Book of Souls: Folio A is a fully organic production. This album is the kind of titanic, almost Faustian undertaking that is uniquely appropriate to Secret Chiefs 3, and for all that pomp it’s easy to forget that everything is DIY to the core. With productions based in studios in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, the UK and France over the last eleven years, the band’s leader Trey Spruance enlisted a small army of musicians-or actually not so small, since the orchestral tasks demanded by the music seem to be so unlimited.īut familiar names in the Secret Chiefs 3 canon form the backbone of the recording band: Timb Harris, Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily, Anonymous 13, Danny Heifetz, William Winant, with live-band initiates Matt Lebofsky, Kenny Grohowski and Toby Driver adding extra life. Over a decade in the making, it’s Secret Chiefs 3’s most elaborate work yet.įollowing the seven-band schemata laid out in Book of Horizons, Book of Souls thoroughly establishes the depth of Secret Chiefs 3’s journey into lost musical possibilities. ![]() ![]() True to expectation, Book of Souls: Folio A is a full-length album densely packed with musical skyscrapers. ![]() ![]() For Book of Souls, second in the band’s mega-trilogy (first being Book of Horizons, 2004), they demand nothing less than a vertigo-inducing follow-up. Listeners have come to expect a lot from Secret Chiefs 3.
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