Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Transporting Salt (Enhanced Edition) (2023) [Hi-Res]

The freeform psych-collective Spiritczualic Enhancement Center embraces Hermann Hesse's sentiment that "A magic dwells in each beginning," revisiting their origins with Transporting Salt - Enhanced Edition. This deluxe double-vinyl reimagines their 2018 debut, originally released on cassette, which Bandcamp Daily praised for its surreal, transformative qualities. Over the past five years, the group has grown into an expansive ensemble of over 60 musicians, producing five albums of unscripted, ritualistic sounds.

The reissue, released by Lille’s Besides Records, features remixed and remastered tracks, four previously unreleased bonus tracks, and a gatefold with detailed Axis Mundi-inspired artwork. It serves as a culmination of their sonic odyssey, blending trance-jazz with a mythological and psychedelic narrative, likened to a Paul Bowles epic.

Tracklist:
1-1. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - On the Way Back from Wadi Rum (Enhanced Version) (05:51)
1-2. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Want Him to Hear That (Enhanced Version) (05:45)
1-3. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Want Him to Hear That, Too (03:42)
1-4. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Das Ende (Enhanced Version) (03:55)
1-5. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Sonnentanz (03:25)
1-6. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Where Is My Palm Leaf? (Enhanced Version) (04:10)
1-7. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - There Was Nothing but the Swamp (Enhanced Version) (04:41)
1-8. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - The Impossibility of Trying to Repeat Something Unplanned (Enhanced Version) (07:26)
1-9. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Beware, Trains! (Enhanced Version) (07:39)
1-10. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Interlude (Lang's Escape) (01:52)
1-11. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - The Hajj of Mansa Musa (Enhanced Version) (03:39)
1-12. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Dreaming of Miles Davis (Enhanced Version) (05:43)
1-13. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Mediterranistan (03:30)
1-14. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Transporting Salt (Enhanced Version) (07:51)
1-15. Spiritczualic Enhancement Center - Divide by Two (Enhanced Version) (03:38)