SKY BURIAL

Sky Burial biography
Active since 2006, Sky Burial is the post-industrial kosmische musik project of North American musician, writer and visual artist Michael Page, based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Operating as the more adventurous counterpart of Page's noisier, power electronics-oriented Fire in the Head, Sky Burial synthesizes his love of krautrock, space ambient and experimental electronic artists such as Tangerine Dream, Cluster, early Jean-Michel Jarre, Zoviet France, Organum, Nocturnal Emissions and Pete Namlook and his FAX label. Like a meeting of the minds between Steve Roach, Lustmord and later Coil, Sky Burial combines death industrial, tribal and dark ambient into towering, constantly-changing instrumental pieces of sprawling epic drone, thematically inspired by science fiction literature, Buddhism and mythologies from around the world. The project has amassed roughly twenty full-length albums as of this writing, along with a smattering of singles, released across a multitude of labels like Page's own Audio Immolation Industries, Lens Records and most recently Opa Loka Records.

While primarily a solo endeavour, Sky Burial has not shied away from collaborating with others, drawing from an impressive array of artists in and around progressive rock. 2010's Kiehtan sported a remix track by Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air/Zoviet France, with the following year's Aegri Somnia boasting Hawkwind's Nik Turner on saxophone. Two other members of the Hawkwind extended family, Bridget Wishart and Craig McFarlane, joined 2012's star-studded There I Saw the Grey Wolf Gaping, which also featured the talents of Jarboe from post-rock titans Swans, Coil's Danny Hyde and like-minded German dark ambient duo Troum. 2013's Pas the Sarvering Gallack Seas and Flaming Nebyul Eye was constructed with the help of Page's Nocturnal Emissions hero Nigel Ayres, former Deep Turtle drummer Pentti Dassum and surrealist electronics trio the Stargazer's Assistant.


- Gordy, June 2024