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Christopher Dietler (aka Frater Zardoz IV° P.I.) is the man who released the 23 minute Lucifer Rising music soundtrack prepared by Jimmy Page for an avant-garde film titled Lucifer Rising produced by filmmaker Kenneth Anger. The album, officially titled Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising Jimmy Page Soundtrack, was released on Dietler's own Boleskine House Records label on January 9, 1987.
The album is a 12-inch 45 RPM EP limited edition pressing (1,000 copies) on clear blue vinyl. Dietler met Anger at a showing of the film in Sacramento, California in the early 1980s, and eventually purchased one of only four remaining prints of the film from Anger. Dietler then had the sountrack professionally transferred from the 16mm film and digitally enhanced at the Golden Goose Recording Studio run by Dennis Rose in Los Angeles, California. There was a press release in Billboard Magazine on December 20, 1986, a newspaper article printed in The Sacramento Bee, written by columnist David Barton on May 24, 1987 and an interview with Dietler on a local college radio station. MTV aired his projected album release on their news segment The Week In Rock on December 23, 1987 hosted by VJ of the day Carolyn Heldman. The experimental instrumental soundtrack was recorded sometime between the performance of Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden on July 29, 1973 and the launch of their own record label Swan Song Records on May 10, 1974. Various published reports list this undertaking by Page during November 1973. However, due to a much publicized dispute between Anger and Page over the completion of the recording, Page's soundtrack was dropped from the film and instead musician Bobby Beausoleil, a former lieutenant of the Manson family, was commissioned and completed the soundtrack from his Tracy State Prison cell. Anger premiered the initial film rushes at a movie theatre in Los Angeles during September 1976 where the soundtrack was recorded, then released on a bootleg album titled Solo Performances. Dietler successfully applied and obtained United States copyrights on both the film and soundtrack. Dietler also founded the local Carmichael chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis titled Boleskine O.T.O. and was expelled from this organization for advertising the album in their newsletter. The organization felt Dietler left them open to a libelous situation with Page or Anger. A lawsuit filed by Kenneth Anger against Christopher Dietler effectively dissolved the O.T.O.'s involvement with his dozen-or-so member Carmichael, California chapter.
