Sound Streams 12/2/2021

Thelema Banana is an avante-garde electronic and electro-acoustic project founded in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Thelema Banana’s sound design is guided by philosophically and historically-based concepts, exploring chimerical themes to create visceral audio environments of lost or future eras, including musical movements characterized as dark jazz, post-industrial ambient and xenophrenic soul.
 
Thelema Banana began as a solo project of David Bodrug (aka Dub Gnostic, Woodwork Recordings / Mosaic Records UK), built around sessions on the Buchla 200 system at the University of Victoria. In experimenting with a bass clarinet run through the Buchla and other electronics, the project evolved into an avant-jazz trio featuring Aaron Watson (IMP) and Jzero Schuurman (aka Psychic Pollution), with occasional appearances by other musicians and vocalists.
 
Thelema (/θəˈliːmə/) is an esoteric and occult social or spiritual philosophy and new religious movement developed in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley, an English writer, mystic, and ceremonial magician.

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