Post #522085 by ikitnrev on Mon, Apr 5, 2010 6:55 AM

A friend recommended that I read the liner notes for Sabu's 'Sorcery' LP, released in 1958. He claims it is the only LP that he ever purchased (for $1 in a thrift store) and he did so mainly for the liner notes, claiming "If they don't capture the lurking danger that burbles under the frothy surface of exotica, I don't know what does."

I'll provide only a small sample here, followed by a link to a website that contains the full liner notes.

From the shores of the rivers of the sun come sounds, sounds various, beautiful and horrible with life, sounds as old as time, heard when brute creatures trod the earth, sounds that owe nothing to civilization and everything to rank and teeming biology. Product of a thousand animal and insect chirps, creeks, wails, thuds, thumps and stricken cries, they are an aural anthology of nature in its true guise, that nature that owns the earth and speaks for it, nature that is as ancient as the planets and as endless as the sun itself ........

........ Man, the white-collared animal, occasionally dares to insert his prying boat, a lone dugout or a venturesome canoe, into these regions hung with vine where waters run that are grown to their surfaces with vagrant lilies, errant bitter ferns of musty odor, slime-decked pools of dead life rising with the swell. Man, the technical beast, opens an ear to the voice that sounds and he hears the original black and sordid magic of life, that sorcery he too came out of and now fears.

Here a mating call and a death rattle uttered by separate and independent beasts combine into a peculiar, haunting chime. The whine of a mateless mammal and the ticking of some hundred tiny pests occur haphazardly together to give an orchestra of blood and friction music indiscriminately scored for fauna and winds ................

The full liner notes can be read here .....
http://www.hipwax.com/liners/sabu.html

Vern