The Final Dreams Of The Beast

Bill’s soundtrack from 1988 finally released!

– In 1988, I was approached by an independent filmmaker who asked me to compose a soundtrack for a film he was hoping to make. The film revolved around the final days of occultist, Aleister Crowley. After reading the script and seeing the storyboards, I told him I would record a short presentation and if he liked it, enough music for the entire film.

I initially tried using some other musicians (keyboardists), but trying to translate what was in my head -through to their fingers- proved impossible. The soundtrack I was hearing was far more abstract and ambient than I could accomplish with just my guitar and effects, so I decided to avoid rock guitar altogether, and instead ran out and bought one of the very first MIDI digital guitars available – a Casio DG-20, and a Yamaha FB-01 synth module for the voices.

All of this music was recorded with this (now) primitive setup.

Unfortunately, the film was never able to find the funding necessary to make it a reality. The recording languished in the tape vault of Random Bullet Studios until during the studio’s transition to digital, the eight track master tapes were accidently destroyed. It wasn’t until a stereo mixdown safety copy was recently found that there seemed any hope that this music would ever be heard by anyone but me. I have purposely avoided “updating” it, instead I present it here exactly as it was originally recorded and mixed. I hope it finds it’s way to the ears it was written for….

- Bill MacKechnie April 7th, 2012

Note: As always, this new release will be added to the ANUBIS SPIRE MusXpand page, bringing the amount of FULL ALBUMS you get for a CHEAP 15$ one year membership to SEVEN (and ERRATICA is just around the corner! so it’ll be EIGHT this year…) With more on the way!

Become a fan and get access to ALL of our previously released albums!

-Old Lions (in the world of snarling sheep)
-Back To Abydos
-Children Of A Foreign Faith
-Lost Discoveries: 1998 – 2008
-PLUS the NEW (soon to be released EXCLUSIVELY ON MUSXPAND) ERRATICA album.

AND special full CD bonuses…

- Hum, Hiss, Crackle and Pop (The Early Demos Of Bill MacKechnie)
- THE GODS HAVE CHOSEN- A Tribute To The Music Of Anubis Spire (Various Artists)

That’s SEVEN full abums of GREAT A.S. music, all for a simple $15, one year, ANUBIS SPIRE fan subscription!

GO CHECK IT OUT NOW!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AMIR_RWGPRLog (Press Release) – Feb 11, 2012 –
Kool and The Gang’s guitarist, Amir – Salaam Bayyan is known to audiences world wide for his incredibly expressive, funky and soulful playing. His credits as a composer, engineer and producer include Vanessa Williams, Color Me Bad, Jimmy Cliff, Gloria Gaynor and many more and his silky guitar work has been a cornerstone of the Kool and The Gang sound for many years. So when he needed to expand his arsenal for Kool’s new tour with the recently regrouped Van Halen, RavenWestGuitar would become Amir’s first choice!

Founder Of RWG Eric Bergquist explains ” We were all thrilled a true Legend like Amir thought enough of our guitars that he chose to make RWG’s his for this incredible tour with Van Halen” Amir chose the RG6900 birds-eye maple and the RG5200 Ebony, both neck thru instruments feature EMG pickups and black Satin Stealth hardware. He will be taking them on the stage with him nightly, throughout the tour.

The VAN HALEN tour featuring special guest KOOL AND THE GANG will kick off FEBRUARY 18th and promises to be one of the most incredible concerts of the year. Tickets are available through TICKETMASTER. For more information check out
- www.koolandthegang.com
- RAVEN WEST GUITARS webstore: ravenwestguitar.com

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Amir - Salaam Bayaan with his new RavenWest RG6500

ALL our previously released music is available for download immediately to those becoming fans and the low fee also entitles you to ALL music released during your fanship year! These will include at least one new album a year and we are currently planning EXCLUSIVE releases for our MusXpand fans as well. As if that wasn’t enough, A.S. Lead guitarist, Bill MacKechnie, has agreed to make his solo albums available to subscribers as well! You cannot beat the value of MusXpand and that’s just ONE of it’s great features.

Please take a minute to check out their informative video presentation (MusXpand: How Does It Work?) -featuring the voice of our RANDOM BULLET RECORDS vixen, Kathy Stewart – here: http://www.musxpand.com/bestdeal For the WHOLE story. We’re confident you’ll be as excited about MusXpand as we are!

Many thanks to RANDOM BULLET / ELEVENTH HOUSE RECORDS!

-ANUBIS SPIRE would like to thank the fine folks at RANDOM BULLET / ELEVENTH HOUSE RECORDS (and especially to SUPER promo-wench, Kathy Stewart) for the great awards plaques that now decorate our studio walls and especially for sticking with us through the most turbulent decade the music biz has ever endured. The download totals absolutely floored us and had the era of free not been upon us we’d all be very rich right now. Still, many thanks to ALL of you who liked our music well enough to make the downloading effort, please spread the music around to anyone you think might appreciate it. We’ll keep making music as long as you keep listening….we promise! -A.S.

ERRATICA...coming SOON!

ERRATICA, the new album from ANUBIS SPIRE is nearly here! After surviving an earthquake, a hurricane, a tropical storm that caused an historic flood here in the northeast (not to mention going through two producers, countless audio engineers and three false starts) ERRATICA is FINALLY nearing completion. We’ll post the song listing and other details as soon as they are available. Stay tuned…

And if you’d love a FREE CD, run on over to https://www.facebook.com/pages/Anubis-Spire/199051303055  “Like” the page and enter our MONTHLY CD giveaway. Every month we’ll pick one lucky friend of the page to recieve a FREE A.S. CD of their choice.

Until next time…