“Once
you have caught the lizards, put them in separate bags.
Then take the first one and talk to her. Apologize for hurting
her, and beg her to help you. And with a wooden needle sew up
her mouth. Use the fibres of agave and one of the thorns of a
choya to do the sewing. Draw the stitches tight. Then tell the
other lizard the same things and sew her eyelids together. By the
time night begins to fall you will be ready. Take the lizard with
the sewed-up mouth and explain to her the matter you want to
know about. Ask her to go and see for you; tell her you had to
sew up her mouth so she would hurry back to you and not talk to anyone else… Sewing up her mouth prevents her from telling her story to strangers. People say lizards are talkative; they will stop anywhere to talk… Sooner or later the lizard that
went to see comes back and tells her sister all about her journey,
and the blind lizard describes it to you as though you were her kind…”
CARLOS
CASTANEDA
According to ancient shamanic traditions the album is divided into two worlds - Top and Bottom. Cheerful and fast compositions have entered into the Top world, in Bottom - gloomy and slow. Lizards - one with the sewn up mouth, another - with the sewn up centuries - appear in quality of conductors in these worlds, as in ancient shamanic ritual described by C. Castaneda.
UPPER WORLD
Silent Lizard Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Mikhailov Flower Gathering Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Mikhailov Dance Of the Forest Glades Trip Master plays a Nepali morchunge Tynda Acid City Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Gotovtsev Dance Of the Forest Glades - altai jungle version Trip Master plays an Altai jew’s harp made by master V.Potkin Bogatyrskaya Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Mikhailov Speed Of Light Trip Master plays an Altai jew’s harp made by master V.Potkin Children’s Trip Master plays a Nepali morchunge Forbidden! Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Mikhailov
LOWER WORLD
Blind Lizard Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Khristoforov Shaman And Storm Asula Mori –synthesizer, Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Khristoforov Hunting Of a Bear Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Khristoforov and the Hungarian doromb “Tibet” Flight Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Mikhailov Farewell Asula Mori –synthesizer, Trip Master plays a Yakut khomus made by master Khristoforov
"Witchkraft with lizards" is a rattling mix of music of ultramodern styles like trance, acid, drum’n’bass, jungle, ambient with traditional shamanic motives of the different people, live-played with the help ancient shamanic instrument vargan. Approaches equally both for dancings, and for chill - out and home listening.
