Buddhist On Fire

Buddhist on Fire Release: BOF-049
Number of tracks: 1
Genres: drone, dark ambient, experimental
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Visit The Artist: Luciftias
Cover: RelUnrelated
Direct URL: Luciftias - A Flash of Red
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While some music rises up, fully formed, and merely awaits capturing, many Luciftias pieces lay dormant for great lengths of time before being completed. "A Flash of Red" began life as an unnamed, roughly recorded idea in March 2011. It wasn't until a full two years later that it received additional modification to morph into what is is now.

"A Flash of Red" could be the splash of gore upon the kitchen tiling. It might be the bird that strikes your windshield as you careen down the highway. It may also be the bloody hand print on the door that you glimpse before entering a shadowed realm of nightmares from which you will never awaken.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

- Aleister Crowley, Aceldama : A Place To Bury Strangers In (1898)

Buddhist on Fire Release: BOF-048
Number of tracks: 1
Genres: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Noise
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Visit The Artist: Tree Helicopter
Cover: CP McDill
Direct URL: Tree Helicopter - The Numbest Station
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One of my treasured possessions as a child was a portable shortwave radio. For such a small thing it seemed quite capable of picking up stations all over the globe. I spent countless hours slowly turning the dials from one station to another, and tuning into the multitude of voices and musics of the world.

Like any shortwave enthusiast, I soon discovered and was enchanted by those odd transmissions of recorded voices uttering sequences of numbers, often alternating with little melodies or series of tones. I learned that these stations had something to do with international espionage, which lent a certain spooky glamour to them.

Many were the nights I'd bring my radio to bed with me and seek out a numbers station, then let these mysterious sounds lull me to sleep. To me, they were just enchanting patterns, like music, and I did not care what they meant or for whom they were intended.

Similarly, I enjoyed the sounds of the spaces between stations, or the highly distorted signals carried from a great distance. I found these crackles, oscillations and muffled communications quite fascinating and pleasant.

This piece, nearly an hour long, is a generative work using recordings from shortwave radio, including numbers stations, as source material. The goal was to create something abstract and soothing, an interpretation of and tribute to the sounds I long ago fell asleep to. My memories of those experiences are certainly the deepest roots of my aesthetic as a sound artist. --C.P. McDill

As the world rapidly becomes a civilization of machines, the masters of machines will increasingly be the ones in control of the world.

- John Howard Dellinger

Buddhist on Fire Release: BOF-047
Number of tracks: 2
Genres: Dark Ambient, Drone, Electronic
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Visit The Artists: Jarguna, Uzbazur345
Cover: lisabelle3
Direct URL: Jarguna & Uzbazur345 - Oscure Presenze
Review at archive.org: BOF-O47



Almost 20 years now that I've been composing music. My music has always concerned charm, mystery and introspection. But hidden away in a drawer, I've had a desire for a darker music. "Dark Presence" is the materialization of this desire.

Thank you to Simone Santarsiero, aka Uzbazur, a dear friend and young composer who has supported me and facilitated our trip to the dark side. To the Oscure Presenze. He has been instrumental in revealing my dark and hidden shadowy side. A truly liberating experience. One might even say an exorcism.

The title says everything: we all have experienced the feeling of being watched by forces unknown and unseen. The path to enlightenment is filled with obstacles of the darkest varieties. The irony of life is that we must plunge into the dark abyss before rising to the light.

I hope my album can serve as your own personal exorcism, as it has for me.

Marco Billi Alias Jarguna

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (c. 1308-1321)

Buddhist on Fire Release: BOF-046
Number of tracks: 9
Genres: Experimental, Drone, Noise
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Cover: José Bogado
Direct URL: Buddhist on Fire presents: Crazy Blues
Review at archive.org: BOF-O46



Near as I recall, this compilation was inspired by a remark made in the stillstream.com chatroom by Joe McMahon. I was manipulating the Crazy Blues 78 with the Buddhalizer live towards the end of a Sadayatana podcast. Joe remarked: "I really like this. Acid ambient". The rest--as they say--is history. Thank you Joe.

• 1. (o)thers "Crazy Blues (Caught On Tape At The Fillmore Jazz festival)"
• 2. Mystified "Crazy Blues (40 days and 40 nights remix)"
• 3. Ars Sonor "Morning Blues"
• 4. Jack Hertz "Blues Sounds"
• 5. Luciftias "We Are Tomorrow's Past"
• 6. Saluki Regicide "Undertaker Man"
• 7. The Implicit Order "Crazy Blues"
• 8. Tree Helicopter "Doctor's Gonna Do"
• 9. Grove of Whispers "Crazy Blues (shallow grave mix)

Ah, Durian Grey. Never needed deodorant, but you couldn't go into the room where his portrait was without hazmat suits.

- Joe McMahon, "stillstream chat" (2013)

Buddhist on Fire Release: BOF-045
Number of tracks: 6
Genres: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Drone
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Visit The Artist: Luciftias
Cover: Boston Public Library
Direct URL: Luciftias - The Great Abstinence
Review at archive.org: BOF-O45



Luciftias returns to Buddhist on Fire with this Edgar Allan Poe inspired work: "The Great Abstinence". Listen in darkness with headphones if you can, but don't fall asleep --upon awakening you might be wearing someone else's clothes.

I. Tintinnabulation

Recorded 13 December 2012. Additional editing and treatments applied 6 February 2013.

II. Thy Soul Shall Find Itself Alone

Recorded 30 January 2010. Additional editing applied January 2013.

III. Night’s Plutonian Shore

Recorded 18-19 July 2009. Additional editing applied January 2013.

IV. Horror, the Soul of the Plot

Recorded 14 November 2012 & 8 January 2013.

V. A Dream Within a Dream

Basic tracks recorded Summer 1998 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Treatments applied 16-17 December 2012.

VI. ...(N)evermore

Basic track recorded 12 October 2008. Treatments applied 12 January 2009. Additional editing applied January 2013.

All soundscapes invoked by Luciftias at Ritual Xul except as noted.

You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

- Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" (1849)