Black Merlin
Kosua
Incredible homemade ethnodelic fantasies from London based artist Black Merlin (George Thompson) started a deep love affair with the remote island of Papua New Guinea. After his first album ‘Hipnotik Tradisi’, released on Island Of The Gods; George was intrigued to find a place drenched in culture and untouched by the western world.In 2016 George planned his first solo expedition, venturing out to meet the Kosua Tribe. Over the course of the next two years George would record the sounds of the K…
Hipnotik Tradisi
2017 repress. Lovely faux-gamelan and homemade ethnodelic fantasies from London based artist Black Merlin, an hypnotic journey through Indonesia birthed from raw field recordings captured in Bali and it’s surrounding islands and land's of Indonesia. A soundscape album of field recording's and a modern interpretation of the island's ancient sounds - from the old world musicians of Bali. The front cover features Ketut, Ubudian Gamelan master who plays on the record. The first in a series of ‘Is…