Witchcraft by Sandman (aka Izik Levy1) is one of my favorite goa trance albums and probably ranks up there in my top 25 favorite albums of all time (across all musical genres). I heard the album for the first time while visiting Vancouver in late March in 2008 soon after it was released by Matsuri Productions. I’ve been listening to the album ever since 
As far as I’m concerned, the album is absolutely brilliant. According to Kinetic Honda, the album:
“…is not really dance trance but a very complex electronic story, it could serve as a great soundtrack for Blade Runner or for Johny Mnemonic. And still in my opinion this CD is a mile stone in trance history as trance stops being party-dance music only and moves into the realm of listening as well.2“
The album has 8 tracks3:
- Perfect Stranger [9:04]
- Flight Or Fight [7:02]
- Turtle Beach [10:17]
- Ghostrider (Time Tunnel Remix) [7:56]
- Shockwave [9:34]
- Nostradamus (The Prophecy Remix) [7:19]
- Bad News (New Way) [7:16]
- Mushroom Symphony [10:05]
The whole album is excellent — to this day you won’t find anything like it. I personally love playing tracks 2 (“Flight or Fight”) and 3 (“Turtle Beach”) in succession.
For a taster of what the album is like, here’s a YouTube video of “Flight or Fight”
It appears that at the time of writing this post, you’ll probably have to look around a bit in order to purchase a personal copy of Withcraft by Sandman. If you’re a MySpace user you can friend Sandman (Izik Levy) on MySpace.
TODAY’S QUESTION: What are some of your favorite goa/psy trance albums and why? Please share your thoughts in the comments section of this post.
References
- Sandman on Discogs http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sandman+%282%29 Accessed November 29, 2009.
- Review written by Kinetic Honda of Sandman’s Witchcraft http://www.isratrance.com/cd-reviews/sandman-witchcraft-d370.html Accessed November 29, 2009.
- Sandman (2) – Witchcraft http://www.discogs.com/release/66363 Accessed November 29, 2009.
