Matt's new solo album is out now!

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 Initiatory Vibrations - A Collection Of Gnostic Chants And Meditations is the new solo album by Matt Schmitz and contains musical works interpreted from numerous texts (such as the Nag Hammadi Library), along with some original compositions to to help with deep meditation, ritual or relaxation practices. The album is a result of Matt's own spiritual and intellectual interests and combines elements of Eastern and Near Eastern chant, Gregorian choir, indigenous instrumentation, and modern dark ambient aesthetics. These elements are transmuted into an alchemic formulae bound together by underlying audiomancy techniques - the occult practice of inserting certain parameters within audio engineering for magickal purposes.


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