UK label Finders Keepers just posted some really really really really weird Australian music from Geoff Krozier, The High Priest of Mystery and Madness. Hailing from Melbourne in the 1970’s it doesn’t get much stranger and freeform than this. He apparently toured Paris and then settled in New York before returning to Australia in 1980. A few years later he ostensibly vanished and hasn’t been heard from since.
Geoff Krozier & The Generator – Tranceformer (Finders Keepers Records) will be released 20th November 2015
This is what they have to say about it:
“Imagine a coven of Jodorowsky, Daevid Allen, Mr. Crowley, Rameses and Arthur Brownthen combine them into a one-man mutant magician and add the finest Australian synth duo since Cybotron. BEHOLD Geoff Krozier & The Generator.
This faithful reproduction of one of Australias rarest synthy post-prog vinyl artefacts bequeths the only recorded fruits of the precious magick months before Geoff Krozier’s untimely death in 1981. Combining shamanic spoken word with nodding kosmische instrumentation this album is fuelled by ARP/Roland/ETI (Aussie synth) technology and leaves fans of synthetic soundtracks, electronic experimentalism and stubborn synth pop salivating for more (and more there is).
Meet this Ex Kongress (NY punk band) collaborator, Sydney’s official 1980 Magician Of The Year and “the high priest of exorcism-rock” and watch him, and his trusty studio wizards, provide fans of Bruce Haack and Doris White with one of the most absurd electronic private press LPs to come from either end of the pointed planet.”
And if you’ve got this far you NEED to watch this (keep in mind this was an appearance on Australian TV):
