GHOST - HYPNOTIC UNDERWORLD 2xLP boris sunn prog psych

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 GHOST - "HYPNOTIC UNDERWORLD" 2xLP released on Drag City in 2004 and sold out! Opened but never played.



I ship only in new LP mailers. All vinyl shipped outside the sleeve to prevent splitting while in transit. All records loved and taken great care of, almost never played. Non-cigarette smoking household. Records shipped with heavy-duty record cover. Any questions please ask. All records will be shipped within 4-5 days from winning bid. Paypal only please... Must sell all of my records off to afford a house...those are the breaks I guess. It could be worse folks! Happy bidding and good luck!

1. "Hypnotic Underground Pt. 1: God Took a Picture of His Illness on This Ground" – 13:31
2. "Hypnotic Underground Pt. 2: Escaped and Lost Down in Medina" – 7:09
3. "Hypnotic Underground Pt. 3: Aramaic Barbarous Dawn" – 2:54
4. "Hypnotic Underground Pt. 4: Leave the World!" – 0:22
5. "Hazy Paradise" – 4:52
6. "Kiseichukan Nite" – 5:03
7. "Piper" – 6:41
8. "Ganagmanag" – 10:04
9. "Feed" – 7:06
10. "Holy High" – 6:09
11. "Dominoes/Celebration for the Gray Days" – 6:43

From Aquarius Records:

Hallelujah! Ghost are back! Since Drag City's simultaneous release of their Snuff Box Immanence and Tune In, Turn On, Free Tibet albums back in 1999, we hadn't heard hide nor hair of Japan's wonderful acid-folksters Ghost (unless you count their liason with Damon & Naomi). Indeed we'd begun to wonder what was up with Masaki Batoh, Michio Kurihara and crew -- we missed them! And in those four or five years, it seemed that fans of '70s inspired Japanese psychedelic music had switched their allegiance to the much more prolific Acid Mothers Temple camp led by Kawabata Makoto who emerged in the meantime. But we Ghost fans know that, as good as AMT can be, in the realm of cosmic communal Japanese hippy rock, there is no comparison. Ghost rule that particular hypnotic underworld. Depth, beauty, originality -- on all those counts they have it over AMT. Unlike the excessive pastiche of AMT, there's nothing tongue in cheek about Ghost. And as for quality control, well, you do the math.
So, needless to say, we were supremely excited to get this brand new Ghost album! The sun was sure 'tangging' the day this showed up. Word was that this might be Ghost's best album yet, and while we each have our favorites (mine's Lama Rabi Rabi, with their self-titled debut in close competition) this was immediately revealed as a contender. In short, it's freakin' great. Ghost explore some heavier, rockier, more prog-tastic directions in some of these songs, yet let their incomparable delicate psych-folk flow as well. Stirring guitar/drums workouts coexist with Batoh's fragile vocals and trembling sunshine melodies. And Terrascopic trainspotters will be interested to know that Ghost interpret songs by both Syd Barrett and the obscure '70s Dutch prog-rock act Earth & Fire, and make them completely their own. The album takes its name from the four-part, 25-minute suite that opens this disc, which ventures from lovely, hazy jazz-inflected jams to bombastic, utterly prog-rock flourishes complete with grandiose choirs. That alone is worth having waited four or five years for!