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Please send news items for inclusion to tony.dickie@btopenworld.com Items for review: Compulsion, PO Box 19577, Kilbarchan, Johnstone, PA10 2WX, Scotland, UK Occulture in Glasgow There are several events occurring in Glasgow that should be of interest. 
The Glasgow WorkingTo celebrate the opening of Objections to an Empty Mind at The Hidden Noise gallery Strange Attractor presents a night of talk, music and film. Phil Baker, author of Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist, presents an illustrated talk about the artist and his work. Magick Concrète : a mediumistic improvisation for phonomantium and guitar, featuring Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor) and Drew Mulholland (Mount Vernon Arts Lab). The London Nobody Knows (1969, 60 minutes): James Mason presents a wry view of unseen London, based on the books of Geoffrey Fletcher - a psychogeographer's delight. Strange Attractor presents The Glasgow Working at The Old Hairdressers on February 15. For more information go here Objections to an Empty Mind - Austin Osman Spare with Richard Brown The exhibition brings together a small yet potent selection of works by Spare from several private collections, and is curated to bring to the fore his exquisite draughtsmanship (often likened to Albrecht Dürer), and to highlight his interests in occult traditions, psychical phenomena, Eastern philosophy, wireless broadcasting and his own idiosyncratic theories about the unconscious. Works include obsessively- detailed phantoms and grotesques; symbolist and astral landscapes; automatic drawings; hallucinatory pastels; examples of Spare's anamorphic portraits (his 'experiments in relativity'), as well as more traditional, vivid self-portraits and portraits of local cockneys. Shown alongside Spare's works will be Richard Brown's 'Electro-chemical Glass', 1997, a time-based work using non-digital media comprising three disks of copper, aluminum and iron on a bed of liquid fertilizer, all encased in glass. Over fourteen years, through a series ongoing chemical interactions, the work is slowly unfolding and transforming, new shoots of iron and sheens of gold and lapis lazuli blue evoking ideas of alchemy, hyper-dimensionality and the magic of the real. Objections to an Empty Mind runs from February 17 - March 17 at Hidden Noise, 1/1, 24 Hayburn Crescent, Glasgow, G11 5AY. For more information go to www.thehiddennoise.info 
A Psychocinematic Ritual: OV, The Psychogeographical Commission and The Wyrding ModuleA celebration of ritual, the occult, and the disturbing power of music and cinema. After their spectacular warm up for Italian horror score legends Goblin at last year's festival, occult project OV returns for a much-anticipated live experience, using ritual, coincidence, numerology and a hefty dose of magick to explore both the beauty and cruelty of war. The unsettling collaboration between members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours and Sons and Daughters, the project was borne from a mutual fascination with the occult and the magical use of visuals. Using live film soundtracks alongside intriguing visuals, prepare to be reminded of the power of music and cinema to shock and disturb. The Wyrding Module is a solo project from paramusician Christopher Gladwin, one half of " Team Doyobi ". The psychotronic sounds of the The Wyrding Module are inspired by kosmische musik, mantra-rock, post-industrial ambience and the occult. The Psychogeographical Commission have released the albums Genius Loci and Patient Zero and the mini CD Widdershins. Their music combines psychogeography and magick with sonic experimentation. The Psychogeographical Commission have featured heavily in the pages of compulsiononline. This event marks the debut live performance of The Psychogeographical Commission. A Psychocinematic Ritual takes place at The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow on February 23. Don't miss it. For more information go to www.facebook.com/events/165759293533001/ The Psychogeographical Commission - Lost Rivers of London The Psychogeographical Commission cover version of Coil's Lost Rivers of London. Lost Rivers of London - The Psychogeographical Commission from Psychogeographical Commission on Vimeo. 
