A new release from Blood of the Black Owl...

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***Available now in the store (extremely limited stock)!***

Announcing a Blood of the Black Owl / Samaritan Press collaboration,

“Spirit Canoe : Soaring the Shadow Spiral”

Every aspect of this collaborative release was crafted with our collective heart and hands. Showcasing all original visions crafted from the profound artistry of David V. D'Andrea. All components printed & assembled in-house at ~Samaritan Press~ Olympia, WA MMXXIII.

Catalog numbers:

(GTR-033)

Glass Throat Recordings

(SMRTN-003)

Samaritan Press

A limited edition run of 150 dubbed in real time cassettes (comes with digital download).

This release features the following artifacts:

- A 12"x12” two color letterpress print by DV D’Andrea. This drawing was drawn by hand with direct transmission from the Spirit Canoe. It was printed on the C&P platen press (mfg 1910) with foot pumped treadle on 100% cotton rag paper. Signed and numbered in an edition of 150.

- A custom cassette box printed in gold letterpress on black stock with booklet cover featuring custom illustrations throughout.

- Hand stamped and numbered upon vintage antiquated gold cassette shells.

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As a seeker, and long standing solitary practitioner of a path I keep safe within, this collection of ecstatic trance work has become another turn of the great wheel-- a musical memoir if you will, within the light and darkness of personal growth; a collection of experience, not a destination! My heart honors love and longing, and being in awe of the conduit that mystery has given my spirit within the four winds of this medicinal musical.

A journey of acoustic, worldly soundscapes performed as an intense and sometimes brutal aural cleanse; devotional, sacral crafts of my own deepening path towards well-being and natural spirituality: this collection of two works in three movements, and my craft as a whole, is not of religion and thus should never be confused with such particular programs of monotheistic or even polytheistic practice(s). 

"Natural spirituality is the birthright of a consciousness embodied in an Earthly life, and it honors the gifts of that life.” In short, it is the integration of awareness (focus), alignment of self, metamorphosis (release) and actualization. "An organic enactment of connectedness to source. A manifested awareness of inherent connectedness to all. It is a spirituality that belongs to no particular gender, race, age, system, or path. Its only prerequisites are awareness and authentic respectful participation. All else unfolds from these." --Loren Cruden, Compass of the Heart

My intentions offer a strict implementation of authentic hand-crafted ceremonial & ritual instrumentation. A movement with focus on the being through somatic sacred breath-- a flowing music that spirals from the still emptiness of a once-intellectualized self toward that of a primordial embodiment. 

Instrumental conduits feature: Vardlokkur’s mystery* voices & Galdr* Nidstang!* moose hide frame drums* antique horse hide tympani* floor tom* four gates thunder gong* indigenous flutes including a redwood drone* skull callers* bone flutes & whistles* clay ocarinas* antler ceremonial horns* gemshorn* black bear bladder medicine rattle* elk bladder shakers* elk & goat hooves* brass tubular & Mongolian herding bells* original environmental recordings* harmonium* mountain dulcimer* acoustic guitar*

All soundscapes composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by Chet W. Scott.

Recorded using a sound console without the use of software simulation and trickery at Glass Throat Recordings on the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present. I raise up with honor and gratitude the Coast Salish land itself and the Dkhw Duw’Absh. June of MMXIV.

A very special thank you to David V. D’Andrea for your interest, understanding, respect, and beautifully supportive curation of this collection. I am truly grateful and thankful for your spirit.

-Chet W. Scott

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(SIDE A: CASSETTE)

Originally titled "Spirit Canoe: Hailing Father Sky"  this ritual was initially recorded back in February of 2011 during the "Light the Fires!" sessions and was intended to be an exclusive opening ritual to the "Light the Fires!" vinyl format, replacing the CD version "Caller of Spirits." The vinyl format was never released for "Light the Fires!" and the Spirit Canoe offering hibernated till now. In October of 2013, "Spirit Canoe" was offered as a track within a digital compilation showcased through Heathen Harvest. It was entitled "Samhainwork II."

"Soaring the Shadow Spiral" was a private ritual performance captured live during a remote retreat outdoors within the old growth wilderness January of 2014. It was later detailed and finished at Glass Throat Recordings on the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present.

Both of these ceremonial works were released together as a digital EP (GTR-023) back in 2014 through Glass Throat Recordings.

This is the very first time they have been showcased through any tangible format. I have edited together both works to flow as one journey for Side A of this cassette release. 

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(SIDE B: CASSETTE)

“Cursed Be All Missionaries!” is an audible Nidstang captured live during liminal state of November 1st, 2020 and set into movement at exactly 12:00am PDT.

