Carl Abrahamsson

Cotton Ferox in Copenhagen for Burroughs centennial

November 17, 2014

On Saturday the 22nd of November, Cotton Ferox will play in Copenhagen at Mayhem. This in order to celebrate William Burroughs’ centennial. There will be many things going on (please see the flyer for more information). I will talk together with other luminaries about the importance of Burroughs in contemporary occulture and of finding one’s own voice as an author (which he certainly did!). It is very likely that Cotton Ferox will be joined by Rasmus Juel, the eminent trumpet player of Møll & Juel fame! Don’t let your life go to waste. Come see and hear us play and be existentially cut up forever!

Coil-related books are always welcome!

November 15, 2014

Just recently, the French publisher Timeless dropped two very pleasant bombs on the market: a book of Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson’s photography and one of John Balance’s paintings and other artwork, Bright Lights and Cats with no Mouths. This has been like manna from heaven for all Coil aficionados, and is a most welcome contribution to a generally Coil-starved world. And this just in time for Christmas when every decent person should spoil him- or herself (or me)! I haven’t got the proper books yet but have flipped through the digital press-things. It all looks absolutely stunning and I’m convinced that the production and printing are up to normal Timeless standards, i.e. top of the line. That Sleazy was a talented photographer we all know, and to see an assortment of his work/life in such an enticing way is just fantastic. There’s Coum, TG, PTV and of course Coil-related material, but also general portraits, boy...

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...