Label: Burchette Brothers Productions – 001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1973 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Occult
Mind-altering guitar seances from California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette.
As the story goes, Burchette began gorging on the full canon of parapsychological and occult literature from the early age of 12, heavily engrossed in the world of Tibetan mysticism alongside developing his own unique improvisational techniques for guitar. Channelling his esoteric study of vibrations, he crafted a uniquely hallucinogenic playing style crafting tonal patterns and pictures. In 1973, alongside his Brother (a chemist), they launched Burchette Brothers Productions with the Guitar Grimoire LP, self-funded and self-released, advertised in the back pages of various occult literature publications throughout the US. A private mail-order franchise was born. Or perhaps not - five years later after a short-run of now cult releases, together with hand-drawn artwork, a block-printed ‘Psychic Meditation Course’ and a variety of other paranormal goodies, the brothers abruptly ceased operations, discarded everything and burnt what they could. Maybe they went too far? Engulfed in the practice of crossing into other realms weights heavy on the mind. Burchette’s haunting modal glissando, quivering steel tremolo and suspended harmonics sound like little else though, as if picking up the thread of American Primitive Guitar and carrying into the domain of the supernatural. It’s a story that’s almost too good to be true, but it is. Perhaps the epitome of the US private press outsider. Rare OG! (VG++)
Tracklist A1 Birth Of A Witch 5:14 A2 Raising The Pyramid Of Power 8:11 A3 Love Call 5:18 B1 Invocation To The Horned One 4:39 B2 Fire Spell 3:36 B3 Building The Circle 4:41 B4 Witch's Will 4:54
