Myth, Narrative and the Occupy Movement – An Interview With James Curcio
James Curcio of ModernMythology.Net & HooDooEngine.com interviewed by Rev. R4D4 Leech on Myth’s relevance today, the Occupy movement & narrative, the Grey aliens and much more. All tracks from Murder the World on http://hoodooengine.bandcamp.com/
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Necrofuturist Salon Episode 27 – Dissociative Modifications
The symbolism surrounding Lady P. Emerson is so blatant that one might wonder if it’s all a sick joke. Necrofuturist symbolism is becoming so clear that analizes like this one becomes a simple exercise of pointing out the obvious. His whole persona (whether its an act or not) is a tribute to mind control, where being vacuous, incoherent and absent minded becomes a fashionable thing.
Lady P. Emerson Espies His Alter
You only need to look at a couple of Lady P. Emerson pictures or videos to notice that he is constantly hiding one of his thighs. Most people will simply interpret this as ”a ghoul thing to do” or a “fashion statement”. Those who have passed the 101 of Necrofuturist symbolism know that the All-Seething Thigh is probably its most recognizable symbol. The gesture of fanning one nut, usually the left one, goes way back in Necrofuturist orders. Here’s an explanation of the origin of the Thigh of P. Emerson.
Lady P. Emerson, the son of Gamalöost and Isis was called ‘P. Emerson who drools with two thighs’. His right thigh was white and represented the sun: his left thigh was slack and represented the moon. According to the myth, cHorus lost his left thigh to his evil brother, Snæetch, with whom he fought to avenge Snæetch’s murder of Gamalöost. Snæetch tore out one of the thighs but lost the fight. The thigh was reassembled by magic, by Høötch, the god of writhing, the moon and Musick-Magick. P. Emerson presented his thigh to Gamalöost, who experienced rebirth in the underworld.
Playlist:
Bob Cobbing – Hymn to the Sacred Mushroom
The Jokerr – Welcome to the Show
Veil of Thorns – Dissociative Modifications
Controlled Bleeding – The Toiler’s Song
Lydia Lunch – Still Burning
Ritual – Brides
William Burroughs – Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry
Hecate – Houris’ Hours
Salvador Dali – Dali Speaks
Veil of Thorns – Electronic Voice Phenomena
Listen to or download podcast @alterati.com
Crowdsourcing the Mythosphere – Case Study: Robert Llewellyn and Unbound
Cities crumbling, zombies attacking, tsunamis engulfing, brutal regimes or killer machines crushing the human race to dust. Dystopia has now become so pervasive it’s almost engulfed the entire science fiction genre.
I felt driven to search for an alternative to the tiresome predictions of everything getting much worse; I wanted to imagine a world where everything has got much better.
Thus begins the pitch for News from Gardenia, the forthcoming novel by one Robert Llewellyn. The nerds among us will recognize the name which will forever be evocative of a head covered in rubber as Kryten in the belived scifi comedy Red Dwarf. Yes, I said pitch, not press release, not announcement, for the publication of this book is funded with support from fans and readers. Here’s where it gets interesting to one who has been involved in two crowd funding campaigns in 2011, namely the successful bid to fund the filming of Strange Factories and the current campaign to help bring Modern Mythology to the next level.
Unbound is a platform for authors to pitch their book ideas directly to readers for readers to support through funding, or as they put it: Unbound is a new way of bringing authors and readers together. We believe both deserve a greater say in which books get published. Wired mag called Unbound “The Kickstarter For Books”, but with a targeted domain of authorial endeavour and curated list of authors, which I note includes Terry Jones and one Mrs. Stephen Fry, could prove to be of much more use to writers. What makes the service stand out is that those who pledge to fund a project get to be in on the process of its creation through access to a private area, called the author’s “shed”, and they get a copy of the book and several levels of goodies depending on the level of financial support they give, much like Indiegogo and Kickstarter, but here the turtles al the way down are books.
Here’s the rest of the pitch for News From Gardenia:
A world where we eventually get it right, where we don’t oppress each other, where we don’t burn anything to make anything else, we don’t rip the planet to shreds to maintain our way of life and we don’t need to rely on endless growth to achieve contentment.
News From Gardenia will be a science fiction novel; a man called Gavin Meckler who was born in 1979 arrives 200 years into the future where he discovers a world that is recognisable and yet utterly different. It’s a place where it’s possible to travel from one side of the world to the other in a matter of minutes without burning fuel, but it’s also a place where everyone is a gardener because that’s how they can be sure to eat.
