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Book Of Shadows limited CDr release ‘Eternal Now’ takes us through improvised
sound sculptures of drones and spacey moods. The five tracks running for 73
minutes occupies our concentration when ...

On the same label comes “The Secret Garden”, another excellent release from the
ever reliable Book of Shadows. Once again, mystical, shimmering drones,
echoed guitar and loads of atmosphere are th...

 Book of Shadows: Isadora Shadow/777 Musicyourmindwillloveyou (mymwly0107)/Ikuisuus (2008)It’s been several months since I received a few new CD-r releases by the Texan-based, improvisational, magical...

So, this is the first time in quite awhile that I havn't had an upcoming show for Book of Shadows booked. I've been playing in Austin underground bands since 1985 so in a way this is liberating, to not have a show booked, but I also have to wonder why all of the bands I give shows to rarely offer us/Book of Shadows a show? It's given us a chance to concentrate on studio recording and work with people from Future Blondes and Indian Jewelry, a couple of Houston bands, which has been very fun and rewarding. But I think the main reason I havn't booked another show is that I don't want to work with/answer to bartenders who have terrible taste in music and who are convinced they have the only taste in music. You would think that Austin, the music mecca of the Southwest would have ton's of clubs that would be open to original music, (isn't that the goal of an artist? To create art?) but that's never been the case. There's always tons of other musicians who will be influenced by what you do but it seems the only way to get completely ignored/repressed in Austin is to create original art/music. I used to think that the Chronicle and the people who control the Austin music scene just had bad taste in music but after 25 years of seeing generation after generation of great musicians, who influence the rest of world, be ignored in Austin I began to realize that the Chronicle and the rest of the Austin music media really do have an agenda against original music. It seems to be a combination of not wanting to offend advertisers and truly not understanding or caring what art is. Art is taking someone's awareness from point A to point B, this is usually frightening or confusing at first but the goal of an artist is to create art, create a new reality for people to live in, have access to etc. When you find out that the people who run the Chronicle etc. actually have an agenda against original/new music while championing corporate roots rock and country music decade after decade then this is truly unacceptable because it is anti-art and anti everything Austin supposedly stands for.

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Book of Shadows "777"
Ikuisuus

Effusive, magickal, ethereal, spacious, ambient: all of these terms can be used to descri...

Book of Shadows - "The Cosmic Doctrine" (Ruralfaune 2008, rur042) Book of Shadows - "777" (Ikuisuus 2008) Book of Shadows - "Isadora Shadow" (Whirling Rainbow Music 2008, mymwly0107)

From Aural Inn...

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BOOK OF SHADOWS – ISADORA SHADOW
BOOK OF SHADOWS – 777
BOOK OF SHADOWS- DREAM OF THE BLUE HUMMINGBIRD
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Hocus Pocus

Book of Shadows
The Book of Shadows is used by followers of neo-pagan witchcraft traditions as a way of documenting successful spells and magical practices. The same could be said of the ...

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Book Of Shadows - 777

Monday, September 15 2008 @ 12:00 AM PDTContributed by: Edgar Kerval

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Artist: Book Of Shadows
Title: 777
Label: Ikuisuus

Genre: Experimental / Guitar Ambie...

Book of Shadows - The Cosmic Doctrine cdr (Rural Faune) 5.50

Eerie, ethereal and gothic, but not "goth", the title of this album and the name of the band are taken from books of a magic(k)al nature....

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Interview with Book of Shadows February 2008
Book of Shadows began in 1999 when Carlton Crutcher, longtime member of space rock band ST37, began recording with his wife Sharon.  These r...

Book of Shadows - "The Inner World" (Artificial Music Machine 2007, digital download)

From Aural Innovations 37 (September 2007)
Hot on the heels of their last album - "…and then we all woke up" (...