Carl Abrahamsson

Reasonances launch party in London

November 3, 2014

My anthology of articles, lectures, essays and more, Reasonances, has now been published and is shipping from the phenomenal publishers Scarlet Imprint. To celebrate, there will be a book launch/party at Atlantis Bookshop in London on November 28th. I will be there and I hope you will too! For more info on the launch party and how to rsvp, please go here! Here’s how Scarlet Imprint describe the project: “Reasonances is an anthology of selected essays, lectures and interviews by occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson. A subversive, creative, psychedelic collection of 23 essays spanning thirteen years at the forefront of occulture and magic, followed an interview with the author by Sylvie Walder. The unifying question of this diverse and stimulating collection can perhaps be stated thus: how does magic hack culture? Or perhaps even: what is the role and magic of the artist? Abrahamsson proposes strategies of engagement that draw from TOPY, Thelema and Satanism, with...

Poetry in digital motion

October 31, 2014

On this very heavy Halloween night, the great UK label Sombre Soniks releases an album that I’ve made together with Akoustik Timbre Frekuency. It’s called Heated Wanderlust and contains one single flow of gong based drones and some percussive elements. On top of this, or possibly inside it, I read some poetry and texts from the past years. I have to say that it’s one of the most rewarding projects I’ve ever worked on. I sent ATF my audio files with recorded poems and that was it. An easy task. But I was so overwhelmed when I started receiving rough mixes of my voice together with his truly beautiful music. It all really works well together. Although the texts are not interrelated at all, they make some kind of new sense here in this dark flow of musical emotions. This project is, I think, a kind of externalized manifestation of processes that have been going on inside the Cotton Ferox machine/beast for quite some time. I’ve been...

Fanzinera goes to stockholm

October 13, 2014

The relentless display of photographs from the book Fanzinera will now hit the scene of the crime itself: Stockholm. Between October 15th and November 15th, a selection of images will be displayed at Taverna Brillo, Sturegatan 6 (and Humlegårdsgatan 19). The opening evening will contain some enjoyable highlights: DJ-sets by Leather Nun’s own prime mover Jonas Almquist and The Stomachmouths’ Stefan Kéry. There will also be a screening of some super-8-films I made during that same era: a 25 minute documentation of Blue for Two and Freddie Wadling + a similar kind of film with Union Carbide Productions (23 mins). The book Fanzinera will be available for sale on the opening evening at a special, discounted price. If you can’t make it, the book is also available for sale via the TRAPART site. You are most welcome to travel back in time with me and the images at Taverna Brillo!

Kristina Junzell: Vid Under

October 9, 2014

Kristina Junzells sinnen tillhör den stora världen. Och den lilla. Hon går ständigt på upptäcktsfärd i området mellan livets ytterligheter och attraheras intuitivt av sina upplevelsers mönster. En själslig topografi byggs sakta men säkert upp. Bilderna skapar en ny mosaik som förvillar och förtrollar oss. Vi vet sällan var vi befinner oss men spelar det egentligen någon roll….? Var ligger grottan? Var ligger flickan? Vems är handen? Var är spindeln? Svaren kommer nog aldrig att dyka upp. Det är själva styrkan i Kristinas bilder. De är så öppna och associativt poetiska att vi glider in i dem och vidare. Vi kan inte annat. Att stanna upp är omöjligt, opassande, olämpligt… Vi följer med på hennes färd, osäkra på om vi befinner oss innanför eller utanför hennes skarpa sinne. Det tycks så nyfiket och upptaget att man ibland känner att man stör hennes betraktande, som om det vore en högst privat sfär vi iakttar. Men så är det inte. Det är ännu en av hennes styrkor som konstnär...