ZODOSHU GONGYO ZEN MONKS MEDITATION 1972 ORIG Buddhist chant Drone Avant Minimal

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ZôDôShû GONGYO: “S/T”

LABEL: TEICHIKU Records

Label Number: NT-1420

- VERY RARE 1st press issue from 1972 

- Japan 1st press ORIGINAL in NEAR MINT condition 

- Comes housed in thick jacket. 

- Comes with INSERT

- Comes with RARE OBI

- Killer drone & minimal music Buddhist priests field recordings recorded at their temple in the deep rural countryside 

- Zen-like psychedelic meditative hardcore bliss. 

- Great condition and very hard to find LP

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint with shiny and glossy surface without any signs of much use. Beautiful condition!!! Hard to find better.

Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint. No damages. NO splits. Thick spine/ Sharp corners/ Straight edges. Beautiful condition!!! Has a few visible mildew spots

Insert: Near Mint

OBI: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: ZôDôShû GONGYO: “S/T” (Teichiku – NT-1420) (Record: Near Mint/ Jacket: Near Mint/ Insert: Near Mint/ Obi: Mint). A disc that I can strongly recommend to any fan of minimal music, field recordings, drones and esoteric Buddhist chanting. The sounds on display here are dense, resonating out astonishing and mesmerizing music. Mostly the focus lies on chanting deep droney nasal vocals that get flanked by the occasional beating of sticks, huge gong drones and atmospherical sounds that drift in and out of the temple complex. Some of the pieces are calm, unaccompanied chant to flurries of hypnotically discordant high-end drones that almost sound like some sort of feedback but the variety and depth here is amazing. A deep polyphonic trip for sure. The whole was all recorded on location in the Eiheiji Temple around 1970 and released shortly thereafter. Also known under the name "temple of eternal peace", Eiheiji is one of Soto Zen's two head temples. It is located deep in the mountains near the rugged west coast of Japan, not far from Fukui City. This is well-recorded, yet authentic and raw – the recording even captured the shuffling of the monks, their breathing and some background sounds in the quieter passages! It's these ritualistic stompings and hushed bits of chanting that stand amongst the highlights of this incredible field-recording document. The trance inducing sounds generated by monks is just intense, almost hypnotic in nature. Featuring skillful and moving polyphonic passages as well as many stripped down instrument accompanied sections (but very stripped down, only some sticks, stones and gongs – it is Zen after all) with vocals that leave me time and time again in total awe of their haunting qualities and totally beautiful delivery. So in a way this music is sheer heaviness. Not heaviness like the amped tuned to 11 heaviness. A different sort of heaviness, a "heavy" that's timeless, spiritual, feelin

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