Carl Abrahamsson

A Russian Cotton Ferox Escapade

March 27, 2017

While Cotton Ferox were on tour in Russia in 2007, we got together with local experimentalists Bardoseneticcube, Kryptogen Rundfunk and 1g0g in St Petersburg. On a whim we decided to record an improvised jam session, as we felt an immediate musical kinship. The result, two long tracks, is a dark and brooding journey into the psyche of these Swedish and Russian minds. The sounds and structures suck you in and then won’t let go. It’s decidedly a netherworld trip – sometimes scary and sometimes gleefully curious. The album Mother Russia is now available via all major streaming service and online record stores. If you want to buy this release, please support our own label Highbrow Lowlife. Thank you.

The Fenris Wolf howls again!

March 26, 2017

Issue number 9 of The Fenris Wolf is now available on pre-order. This volume contains material from the conference Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult (London, 2016), with contributions from Gary Lachman, Vanessa Sinclair, Katelan Foisy, Sharron Kraus, Demetrius Lacroix, Graham Duff, Ken Henson, Peter Grey, Val Denham, Claire-Madeline Culkin, Steven Reisner, Katy Bohinc, Olga Cox Cameron, Ingo Lambrecht, Elliott Edge, Charlotte Rodgers, Alkistis Dimech, Fred Yee, Robert Ansell, Ray O Neill, Derek M Elmore, Julio Mendes Rodrigo, Eve Watson, and Carl Abrahamsson. Topics include Sigmund Freud and the Occult, Art as Alchemy, the art of John Balance, Cut-Ups as a magical and psychoanalytic tool, Maori shamanism within therapy, Animistic art, Dance as ritual, Androgynous aspects in Austin Osman Spare’s art, Salvador Dali’s meeting with Jacques Lacan, Rebis: the Double Being, David Bowie’s Non-Human Effect, similarities between ritual magic and psychoanalysis, and much more. Trapart...

Switching Mirrors available as e-book

March 18, 2017

Vanessa Sinclair’s much lauded book Switching Mirrors, issued by Trapart Books in November 2016, is now also available as an e-book. It can be acquired at all major online booksellers, like Amazon.com and iTunes. Amazon Apple iTunes Switching Mirrors is an amazing collection of cut-ups and mind-expanding poetry by Vanessa Sinclair. Delving into the unconscious and actively utilising the “third mind” as developed by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Sinclair roams through suggestive vistas of magic, witchcraft, dreams, psychoanalysis, sex and sexuality (and more). Causal apprehensions are disrupted by a flow of impressions that open up the mind of the reader. What’s behind language and our use of it? What happens when random factors and the unconscious are given free reign in poetic form? Switching Mirrors is what happens. Vanessa Sinclair, PsyD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is a founding member...

Cotton Ferox: Trondheim 2014

March 15, 2017

On May 30th 2014, Cotton Ferox (Thomas Tibert and myself) improvised music for a performance by the British artist Angela Edwards. This was a part of the Here To Go 2014 festival in Trondheim, Norway, co-curated by Martin Palmer and myself. This remarkably sinister concert has now been uploaded to SoundCloud for your listening pleasure. To listen to more music by Cotton Ferox, please visit HIGHBROW LOWLIFE and SoundCloud. Thank you. The Cotton Ferox photograph was taken by z’ev.