Electric Sewer Age - Moon's Milk In Final PhaseOut now is the final piece in Coil's Moon's Milk series of releases. This release marks the last recordings undertaken by Peter Christopherson and Danny Hyde. These were originally intended to be part of Coil's series of Moon's Milk releases. As a result of the passing of Peter Christopherson, these have been issued as Electric Sewer Age. Moon's Milk In Final Phase is released in an edition of 999 numbered copies. For more information go to www.auralrage.com Mark Stewart live performances announced Mark Stewart has announced a series of performances in the UK. March 26 -King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow March 27 - The Ruby Lounge, Manchester March 28 - Scala, London Out in February is Autonomia from Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream. Autonomia is released digitally through Future Noise Music. A limited edition 12-inch with remixes by Pinch and JD Twitch is scheduled too. For more information go to www.markstewartmusic.com Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream - Autonomia Autonomia by Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream. Directed by Douglas Hart Autonomia from Future Noise Music on Vimeo. Cultural Amnesia - Free download of new album, This Is Not Your Shape
Cultural Amnesia were part of the post-punk/industrial music cassette culture of the late 70s to early 80s. They released three albums: Video Rideo, Sinclair's Luck and The Uncle of the Boot, contributed to compilations and played some concerts. Much work remained unreleased at the time, including two albums: The Undertow of Evening and Obscenity. Over the past few years two collections of their work have appeared in the form of the retrospective vinyl albums Enormous Savages (Anna Logue Records) and the double Press My Hungry Button (VOD-Records.com), a subsequent edition of Enormous-Savages Enlarged was released by Klanggalerie, featuring five post-2000 tracks from the reformed trio. This Is Not Your Shape is the first full album of new material from Cultural Amnesia for 28 years. This Is Not Your Shape is a free download album of nine tracks, seven previously unreleased, recorded by Cultural Amnesia between 2004-2009. The album comes with CD artwork, for those who wish to make a physical copy. The album is accompanied by Verbose Logging, a designed PDF booklet containing a selection of song lyrics recorded 1998-2009. We've been admirers of their work ever since their old material began to resurface in 2007. On compulsiononline you can find reviews and an interview with Cultural Amnesia. Check them out and be sure to download This Is Not Your Shape which is available here. Cultural Amnesia - Contains The official video released to accompany the release of This Is Not Your Shape Cultural Amnesia - Contains - Official Video from John Peacock on Vimeo. Kenneth Anger's Technicolor Skull debut release out now
Technicolor Skull a multimedia collaboration featuring Kenneth Anger on Theremin and Los Angeles artist Brian Butler on guitar and electronic instruments have just issued their debut release. Technicolor Skull is a magick ritual of light and sound in the context of a live performance. Technicolor Skull's self-titled recorded debut is a one-sided, bloodred 180 gram 12-inch vinyl LP limited to 666 copies. Grab it while you can. For more information go to technicolorskull.com Nothing Is Sacred: Mark Stewart free download 
Mark Stewart makes an apocalyptic return amidst an increasingly agitated atmosphere. 'Nothing Is Sacred' is a damning indictment of greed in a year riddled by riots, revolutions, occupations and increasing collapse of the global financial system. 'Nothing Is Sacred' features a collaboration with Crass vocalist Eve Libertine, German electro monsters Slope and Dan Catsis from the Pop Group on bass. 'Nothing Is Sacred''s howling funk-rock and unyielding political attack evolved from the sessions for Mark's forthcoming album. 'Nothing Is Sacred' originally appeared as the AA side of the now-deleted limited 7-inch cover of the T.Rex classic 'Children of the Revolution' issued as part of the Black Friday releases to celebrate independent record shops. 'Children of the Revolution' features a collaboration with The Bug. The single limited to 500 copies is available (if you can still find one) as a hand numbered, hand-worked sleeve constituting one unique piece of Mark's bombart. For more information go to markstewartmusic.com Listen to the occultural ambience of OV 
Following two live manifestations, Glasgow's finest occult supergroup featuring members of Desalvo and The Unwinding Hours have just posted their first recording online. 23 minutes of occult ambience can be found on soundcloud. Their formation was inspired by a rare appearance of legendary underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger in Dundee, Scotland and the publication of Thee Psychick Bible. OV Power. Read more occultural provocation at p6-westernlands.blogspot.com and listen at soundcloud.com/ov23 Out now is Othon's stunning new album Impermanence 
