I.A.O.

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Music in Sacred Light (IAO)
Studio album by John Zorn
Released May, 2002
Length 51:25
Label Tzadik
Producer John Zorn
John Zorn chronology
The Gift
 I.A.O.

IAO (also known as Music in Sacred Light) is an album by John Zorn. It was inspired in part by the Beast and the number 666: the Kabbalistic identity of IAO. IAO also forms part of the Music Romance Series.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Invocation"
  2. "Sex Magick"
  3. "Sacred Rites of the Left Hand Path"
  4. "The Clavicle of Solomon"
  5. "Lucifer Rising"
  6. "Leviathan"
  7. "Mysteries"

[edit] Scheme, inspirations and themes

  • Seven movement suite of hypnotic exotica, ritualistic percussion, death metal, ambient, electronica and female choral
  • Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Anger
  • Alchemy
  • Mysticism
  • Metaphysics
  • Magic

[edit] Personnel

  • Cyro Baptista
  • Jennifer Charles
  • Greg Cohen
  • Beth Anne Hatton
  • Bill Laswell
  • Rebecca Moore
  • Mike Patton
  • Jim Pugliese
  • Jamie Saft