Carl Abrahamsson

“Loyalty does not end with death” is released today!

April 19, 2019

The new album LOYALTY DOES NOT END WITH DEATH is released today via Ideal Recordings. Here’s the excellent Boomkat Product Review: “Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, controversial occultist and iconic founding member of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, brings to a close a series of collaborations with Carl Abrahamsson which now spans three decades and which finds P-Orridge narrating over immaculate ambient tapestries, delivered at time-dilating pace. Electing to use their own names, ’Loyalty Does Not End With Death’ is the final part of a spoken word trilogy initiated in 1990 with the Psychick TV & White Stains side ’At Stockholm’, and proceeded by their ‘Wordship’ [2004] album as Thee Majesty & Cotton Ferox, and is the first appearance the pair have had together on vinyl. It’s the sound of two cosmically-travelled minds crossing paths again after a long absence in which they’ve been able to chew over the bare essentials – love and magick...

Demonic Mnemonic Tech Rant

April 17, 2019

Apologetic introduction: How many more tech rants does the world need? I have no idea, but I’ve never feared ridiculous redundancy, so here goes… The digital platforms fragment. Our attention spans get shorter and shorter, dictated by dopamine-driven success ”online.” Micro-movements, sedating necessities… ”I’m just going to…” ”Let me just…” Where is the dialogue? Where is our human poetry? Everyone builds a little empire. At war, at peace, in crisis, at ease… Big Brother watches (or not)… Everyone succumbs and gets conditioned / imprinted, and always on display. ”I am visible, therefore I exist.” The utter hopelessness in awaiting a few more likes; a few more acknowledgements of bot-controlled defeat and dismay. Lots of deafening, deathening noise, and barely any signal. Where are you in all of this? Unwillingly wallowing through necessary motions in order to simply exist. Technology-driven subhumans sharing platforms like the proverbial junkies’ needles. Needless to say, the...

My film “Cinemagician” is released today!

April 15, 2019

Iconic American filmmaker Kenneth Anger has inspired generations of creative storytellers since the late 1940s. He is a unique visionary who drifts from pure poetry within his magical filmmaking to sardonic gossip in his bestselling “Hollywood Babylon” books. In-between these extremes we find a person who never tires of exploring his own creativity. In this intimate documentary, Anger lets us in on his fascinating life story, his approaches to filmmaking, and his relationship to British occultist Aleister Crowley. A film by Carl Abrahamsson, Sweden, 2019. 48 minutes. Cinemagician: Conversations with Kenneth Anger from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo. For more information on the An Art Apart documentary series, please visit: trapartfilm.com To support ongoing projects, please visit: patreon.com/vanessa23carl

Please support my new film about Anton LaVey!

April 11, 2019

I just basically wrapped up my film about Kenneth Anger (Cinemagician – Conversations with Kenneth Anger), which will very soon be released. But I can’t sit still. Ants in the cinematic pants, or what? Today, I launched the crowdfunder campaign for my documentary about Anton LaVey (Anton LaVey – Into the Devil’s Den). I have shot all the material, but now head into post production and acquisitions of archival material. Time and Money! Please take a look at the trailer to get a feel for the project. If you like what you see and would like to support the film, please go to the project page at Indiegogo: INTO THE DEVIL’S DEN CROWDFUNDER CAMPAIGN (Please feel free to spread the link as much as you want!) Thank You! It’s going to be one hell of a film! Official Information: In 1989, I met Anton LaVey for the first time. At this time in his life, LaVey was seeing only a select few people. For this film, I’ve met and interviewed some of...