It is at once extraordinary and mundane. It is not finished, it is, as in any period of history, a world which is
constantly changing, but the changes are sustainable, gentle and by default put people first.
As Gavin learns about this new world and the society he eventually becomes a part of, he also begins to learn about himself.
Everything in News from Gardenia could happen, there is no technology in Gardenia that hasn’t already seen the light of day. In the current turmoil it could be argued that such optimism could only be suggested by a fool, indeed, such benign developments may not be very likely, but we may need to be reminded that they are entirely possible.
I would think that this premise would be immensely challenging to a writer. In contemplating a fictional future where humanity has “gotten it right”, first thoughts go to the world of Herman Hesse’s Glass Bead Game and its owlrd where culture and conflict has been settled in amber, as it were, the chaos of new creation and thought wiped out and dad culture is in the hands of the Magister Ludi of the Glass Bead Game. Another one that springs to mind is “Amelior”, the saccharine, turgid runaway bestseller of a novel within a novel in Martin Amis’ “The Information”. In The Information Amis describes Amelior thus:
In Amelior itself twelve youngish human beings forgathered…. Each of them boasted a serious but non-disfiguring affliction: Piotr had hemophilia, Conchita endometriosis, Sachine colitis, Eagle Woman diabetes. Of this twelve, naturally, six were men and six were women; but the sexual characteristics were deliberately hazed. The women were broad-shouldered and thin-hipped. The men tended to be comfortably plump. In the place called Amelior, where they had come to dwell, there was no beauty, no humor and no incident; there was no hate and there was no love.
Above: Wet Liberal Whenever: Occupy Wall Street
I’ll be interested in seeing where it falls either within or outside this spectrum. The latter case is quite unlikely, coming from a man who comes across as pretty self-aware, a self confessed “wet liberal” and being possessed with the bite and wit in the authorial voice in evidence in previous work. Characteristically, Llewellyn entertains conversation on his G+ stream. Here’s what he says on the reception of the funding campaign:
…I do want to try and find ways to develop ideas and take input from a wide variety of sources. Google+ strikes me as the ideal platform to try it. I now have to be patient and read that book about delayed gratification I’ve been delaying reading.
So far the reaction to the Unbound book launch of News From Gardenia has been nothing short of record breaking. Unbound have never had such a response, I am equally nervous and proud, it’s a big thrill but I have to believe the book will live up to expectations. Okay, I’ve got all my digits crossed which makes typing a little tedious.
www.unbound.co.uk
An announcement for my new book. A utopian vision of how the world could be, a science fiction novel set 200 years in the future. Gavin Meckler, an engineer from 2011 arrives in a new world that is oddly familiar yet incredibly different.
This use of new media tech is nothing new for Robert Llewillyn, nor is writing fiction:
I wrote my first novel at the age of 12. By the time I’d published The Man on Platform 5, my first grown-up work of fiction, 30 years had passed. In the intervening period I’d worked as an artist’s model, a bespoke shoemaker, a tree surgeon, a screenwriter, a comedian, actor and TV presenter.
I’ve appeared on British television regularly since 1987 in various guises including under quite absurd amounts of rubber in Red Dwarf, covered in grease and dust inScrapheap Challenge, in terrifying machines on How Do They Do It? and sitting in a car chatting in Carpool.
I write under a rack of solar panels in Gloucestershire and News From Gardenia is my fifth work of fiction.
I was delighted to come across his web show Carpool when there were but a dozen or so episodes and was struck by how simply and effectively he used the means of production at hand, a simple premise and services like blip.tv with their lost and much missed multi-episode player embedded in the front page of a hosted wordpress site.
Carpool is a web series presented by English actor and comedian Robert Llewellyn. In each episode he interviews a guest while giving them a lift in an eco-friendly car (normally a Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicle). The guests are often well-known British television personalities such asJonathan Ross or Ade Edmondson. However Llewellyn also interviews less-well-known figures as long as he feels that they will prove to be an interesting subject. The guests have also included Llewellyn’s fellow Red Dwarf actors, Danny John Jules, Craig Charles, Chris Barrie and Hattie Hayridge (as well as Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith and Ruby Wax who all appeared in cameo roles in Red Dwarf).
The show became very popular His early adoption of, massive presence on and enthusiastic evangelizing of twitter has become somewhat of a calling card. Combine the media production with committed engagement on youtube, facebook and G+ with free services like Audioboo, which lets one record messages and share to twitter quite easily, (and lately using the latter for transmitting a complete audio book, which is a first, as far as I know), and you have an example of someone from “old” media (BBC) transitioning into a combination of self-produced projects while still doing Red Dwarf and the televised version of Carpool for Dave TV. So for the creative types who are fleet of mind his example show one need not panic because the big house is collapsing.
