Moon & Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels

Tim Perkins, Alan Moore, David J | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1996)
• Original Release Date: March 12, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B000001JUB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,838 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture: Hair of the Snake That Bit Me

2. The Map Drawn on Vapour (I)

3. Livinoff's Book

4. The Map Drawn on Vapour (II)

5. The Stairs Beyond Substance

6. The Spectre Garden: (I) The Enochian Angel of the 7th Aethyr - (2) The Demon Regent Asmodeus - (III) The Diety Glycon

7. The Book of Copulation

8. Finale: A Town of Lights

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymystic, January 24, 1999

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John Scott Tynes "Writer and videogame designer" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon & Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels (Audio CD)

Alan Moore (WATCHMEN, FROM HELL, V FOR VENDETTA) cuts loose with this album-length spoken-word meditation/ritual encompassing Mystic London, the Kray twins, the magickal correspondences within the wedding of Charles & Diana, Jack the Ripper, and the entire freaking cosmos including Richard Nixon. It's an amazing, mind-bending piece of work, with haunting music and sound by Bauhaus's David J and friends. If you've read Moore's FROM HELL, you may remember the tour of mystic London that Gull takes with his cab driver; by the end of it, the driver is overcome as Gull reveals the grand mystical design underpinning London and tying together all its landmarks. This album is in the vein of that travelogue, with Moore as your holy-fool narrator. Don't miss this gem! (--John Tynes, Pagan Publishing)

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't wake the snake!, January 14, 2000

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Richard Cody "witer of fine and not so fine p... (Big Sur, The Golden State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moon & Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels (Audio CD)

Alan Moore, long considered a unique and innovative writer in the "comic book" field, proves himself to be an artist of real and profound vision with this recording. The listener is taken on a geographical and historical tour of London, and that is only the beginning. Mr. Moore escorts us further, into another London, that which like all cities exists in the heads of it's inhabitants. From there we travel further and further into occult realms of the mind - that place where all creation begins and ends - and are given a glimpse of Truth - "There is only one person." The aural soundscapes created by David J and Tim Perkins complete this journey into the mystic. Buy it today but be warned - this is heavy and heady stuff, it may just change your mind. literally.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars stunning and hypnotic, February 6, 1999

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Andy Bartel ([e-mail]) (Southern California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moon & Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels (Audio CD)

The album is amazing. Alan Moore's voice reaches a hypnotic and enthralling intensity that truly captivates. I don't generally like spoken word, but I loved this album. The first and last track listings (actually it's just one track on the cd) are actually songs with A Moore singing. The rest has him speaking with soundscapes pulsating in the background. He goes over quite a bit of material that he wrote of in his "From Hell" serial. Mostly his ideas on British history and folklore. I've never been particularly interested in such, but hearing him talk about it was (and is) amazing!