09/04/08

Another English Heretic gig - this time on the last day of the 2008 Termite Festival, most probably at the Common Place, Leeds on the 20th of April. More information here.

Also a new Neon Death Slittes release! The Grim War of Chaos Magick is a 3" tribute to Hawkwind, Silver Apples and Throbbing Gristle. Mercilessly loud! 50 copies, on Andy Jarvis' great First Person label. I also have a few copies - £3 each... email me if interested!

14/01/08

The publishing side of Larkfall returns! First release is Psychogeographia Ruralis, a 28 page, 21x14cm chapbook discussing the relation between landscape, music, the genii locorum and imagination.

Limited to 50 copies, each coming with a unique psychegeographic image. £3.50 - a little more than I'd hoped, but printing cost more than anticipated! Available here.

11/09/07

A couple of bits and pieces. Rory Hinchey was kind enough to interview me over the 'phone for a one and a half hour feature about XETB on his Collective Voice radio show, broadcast last Thursday. You can download it as a podcast here, or see the playlist here. I'm afraid I do rather 'um' and 'ah' a lot - a long night with the twins meant I wasn't at my most lucid!

I'm also pleased to announce that the first English translation of (pseudo-)John Dee's Libellus Veneris Nigro Sacer, alias Tuba Veneris, will be published this winter by Waning Moon Publications. Translated from the Warburg manuscript by Terri Burns and Nancy Turner, it is illustrated by Jeffrey S. Kupperman and Darlene. This edition includes a lengthy essay by Terri as well as supplementary material by Vincent Bridges, and an article by myself that speculates on the sources of the text. The work will be limited to 256 copies, hand-bound in quarter green goat leather and copper covered paper. More information is available here.

Coming soon, new XETB!

21/08/07

The John Barleycorn Reborn compilation should be released jointly by Cold Spring and Woven Wheat Whispers before the end of the month. It contains a XETB track, along with submissions from friends like English Heretic, Alphane Moon and Far Black Furlong. To celebrate the release I've added an mp3 release of an old XETB ep - the Goat Willow 3". You can download it on the recordings page.

In other releases, English Heretic manifest another tangental tantrum involving some collaboration with myself, along with a significant contribution from Johann Wlight - his first recording in some time. Visitor Guides: Your Passport to the Qliphoth, a 60 minute CD and e-book is available from the English Heretic gift-shop.

Finally, apologies to artists still waiting on copies of the Reynardine compilation - they'll be on their way shortly, slightly delayed due to various factors, including the birth of twins!

30/04/07

Four new releases! First, on Larkfall, is the Reynardine compilation. 14 tracks by 13 folk/drone/experimental-type artists. The second Larkfall release is Grotto Grove and Shrine by The Pneumatic Consort, a collection of improvisations from 2006 centred around woodwind instruments, voice and harmonium, recorded around Lelant, Barden Fell, Ilkley Moor and Leeds. Look at the recordings page for a full track-listings and samples.

Today is also the official launch of the Oneiros label, a Larkfall offshoot, which will release various musics that don't exactly fit the Larkfall aesthetic. First is a three-way split between Ashtray Navigations, Sonic Temple Assassins and The Neon Death Slittes. 20 minutes by each artist. NDS bring ropey guitar duels and half-learned, third-hand rock & roll riffs. STA provide 5 tracks of sci-fi rockabilly, vaguely reminiscent of Suicide. Ashtray (in this incarnation Todd & Legard) play some ridiculous primitive boogie with violin caterwauling, followed by a wall of murky fuzz and heavy grease. The second Oneiros release is Valerio Cosi's Freedom Meditation Music Vol. II - the sequel to his recent release on Students of Decay. A very varied album from the talented Italian musician, which sways between fusion, cut-up/tape-loops, motorik rhythms, free improvisation, minimalism and ends with some beautifully fuzzy noise… both these releases are available on the distribution page, in an edition of 100 copies each.