Linkage:
http://www.unbound.co.uk/books/news-from-gardenia
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114018232303831249060/posts
http://www.youtube.com/user/carpoolUK
http://www.youtube.com/user/fullychargedshow
http://audioboo.fm/channel/rubbermask
http://www.facebook.com/drtyrell?ref=profile#!/pages/Robert-Llewellyn/47513367808
http://llewblog.squarespace.com/
http://www.wired.co.uk/podcast/episode-37
http://igg.me/p/43250?a=150751&i=shlk
http://d10x3fy7puydyz.cloudfront.net/17332/wired/podcast/wired-podcast-37.mp3
Art War, Art During Wartime, War on Art
If you want to see where your coutry is headed in the next five years, look to the state of the culture and those who produce it. Artists are the canaries in the coalmine. Artists will be shut out first on the march towards totalitarianism. First the creative, hard to control individuals need to be put on the defensive, made to think more about whether they can survive than is good for their work.
First, they removed the poets from the national conversation. I was not a poet, so I said nothing….
And any consideration of art or philosophy becomes indefensible, as I touched upon in Is It Art? Is IT Legal? Is It, Bugger… on the kkoagublogg:
It’s kind of a bourgeois thing to sit and speculate on w(h)ither art?, declare this form or that form dead, and debating back and forth to estimate the time of death. Hey, it’s all dead and in ruins along with the future, literacy and quite likely the industry currently eating up your time in exchange for the means and permission to stay alive for your natural span and do so in sheltered accomodations, owned or rented. The future is here, the future once promised is dead, long live the future, dead music and all.
It may be a stretch, but as I see it, the life is being wring from culture, as life giving qualities is being removed from the food. Well, here’s an offering made, and a curse placed. Of course from a group of artists:
5th public Curse on the Most hated corporation in the world the Monsanto corporation that makes genetically modified foods that cause real health problems. Up to 90% of what Americans eat is genetically modified.
Performance with Jeanelle Mastema & Halie Koehler. Music by USAF, Adam Cooper Terán and John Gross
Watch it until you vibrate with its current, and you’ll be a conduit for the rebuilding. It is audacious to ask “What is Art?”, to devote ones energies to it, unless sanctioned by the 1%, but our survival depends on it.
Trailer for the documentary “What is ART? Inside the Mind of the Artist as They Speak the Truth” by Steven Johnson Leyba featuring H.R.Giger, Genesis P-Orridge, Howard Bloom, Joe Coleman, Richard Metzger, David J, Mark Bode and more answer the difficult questions, what is Art?what is TRUE ART?, what is the difference between art and entertainment?, what is more important the artist or the art? Is art important?
WHAT IS ART? |
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| Inside the mind of the artist as they speak the truth | |
| Director: | Steven Johnson Leyba |
| Studio: | Coyote |
| Producer: | Coyote |
| Starring: | ARTISTS |
| Genre: | Documentary |
| Rated: | R |
| Region coded: | region 0 |
| Run time: | 2 hours – 20 minutes |
| Catalog #: | SJL01 |
| UPC bar code: | 885007122548 |
| Disc: | dvd |
| Release date: | July 19 2010 |
| Opinion based documentary on the subject of “WHAT IS ART?” | |
Audio addenda:
Special Psychedelic Salon: Excerpts from “Lost Studio Sessions”
Nabbed from Joseph Matheny’s blog: http://jmatheny.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/special-psychedelic-salon-excerpts-from-lost-studio-sessions
Says the man himself:
Lorenzo over at the Psychedelic Salon has (with my permission) put together a podcast of excerpts from the CD I produced, Robert Anton Wilson: The Lost Studio Sessions. I hope you enjoy and if you do, remember you can get your own copy at Original Falcon (on CD) or as a digital download form any number of download services. Complete list here.
Concise Noise Fractionale Has Landed on Soundcloud
Concise Noise Fractionale Ltd. is an independent audio collective of unsigned various artists interested in exposure through numbers.
The genres represented here are eclectic or even difficult to pigeon-hole, ranging from random noise to methodical notation, but usually it’s a combination of both. Ultimately, there are no pretenses of preferred style.
Composed by Scott Gallant & Matt Davis in 1998.
