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<em>Pilgrimage to Thunderbolt Pagoda</em> is a beautiful new album from San Diego's enigmatic High Mountain Tempel, in collaboration with the UK's <a href="http://www.earthlingsociety.co.uk/" target="_blank">Earthling Society</a>. Also present on the recording are Charles Curtis on strings, synthesis from the Asterism and voices from Isis Aquarian, Alpha-Crone and Logos of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Yod" target="_blank">Father Yod and The Source Family</a>. Wyrd electronics, blissed-out strings and incandescent spacerock carry the Tempel monks to kaleidoscopic new planes. Listen to the light.

<a href="http://www.aquariusrecords.org/" target="_blank">Aquarius Records</a> in San Francisco are calling it 'another glorious expansive collection of meditative psychedelic abstract dronefolk ambience', and they ought to know. The album is available now from <a href="http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/hmt.html" target="_blank">Strange Attractor Shoppe</a>, or if you are in the US, from the <a href="http://www.lotushouserecords.com/" target="_blank">HMT</a> site.