Spectra ex Machina / A Sound Anthology of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol.1, by V/A ---- NOW AVAILABLE AS CD + BOOKLET !

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1.	Haunting Spirits and Haunted Places [London, England, May 14, 1930] 01:33	buy track
2.	Gladys Osborne Leonard and the spirit of "Feda," in the presence of Reverend W.S. Irving and T. Besterman [London, England, November 17, 1932] 01:08	buy track
3.	Rudi Schneider's Trance [London, England, 1933] 00:57	buy track
4.	Harry Houdini's "final séance" [Hollywood, USA, October 31, 1936] 02:31	buy track
5.	Ivy Carter Beaumont aka "Rosemary": "The Speech of Ancient Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty" [England, July 14, 1938] 02:09	buy track
6.	Einer Nielsen and the "spectral voices" of "Astrid" and "Bischof Liljeblad" [Copenhagen, Denmark, c. 1950] 01:16	buy track
7.	Leslie Flint and the "voice" of Oscar Wilde of Reverend W.S. Irving and T. Besterman [London, England, August 20, 1962] 02:06	buy track
8.	A spiritism Séance Broadcast on the Radio [Paris. France. 1976] 05:23	buy track
9.	The Rosenheim Case [Germany, December 1967] 01:04	buy track
10.	The Th. case of Reverend W.S. Irving and T. Besterman [Switzerland, April 16, 1967] 01:24	buy track
11.	The S. case [Germany, 1968] 02:04	buy track
12.	The P. case [Germany, December 1971] 00:36	buy track
13.	Knocking phenomena [Germany, 1974] 01:17	buy track
14.	Émile Tizané about "little hauntings" [Paris, France, 1976] 04:18	buy track
15.	Voice produced by Janet Hodgson during a trance [Enfield, England, January-February 1978] 01:06	buy track
16.	Dominique and the "talking wall" [La Machine, France, 1973] 04:12	buy track
17.	Anneliese Michel's Exorcism Ritual by Father Arnold Renz [Klingenberg, Germany, 1976] 01:36	buy track
18.	Denys Renaudin's Investigation of a Haunting case [Paris, France, 1979] 05:30	buy track
19.	Jack Sutton and the "haunted airfield" [Norfolk, England, c. 1980] 02:06	buy track
20.	"Paranormal" Explosion [London, England, 1995] 00:19	buy track

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'Have a gramophone in every grave...'
James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

The Anthology Spectra Ex Machina brings together rare documents pertaining to so-called occult phenomena, most of them taken from little-known archives. In the course of three volumes, this series traces an audio history of parapsychology through the exploration of spiritualism and haunted houses (vol. 1); musician mediums (vol. 2); experiences of extrasensory perceptions (clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc.) and electronic voice phenomena (vol. 3).

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released March 1, 2024

Curated by Philippe Baudouin.

The documents gathered here are, by their extravagance and far-fetched aspects, more than the mere objects of belief one would be tempted to reduce them to. They are vestiges of aberrant phenomena, fossils of an unknown civilization buried in the depths of the unconscious that are revived, in a way, when we listen to them. They can be understood as "works," in the full artistic sense of the word, and constitute a kind of "cabinet of sound curiosities" that is worthy of aesthetic interest. Sometimes imbued with a disconcerting dramatic intensity, these documents bear the features of an authentic time machine, placing the listener in the position of a witness of the time immersed in the dim darkness of the experimental hall. And it is at that precise moment that the aesthetic power of these archives takes precedence over their probative value. Their somewhat old-fashioned charm, maintained by the surface noise of magnetic tapes and old wax disks, gets stronger with each listen.

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