I.A.O.

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Name = IAO (Music in Sacred Light)
Type = Album
Artist = John Zorn


Released = May 21, 2002
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Length = 51:25
Label = Tzadik
Producer = John Zorn
Reviews = *amg|id=10:jnfwxqt0ldde|rating|4|5
* Pitchfork Media rating|8.3|10 [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/23416-iao]
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"IAO" (subtitled Music in Sacred Light) is an album by John Zorn inspired in part by the Beast and the number 666: the Kabbalistic identity of IAO, which are the initials of Isis, Apophis and Osiris, used as a magical formula in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. [ [http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=7338 Tzadik catalogue] ]

Track listing

# "Invocation" - 7:19
# "Sex Magick" - 13:26
# "Sacred Rites of the Left Hand Path" - 6:31
# "The Clavicle of Solomon" - 9:28
# "Lucifer Rising" - 5:23
# "Leviathan" - 3:26
# "Mysteries" - 5:50

cheme, inspirations and themes

*Seven movement suite of hypnotic exotica, ritualistic percussion, death metal, ambient, electronica and female choral
*Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Anger
*Alchemy
*Mysticism
*Metaphysics
*Magic

Personnel

*Cyro Baptista
*Jennifer Charles
*Greg Cohen
*Beth Anne Hatton
*Bill Laswell
*Rebecca Moore
*Mike Patton
*Jim Pugliese
*Jamie Saft

References