Review from the dustygrooves.com website.

An incredible document of a lost avant-cinema classic -- Bobby BeauSoleil's lost soundtrack to the late Kenneth Anger film Lucifer Rising -- presented here with a huge amount of bonus material! The music, like the film, is incredibly spooky stuff -- long, moody guitar-based tracks that spin out into the darkness -- invoking the demonic magikal powers that Anger directed with his cinema, and performed in a spare, un-redemptive style that is incredibly chilling.

Forget all the later 70s horror soundtracks that dominated the genre, because Beausoleil pretty much set the whole tone himself in this recording! Not only that, the whole package features some great liner notes -- documenting the decline of the summer of love, BeauSoleil's ties to the Manson family, and his time in prison, where the music was recorded. The set also features a bonus disc with rehearsal performances of the music, and earlier tracks by The Orkustra, a group of Bobby's. Really great stuff -- and as chilling as can be! Titles include "Lucifer Rising", "Flash Gordon", and "Punjab's Barber".

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