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Album Review: Orphan Donor – Unraveled

My early 20s were a time fraught with experimentation of practically any sort you’d care to imagine. Some of those early alchemical attempts “took”, becoming part of my fiber to this day, some not at all, and some “took” in ways they shouldn’t have. Of the former, a video store (VHS, natch) rental of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first English-language film, Santa Sangre, resulted in that uncomfortable yet strangely titillating sensation of someone dipping their fingertips into the edges of your mind, toying, testing. While backtracking through Jodorowsky’s previous works, I came upon 1973’s The Holy Mountain, which was the equivalent of […]