Lucifer Rising (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Lucifer Rising
Type = Soundtrack
Artist = Jimmy Page


Released = January 9, 1987
Recorded = 1973 – 1974
Genre = Soundscape
Length = 23:00
Label = Boleskine House Records
Producer = Christopher Dietler
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"Lucifer Rising" is a bootleg recording of an unfinished soundtrack from Kenneth Anger's "Lucifer Rising" film. The partial soundtrack was composed and performed by Jimmy Page during a one-year period starting in mid-1973. The instrumental soundtrack was never completed but did appear in a rough cut of the film.

Anger premiered the initial film rushes (accompanied by Page's score) at a movie theatre in Los Angeles during September 1976. An audio recording from this showing was released as a bootleg entitled "Solo Performances". Anger, who had a falling-out with Page before the film's completion, eventually commissioned a new soundtrack from an early protégé with whom he'd reconciled, Bobby Beausoleil. It is this soundtrack that appears in the commercially released version of the film.

In the early 1980s, Anger sold one of the early prints to a collector, who proceeded to copyright both the film and soundtrack. He had the audio from the soundtrack transferred and digitally enhanced before releasing it on his own Boleskine House Records label (catalog #BHR666). The 23 minutes of audio was split in two, and pressed onto a clear blue vinyl 12-inch 45 RPM EP, in an edition of 1,000 copies.

Personnel

*Jimmy Page - Electric Guitars, ARP Synthesizer, Tambura, Tabla, Theremin, Producer

ources

* "Billboard Magazine", December 20, 1986
* Barton, David. "Carmichael Man Delves into Led Zeppelin Star's Past" in "The Sacramento Bee", May 24, 1987
* MTV's "The Week in Rock", December 23, 1987