Entei & Whitesnake is Gregg Lewis and Channing Kennedy respectively, a two-piece post-dronemetal project which came together around the 2004 holidays to record this one-off album. Christmas Illusion 2 takes five loosely holiday-themed songs and audio tracks from cartoon soundtracks, video games, and John Cage, and 'covers' them, liberally using elements of the original songs, transforming and fleshing them out with drone guitar, prepared synth guitar, real and synth drums, and iBook. The five tracks are paired in VHS format with the paintings of Hiroaki Koshiba, a Yokohama-based painter who draws influence from Kandinsky and music. The result is akin to listening to a record and staring at the album cover; as the music slowly unfolds, the eye wanders and new facets and details of the painting are noticed, and they in turn bring new connotations to the music. The album's concrete sounds and remaining vocal samples and pop-structure artifacts also serve in turn to ground the abstract paintings. This page contains both the songs and high-resolution scans of Hiro's paintings, so the VHS experience can be approximated. Numbered run of 40. This is a Cat Jams Label release.

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