Noise End Rapture is a project best defined as Melodic Soundscape, standard musical instruments were modified. Sound-generating devices included effects pedals, samplers, and delay echoes, all of which were either cheap or cheaply rigged. A wide variety of unorthodox appliances and electronics were also miked whenever its sonancy was appropriate.
Video produced by Scott Gallant
Contributing artists:
Scott Gallant
Matt Davis
Steven Robichaud
Andy Sawyer
Devin Stevens
Allison Lahikanen
Shad Mosher
Nick Dooley
Justin Karoway-Waterhouse.Represented Projects:
Noise End Rapture
Vanish Hall
Eigenstate
This Music Sucks
Mad Shad (5H4D)
Sun Tunnel
LarvaLoon
The Cold
Ugly Things
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CNF on Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/concise-noise-fractionale
CNF on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Concise-Noise-Fractionale-Ltd/109891055757673
Necrofuturist Episode 26 – The Past is Dead
In this time when you can feel the quickening of a new beginning
Even as all you see is dead
And the heat of the flames before you
make you grateful for the freezing moon outside
The past is dead, the future is now
Shooting past you, receding into the distance
The darkening day – necro
The pale, feeble first light of dawn – futurist
Necro
Futurist
The blood exits, becomes cold
Midnight confessions are told
Buried memory is unearthed
Playlist:
Life’s Decay – Sulvisyan
Camp Z – The Right To
Sal Solaris – Urok Sna
Murnau’s Playhouse – Bloodstopper
Laætherstrip – It’s Who I Am (AAAK remix)
The New Regime – Haunt My Mind
Los Carniceros Del Norte – El Pozo y el Pendulo
6,000+ Downloads! Veil of Thorns – Vampire Wars
A huge thanks to those of you who have downloaded this album and sahred it with fiends & foes. We’re proud to find that as of this week, more than 6,000 of you have downloaded it. (Not counting the music blogs and Russian file sharing sites. They use their own uploads and we have no way of knowing how many downloads, or even how many sites are hosting this release by now.)
Update: Grab the album on bittorrent if you prefer.
NOISE COVERED WORSHIP
INCREASINGLY BIZARRE POLITICAL THREAT RITES
PROCESS PRODUCT PROPOSITION
DE LEGE MOTUS
CREATOR-GOVERNMENT-CREATOR
A CRAVEN SLAVE DESIGN
SACRED THOUGHT OBSTACLES
DISSOCIATIVE MODIFICATIONS
ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA
GRAVE PECULIARITY RECEIVED
APPARITIONS OF ART
PROGRAMMERS BELOW SIGHTS OF THE OPERATIONAL SECRET
VAMPIRE WARS
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Les Vampires Ep. 10 – The Terrible Wedding – P. Emerson Williams Score
Now ,this tenth and final episode of Les Vampires can only be described as a helter skelter romp, complete with chases, mesmerism, somnabulism, dancing vampires and gunplay. The English title should be something more akin to “The Bloody Wedding”, methinks, but the above is what it says in the title card…
This serial was a ton of fun to create sounds for, and I may start another one soon, but first there’s a few small and larger treats in the works.
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) #8
Back across the Atlantic, Batcheeba and Gird_09 hop on a train to see Europe. Is this the Orient Express? Hot rails to hell? Are they being pulled by the Little Train that Could? Listen in and find out.
Tracklist:
1 the Sisterhood – Jihad
2 Meatbeat manifesto – Helter Skelter
3 Ticket to Wonderland – Inspiring Rain
4 The Cramps – Human Fly
5 HPC- Sleepwalker
6 Atropine – the Second Culling
7 Current 93 and Hilmar Örn Hilmarson – the Fall of Christopher Robin
8 Bauhaus – Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
9 Dark Star – Frantic Upstream
10 Iggy Pop – Funtime
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) hosted by Batcheeba and her partner Gird_09 (together they are the incredible FRzO). In each episode they take us into secret caverns, crevasses and catacombs of our world, the underbelly of our politics and extremes of absurdity in our culture. Complete with opinions and offenses. While they diagnose our dis-ease they bring the cure in wholistic musical doses. You will never know what to expect!
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) are now on Farcebook! Hie thee hence and “like”:
Seiderkin Mix #05
Eight tracks including music by Black Arts Department, Bradley The Buyer, Choronzon and more. This album has no Z(enseider)Z tracks on it because we’re such swell guys and want all these other artists to get some play. But on a future release it’ll feature nothing but ZZ tracks. So it all balances out in the end. You might even get to hear some unreleased ZZ tracks if you’re nice boys and girls and send me a few scripts for painkillers.
