For those that follow me on Twitter or wherever else you may know I have remastered my 2008 concept album “A Darker Shade Of Tao” and have been promoting it pretty heavily. What follows is a review from a fellow artist who is well respected by myself – and others who endear to the quirky and existential – Titee, from QLD Australia.

Artist: The Peach Tree
Album: A Darker Shade Of Tao
Reviewer: Titee

“A deeply lyrical exploration of hidden aspects in the human.
A direct injection into the past of my iniquity.
I feel at times as if I had written the worlds to these musical poems.
Interdimensionality. Thing Theory. I am now feeling that I am listening to modern music, and I am up with the times at the forefront of musical creationism.

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As I lay in bed last night,
The jaded moon beyond my sight,
A restless dream began a-creeping,
To envelop me whilst I was sleeping.

Strange occurrence, nightly vision,
Seems to keep my brain in rhythm.
With outstanding clarity,
The dream unveils for me to see

What lies behind my crippled mind,
And all the secrets there to find.
For though I lie in quiet darkness,
My thoughts whirl ’round with utter madness.

Only when I wake do I
Become accustomed to the sky
That, bearing Light, bids me abide
The movements of my body’s tide.

So waking from a dreamy flight,
I had a sudden urge to write
About some things that oft of late
I’ve dwelt upon in different state.

Firstly let me beg of ye,
Do not take this too heavily.
For I do speak of Sorcery,
Magick, Tarot, Ceremony.

The Ace of Wands first from the deck
To forge untrodden paths beneath,
And quell the fire born of sickly
Minds whose stigma reeks of Death.

Become my partner, walk with me
Along this road to Destiny.
The Universe in my right hand,
The Fool in left is upside down.

The Magus casts a glance askew
At all these things I thought I knew.
For within these sacred cards,
My heart is bound to stable yards.

Bred like cavalry for War
To spurn a tale of wanton gore.
Blood spills forth from pore to pore,
Oh God, I do not want for more.

Be not scared, though words are whimsy,
Playing with thy sanity,
I merely seek a way to bleed
My heart upon this nascent seed.

For as I said I often dream,
And all I’ve said is naught but cream,
Upon my coffee cup that seems
To give me life in early hours

Such as these, where typing scours
The Internet to find some prey
And feast upon, then call a day
But that enchantment I delay.

I know you will not comprehend
The message I am trying to send,
For thoughts like these are beyond mend.
Enough, enough, enough, enough.

…

I need a cigarette.

That’s the stuff.

And so it ends.

Dark Blessings and Good Will to all of You.

-Angus Maiden, Caught in a Web of Insanity At 7:47am

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Ever popular than ever I’m proud to bring you another interview in my series of “Who’s the Band” and this week I bring you an interview with The Peach Tree, so I’m going to stop rambling on and get on with the interview..

Q:  So how did you come upon the name of your band? Is it the first name you chose?

A: I was sitting with my friend Cooney under a peach tree in his yard and we decided to form a band together. Cooney had some imagery about a peach tree that he had gotten from some book, and I agreed “The Peach Tree” was a great name for what we wanted to achieve as a band, signifying the lusciousness of ripe fruit but also it’s potential for rottenness (a yin and yang sort of thing). Since I began releasing music under the name as a solo project (me and Cooney never recorded anything together as a band), I have revised my reasoning for the name. A peach is a beautiful thing both to look at and to eat, yet at its core the pit contains deadly doses of cyanide. This reflects the sort of music I make, beautiful and tasty at first listen yet at its heart very Dark. This, however, is also balanced in a yin/yang way.

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