An album that I have been listening to incessantly is Earth's "Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method." While visiting the good Erik Von Bartholomaus (www.erikvonbartholomaus.com) in New Mexico, he had put on this album during a drawing session we engaged in.
For me, Hex was one of those albums that right after the first few songs I knew I was going to be listening to the album for a very long time to come.
The album is a perfect soundtrack to the desert. It's all instrumental, easier to listen to as compared with their earlier stuff which is also instrumental, just heavier.
The music brings one back in time to a desert land where the Indian is being pushed out, some renegade blood-thirsty Indians still scour the dead land, and the white man with his family has come to claim what is not theirs. There are photos is the album of the southwest that I had never seen anything like before - a man on top of a mountain of cow skulls that must be at least 30 feet high, Indians looking out onto a river that had its banks literally raped by those huge oil drilling structures, and a lot more pictures just like this.
On another note, the album is so good, its music has the power to recall a moment, conjure up a moment of sentimentality that I believe a lot of music today does not have the power to. I can listen to this album and be brought back to Erik's place, clearly.
I'm rambling this morning. I have a terrible stiff neck.
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