Carl Abrahamsson

New interview at the Skeptical Occultist website

April 27, 2017

I was recently interviewed by Eldred Wormwood at The Skeptical Occultist. You can read the interview at their site HERE! (Or just keep reading here…) BIBLIOTHECA OCCULTURUM – CARL ABRAHAMSSON Tell me about your library. How many books would you say you have in total? How much of that is occult specific literature? Do you keep your library in a specific room dedicated or spread throughout your home? My library can seem chaotic, both in terms of contents and order (or lack of it). For me, an ideal, perfectly organised library is an elevated pipe dream and one I would not like to manifest. Paradoxical as it may sound, for me a perfectly organised library is a stagnant thing, like death. My library needs to be filled with life: additions, subtractions and re-shapings, changes of direction and renewed interest. There is no motion of association in perfection. I would estimate that I have 4000 books in my home and I have some stashed away too. Of these, I’d say 500 cover...

This is New York video (Cut to fit the mouth)

April 26, 2017

To celebrate the release of Vanessa Sinclair’s and my album CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH, I’ve made a little film for the track THIS IS NEW YORK. On May 6th, there will be a combined release reception/party for CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH and The Fenris Wolf 9, between 6-8pm, at SoHo Psychoanalytic, 30 Charlton Street, Suite 1, New York 10014. Welcome! The cassette (standard and print editions) can be ordered from Arcana Machine (US) and Trapart (EU) This Is New York from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.

Fenris Wolf 9 is here!

April 23, 2017

The Fenris Wolf 9 has arrived from the printers and looks great! This issue collects the papers (and more) from the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult, which was held in London last year, and organised by Vanessa Sinclair and myself. We have also edited this issue together. Contents: Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson Editors’ Introduction: Looking back at the crossroads Katelan Foisy Invocation: Homage to the spirits of the land/London Sharron Kraus Art as Alchemy Demetrius Lacroix The Seven Layers of the Vodou Soul Graham Duff Sublime Fragments: The Art of John Balance Ken Henson The American Occult Revival In My Work Gary Lachman Was Freud Afraid of the Occult? Peter Grey Fly the Light Val Denham Proclaim Present Time Over Katelan Foisy & Vanessa Sinclair The Cut In Creation Claire-Madeline Culkin Beds, Bodies and Other Books of Common Prayer – A Reading of the Photography of Nan Goldin Steven Reisner On the Dance of the Occult and Unconscious in Freud...

Sinclair & Abrahamsson: Cut to fit the mouth

April 15, 2017

Cut to fit the mouth is the debut album by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, released on cassette by the American label Arcana Machine. Vanessa Sinclair’s cut-ups and poetry are read by Sinclair and Abrahamsson, and set to music by Abrahamsson. Psychedelic fragments and intriguing memory mosaics are woven into ambient scapes and sensual sound collages, creating an overall impression of a psycho-sexual journey far beyond consensus reality and its mechanical anticipations. Cut to fit the mouth is a slice of life seasoned with anxiety, confusion, determination, delight and, eventually, complete satisfaction. C-60 Cassette. Arcana Machine 2017. Limited edition of 230 copies. Please note: 23 copies come together with a print signed by Sinclair (see print image below): 297 x 210 mm, archival paper. Audio excerpts Get the standard edition Get the print edition American customers: You might save on postage costs by ordering direct from ARCANA MACHINE.