Othon's much-anticipated second album is finally here! Othon Mataragas is a genre-bending songwriter, a non-conformist composer and an eccentric pianist. He has collaborated on the soundtrack to the Bruce LaBruce film Otto; or Up With Dead People and a new live accompaniment to the Derek Jarman film The Angelic Conversation together with the father of industrial music Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Coil). His music has been featured in comedy shows by David Hoyle, art exhibitions like 'Gay Icons' at the National Portrait Gallery and he has worked with musicians like Marc Almond, Current 93 and Laura Moody. For Impermanence, his new highly ambitious music venture, Othon's ongoing collaborator Ernesto Tomasini demonstrates his huge 4 octave range across many of its tracks: 'At Night', 'The Fall', '59', 'A Little Dream' and 'Impermanence'. Marc Almond, who also guests in the album, lends his voice to the darkest and most torturous moment on the record with his interpretation of the title track and his dramatic rendition of 'Last Night I Paid To Close My Eyes'. Camille O'Sullivan contributes with her passionate storytelling voice to 'A Trip to Paradise' and the songwriter himself sings on 'All Is Too Soon' a song dedicated to a childhood friend who recently died of a heroin overdose. Other guests include guitarist Justin Jones (And Also the Trees), vocalist Beverly Crome (The Cesarians) and the Elysian Quartet. Othon has done the album's lush arrangements and Troy Banarzi has produced the title track.Impermanence is an important landmark in Othon's artistic evolution. Inspired by a series of Tibetan Tantric meditations, it explores, in his words, "how our small world and everything that surrounds it may eventually be destroyed but, also, how Love can play a transformative role by giving birth to a young and naughty phoenix from the ashes of our old-world emotions". Stylistically, Impermanence is virtually indefinable - with 50s pop, death baroque, post-minimalist and sleazy folk references, Othon has given his album the genre of 'PAN muzik'; a new off-limits musical genre that includes all genres! An all-embracing and holistic style of music neither exclusively experimental nor pop, neither strictly progressive nor banal. Impermanence is out now on Cherry Red/ Strike Force Entertainment. For more information go to www.cherryred.co.uk/sfe-exd.asp?id=3385 or www.othonmataragas.com Coming soon: an exclusive interview with Othon on compulsiononline.com New Psychic TV/PTV3 on Vanity Case Records and live US dates 
Psychic TV / PTV3 release Mother Sky/Alien Sky a new long play 12-inch vinyl on Vanity Case Records. Mother Sky/Alien Sky is released on sky blue and cloud white swirly vinyl in an edition of 500 copies. The web shop at www.genesisbreyerporridge.com will have autographed copies with extra goodies. Others can order from www.vanitycaserecords.comPsychic TV/PTV3 perform live at the Elysium, Austin, TX on December 9 with Chant and Coma In Algiers; Reggies Rock Club, Chicago, IL on December 11 with Claw Toe and others TBC; Europa, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY on December 15 with Bryin Dall and Cult Of Youth. For more information go to www.genesisbreyerporridge.com Feasting With Panthers a full-length collaboration between Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore 
Feasting With Panthers is a collaboration between Marc Almond and composer Michael Cashmore setting poems of Count Eric Stenbock plus unique translations by Poet Jeremy Reed, of poems by Jean Genet, Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine as well as Reeds own Poetry, to music. 'Decadent' poems of Thwarted love, Opiated romance, decadence and death woven with a Homo-eroticism accompanied by Michael Cashmore's haunting, melancholic music that gives the verse a feeling of yearning for beauty and a longing for lost innocence and youth.
The album was recorded over several years sending files by email and post, never once recording together in the studio, Berlin based Michael Cashmore working at home to compose the music, playing all of the instruments and adding Marcs vocals from files recorded in London. The result is a glorious union, both in voice and music, complementing the text.
The project began after Current 93's David Tibet gave Marc a book of Poems by the Baltic German Poet Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock he had published through the Durtro label. Marc was instantly attracted to the dark erotic and melancholic yearning in the verse and contacted Michael Cashmore who he had previously worked with on Current 93's reading of Idumea. He felt Michael would have the right understanding of the verse with his intricate beautiful musical work. The project developed to include many of Marc's favourite Poems by some of his favourite 'outsider' Poets with a common ground.
Marc and Michael released a limited edition EP of Stenbocks Gabriel and The Lunatic Lover through Durtro Records and performed both songs at The Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with Current 93 in 2008.
