‘Drink It,’ an upbeat sitar folk melody, follows, briefly accompanying the main protagonist The Thief’s ill-considered decision to guzzle tequila (or sleeping potion). The deep, primordial chants that begin the movie, ‘Trance Mutation,’ give way to an almost jaunty percussion-and-plucked-strings melody, ‘Pissed and Passed Out.’ On the next track, ‘Violence of the Lambs,’ a single flute is slowly joined by a set of mournful strings while, onscreen, Gestapo-like soldiers in gas masks parade with bloody lamb carcasses on sticks. And, boy, did they deliver - the score to The Holy Mountain is every bit as hallucinatory as the fantastic visual imagery in the film itself. And when Jodorowsky wanted, in his words, ‘another kind of music - something that wasn’t entertainment, something that wasn’t a show, something that went to the soul, something profound,’ for the soundtrack to The Holy Mountain, forward came jazz legend Don Cherry and crack studio musician (and one-time Archie) Ron Frangipane to share composing and (along with Jodorowsky) conducting duties. After six months of sold-out midnight screenings at the Elgin, it was Lennon’s manager, Allen Klein (ABKCO’s founder), who bought the rights to El Topo and agreed to produce its follow-up, The Holy Mountain. When Jodorowsky and Douglas were looking for a venue in which to screen El Topo, it was John Lennon and Yoko Ono who asked for it to run at midnight following their short-film festival at New York’s Elgin Cinema. When Jodorowsky arrived in New York from Mexico City in 1970 carrying a copy of the then-unreleased El Topo, it was the jazz producer Alan Douglas who bought the distribution rights to the film. ![]() ![]() “One of the ironies of the career of Chilean-born filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is that while he is best known as a visual stylist, his most avid and loyal champions have often been musicians. Between all the new records and used records pouring in here we might need to take over the neighbours! Anyway, loads of killer stuff in and lots to do so I’ll leave you to it….Īlejandro Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain (Real Gone) LP I’m back! And what a mess I’ve made already.
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