Carl Abrahamsson

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.

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...