Vanessa Sinclair & Den Arkaiska Rösten: “Switching Mirrors”

  On January 4th 2017, Vanessa Sinclair read cut-ups and poems from her book Switching Mirrors at Rönnells Antikvariat in Stockholm, backed by Den Arkaiska Rösten (Per Åhlund & Girilal Baars). Towards the end of the performance I also read some poems together with Vanessa. It was a magical evening and a great release event for the book. A wonderful recording of the performance is now available via Soundcloud, mastered by Den Arkaiska Rösten. Many thanks to everyone involved! To read more about Switching Mirrors, please visit TRAPART.    

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Cotton Ferox live in Warsaw 2016

  Another great show from the vaults: Cotton Ferox live at the Festiwal Okultury in Warsaw on May 21st 2016. Thomas Tibert and Dr Zaraza on electronics/sounds and me on vocals and various sounds. Enjoy!   To check out more weird music by Cotton Ferox and others, please visit HIGHBROW LOWLIFE.    

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Art vs Design

  What constitutes art in relation to the contemporary concept of “design”? After all, all art is designed, isn’t it? Even when art is wholly random, the mind of the person triggering the random splash (or whatever technique) is a designing agent by proxy. However, all design – a contemporary general term for shape and form in everyday/decorative items and/or demagogic information – isn’t art. But if one is to make such bold assumptions as I just did, perhaps there needs to be some clarification? As a result of urbanised and globalised monoculture, there has been a slight confusion during the most recent decades. The sphere of what I call “general creatives” has been more or less successfully integrated into what’s usually called the “art world”. Meaning: industrial designers, commercial graphic artists, fashion people, architects and conceptual strategists can nowadays have exhibitions at institutions and spaces that used to contain a more narrow form of art (the kind made by...

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A recent interview at COS News

  I was recently interviewed by Der Rabe, a German Church of Satan-affiliated site. The interview has now has also been posted in English at COS’ news site. You can read it in the original HERE or just keep reading here below. Thank you. 9 QUESTIONS, 9 SATANIC ANSWERS – MAGISTER CARL ABRAHAMSSON Conducted & Translated by Der Rabe Hello Carl. Thank you for taking the time to give an interview to Der Rabe. As a starter, how would you explain Satanism to someone who comes again and again with the same old arguments like child molestation, animal sacrifice, and church burnings, to name but a few? It is after all difficult to make it clear to these bigoted humans and also to the media that this is bollocks. I think the main thing to do is point to the web site of the Church of Satan, where everything is so clearly stated. And, in extension, to LaVey’s own writings. If the people in question are intelligent enough to do that, then maybe A) nothing needs to be explained...

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