Inspired by think tanks and floatation tanks, psychological research, 2012 mythology, 1960s social planning, stoned apes, elite transhumanism, and the counter-culture, The Host's Esalen Lectures is an imaginary trip to a NorCal psychedelic retreat. Use the sounds to enter into a program of theory and practice, to accompany inward voyages, and for sunset induction rituals. And when the colored dust settles, and the weird dreams have eased off, maybe your neural re-programming has just started? Drawing from a wide source of tranced-out musical legacies, the Esalen Lectures is pitched somewhere between Ash Ra Tempel and Steve Hillage at their most freeform, and more underground new age artists like JD Emmanuel and Ariel Kalma. The Host use sweeping synthesizer patterns and subtle field recordings to create dramatic arcs across the record, and spiraling guitar squalls meet blissed-out, motionless womb lullabies and digitally-enhanced nocturnes to tell a weird story of induction, hypnosis, and psychic disturbance.