Duncan Cameron is an alias of Lieven Martens, the Dutch dude behind Dolphins Into The Future. His A Horseback Ride to the Sanctum of Montu, a reissue of Martens’ out of print tape, Tansprocesz, has just been released and it’s supposedly an audio diary of Duncan Cameron’s trip to the Temple of Montu in Egypt. For those unfamiliar with the name Duncan Cameron, he’s a man who claims he and his half brother jumped off the USS Eldridge, the ship supposedly involved in the notorious “Philadelphia Experiment,” in 1943, and time traveled twenty years into the future to Montauk, Long Island, where the government was doing top secret work on psychic warfare.
Basically, A Horseback Ride… is supposed to be the sound of a government trained time traveler/psychic warrior journeying on horseback to an ancient Egyptian temple to read hieroglyphics (!). If you keep this in mind when you listen to the tape, its seemingly strange mixture of bird noises, bubbling brook samples, gamelans, howling dogs, and old school Radiophonic Workshop synths actually makes sense. Compared to Dolphins Into The Future’s masterpiece ….On Seafaring Isolation, A Horseback Ride… is a difficult listen, but the concept behind it is such a perfect storm of underground culture obsessions (time travel, psychics, government conspiracies, Egyptology) that it’s hard not to be won over, not to mention the fact that Martens drops perfect little synth mini-suites at the end of each side of the tape.
A Horseback Ride to the Sanctum of Montu can be purchased here.
MP3 :::
Duncan Cameron – Glyphs [edit]
