December's Gnostic Sonics

A couple of days later than I meant to post it- apologies for my tardiness- here's the latest transmission from Andrew Weatherall and his monthly gnostic sonics session for NTS. In Ancient Greece various early Christian and Jewish groups were labelled gnostics by their enemies. The gnostics were into personal spiritual knowledge in place of the established, orthodox teachings and authorities. Many gnostic teachings and texts from the 1st century AD do not deal with the concepts of sin and repentance but with enlightenment and illusion. They eschewed the rituals and instruction of the early church and instead favoured personal, internal motivation and intuition. Transcendence through personal experience was the way of the gnostic.

This episode has much to commend it, from the head-spinning psychedelia of the three opening tracks to the end with one from the excellent Rich Ruth album. It also has three new Weatherall releases too- a new one from Woodleigh Research Facility, a ghostly, echo-laden affair with Nina Walsh on vocals and two excellent remixes of Fireflies. Tracklist is here.