Scattered Purgatory 破地獄 play music for the scene in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s psychedelic western El Topo where the protagonist gets trapped in some sort of Buddhist hell, meditating for years in a dark cave as his hair turns white. It’s as if a 1950s Taiwanese crooner enlisted Popol Vuh for a Taoist ritual, melding guitars, bass, synthesizers, and trumpets into steady, patient marches and drones that suddenly burst into thunder.
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