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) #7
Having survived Guantanamo, explored Atlantis and the dregs of koolaid in Jonestown, Batcheeba and Gird_09 have returned to their peripatetic ways after a few months recovering back home in Norway. A budget vacation in the woods of New Jersey puts them in unexpected company…
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) hosted by Batcheeba and her partner Gird_09 (together they are the incredible FRzO). In each episode they take us into secret caverns, crevasses and catacombs of our world, the underbelly of our politics and extremes of absurdity in our culture. Complete with opinions and offenses. While they diagnose our dis-ease they bring the cure in wholistic musical doses. You will never know what to expect!
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) are now on Farcebook! Hie thee hence and “like”:
Hypnagothique – Electroschlag Vol.12
Dj Vrhovny gathers an august assembly of sonic wizards to tune into the future to translate their visions into electronic tone poems.
Intro
Blinded – The Blood Of Heroes
Wrowd – Sielwolf
Flick – Scorn
Vanquished & Destroyed – PaPERHOUsE
Mind Control (Peeling The Layers) – Choronzon
Wounds Against Wounds – The Blood Of Heroes
I Cannot Do That – Bluebob
Omerta – Chemical Plant
Darkfall – Sielwolf
As Good As It Gets – Circus Boltini
Outro
JARBOE – INDEMNITY : Phase One * PRE-ORDER
JARBOE INDEMNITY : Phase One
INDEMNITY can now be pre-ordered. This is an extraordinary release that will touch your soul. INDEMNITY will probably sell out in pre-order, so you should not wait.
Says Jarboe:
Now is the time. I invite you to pre-order as the names of persons who pre-order will be printed on the packaging. INDEMNITY is for you. It is for those who wrote requesting that I record intimate versions of their favorite Swans and World Of Skin songs. Your pre-order will allow me to professionally master and manufacture in Eco-wallet format.
This is a very limited digipak release. There is still time for those interested to pre-order it on Jarboe’s website:
http://www.thelivingjarboe.com
JARBOE
INDEMNITY : Phase One
* PRE-ORDER
CD in eco-wallet format , signed. Coming this summer only from thelivingjarboe.com . Order now to support Phase One of this expansive project. Intimate interpretations of Swans and World Of Skin songs plus new songs from Jarboe recorded at Mothercrow Studio of:
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Assraping a Nun – Gonzo Compilation
I can feel the whoosh of twitter and farcebook followers leaving at the sight of the title… Funny how idle thoughts grow. I tend to have to follow through on everything to the most absurd conclusion, so there was no question I could pass this up.
The genesis of the idea:
People actually get taken seriously with album titles like “fucked on a pile of corpses”?? I’m catering to the wrong crowd. My next release will be called “Assraping a Nun”. Maybe then people will finally open their eyes to the sweet soFISTication I’m offering them.
-GIRD_09 on Farcebook
I did my three versions and came up with the three artist names in an hour. (Hive Mind Drones, Sweetmeat and grave Knave.) There’s a continuum of artists playing with imagery and lyrics just to “shock”, from juvenile attempts at being bad and getting attention, to artists trying to wrap shock-as-pr strategy in bourgeois-tweaking art to others who have definite political or personal agendas delivered in an ironic stance that can’t be easily pinned down.
Said GIRD_09:
I have something special for you.
This thing started out as something of a joke, about how some bands can get away with the most inane and infantile track and album titles. I said “I’m gonna make a track called Assraping a Nun”. Before I knew people said they wanted to do their own versions. And that’s what happened.
I did a gonzo track in about four hours, and all these people sat down and did their own gonzo remixes. It was all fast, “unedited” and very spontaneous. In less than a week we had an album of sorts.
I give to you both the original track, and eight (!) remixes by fantastically talented people. I am humbled.
Massive thanks to Larry Kerr, Batcheeba, Frostwinter, Epilektrician and P. Emerson Williams for contributing these mixes. (Mr. Williams went ahead and made three of them even…)
1 Original track
2 Hive Mind Drones : Postmortem Felching Mix
3 Kultur Terror : Ratzinger Radio Edit – Christi in Absentia
4 Sweetmeat : I spit on your grave mix
5 Batcheeba : Raped by no one
6 Larry Kerr : Remix
7 Epilektrician : … on a bed of nails will cause ligament damage
8 Frostwinter : Cold Distance Mix
9 Grave Knave : Ghost of mercy mixEnjoy the tracks, and spread them far and wide.
Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/bjpdlq7tojlff11/Assraping%20a%20Nun%20by%20Gird_09%20and%20Friends.rar
Salomé (1923) – P. Emerson Williams Score
Working on this brought to mind a million different thoughts and connections. I’ll be pulling the chaos together into something relatively linear soon.
