This video synchs songs 1-6 of the Legendary Pink Dots "crushed velvet apocalypse" cd with Kenneth Anger's occult film "Innauguration of the Pleasuredome". The original score was a Slavonic Mass by Leos Jan?cek.

Historical figures, biblical characters, and mythical creatures gather in the pleasure dome. Aphrodite, Lilith, Isis, Kali, Astarte, Nero, Pan, and the Great Beast and the Scarlet Woman are part of a visual feast of images superimposed, hallucinations, and the spirit of decadence of the "Yellow '90s." Mythological images from Aleister Crowley, cabalistic symbols, artifice, and magic combine to render the pleasure dome both as prison and as celebration.This synch combines Kenneth Anger's "inauguration of the pleasuredome" with the Legendary Pink Dots "Crushed Velvet Apocalypse" CD. The end result is very moody and well timed with a few lyrical synchronicities. A brief synopsis:Lord Shiva, The Magician, wakes. A convocation of Theurgists in the guise of figures from mythology bearing gifts: The Scarlet Woman, whore of heaven, smokes a big fat joint; Atstarte of the Moon brings the wings of snow; Pan bestows the grapes of Bacchus; Hecate offers the sacred mushroom, Yage, wormwood brew. The vintage of Hecate is poured. Pan's cup is poisoned by Lord Shiva. The orgy ensues - the magick masquerade at which Pan is the prize. Lady kali blesses the rites of the children of light as Lord Shiva invokes the godhead with the formula "Force and Fire".

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