Lucifer Rising

Lucifer Rising is a bootleg recording of an unfinished soundtrack from Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising film. The partial soundtrack was composed and performed by Jimmy Page during a one-year period starting in mid-1973. It is said he wrote it while on LSD. The instrumental soundtrack was never completed but did appear in a rough cut of the film. Anger premiered the initial film rushes (accompanied by Page's score) at a movie theatre in Los Angeles during September 1976. An audio recording from this showing was released as a bootleg entitled Solo Performances. Anger, who had a falling-out with Page before the film's completion, eventually commissioned a new soundtrack from an early protégé with whom he'd reconciled, Bobby Beausoleil. It...