Black Mass Lucifer


Black Mass Lucifer is an electronic instrumental album by Mort Garson first released in 1971.

Background

The music is composed and performed entirely by Garson himself on Moog synthesizers. While this record exhibits elements of occult rock in a sometimes sinister tone, it is nonetheless in the vein of Garson's other synthesizer-based music. Black Mass Lucifer is described as employing sounds typical of modular synthesis such as "abstract electronic sound effects," "white noise bursts," "twittering scales," "percolating synthesizers," and "synthetic bells."
After Black Mass Lucifer's original 1971 release on Uni Records, it was out of print for at least 35 years. In 2018 the album was reissued on CD by Rubellan Remasters via UMG.
Despite its low profile, the record has its fans, with one reviewer referring to it as "freaky and intense" and Garson's "masterpiece." Another noted that the record was created at the same time occult topics were highlighted in music, movies, and recent events.
The album has been given an authorized vinyl reissue in 2019 by Sacred Bones Records along with several other out-of-print Garson titles. The Sacred Bones edition replicates the original Uni rainbow label.

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