The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog
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Tomb-dwelling autodidact 'poly-myth-storian' Emma Florence Bausor uploaded these seven enigmatic sound recordings to her website in late 2014, claiming they were gifted to her anonymously. This mini-album, accredited at Bausor's insistence to 'The Seven Heads of Gog Magog', is the first time the tracks have been released officially.
In the course of her website blog Bausor refers to these recordings as ‘oracles’, and claims they are "premonitory or prophetic emanations that have issued from – or through – seven objects [the seven heads] from museums in Cambridge". In her blog Bausor attempts to comprehend what this idea could mean, primarily by engaging with the enigmatic lyrics of the oracles themselves, which can best be described as psychogeographic animal-peopled shamanic spirit-journey childrens story rock songs. Thanks to EF Bausor, Kerry Devine, Spike T Smith, Paul Rooney, University of Cambridge Museums and Metal.
EF Bausor's blog is here: https://sevenheadsofgogmagog.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
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"Even without the connective tissue of the blog, it’s a great spin; a truly unique work." Ed Pinsent (The Sound Projector blog). 7/5/2020.
Verity Sharp, Late Junction (BBC Radio 3). 23/4/2019 radio broadcast of Five.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004drf
"My Favourite Albums of 2018." vacca (Rate Your Music website). 12/2018.
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"My 2018's Best Albums List." erez_s (Rate Your Music website). 12/2018.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/erez_s/my-2018s-best-albums-list/
"...pretty strong stuff on the Owd Scrat Records label... excellent examples of song-craft." Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector Radio Show (Resonance FM). 26/10/2018.
"What a peculiar and engaging little 25 minutes this provides... A nice thought provoking tidbit for the avant-minded." Strigiform Witness (Rate Your Music website). 29/7/2018.
"...it is rare indeed to be presented with something as singular and remarkable as The Seven Oracles Of Gog Magog... The recordings here are hallucinatory and compelling pieces." Jared Dix (Echoes and Dust blog). 13/07/2018.
Five Things We Liked This Week playlist, (For the Rabbits blog). 22/6/2018.
https://fortherabbits.net/2018/06/22/five-things-we-liked-this-week-22-06-18/
"Another excellent release from the Owd Scrat label. Some fine female vocals intermingled with experimental music and some speech and one or twenty strong and atmospheric melodies." Gavin Hellyer (Bandcamp website). June 2018.
"The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog... purports to be the music of a tomb dwelling seventy year old autodidact called Emma Florence Bausor. I'm not sure how much of this is true from Owd Scrat Records, but I like this track called Two..." Stuart Maconie, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone (BBC 6 Music). 10/6/2018.
"Absolutely phenomenal, there's seven tracks on it, The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog... track 7 is particularly extraordinary... Wonderful stuff again from the Owd Scrat label." Mark Whitby (Dandelion Radio). May 2018.
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The Seven Heads of Gog Magog is the name given by tomb-dwelling autodidact ‘poly-myth-storian’ Emma Florence Bausor to the 'musicians' responsible for seven sound recordings that were delivered to her anonymously in 2014. Or rather The Seven Heads of Gog Magog are not conventional musicians at all, Bausor claims, but seven museum objects, objects from which the recordings have 'emanated'.
As Bausor explains on her blog dedicated to the recordings: "From 14th October to 4th November 2014, every Tuesday and Friday, I uploaded seven recorded songs. I have named these recordings The Seven Oracles of Gog Magog. I also attempted to elucidate each of these songs in an accompanying blog post. I call these tracks ‘oracles’ because they are premonitory or prophetic emanations that seem to have issued from – or through – seven objects, or 'Seven Heads’, from museums in Cambridge. I call these objects The Seven Heads of Gog Magog." We firmly recommend that you read Bausor's brilliantly polymathic blog posts about the recordings. These posts, in her words, seek to "speculate on the nature of [each recording's] enigma".
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