Various - Twilight Gods In The Twilight Zone: God, Drugs, War & Distant Dreams Of Peace (1962-1979) [RSD26]

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- Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP.
- Full dynamic range 2026 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes!
- Original Cover Art by Eric Adrian Lee!
- Limited Edition 500 copies!
- 250 (randomly inserted) ‘Brave New Insomnia' Splatter LPs / 250 (randomly inserted) ‘Dark Doors Of Perception’ Black LPs!

As he lay on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley (famed author of Brave New World and The Doors Of Perception) asked his wife for a final 100 microgram dose of LSD. It was 11.30am, November 22nd, 1963. Within the hour, President John F. Kennedy was publicly slaughtered in downtown Dallas, Texas and the U.S. (and, indeed, the world) erupted into a swirling nightmare of War, further Assassinations and seismic Social Ruptures. Were the Shuddering and Lysergic decades that followed some kind of splinter from Huxley's hallucinating mind's eye, an alternate timeline of Tyranny and Tumult akin to the landscape of a Silicon-Age Hieronymus Bosch?

For the very first time, soundtracked largely from Private-Press obscurities and Evangelist vanities, the Youthquake era of 1962-1979 is presented in an hallucinagenic brew of speech and song. Christian Psyche Rock and Psyche Folk acts foretell the 'Mark Of The Beast' and the Apocalypse. Cloistered Nuns mourn the fallen Regent. Hillbilly Seers chronicle churning revolution, Rockabilly Sirens chart despair and Hipster Prophets prosletisize for outsider Jesus Freaks. Desert Psyche loners howl of a sunburnt internal Armageddon, Forgotten Song-Poem Geniuses prophesize ill-omens and spiritual assault while firebrand Preachers warn of the Communist Menace, Drug-Fuelled Delirium, Bad Trips and Economic Enslavement. A kaleidoscopic feverdream of Faith, God, Threat and Social Fragmentation.

Tracks: Cloistered Nuns Chicago Monastery - Dallas Town; Dion - Abraham Martin And John; Brother John Rydgren - Hippie Version Of The 23rd Psalm; Bobby B. Baker - It's Just About Time; W. Cleon Skousen - Instant Insanity Drugs (Excerpt) ; The Gatemen - The Klan; Brother John Rydgren - The Noise; Jean Alford - The Great Society; Willard Cantelon - LSD: Battle For The Mind (Excerpt); The Derby-Hatville - Scorched Sand; Debbie Studer - Be Gone Satan; Rave Ons - The Whole Worlds Shakin'; Evangelist Neal Frisby - The Future! (Excerpt); Nancy Carol - Come Away Melinda; Darwin Kelton - The Blink Of An Eye; Estus W. Pirkle - If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? (Excerpt); A Still Small Voice - Mark Of The Beast; Isabel Baker - This O'le World's A Big Let Down; Anthony Newley - Lament For A Hero; Brother John Rydgren - The Lord Is My Shepherd; Children Of The Lord - Follow Jesus; Aldous Huxley - LSD Experiment 23rd December 1962 (Excerpt)