Music For Séances

Now this is cool! Music for Séances! I ran across this site while doing some research for a CD project I was working on and I became fascinated with these little Ouija Board CD's. The art was produced for the Art-O-Mat project which if you haven't heard of it yet...you really should check it out. It was basically an artist's vision to refurbish old cigarette vending machines thereby saving them from the scrap metal graveyard. Then the newly renovated machines are installed in different cities and vend out little boxes of art that are the size of a pack of cigarettes. Such a fabulously clever and creative endeavor. Read more about them.
http://www.artomat.org/

So one of the companies who was going to contribute their miniaturized art in a box for these machines decided to make Ouija Board shaped CD's. And thus The Mystifying Oracle's Music For Séances was born. Here is the summary from their site. "Music for Séances (a nod to Brian Eno) is a series of ambient music releases by different artists which are meant to envoke feelings of mystery, discovery, and ceremony. Each package is decorated to look like a vintage Ouija-style Talking Board. Some are gothic and dark, others are light-hearted and silly. The project, along with the music selected, is meant to encompass all aspects of the diverse nature of the boards, and can be taken as "seriously" or not as the artist and listener desire."

What a 'spirited' idea is that folks? There is a LOT of creativity packed into one of these little jewels (art, music, game, divination device). And they can be purchased for as little as 5-7$. And you can see the artwork front and back and sample the songs on their site. You just can't beat that, and the artwork is 'DIVINE'....get it? DIVINE...divination? Yeah okay...
http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml#oracle