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01. Psychic Tv - The Loops Of Mystical Union
02. Psychic Tv - Elipse Of Flowers
03. Psychic Tv - Mylar Breeze (Parts 1 & 2)
04. Psychic Tv - Mylar Breeze (Part 3)
05. Psychic Tv - Prayer For Derek
06. Psychic Tv - Rites Of Reversal
ARTIST
TITLE
A Prayer For Derek Jarman
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
CSR 351CD CSR 351CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/25/2025

Unavailable for almost 30 years in its own right, this collection from the Cold Spring archive has been repackaged and remastered with new art. This classic album exists as a document of the soundtrack work Psychic TV created for the many films and videos of Derek Jarman. Another demonstration of why Psychic TV were one of the most important groups in the world. The titular track, "Prayer For Derek," is intended as an invocationary prayer, based on Tibetan rituals; a collage of sounds including field recordings of the lulling waves running aground on the shingle beach opposite Jarman's Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent alongside bird song, crying babies, and massed ritualized chants to aid the late film director in his after-life journeys. Other tracks feature elongated drones, washes of dissonance, melancholic guitar chime, evocative piano scoring, Burroughs cut-ups, gothic chants, and familiar snarling gods. CD is featured in matt digipak with eight-page fold-out booklet, with detailed liner notes by Genesis P-Orridge (1997); Astorical anecdotes and background facts for completeness.