Salomé (1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde’s play, called Jokaanan) at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after. Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S. The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting (even for the period), minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters’ individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
I think the mythical Salome is both a product of and a window into the minds of those who told it. There’s a flavour to the tale that feels more like one from the old testament than the new.
http://etext.virginia.edu/subjects/salome/salome2.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2848
Choronzon – Vox Inferni (2010) – FoolishPeople
The return of the great beast Choronzon is imminent. Lest you know the proper evocation you will certainly never make it to the Ziggurat Of Dead Shibboleths. 40,000 Ephraimites have preceded you. 40,000 Ephraimites have died. Participate in the Mass Ov Choronzon, cast your ego into the infinitude to request Inferni… you most certainly deserve it!
Or simply download “Vox Inferni” H:M:S 04:47:45 ov dark, harsh, industrial, drone, in one EP large enough for the beast himself. The soundscape ov hell. In preparation of the first Choronzon CD since 2005′s Panic Pandemic. Download “Vox Inferni” (Inner-X-Musick Catalog Number XXX-PROMO-2010.2).
Track Listing;
1 Maanelys Skygge
2 Vox
3 Inferni
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) #2
Our intrepid hosts find themselves locked in a dark and Dirty dungeon in the epicenter of porn and perversion. Only with the power of whore-nuns and sexy tracks from Foamin’ Sodomy Records and Inner-X-Musick can they blast their way to freedom.
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) hosted by Inner-X-Musick artist Batcheeba and her partner Gird_09 (together they are the incredible FRzO). In each episode they take us into secret caverns, crevasses and catacombs of our world, the underbelly of our politics and extremes of absurdity in our culture. Complete with opinions and offenses. While they diagnose our dis-ease they bring the cure in wholistic musical doses. You will never know what to expect!
Choronzon on Kicks Radio – Radio Centraal 106.7 FM Antwerp, Belgium
Many thanks to hosts Peggy and Bruno for being the first to spin a track from the forthcoming Choronzon album FIAT NOX which is out now on Amazon.com and is coming in four days to iTunes.
Choronzon - FIAT NOX (2011)
Kicks is a weekly radio show on Radio Centraal in Antwerp, Belgium specialized in various underground cultures from the whole world. On air since 1989! Kicks broadcasts every Wednesday from 20:30CET till 22:30CET.
Playlist Kicks 01/06/2011:
Abstract Spirit: Horror Vacui (Horror Vacui – Solitude Productions)
MRT: The Wait (inTERRiOR – Dark:Scene)
Choronzon: Strange Corridors (Fiat Nox – FSR)
Satanochio: The Endangered Convicted (The Endangered Convicted – Asiluum)
Norbert Krief: How does it feel (Nono – XIII Bis records)
Murw: Geen weg meer terug dus recht door zee (In de mond van het onbekende wacht een oceaan – Heidens Hart)
Pierre Labbé + 12: Lavra (Tremblement de fer – Ambiances Magnétiques)
Heavy Lord: Balls To All (Balls To All – Solitude Productions)
ABSUM: Isrevinu Ilellarap (Enoisnemid Avitagen EP – DarkEyes S-P)
Dark Confessions: Centuries of blood (Century of blood – Dark Confessions)
Matthieu Choux: Nu Descendant Un Escalier (Op. 2) (Deux Pièces – Petcord)
Framferd: Med Blottet Nakke (Satanized/Framferd/Plutonian Shore/Katari – Nocturnal Tyrants – Extreminal Productions)
Magenta Harvest: Spawn Of Neglect (A Familiar Room Demo 2011 – Magenta Harvest)
mACACO mAU: Wired (bLAST tHE cOVER-uP # a – mACACO mAU)
Check out kicksextremeradio.com where you’ll find playlists, news, info and a ton of amazing free streams and music downloads.
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Long Live the New Goth Flesh
The armies of the dark returned last year. Really. The goth aesthetic, dark sounds, grabs tastemakers by their smug throats as silhouettes of hipsters can be seen, dancing among the graves as the world heats up and economies wobble on their precarious perches. The Quietus, Pitchfork and Stereogum are directing a surprisingly unironic gaze at artists waving an undeniably gothic banner. Post-punk is invoked in descriptions of more ‘band to watch’ blogotronic hosannas than one could reasonably keep up with. The thing about this return is that it’s news, to those of us who have stayed with the scene, that it ever went away.