"Cursed Be All Missionaries!" was a private ritual performance that was later detailed and finished at Glass Throat Recordings of Coast Salish / Duwamish lands.

All Instrumentation, voices and authentic ritual implements: Composed, performed, recorded / mixed and produced by sole member Chet W. Scott (2020).

***AUTHENTIC INSTRUMENTATION*** used in the creation of this craft featured: * A Nithing curse! * voices * bone flutes, whistles and antler ceremonial horns * gemshorn * redwood indigenous drone flute * black bear bladder medicine rattle * thunder (four gates) gong * antique horse hide tympani * floor tom * mountain dulcimer *

The craft was initially offered for a musical compilation benefitting the Yanomami Tribe and was released December 20, 2020 through the Orb Weaver Collective. 

 -Chet W. Scott

 To anyone whom actually takes the time to read this, please know I greatly appreciate your interest and potential support.

I'm relieved to finally announce that tomorrow 3/3/23 for Bandcamp Friday, my thirteen year journey under the moniker of Cycle of the Raven Talons, crafting an album entitled "A Medicinal Musical" will finally be available for purchase. Featuring Glass Throat Recordings original oversized 6"x 6" deluxe gatefolds, this double CD will showcase full clear white foil stamping upon a heavily texted white stock.

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-Chet W. Scott

This medicinal musical journey is dedicated to the people of Turtle Island.

“The way to catch the river is to hold very lightly”

-Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo 

Chet W. Scott

under the moniker and original sigil

Cycle of the Raven Talons

presents:

A Medicinal Musical:

Disc :I:

I: Tatanka Nishna Aku

II: My Intentions Dawning

III: To Live Again

Disc :II:  

IV: Crying

V: Seek In Shadow, Release Into Light

A seeker and long standing solitary practitioner of a path I keep within, this collection of sacred ecstatic drum and flute work has become another turn of the great wheel. A musical memoir if you will, within the light and darkness of personal growth; a collection of experience, not a destination! These four ceremonies are inspired perspectives through the sacred medicine hoop or circle. My heart honors love and longing, and being in awe of the conduit that great mystery has provided my spirit within the four winds of this medicinal musical.

A journey of strictly acoustic, worldly soundscapes performed as an intense and sometimes brutal aural cleanse; devotional, sacral crafts of my own deepening path towards well-being and natural spirituality: this collection and my craft as a whole, is not of religion and thus should never be confused with such particular programs of monotheistic or even polytheistic practice(s). 

"Natural spirituality is the birthright of a consciousness embodied in an Earthly life, and it honors the gifts of that life.” In short, it is the integration of awareness (focus), alignment of self, metamorphosis (release) and actualization. "An organic enactment of connectedness to source. A manifested awareness of inherent connectedness to all. It is a spirituality that belongs to no particular gender, race, age, system, or path. Its only prerequisites are awareness and authentic respectful participation. All else unfolds from these."

-Loren Cruden, Compass of the Heart

My intentions offer a strict implementation of authentic hand-crafted ceremonial & ritual instrumentation. A movement with focus on the being through somatic sacred breath-- a flowing music that spirals from the still emptiness of a once-intellectualized self toward that of a primordial embodiment.

All organic Instrumentation, voices (including choral arrangements) and authentic ceremonial/ritual elements: Composed, performed, recorded and produced by sole member Chet W. Scott

(2009-2022).

Opening prayer, spoken word and song courtesy of my dear brother, my Kola,

Tatanka Nishna Aku. 

Guest sacred breath performers within "To Live Again" courtesy of

Carles Jiménez and Daniel Pablo.

Illustrated Wacanga (Mother's hair) braid spiral courtesy of my brother

James Woodhead. 

Recorded on an actual sound console eschewing the use of all modern instrumentation including software simulation, manipulation and trickery at Glass Throat Recordings upon the unceded ancestral lands of the first people of the Dkhw Duw’Absh, (Duwamish Tribe), past and present. Environmental recordings and performances were captured within wild old growth rain forest and lake locations throughout the Pacific Northwestern region of Turtle Island. I raise up with honor and gratitude the Coast Salish land itself and the Dkhw Duw’Absh.

"Seek In Shadow, Release Into Light" performed and recorded within Heimskautsgerðið (The Arctic Henge), Raufarhöfn, Northeastern Iceland. As well as a remote fjord fishing cabin in Sòlbrekka, Eastern Iceland. 

