Retinal Circus



Relax and accept whatever comes. Remember that all visions are created by your mind, the happy and the unhappy, the beautiful and the ugly, the delightful and the horrifying. Your consciousness is creator, performer and spectator of the "retinal circus."

The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Second Bardo: The Period of Hallucinations (Chonyid Bardo)



RETINAL CIRCUS, the long- awaited third album of BAST, has been finally released!

This CD, featuring a large number of musicians, contains 13 brand new tracks resulting from the elaboration, editing and mixing in studio of live recordings done during the project BURN OUT, a series of audio-visual improvisation sessions, conceived by Aldo Ivancic, Janez Janša and Matjaz Mancek, realized by BAST at the Klub Gromka in Ljubljana, between November 2005 and June 2006.

The title of this release, has a direct reference to "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert and wants to be as well a tribute to the legendary Club in Vancouver famous in the mid '60 for its psychedelic art.

"When an individual becomes involved in 'the retinal circus,' he often loses interest in speaking."

So... just listen to BAST's new 13 tracks and... the rest will follow!

MP3 Samples

  Ortega, v Kino Greš
  Back To Reality Is Always Painful
  Curry Gin
  Youaretoolate
  How Loud Are Your Shoes?
  Dej, Še Eno Lepo Pesmico Zapoj
  We Are Stacked
  Damned Dog
  Windows Is Watching You!
  Find Me If You Can
  Horse, Ghost & Solitude
  Eye in the Ear
  Think for Yourself, Question Authority
     
    DOWNLOAD the cover of Retinal Circus here:

retinal1.zip, 945 x 850 px @ 300 dpi (RGB), 800 KB
retinal2.zip, 1668 x 1500 px @ 300 dpi (RGB) 2,2 MB


Credits

Gal Gjurin / LIVE / bass (4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13), cello (8) / OVERDUBS / Hammond organ (4), cello (5), vocals (5), bass (2)
Boštjan Gombač / LIVE / clarinet (2, 8), vocals (1, 3, 8, 9), slide whistles (8), percussions (11, 12) / OVERDUBS / vocals (4, 5, 6, 9, 10), flute (1), clarinet (2, 5), musical saw massacre (10), Shofar, percussions (11), ocarina (9)
Tomaž Grom / LIVE / laptop (3, 9, 12)
Andraž Mazi / LIVE / electric guitar (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) / OVERDUBS / electric guitar (1, 2, 12), acoustic and slide guitars (5)
Aldo Ivančić / LIVE / mix, efx and tapes (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) / OVERDUBS / soundscapes & samples (1), radio (11), vocoder (9), deep kick (3)
Bernhard Kreuzer / LIVE / guitar (7)
Dejan Lapanja / LIVE / drums (4, 5, 6, 10, 13)
Timothy Leary / OVERDUBS / vocals (13)
Igor Leonardi / LIVE / electric oud (2, 8, 11)
Matjaž Manček / LIVE / guitar (3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10) / OVERDUBS / guitar (1, 10, 13)
Žiga Rangus / LIVE / guitar (6, 13)
Marjan Stanić / LIVE / drums and percussions (1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11)
Žiga Šercer / LIVE / percussions (1, 3, 6, 9, 13) / OVERDUBS / percussions (5, 8, 10)
Irena Tomažin / LIVE / vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13) / OVERDUBS / vocals (1*, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12)
Nova Viator / LIVE / laptop (4, 5)

* voice on 1 taken from performance YYY by Neven Korda (Aksioma 2006)

LYRICS / Irena Tomažin (4, 6, 8, 10, 11), Aldo Ivančić (7, 9), Timothy Leary (13), Neven Korda (1)


  Produced by Bast and Aksioma
Released by Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art
Ljubljana, April, 2007

Music composed by players. Recorded, edited, mixed and produced by Aldo Ivančić
Mastered by Neven Smolčič at Fabrika 13

Basic tracks are live improvisations recorded between November 2005 and June 2006 at Klub Gromka, Metelkova, during the project Burn Out produced by Aksioma and supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana


Graphic design: Janez Janša and Aldo Ivančić
Photos: Janez Janša and Neven Korda*


* from the Burn Out evenings. Burn Out RT video manipulation by Barbato Kanak in collaboration with Janez Janša, Gwen Taylor, VJ 22, VJ 707 and VJseex

 
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