Two of the most memorable situations I experienced during my journeys over our amazing planet are closely related to tribal rites: the first one in a Cuban village between Varadero and Havana was a sort of celebrative Yoruba rite (the people I met there explained there were some Voodoo elements as well) for the oldest member of the community while the second one was an healing Sangoma ritual in a Zulu village in South Africa. This interesting release by Stephen Samuel Gordon aka The Spaceape, whose promising musical path and the visibility he deservedly gained for his impressive collaborations with Kode9 have been suddenly stopped by a 3-years lasting struggle against neurolymphamatosis, a rare form of cancer whose painful and troublesome progress had been mirrored in the lyrics of some tracks of "Black Sun" album - just carefully listen "Black Smoke", "Neon Red Sign" and "The Cure" -, vividly activated those memories. The above-mentioned fight against cancer, which resurface in many moments of this musical little treat (songs like "Your Angel Has Come" and "Palaces" have many references to his period of hospitalization and treatment and many clues of his spiritual clearance have been spread all over the album), gave him new spiritual energy, which permeates his words and emanates from the hypnotical and catchy synthesis of meaningful lyrics and samples taken from traditional ritual musical stuff from Haiti and Kamchaka - Drummers of the Societe Absolument Guinin's "Voodoo Drums", two tracks from "Kamchatka: Tambours de Danse de L'extreme Orient Siberien" by Anastasija Vasileva Gitorovka and irina Khristoforovna Kolegova, a release on Soul Jazz Records about haitian street music and a couple of track from "Rhythms Of Rapture - Sacred Musics Of Haitian Vodouan", an encyclopedic compilation released by Smithsonian Folkways some years ago -, which could awake elemental and hidden forces in the listener. "Xorcism" really sounds like a reinvigorating and healing exorcism, whose effulgent poetic nourishment and synaesthetic sway is so catchy that I really hope there will be a follow up.