***AUTHENTIC INSTRUMENTATION***

used in the craft and creation of this collection featured: * original environmental recordings * grandfather elk (40" and 24" moose hide) indigenous ceremonial frame drums * horse hair beater * thunder gong * black bear bladder and elk antler bladder rattles * goat hoof shakers * voices (including animist vocal and flute mimicry) * choral arrangements * antler, horn, redwood, cedar, red willow, birch, walnut and bone indigenous drone/harmony flutes * female elk and black tail deer skull callers * vulture bone whistle * hunter's horns * gemshorn * tibetan ritual horns * clay and wood ocarinas * quartz crystal meditative bowls * antique sleigh bells * small energy bells * large brass tubular bells * antique mongolian herding bells *antique tibetan ritual bells * antique horse hide tympani *

***TESTIMONIALS***

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“A magician who uses music as practice, rather than a musician who creates magical music”

-Aurora Borealis

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“Remember to touch the earth and wash your face in it. And when you breath in that cedar wind, deep soil and rain soaked mosses through the trees, lay upon her and you will know this music.”

-White Elk

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"I sat through these four specifically designed crafts twice. I felt an out of body experience, one I’ve honestly never felt before in music. I can not wait for this album to be released!”

-Loon

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“The winds lift of an Eagle high above, while a petal that falls to the earth in beautiful decay. This I feel, is the message that embodies the medicinal art of Chet W. Scott’s Cycle of the Raven Talons”

-Cypripedioideae

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"A collection of four, twenty minute musical decents into the caves of stillness. This is not music to be taken lightly and put on as driving or background filler. These are soundscapes of an aware meditation through a profound musical experience."

-The Gods Have Not

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“The "Medicinal Musical" Chet W. Scott offers is a sound of primordial spirit. An exquisite and deeply needed plea for reconnection is persuasive and engaged.”

-The Northern Healer Rewilding Collective

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“Using really responsive ear covering headphones, I journeyed deep within this ceremonial craft. I can’t fathom I just sat still through 80 minutes of music. It honestly felt like half that duration. Afterwards, I felt clear minded and emotionally relieved. I experienced an awareness of feeling dialed into my environment so to speak. Much like a sound engineer might tune a room acoustically, these “Medicinal Musicals” Chet W. Scott calls them tuned my being... Intense!”

-Stefan Burnett

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“I sit here in tears as I write this to You. I have a 14 year old son with profound Autism. When I play the "medicinal musicals” of Cycle of the Raven Talons, I can honestly say i’ve never seen him so attentive yet calmed by the sound and feel of the work. He will sit quietly through nearly all four meditations. Thank you dearly."

-Nancy Holbeck (Mother)

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"This collection towers over me as the most transcendent piece of devotional music I've ever heard. I am stunned by Chet W. Scott's ability to create these musical pathways that root us directly to our innermost experiences. These offerings are informed not only buy the wisdom of ancients, but of what is given from within in times of surrender and stillness. Thank you for the medicine."

-James Martinez (Orb Weaver Collective)

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"In the Medicinal Musical, rhythm and primordial breath hold the space for an authentic ceremonial experience. As i entered this web of sound, I felt held in a sonic wheel of mystery, where through masterful elemental channeling, wholeness is restored."

-Lady Heron

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"Regarding "Crying" I saw two Eagles flying in a circle then transforming into flames... to become one women.

Really a beautiful and deep song."

-Celine Cix

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"Follow the breath inward

The stillness becomes movement

The movement becomes stillness  

Once more connected 

Rooted and liberated  

Instinctual memory 

The warmth of presence

Consonance of spirit  

The medicine of being"

-Mist Drinker

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"Thank you for releasing that collection. As I watched the silhouetted trees against moonlight and listened, I deeply connected with the work, as a result was inspired to write on what I took away and was nourished by..."

: As it rises, upon us & o'er hinterlands, 

Radiance & core of being, 

Those Easterly mountainous planes, 

In yore; fallen Giants we're seeing, 

As it rises, exposing colossal planes, 

Thawing out matter, so Nether does rise, 

Re-emergence into ethereal sphere, 

To realign further, than corporeal eyes, 

May those Fires, upon eclipsed lands, 

Cast deeper shadows like an ever arcing sea,

Wild fires of fulfilled & resolved Spirits, bridging 

Across firmament, no longer to become nor be, 

Submerged by black earth & moss, 

The Ancient Body is acme in slumber, 

Through ancestral observance, may we feed

Its dreams, from which we shall nourish & remember, 

Ground awake, primordial roots, 

Dismantle the stratum, duality unmasked, 

Beating heart upon beaten drum, 

Inhale echoes of what ancestors asked, 

Final Night enclosed, as Stars are swallowed,  

Once the clenched wolf jaw beckons, 

So, we all, pass on through, 

The Cycle of the Raven Talons :

January, 13th, MMXX

-Elurka

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