Audio Spirits are a great Cotton Ferox offshoot with Thomas Tibert and Bartosz Samitowski. Their EP Truly is out on Highbrow Lowlife and is a great manifestation of musical innovation and psychonautic audacity. We’re talking deep inner space here, and sink quickly into a warm and ethereal womb-like void filled with exploratory desire. As always when these gentlemen are involved, it’s a “no prisoners” attitude that sets the pace. We are thrust into their soundscape and then float on freely – we have no choice, it seems. Ambient sounds lure you into Samitowski’s voice, intoning some dark incantation. A spell or an expression of existential hope(lessness)? We will probably never know. No matter what, Audio Spirits deliver the soundscape goods and it’s always a disturbingly pleasurable and memorable experience. They have also recently collaborated with Japanese artist Kazuya Nagoya on the single For Dahomey. Really great stuff! Check out...
Treasures from the musical vaults
I’ve been sorting through the musical archives and have found a lot of old goodies. They will from now on be posted at the Highbrow Lowlife page at Soundcloud. First to go are two Polish concerts, one from the Intermediale festival in Legnica (2008) and one from the Trans-Wizje festival in Warsaw (2013). Both very good concerts, and from distinctly different CF eras. Thomas Tibert and myself in good shape! If you’d like to listen to more music by Cotton Ferox, please visit Highbrow Lowlife. Thanks!
Switching Mirrors live at The Delancey, New York
The Trapart book Switching Mirrors by Vanessa Sinclair was officially released at a party at The Delancey in New York on November 28th, 2016. The evening was made even more special by a live performance by Vanessa and amazing musician Liza Beth Paap (on violin, loops). I have now made the recording available on SoundCloud. Enjoy it here or at SoundCloud! The book Switching Mirrors can be checked out HERE!
The Lunacy Crowdfunder is now active!
My film Sub Umbra Alarum Luna (2016) was dedicated to Derek Jarman’s influential work, specifically In the Shadow of the Sun (1975, with music by Throbbing Gristle 1980). The film has been screened in Stockholm, Copenhagen, London, New York, Porto and other places, and is available on DVD and Vimeo On Demand. My new project, LUNACY, will be the “follow-up” film to Sub Umbra, and is based around recorded cut-up texts about the moon by Vanessa Sinclair, with music by me. The film will be a miasmic, mind-expanding trip into the psycho-lunar orbit. Mixing new material with older super 8 footage and a truly cosmic soundtrack, I will aim to see what’s on the dark side of the moon – and hopefully come back. If you’d like, please support this project via Kickstarter. It’s an exciting project, so please join me in getting this rocket/cine-poem off the ground. Thanks!
