Lucifer Rising BLUE VINYL: Jimmy Page Ltd Ed 1000 RARE

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LUCIFER RISING
Clear Blue Vinyl-- limited edition of 1000 copies. / Cover VG++, CLEAN with small dinks on corners, very small creases along edge of front spine, a bit of minor scuffing, a small surface crease on lower right corner, no discenable ringwear-- a subtle indentation, but NO image or sleeve wear from vinyl edges... ***IMAGE SHOWN is from an on-line catalogue, NOT the vinyl in my possesion***. Back cover is about perfect, a few very small creases on edge. VINYL NM+, as disc was played twice by owner.
This copy has NO NUMBER written in the "QABALISTIC ISSUE NUMBER line provided on back. This copy was given to the owner several years ago during while in the studio in LA where it was produced. (Perhaps before they were numbered?)

Lucifer Rising, by Jimmy Page, released by Boleskine House Records in Carmichael, California (Boleskine House Records BHR666) on June 19, 1987. The rare 12" blue vinyl disc contains 23 minutes of trippy soundtrack music Page provided for the movie, "Lucifer Rising", by the avant-garde film maker Kenneth Anger. A fine handsome copy of a very scarce recording.

The all instrumental soundtrack was partially recorded between November 1973 and 1974, at Aleister Crowley’s former Loch Ness Estate, Boleskine House, purchased by Page in 1971. Due to a dispute between Anger and Page on the pace of the recording, Page's soundtrack was dropped from the film and instead musician Bobby Beausoleil, a member of the Manson family, was commissioned to complete it. For the soundtrack, Page experimented with the use of synthesizers, hoping to create a kind of timelessness by bending and changing the sounds of the instruments, so they could not be easily identified. The insert of the unfinished album read, “Page plays all music by himself, most of which was done on an electric guitar being run through an early ARP Synthesizer. An incomplete version of the film was premiered in Los Angeles in September from which this recording comes.” In actuality, there was very little guitar on the soundtrack, as the synthesizer warped most of the sounds beyond recognition. In total, Page turned over about 28 minutes of music for Anger to use, not enough for a complete record and certainly less than what Anger was expecting.