Description

Special release from Typhonian Highlife on Psychic Sounds and Pacific City Visions.

Created for the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, “Sumerian Star Creatures” was premiered in 2017 as apart of Spencer Clark and Xavier Garcia Bardon’s “Imagineers in the Underworld” Film Series. Typhonian Highlife and Corum made a slithery soundtrack to intersperse between the stories of South Africas former National Laureate, Credo Mutwa; who’s early work magically catalogs folk histories of the Zulu people, and later, begins to merge into a description of the same peoples histories of Alien Folklore Myth World. The Film shown during the “Imagineers in the Underworld” series sees Credo Mutwa surrounded by his sculptures and murals, detailing stories of experiences with the Chitahoori, the alien creatures that inhabit South Africa. After a story, the screen would go blank and Typhonian Highlife’s silhouettes would light up as they would perform a musical response to Credo’s stories of the “Alien Nasty Boys”.

 The music on the record you peep stands as the evidence of the inspirational world of Credo Mutwa, who without restraint, recounts the history of his people intermixed with the parallel history of the non-human entities that inhabit his land. “Sumerian Star Creatures” comes with the original marquee poster of the event in question as well as a copy of the original ticket, which, has on it, a barcode that when scanned, takes you to cyber space where you can listen and watch Credo’s full six hour story.

LP TRACKLIST:

1. THROWN OF STARS

2. WERE-PLASM DOORWAYS

3. ASTRAL SNAKE BEAT

4. NIGHT-MOVEMENTS OF ALIEN FLESH

5. SNAKE STAFF BEAT

6. BLUE FLESH UNDER BRIGHT LIGHT

7. RADIANT BLACK STAR CLUSTERS

8. ORION’S CREATURE CATALOGUE