Another little video epic from the album Cut to fit the mouth, by Vanessa Sinclair & Carl Abrahamsson. This one is We Come Mind Off. The album is available from TRAPART (Europe) and Arcana Machine (US). Enjoy! WE COME MIND OFF from Carl Abrahamsson on Vimeo.
I was recently interviewed by Sean Plummer for the Canadian horror film magazine Rue Morgue. Sections of that interview was used for Plummer’s piece on Anton LaVey and his legacy, and the issue in question can be acquired HERE! To read the interview in its entirety, please read on. CARL ABRAHAMSSON / RUE MORGUE What does the word “Satan” mean to you now? And how has that word’s significance evolved for you over the years? From having been a term that I used ”mechanically”, i.e. via someone else’s definition, I now look at it as a hugely important psychological cluster/complex which always takes on immense historical proportions. Satan is an overall term for a mechanism that makes the world move onwards. For me, the Jungian ”Shadow” is very tied in with this. The more someone represses his own shadow, the more he will live in an ”adversarial neurosis” which means living in a dualistically simplified world-view guided by fear. Satan’s main job is to fuck...
“Message 23” is a powerful compilation with words/readings by American, New York-based poet/artist Vanessa Sinclair and a host of contemporary talent within the experimental and electronica scenes. The result is a mind-blowing exposé of impressions and truly bewitching seduction. Drifting into areas of sexuality, psychoanalysis, dreams, witchcraft and deep emotional layers, Sinclair together with her collaborators drags the listener into uncharted psychic territories. On this album, Sinclair has consistently used the cut-up technique, as developed by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin. And she has collaborated with some of the finest talent on the scene today: Sheer Zed, Val Denham, Joachim Nordwall, Xambuca, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, 156, Akoustik Timbre Frequency, Thomas Bey Williams Bailey, Carl Abrahamsson, Mary Nymphection, Damages, Katelan Foisy, Mikronesia, Liza Beth Paap, Audio Spirits, Witchbeam and Madame Deficit. The result is a hauntingly beautiful...
We were recently interviewed by Arcana Machine, the eminent label that released our first album Cut to fit the mouth. Please go here to read it at their site or just read on below. Interview by Douglas Lucas with Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson about their debut album CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH released on Arcana Machine: DL: As the readings on CUT TO FIT THE MOUTH were composed by means of the cut-up method, I wanted to ask you how has the practice of the cut-up technique affected your own life? CARL: I’m a creature of habit, so allowing for chance elements to affect me is important. Life is not wholly causal, and the really good things come when you sidetrack the expected. That’s as true for the music making as for life in general. It’s very true of filmmaking, writing and all other creative practices too. Valuing all the creative stuff in my own life makes me a more openminded human being. DL: What are some of the text sources used to create the cut-ups on the album...