A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by over 20 ambient artists as a tribute to H. P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers: https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/hastur
"The mask of self-deception was no longer a mask for me, it was a part of …
A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by over 20 ambient artists as a tribute to H. P. Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers: https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/hastur
"The mask of self-deception was no longer a mask for me, it was a part of me. Night lifted it, laying bare the stifled truth below; but there was no one to see except myself, and when the day broke the mask fell back again of its own accord. These thoughts passed through my troubled mind as I lay sick, but they were hopelessly entangled with visions of white creatures, heavy as stone, crawling about in Boris' basin,—of the wolf's head on the rug, foaming and snapping at Geneviève, who lay smiling beside it. I thought, too, of the King in Yellow wrapped in the fantastic colours of his tattered mantle, and that bitter cry of Cassilda, "Not upon us, oh King, not upon us!" Feverishly I struggled to put it from me, but I saw the lake of Hali, thin and blank, without a ripple or wind to stir it, and I saw the towers of Carcosa behind the moon. Aldebaran, the Hyades, Alar, Hastur, glided through the cloud-rifts which fluttered and flapped as they passed like the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow."
Robert William Chambers - The King In Yellow (1895)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm
"Some name him Hastur - others Assatur, Hali or Kaiwan. The last can, to the erudite mind, whisper something of where the supernal alliances may lie. The men of Leng are purported to know more, but that is no place for wholesome minds. Better then to seek out a Shantak. It will doubtless whisper of onyx and a frigid wind, urging you ever northward and upward. Were ye to follow, ye may glean the answers ye seek. But they would do you little good, once the unrelenting drums have hold on thee. It is better, sometimes, not to know whom ye serve." - Excerpt from Digibook
Written, Produced, Performed collaboratively:
Atrium Carceri
Mount Shrine
Dead Melodies
Flowers for Bodysnatchers
Ruptured World
Ager Sonus
Dronny Darko
ProtoU
Neizvestija
Dahlia's Tear
Northumbria
God Body Disconnect
Council of Nine
Apocryphos
Wordclock
Gydja
Kolhoosi 13
Creation VI
Darkrad
Ugasanie
Alphaxone
SiJ
Sphäre Sechs
Text - Donald Persson
Artwork & Mastering - Simon Heath
