Lost JEREMIAH SAND Album Unearthed!

Were you seduced by the psychedelic siren call ’Amulet of the Weeping Maze‘ by Jeremiah Sand?

Well you’re in luck as Sacred Bones Records recently unearthed Sand’s once thought to be lost 70s psych folk opus LIFT IT DOWN. What’s more they even have footage from Sand in the studio recording the track ‘Message From from the Mountain’…

For those unfamiliar with Sand, he was not only a recording artist but also the infamous cult leader of The Children of The New Dawn and unfortunately met with a tragic fate in 1983 when he was murdered by Red Miller.

The story of Jeremiah Sand is one of legend: A cult leader moves to California, brings his followers (The Children of the New Dawn) and takes over a recording studio to make his possessed psychedelic masterpiece. After the cult breaks down in a hallucinogenic and cocaine fueled chaos in the mid-1970s, and strange disappearances start happening in town, Jeremiah and his right hand man Brother Swann flea in the middle of the night, instructing the studio owner, at gunpoint, to put the master tapes in a lockbox and await their return. In 2018 the studio burned in the California wildfires and a box is discovered with a 50 year old album, artwork and a short film. What’s almost as astonishing as this story is how incredible the record is. The music is the manifestation of a sinister religious energy and a psychotically inflated ego but it is also an enchanted time capsule from one of music’s greatest era’s and the outcome of a whole community dedicating their lives to its creation.

Sacred Bones Records will release Sand’s LIFT IT DOWN on October 30th and you can pre-order the album now on black, purple, or Record Society exclusive “Golden Dawn” vinyl variants. The album includes liner notes by the late Genesis P-Orridge!