Celephais by Psyclopean

Psyclopean explores Lovecraft's ancient dream city of Celephais in a surreal lo-fi dark ambient journey laden with the tones of nostalgic dungeon synth and the hazy textures of a pot smoke-filled basement covered in black light posters of dragons and wizards. The music style of this album (and several other Psyclopean albums) is an off-shoot subgenre known as We-Fi, or Weird Fidelity, primarily pulled from the aesthetic of weird fiction authors like Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Algernon Blackwood, and others, mixed with the psychedelic sounds found within late 60's and 70's prog rock and Berlin School-type vibes. The style attempts to capture a surreal lo-fi dark ambient musical narrative laden with the nostalgic tones of dungeon synth, retro documentaries, and the hazy textures of a half remembered dream of pot smoke-filled basements covered in black light posters of dragons and wizards.
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Kuranes was a great dreamer and made frequent visits to the Dreamlands. In the waking world, he was of landed gentry in Cornwall, but as his fortunes declined he retreated into fantasy and drug use, eventually dying impoverished and homeless. In his dreams, he created the city of Celephaïs, the valley of Ooth-Nargai, in which Celephaïs was situated, and presumably the cloud city of Serannian, which was connected with Celephaïs. After he died he became the king and chief god of Celephaïs. He didn't care for the pomp and grandeur of Dreamland court life, and preferred to live most of the time in a nearby area he created to resemble the house and land in Cornwall where he had lived as a boy.
He is the only dreamer who has gone to the outermost void "where no dreams reach", that is the court of Azathoth, and survived with both life and sanity intact.

Tracklist

1.	Losing The Battle Against The Autumn Years Of Life	4:31

2.	Abandon Thy Worldly Existence For Celephais	2:30

3.	A City Dreamt Of, Ageless And Unchanging, Emerges From Beyond The Incense Smoke	4:20

4.	Enduring The Storm, The Hashish Caravan Of Ooth-Nargai Arrives	12:23

5.	The Procession Of Kuranes And His Knights	2:20

6.	Dreams Become Prisons In The Court Of Azathoth	7:16

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Credits

released December 6, 2018

Performed, recorded, and mastered by Matt Schmitz at House Of The Rising Sun Studio, Hartford, WI.

Artwork by Frans Francken the Younger.

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