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BardO

by Echtra

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Jeff Richardson
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Jeff Richardson It wasn’t easy using language, but finally coaxed Alexa through the Dot to shuffle Echtra. Spend hours, working, reading or just thinking while immersed within the intricate sound. The Great NW is home to the best in contemplative acoustics; music for the Coming of things. Don’t let the creepy clown dissuade you; The Bardo is a tricky concept: maybe focusing instead on the tongue of flame and surrounding pattern. Looking deeply within a mirror isn’t pleasant.
Dave Aftandilian
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Dave Aftandilian Soothing and disturbing immersive acoustic drone-visions of the journey towards death. Here in this in-between place, endless processions of happy memories and monstrous horrors parade across the screen of my mind. I float, adrift, neither one thing nor the other: as we always are, yet seldom realize. Slowly these visions fall away, and so do I, as I rise.
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Echtra’s “BardO” is the second installment of the Passage Cycle, a tripartite exploration of the transmission of one’s essence between lifetimes; this 2nd Chapter focuses on the interstitial space between death and rebirth. Inspired by the Vajrayana’s experiential identification of this liminal sphere as the place of reckoning, a phantasmagoria facilitative of the full ripening of one’s karmic imprints, Echtra crafts an aural ode to the soul’s journey through the in-between.
The unique sonic realm that Echtra has traveled within on recent offerings is recapitulated here: ever-present acoustic guitars lay the foundation for contemplation, with arpeggios droning, facilitating the loosening of rationality. Murky, indistinct electric guitars travel spidery trails, interweaving and diverging to speak an arcane language of grief, confusion, and triumph. Keyboards, electronic drums, and sparsely delivered vocals give texture and depth to the proceedings, whispering the futility of materialistic interpretations for understanding. The familiar terrain of the doom and black metals is traveled again, with the emphasis on the utilization of these sonorous forms for the immersion of consciousness in Truth. A way is opened toward transcendent incursions of otherness into the flow of habitual, reified egoism, crafting a ladder for the soul’s escape from the drudgery of the gray.
“BardO” was written in the long ago of Litha MMVIII. It was given to the dark at a performance within the womb of Orbis Nex on July 19th, 2008, in which Echtra was joined by Heron. The video footage from this performance has been licensed for this release from Adam Collins-Torruella. The audio was mastered by Brad Boatright at AudioSiege near Litha MMXIV. Cover art was created by Tashi Mannox, and other graphic elements designed by Marisa Ware. ToT offers it now, over ten years later, for the benefit of all beings: may all be free.

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released November 29, 2018

Cover Art: Tashi Mannox
Back Cover & Graphic Design: Marisa Ware
Videography: Adam Collins-Torruella
Mastering: Brad Boatright

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Echtra Cascadia, Oregon

Echtra was initiated in MMII, to explore the way in which the aesthetics of Black Metal could facilitate altered states of consciousness, and thus spiritual emergence. For the past decade this project has explored the connection between humans and the natural world, the corporeal and transcendent, the chthonic and celestial. Echtra is dedicated to awakening, for all who may partake of its fruits. ... more

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