Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain: Original Soundtrack (Limited Blue Vinyl Edition)

One of the ironies of the career of Chilean-born filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is that while he is best known as a visual stylist, his most avid and loyal champions have often been musicians. When Jodorowsky arrived in New York from Mexico City in 1970 carrying a copy of the then-unreleased El Topo, it was the jazz producer Alan Douglas who bought the distribution rights to the film. When Jodorowsky and Douglas were looking for a venue in which to screen El Topo, it was John Lennon and Yoko Ono who asked for it to run at midnight following their short-film festival at New York s Elgin Cinema. After six months of sold-out midnight screenings at the Elgin, it was Lennon s manager, Allen Klein (ABKCO s founder), who bought the rights to El Topo and agreed to produce its follow-up, The Holy Mountain. And when Jodorowsky wanted, in his words, another kind of music something that wasn't entertainment, something that wasn't a show, something that went to the soul, something profound, for the