Aleister Crowley, The Blood-Lotus LP

Chris Bozzone’s musical accompaniments to Lawrence R. Harvey’s reading of these selections from Aleister Crowley’s 1898 collection of poems, White Stains, are as subtle and unobtrusive as the reader’s voice. The poems are delivered as if in confidence, a handful of quietly-spoken confessions delivered directly into the ears of a close confidant, building from reserved intimations to undisciplined clamoring by album’s end.