Backtracking in the fast lane

  2019 has undoubtedly been one of the most intense years of my life. Vanessa and I have travelled like crazy, and most of it has been work-related. No wonder it’s been such a productive and successful year. In terms of music, this year saw/heard the release of four new and well-received albums: the “My Silent Lips” soundtrack, “O Time Thy Pyramids,” “Nocturnal Meditations,” and “Loyalty Does Not End With Death” (together with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, on Ideal Recordings). I actually felt I didn’t do much at all, and yet these four darlings forcefully showed up. Highbrow Lowlife had a great year too. Besides those three first albums mentioned above, there were also four White Stains albums: re-releases of “Misantropotantra” (1992), “Why Not Forever?” (1994), plus “Nefertiti Rising: Live in Gothenburg 2013” (White Stains & Genesis Breyer P-Orridge), and “Singleminded Dualisms 1987-1989” (a collection of vinyl singles). But the crown jewel was undoubtedly Vanessa’s album...

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Winter Solstice 2019

  In this majestic darkness, we remain in silence, waiting for the first rays of solar force. Saving our energy for when it’s required, to shed light on what or whoever tries to hide, and illuminate those who are ready and willing to be fully alive – as we are. Each turn is a miraculous event, a death and rebirth in the very same breath, the very same moment. This is not a moment of formulating demands and petty personal wishes. It’s a glorious moment of expressing gratitude to the Sun: life giver, father, mother, son, daughter, force and fire. Thank you, Sun, for shining the light and inspiring us to do the same. Each living thing owes you its life force. We realise this and are grateful to be children of the Sun rather than muddled shadow creatures, inhibited by their own fear and projections. We fear nothing and no-one, and we create with and in your force and fire, so that we can radiate inspiration for as long as we live. Grant us the blessings of health, wealth and length...

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I’m on the MELT Podcast with Chris Snipes

  “I speak with author, publisher, musician, filmmaker, and magico-anthropologist, Carl Abrahamsson about the connections between art and the occult, the connections between fascism and the occult, magick, dreaming, and the Temple of Psychic Youth.” – Chris Snipes   Carl Abrahamsson| Art, Fascism, Occulture, and TOPY Become a Patron!

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A psychosexual evocation

  During the summer, we were invited to take part of Kendell Geers’s beautiful exhibition at Dublin’s Rua Red art center. In part, Kendell’s exhibition was about the infamous Hellfire Club (the Dublin one, specifically), so that of course triggered me quite easily! I wrote an inspired text about the illusion of space-time, and about how the Hellfire antics live on in us all, as necessary symbols and matrices for cathartic psychodrama. Towards the end of the exhibition, we were invited to create a performance/ritual in the gallery space. As we had just finished our audiovisual spell “Mementeros,” we decided to use that film as a framework for the performance. The film was projected on the gallery wall already filled with Kendell’s exciting glyphs. The music consisted of instrumental versions of the soundtrack structures. We then performed a ritual play which consisted of an expansion/elaboration of the text I had written for the catalog (presented here below). I read that text...

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