Originally released as a limited edition live CD for the band to sell on their 2006 European tour. Contrary to the Grateful Dead reference in the title, “Skullfuck” is a tight recording of a single, intense November 2005 performance from NYC’s Knitting Factory. The set begins with an epic group arrangement of Jack Rose’s “Calais To Dover,” (from his Kensington Blues LP) with Jack’s 12 string shadowed by Mike Gangloff’s fiddle, and the thick drone of Mikel Dimmick and Pat Best’s Harmonium and Sruti’s. The three part “Bestio” suite follows, with the group moving to Tibetan bowls and gongs, building up a huge sheet of sound which peaks in a brief “encore” of wild gong smashing.
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released January 26, 2017
Recorded at the Knitting Factory, by Sam Cusumano, 20 Nov 2005
Pelt: Jack Rose, Patrick Best, Mikel Dimmick, Mike Gangloff
Calais to Dover by Jack Rose, Bestio Tergum Degero by Pelt
Cover by Emily Keown
Thank you Bill; Sam; Emily; folks at Knitting Factory; Book Mill; Philadelphia Unitarian Church; TT the Bear's; MVEE; Laurie; Sarah; Oscar; Amy; Tycho; Willa
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I love this album because Jack Rose was one of the most creative acoustic guitar artists of our time. His music takes you places in frenzied dances and bring you back down to rest on a bed of feathers. jsandstrum
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Jack Rose's music is a mystical trip through my own mind. No artists quite captures that sense more than him. Raag Manifestos is part of a trilogy of his albums, at least for me, that conjures this mystical journey. The others include Red Horse, White Mule and Opium Musick. A truly unique and talented artists. jsandstrum