Carl Abrahamsson

Fanzinera goes to Ludvika

April 24, 2014

Between April 26th and May 10th my exhibition FanzinEra will be on display at Glasgalleriet in Ludvika. Come see old photos from my fanzine days, 1985-1988. Here’s some more info about the book that the exhibition is based on: CARL ABRAHAMSSON: FANZINERA – PHOTOGRAPHS 1985-1988 Writer Carl Abrahamsson started taking photos to go along with the interviews he made for the fanzines “Lollipop” and “Acts Of Interstellar Torture” (1985-1988). From this vast snap-happy collection comes “FanzinEra”, a selection which includes portraits and live shots of underground superstars like: Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Joe Coleman, Union Carbide Productions, The Leather Nun, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Gun Club, The Cramps, Alex Chilton, The Church, The Go-Betweens, Long Ryders, Died Pretty, The Scientists, The Saints, Sort Sol, Sator, John Lydon, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, New Order, The Godfathers, Genesis P-Orridge, Henry Rollins, Pere Ubu, Hüsker Dü, The...

Sway away!

April 18, 2014

A novel about Kenneth Anger and his connections to the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones, Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson? That surely sounds to good to be true? It does. But it isn’t. Zachary Lazar’s novel Sway does indeed exist but is such a mish mash of (mis)appropriation and audacious personality-jacking that one should tread very gently while reading it. Following Kenneth Anger’s creative career and inner developments/motivations, Lazar weaves a speculative web in which we meet Bruce Byron (the guy who plays the biker in Anger’s Scorpio Rising), Bobby Beausoleil, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richard, Anita Pallenberg and many others. The overall dynamic between time and space makes sense, but anything beyond that doesn’t. There’s Anger’s adolescence and budding creativity, New York in the early 60s (Scorpio Rising era), Marrakech with the Stones, Haight Ashbury with Bobby Beausoleil, the Manson murders, the death of Brian...

Kroll Splint and more in magical arts festival

April 15, 2014

Cotton Ferox’ own audio sorcerer Thomas Tibert and artist Johan Hamrin have created an arts festival called Syster Tjära, Broder Djärv. This coming Easter weekend will be packed with interesting goings on in Hökarängen in Stockholm. Among other things, there will be a performance by Kroll Splint, Thomas’ musical project together with Joakim Karlsson Kurén. Everything is exciting! Don’t miss it! More info right here!

Cotton Ferox’ Warsaw concert online!

April 13, 2014

On November 17th, 2013, Cotton Ferox played at the Trans-Wizje 4 festival at Laboratorium in Warsaw. It was by far the best concert we’ve ever done (or, “so far”). We were augmented and enhanced by our local friend Dr Zaraza on guitar and it became a swell and swelling cosmic experience for us all. This was also the moment when the “Mega Golem” was set free, after several years of “astral” construction. So, in that sense, the performance was as much ritual as “concert”. This documentation was produced by the Trans-Wizje crew, so major mega-thanks go out to them, also for the event itself.