Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics (1990)



The (arguably) best album by what I consider to be the best experimental band of all time, Sun City Girls. A majority of the music is very weird, but this album is actually their most accessible. Lyrics are yelled/sung in made up languages and several different genres are blended together to create some of the best music I've ever heard.

From lastfm:

A melting pot of music styles — demented surf, Indian Rāgas, free-form noise, gamelan percussion, fractured folk, you name it — with doses of kabuki theater, shadow puppetry, and maverick guerilla stagecraft thrown in, the avant-everything Sun City Girls were a fiercely independent and experimental trio whose only credo seemed to be to continually stretch boundaries while remaining amazingly inclusive, a process that led to a dizzying array of vinyl, cassette, and CD releases over a period stretching nearly 20 years.

Highlights include "Space Prophet Dogon" and "The Shining Path"


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