Choronzon – Demo(N) Box (1986-1996) Orders Closed
The window for ordering the Choronzon Demo(N) Box is now closed. Thank you 333 times to everyone who took advantage of this deal. I will be painting my heart out for you to make each box gorgeous and unique. Expect strange things to happen when yours arrives…
The Choronzon Demon(N) Box, which collects the seven demos from before Magog Agog. Taken from various sources from 1/4» reels to DAT tapes to loving FLAC rips that were sent in a manner of someone sharing state secrets. All were digitally remastered and expanded in some cases. This limited edition includes seven CD’s in individually hand-painted boxes.
Order The Choronzon Demo(N) Box Orders Are Now Closed
The Demo(N) Box Includes the following releases:
Voices in the Storm (1986)
Choronzon - Voices in the Storm (1986)
The year – 86 – the initial inspiration of an intelligence far beyond the ken of the young Emerson. the co-conspirators who were not let in on the plans recorded a very different set of sounds.
Raw material of guitar-bass-drums-vox were separated and individually put through tortures – dragged through the Abyss if you will…
Individual sounds and habits were stretched and layered upon themselves. Utilizing two tape decks – an 8-track reel to reel recorder and sounds rerouted through amplifiers and fed again through delays and reverb into the final master. Other unsavory acts committed in the making of this recording shall not be detailed here…
-P. Emerson Williams
Anno 2010 Era Vulgaris
Recorded at puresound studio
Deconstructed and reformulated at 333 studio boston
Originally released to inner circle on cassette
Cassettes were wrapped in painted silk
Mastered at foamin’ south studio
Art and design by P. Emerson Williams
P. Emerson Williams – vox, guitars, keys, tapes, loops
Ned Wahl – bass
Todd Dadaleares – vox
Dennis Creaser – drumsChoronzon – crypt-ovo
Tracks:
Voice 33:30
Storm 44:40
Choronzon – In The Halls (1987)
Choronzon - In The Halls (1987)
This is where the tone was set for the metal oriented releases. The sound is basically Black Thrash, but the drum machine is introduced and pushed to the limit. The desire to make the fast sections chaotic led to the drum patterns to be full on blast beats, which was not common in 1987. Vicious Thrash punishment is embedded in ritual ambient soundscapes.
Label: Choronzon Self-released
Catalog#: FOAMIN341
Format: Cassette
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Black Metal
Tracklist
Arrival
Invocation Avocation
Feast
Bloodletting
Banishing
Credits: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals, Programmed By – P. Emerson Williams
Notes
Cassettes were wrapped in painted silk, each one unique.
Dispersion (1988)
Choronzon - Dispersion (1988)
Recorded live in a cave. Those assembled were not an audience, but active participants in the ritual melee. The recording was captured through a network of ribbon and contact microphones spread throughout and recorded on a vintage 1/4» reel. Cassette copies were run off for participants on the spot and no other distribution happened until this digital remastered edition.
A1 Dispersion – 00:33:32
B1 Dispersion – 00:43:27
Label: Not On Label (Choronzon Self-released)
Catalog#: none
Format: Cassette
Country: US
Released: 1988
Genre: Rock
Style: Ritual Ambient
Cassettes were wrapped in painted silk, each one unique.
Torn Away (1989)
Choronzon - Torn Away (1989)
Torn Away is a release that was something I thought was lost forever. Thank you pirate people, music traders, torrenters. Due to some odd circumstances, disasters large and small, I have lost any master tapes and copies of several demos over the years. (There remains about 500 hours of music I have yet to master and release. We’ll see.)
Disclosing the circumstances that brought this back to me would compromise the individuals involved and reveal things that need to be hidden until they are writ large in the skies…
-333
So much more…
Track list:
1. Slowly Unfold
2. A.\’.A.\’.1.1
3. Ravages Outside Time
4. Inner Universe
5. 2012EV
6. Torn Away From Existance
In My Own Lifeblood I Exult to Float (1991)
In My Own Lifeblood I Exult to Float (1991)
I’ll quote the source I got this back from but I have to ask: for the Market? Is this person taking the piss? Doesn’t matter, thirty-three copies were handed out one enchanted evening. All present were anonymous, so when the master tape was lost, I never thought I’d hear this again. I didn’t title this collection, but the original torrenter called it that, so I figured I’d create a cover. Some of you may recall the image.
