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The Holy Mountain: Original Soundtrack

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One of the ironies of the career of Chilean-born filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is that while he is best known as a visual stylist, his most avid and loyal champions have often been musicians. When Jodorowsky arrived in New York from Mexico City in 1970 carrying a copy of the then-unreleased El Topo, it was the jazz producer Alan Douglas who bought the distribution rights to the film. When Jodorowsky and Douglas were looking for a venue in which to screen El Topo, it was John Lennon and Yoko Ono who asked for it to run at midnight following their short-film festival at New York s Elgin Cinema. After six months of sold-out midnight screenings at the Elgin, it was Lennon s manager, Allen Klein (ABKCO s founder), who bought the rights to El Topo and agreed to produce its follow-up, The Holy Mountain. And when Jodorowsky wanted, in his words, another kind of music something that wasn't entertainment, something that wasn't a show, something that went to the soul, something profound, for the soundtrack to The Holy Mountain, forward came jazz legend Don Cherry and crack studio musician (and one-time Archie) Ron Frangipane to share composing and (along with Jodorowsky) conducting duties. And, boy, did they deliver the score to The Holy Mountain is every bit as hallucinatory as the fantastic visual imagery in the film itself. The deep, primordial chants that begin the movie, Trance Mutation, give way to an almost jaunty percussion-and-plucked-strings melody, Pissed and Passed Out. On the next track, Violence of the Lambs, a single flute is slowly joined by a set of mournful strings while, onscreen, Gestapo-like soldiers in gas masks parade with bloody lamb carcasses on sticks. Drink It, an upbeat sitar folk melody, follows, briefly accompanying the main protagonist The Thief s ill-considered decision to guzzle tequila (or sleeping potion). Then there is Christs 4 Sale, a blaring orchestral riff that sounds like it was ripped from a 1950 s swords-and-sandals epic. The next track, Cast Out and Pissed, begins with a bee-like buzz, then is overwhelmed by a cacophony of drums, horns, and, finally, screaming. Eye of the Beholder which follows, changes moods entirely once again a string section swells with overwrought romanticism. (Onscreen, a group of young prostitutes prays in a church. One of them later walks arm and arm with a chimpanzee.) And then there is Communion, a brooding, trumpet-led number that would be at home on the noir-steeped Chinatown soundtrack. (As Communion plays, the Thief is not driving through Los Angeles at night but eating the face off a statue of Christ.) This veritable cornucopia of musical styles would be more than enough to fill an entire movie. It would be more than enough to fill three movies. But in fact, the eight musical compositions described above play entirely in The Holy Mountain s first 24 minutes. Still ahead lie the hard rock of Psychedelic Weapons, the pomp and circumstance of the waltz Miniature Plastic Bomb Shop, the gospel-inflected sax of Isla (The Sapphic Sleep), and so on. Every one of the 24 tracks on the film s soundtrack presents another vertiginous twist in the philosophical and spiritual journey that is The Holy Mountain.
Now, Real Gone Music, in association with ABKCO Music & Records, Inc., presents for the first time ever on vinyl, the original soundtrack to Alejandro Jodorowsky s 1973 masterpiece The Holy Mountain. The CD gatefold double-LP edition features liner notes by New York Times contributor Eric Benson that include exclusive quotes from Jodorowsky himself, festooned with copious production stills. Produced for release by Grammy-winning producer Teri Landi and Mick Gochanour, and mastered from the original tapes by Joe Yannece with lacquer cutting by Carl Rowatti.

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12 x 12.6 x 1 inches; 1.08 Pounds
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Real Gone Music
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2015
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2014
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Real Gone Music
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00PBE2H24
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2015
    Boy, was I blown away with the sounds coming off this album set. I already have this soundtrack and it was in his film box set, but anyone who loves this music can tell that each track has been extended and arranged differntly than the music in the film itself. If you love the Holy Mountain and the music contained, you owe it to yourself to buy a turntable and own this album, you will not be dissappointed.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014
    It's about time they finally released this. Fantastic mix of jazz and transcendental stuff. Some of the songs are from Don Cherry's album Organic Music Society, released a year before the movie's release (Don Cherry also contributed to the soundtrack).
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2015
    Outstanding LP - thanks
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2018
    Blue vinyl rare
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2016
    It's a lot of weirdness, and doesn't really work without video.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2015
    If you haven't experienced this than you haven't fully lived.
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  • B Rep
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2017
    this is organic sonic bliss..
  • ion Tesla-Coil
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Reissue
    Reviewed in Australia on August 6, 2021
    Yes; it’s possible to d/l just about Everything for Free. Yet; like the “Dune” and “El Topo” Soundtracks : to a Vinyl Collector like myself, purchasing these Newer Limited Edition Reissues fulfil ‘The Jonesing’ for Certain Recordings.
    Not only one of the Best Films Ever; but Soundtracks also.
    Alejandro Jodorowsky is IDEAL to ‘do justice’ to GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE - if “6 Degrees Separation” Real and Someone reads This and can ‘Pass Along’

    LEGENDARY 🙏🏽✊🏾
  • Eloy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Un artefacto maravilloso
    Reviewed in Spain on April 3, 2016
    Reedición remasterizada de 2015 presentada por Finders Keepers Records.

    Dos vinilos negros con un trabajo visual basado en los raros pósters europeos de la edición original de la película en 1973. Genial.