Album Notes

The tracks of Lehadbik were created for the web gallery www.viasinistrae.com, a network of cyber caves were the stories of old mingle with the new. Here these new mythologies of image, sound, and written language are painted on the virtual walls in the guise of poetry, graphic art, and music.
Each track originated as part of a distinct chamber created within the labyrinthine structure of Viasinistrae.com. Samples were extracted from a myriad of sources, including live improvisations, online data bases, and previously recorded pieces of music. These were then worked into new sound structures and set to accompany words and pictures, forming a trinity of sensory input. Later, a selection of these pieces was expanded upon and reworked into the 18 tracks featured on Lehadbik.

What is Via Sinistrae?

Via Sinistrae is a Shamanic Magickal invocation that seeks to employ modern technology to complement ancient knowledge and involve a contemporary audience in an energized powerful sacred ritual.
As with all real invocations, the intent is to call forth Entities and Beings beyond the reach of normal human consciousness and interact with them for their benefit and possibly for ours.
The participants include the people who are brought to the space through marketing as well as the people who are actively working to bring it about. All the individuals that decide to stay will ultimately be active elements in the invocation (rather than a passive audience.)
Although anyone is welcome, this particular form of invocation is specially welcoming of the counterculture, the young, the marginalized and the secret seekers.
Via Sinistrae is a meeting of several different lineages: the raw shamanic invocation, the structured Western Thelemic tradition, the culture of the rave or underground dance party and interactive performance art.
We use electronic music, video and lights along with direct vocal chanting, dance and energy transference to achieve our aims. Within the space we want to interact with the prelinguistic elements in each individual's psyche, so we don't explain, lecture or answer questions.