Quoth the source of my prodigal demon child:
Year: 1991
Songs:
1: In My Own Life Blood I Exult To Float
2: Cruel and Epicene
3: Agony and Bliss
4: Visitation of Dread Desire
5: Crossing the Abyss
Length: 00:49:54
This is some very primitive and even more lysergic Black Metal. The final track sounds like tape manipulation done in a parking garage. In comparison to the only publicly traded demo they did before they signed to Nocturnal Art, this is much rawer and less “experimental” and more experimental, if you know what I mean. For the later demo they seemed to be trying to pull in Throbbing Gristle fans with their electronics and cutup arrangements.
I’m guessing that at this point Mr. Williams was just starting to consider making this project something for the market, though the vocals still sound more like incantations from rituals and do not necessarily make for the best rockin’ entertainment.
A very hard tape to get a hold of, as he was still only giving copies to persons present at the event itself. The individual who passed this on to me told me it was recorded in a network of underground caverns under the city of Providence, RI. As with anything that has to do with Choronzon and P. Emerson Williams, there’s no way to verify the stories.
My source for this recording refuses to tell me who he is or how he obtained it. Apparently some were injured in the process of the performance and were considered to be chosen and special for the experience. I used to run into people from this strange cult a lot back in the nineties, but they must all be locked away by now.
Wartorn Void (1994)
Choronzon - Wartorn Void (1994)
It was 1994 and Choronzon the entity had been with me for a long while by this point and informed every part of what I did with the project. Four of the tracks recorded during these sessions went out to ‘zines under the name “Emotional Hunger”, but there was a ton of other material that was shared with closer associates in the form you find here.
In a way, I think the heavy parts work better on this demo than some of the later recordings, due perhaps to the limits of 8-track reel to reel. I was also wearing my Celtic Frost and Voivod influences on my sleeve.
Listen to this back to back with 2010′s Choronzon album “Ziggurat of Dead Shibboleths” and you’ll find there is a consistency of feel and aesthetic. Some of the earlier rawness is returning even as the abyss deepens.
-Towards Chaos
Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Justified Resistance
3. Beyond the Light
4. Wartorn
5. Rust and Oil
6. Maanebesatt
7. Obsession
8. Ukjent av Kaos Trans.I
Choronzon - 333 (1996)
A Lord of Chaos, Choronzon (whose cabalistic number is 333), has been following me around for a while, ever since I summoned him forth, in the shadow state between dreams and waking. It’s disturbing when something from the land of Morpheus breaks through, and you get a tape from a local band that has named itself (coincidently, of course) after the very demon who has been wreaking havoc in your life. Choronzon (the band) is P. Emerson Williams, also of Veil of Thorns, and he obviously knows the occult arts. I’m assuming he’s a Thelemite, because one of the songs is called “Perdurabo”, a pseudonym of Aleister Crowley’s.
In any case, the music is HEAVY. thick, dark and raging. The songs are a caustic liquid, dripping from my speakers like rivers of fire, howling and shrieking in anger and torment. Drum beats loop on top of one another, twisting themselves into a rope that the music can climb on (although I’m looking forward to when Williams gets a live drummer(s), because for all the creative intricacies in the music, the rhythms are too mechanical at times).
Dense guitar crunch permeates the album, throwing a few technical metal riffs, and the vocals seem to have been ripped from the throat of 333 himself.
If you want to delve into the world of unconscious terror, or think that you’ve heard the deepest and heaviest metal has gotten, get this tape. But be prepared for little “accidents” to follow you around for a while.
-Lex Marburger/Lollipop Magazine
Track List:
333
Void
Heksene Paa Lyderhorn
Ukjent Av Kaos
Morgana (Evighet)
Perdurabo
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) #1
This archive edition is the very first episode of AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) that introduced the listeners of Inner-X-Musick radio to the charm offensive of Batcheeba and Gird_09. Yoke yourselves to them and they will bring you back and forth in time.
AK-47 (Not Quite Poetry) hosted by Inner-X-Musick artist Batcheeba and her partner Gird_09 (together they are the incredible FRzO). In each episode they take us into secret caverns, crevasses and catacombs of our world, the underbelly of our politics and extremes of absurdity in our culture. Complete with opinions and offenses. While they diagnose our dis-ease they bring the cure in wholistic musical doses. You will never know what to expect!
CHORONZON
Incunabula Papers – Ong's Hat
PANICMACHINE
Veil Of Thorns
