Total

Total

Sky Blue Void

No Holiday

Matthew Bower's Total released Sky Blue Void in 1994 through Freek, recorded the same year as previous NOHL reissue Skullflower's Last Shot at Heaven. Sky Blue Void is the zoner of zoners, as heavenly and crushing as the rapturous cover art suggests. Release yourself to the void.

Total

Eternity's Beautiful Frontispiece

Vhf

Using a droning electric guitar and/or organ in a variety of tones ranging from the excoriating to elegiac, Total's music envelops the listener in a haze of overtones variously evoking Indian music, machine noise, nature sounds, and monolithic power. This may be a more "accessible" carefully-edited look at Toal than some of their recent releases, but it surrenders not one iota of hallucinogenic juice.