The Discordian Salon

by Antero Alli, and Sylvi Alli

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Format:	Audio CD
Discs:	1
ISBN-10:	1-61869-581-9
ISBN-13:	978-1-61869-581-9

Description

The Discordian Salon opens with ‘Companions of the Flame’, a siren call from The Haunting Songs (featuring Antero on guitar, and Sylvi Alli on vocals, piano, accordion and lyrics). You’ll hear Antero’s rare Experimental Piano Solos (performed in the dark as blind improvisations), and his Spoken Word Performance Poetry. Join him at the mysterious Illuminati gathering in The Cosmic Trigger Effect hosted by Robert Anton Wilson. Here Antero sees a UFO, meets Greg Hill (author of Principia Discordia), and learns how to play Five-Card Katma with his unpublished Discordian Tarot deck.

It features Antero’s first ever public recording of his solo piano experiments, something he’s kept private for over fifty years. Asked why he plays in the dark: ‘I only want to play what I’m feeling, and seeing the keys gets in the way.' Asked why he’s kept them private (until now): ‘I’ve had so much of my work exposed and consumed by the public, I needed a sanctuary from the world, a dimension outside of time and space, and my music gives me that.’

PIANO EXPERIMENTS & THE HAUNTING SONGS

1) “Companions of the Flame” (3:36) Sylvi Alli, lyrics & vocals; Antero Alli, guitar

2) “Corridors” (8:37) Antero Alli, piano

3) “No Return”(4:42) Sylvi Alli, lyrics, piano, vocals; Antero Alli, guitar (from the soundtrack of “Tracer”)

4) “The Valley” (5:18) Antero Alli, piano

5) “Far and Near” (5:12) Sylvi Alli, piano, & vocals; Antero Alli, lyrics & guitar

6) “Magnetic North” (5:19) Antero Alli, piano

7) “Deep Blue” (4:24) Sylvi Alli, accordian, lyrics & vocals; Antero Alli, guitar

PERFORMANCE POETRY

8) “The Word, Weird” (5:35) Antero Alli, words & voice

9) “Mouvement” (3:14) Arthur Rimbaud, words Antero Alli, treated voice; Sylvi Alli, vocals & drums

10) “Living with a Sorceress” (4:06) Antero Alli, words & voice

THE COSMIC TRIGGER EFFECT

11) “Robert Anton Wilson Part 1” (7:45) Arlen Wilson the Muse; Meeting Greg Hill; The UFO; Faster than a Speeding Photon, The Trick Top Hat; As the Worm Turns: A Psychic Soap Opera

12) “Robert Anton Wilson Part 2” (10:44) The Discordian Tarot & Five Card Catma; Cosmic Triggered; Bob’s Quantum Writing Style; Music: Dwight Loop; The Anti-Guru; Tragic Losses; Life After Bob; Music: Dwight Loop

13) “Bells” (2:00) Sylvi, music & voice; Antero, words

Listen to an Audio Excerpt

Mouvement

About the Authors

Antero Alli

Antero Alli is the author of Astrologik; Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman’s Guide to Reality Selection; The Eight-Circuit Brain: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body; Towards an Archeology of the Soul; The Akashic Record Player: A Non-Stop Geomantic Conspiracy; A Modern Shaman's Guide to a Pregnant Universe (with C.S. Hyatt); The Vertical Oracle (with Sylvi Pickering-Alli); and State of Emergence: Experiments in Group Ritual Dynamics. Antero is also a practicing astrologer, a prolific underground filmmaker, and an experimental theatre director.