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Alan Moore & Tim Perkins
12+ albums
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THE MOON AND SERPENT GRAND EGYPTIAN THEATRE OF MARVELS David J, Alan Moore, Tim Perkins Staged July 16, 1994 at Bridewell Theatre, London, England. Cleo 96882 THE MOON AND SERPENT GRAND EGYPTIAN THEATRE OF MARVELS is an astounding introduction and invocation of Alan’s concept of ‘IDEA SPACE’ which is central to his personal view of consciousness and magical reality. With his deep profundo voice conjuring imaginary mindscapes of greater and greater abstract complexity with each successive track, reading against a sound-collage by Tim Perkins and David J and Melinda Gebbie providing the voice of The Enochian Angel, this is Alan Moore at his most thought- provoking and mesmerizing. Just as extraordinary as the performance, is the photograph of Alan taken by Melinda Gebbie that graces the front cover of THE MOON AND SERPENT GRAND EGYPTIAN THEATRE OF MARVELS. Alan describes it in the liner notes: “Taken during rehearsals, the photograph shows a masked David J holding a mirror up in both hands while I sit behind a wood table on his immediate right. The hand that appears to emerge from a point behind David is not his, nor did it belong to anyone that was visible on the stage when the photograph was taken. The curtain or veil that appears to drift from the hand over the foreground was likewise not visible, although it seems to be lit by the same spotlight that is illuminating the stage area around David and I, ruling out a simple double-exposure. Today, a year after the picture