Feasting With Panthers is out now on Cherry Red/ Strike Force. For more information go to
www.marcalmond.co.uk/microsites/feasting/index.htmlTen Plagues by Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell 
Marc Almond is appearing in Ten Plagues at the Edinburgh Festival throughout August. Read on.A thrilling and unique music-theatre experience performed by Marc Almond. In London Came the plague in sixteen sixty five One hundred thousand dead But I alive. London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eye-witness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels with modern epidemics, Ten Plagues relates one man's journey through a city in crisis. Ten Plagues is an extraordinary collaboration between four of the UK's most distinctive artists - the internationally acclaimed artist and iconic muscian Marc Almond; playwright Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and Fucking, Ravenhill for Breakfast, A Life in Three Acts); Traverse Artist in Residence and international theatre director and opera designer Stewart Laing (untitled projects, Titanic on Broadway) and the award winning Conor Mitchell. Conor has written over 40 scores for theatre, including Have a Nice Life and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. For more information go to www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/ten-plagues/ New Human Greed album 
The eagerly anticipated fourth album from Human Greed - Fortress Longing: the internal campaign for the safe and complete return of the sleeping egyptian to the desert - is now available. A special limited edition (120) features an additional disc, Deshret, featuring a new 35 minute reworking of Fortress material by Michael Begg and Colin Potter.
Michael Begg is joined, once more, by erstwhile visual artist Deryk Thomas, and a handful of other performers and friends: Antony and the Johnsons cellist Julia Kent once more lends grace to the proceedings, whilst Fovea Hex colleague Laura Sheeran provides vocal arrangements and harmonies. Nicole Boitos - who painted the blue lamb featured on the cover of the recording also provides a reading voice to Begg's texts, as does the Norwegian singer Tommy Aashildrod. Further vocal chants and singing bowls are provided by Charlemagne Palestine collaborator and 48 Cameras leader Jean Marie Mathoul, whilst Colin Potter, with whom Begg already collaborates on Fragile Pitches and Fovea Hex also contributes - notably in the 30+ minute work, Deshret, included as an extra disc on a limited edition of the release. In Fortress Longing Human Greed has delivered a singular and hypnotic work of disagreeable beauty! For more information go to www.omnempathy.com Forthcoming TG releases TG Vinyl Re Releases On 26th September 2011 IR will release a series of Deluxe Vinyl Editions of the following TG titles: The Second Annual Report D.O.A. The Third & Final Report Heathen Earth 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits Each title will be an edition of 2000 copies. Chris Carter has remastered the audio and the LP's come packaged with an 8 page full colour booklet featuring some previously unpublished photos, press reviews from the time, and other visual ephemera from the Industrial Records archive. (Please note that any recent coloured vinyl versions of the same albums are 'bootleg' copies of VASTLY inferior quality. These records were cynically made available to exploit Peter's death, and are NOT authorised by TG or Industrial Records Ltd. Be assured we are actively tracking down the culprits.) TG Digital Downloads On 26th September 2011 IR will make the following titles available as digital downloads in AAC, MP3 and FLAC formats: The Second Annual Report D.O.A. The Third & Final Report Heathen Earth 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits These titles have been remastered by Chris Carter and come with their original IR LP artworks and multi-page booklets in PDF format. TG CD Re Releases On 26th September 2011 IR will make the following titles available as part of a 'TG Time Capsule' CD series of reissues. The Second Annual Report D.O.A. The Third & Final Report Heathen Earth 20 Jazz Funk Greats Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits Each title has been remastered by Chris Carter and comes packaged for the first time in the digi-pak format to better represent their original IR LP artwork. Each release in this 'Time Capsule' series, comes with an additional disc of selected TG live performances culled from our TG24 archive recordings. They are selected to represent TG live performances specific to the original release year of each album. For more information go to www.throbbing-gristle.com Death In June reissue their classic NADA! as a limited expanded edition NADA PLUS 
In part celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Death In June (1981 - 2011) one of the classic albums "NADA!" is now reissued as a special limited edition "NADA PLUS!" 2 x CD + DVD/Double LP and USB.Besides containing the original album songs and nearly all the other recorded material from 1984-85 the CDs are presented in a foil blocked, 8 panel, full colour DIJipak and also contain the songs from the '93 Dead Sunwheels' album of rarities and re-recordings (1989) as well as 4 stripped back unreleased re-recordings (2005). The accompanying DVD contains the 20th Anniversary performance in 2005 of most of the "NADA!" album plus extra Death In June material played on the night. 250 of the CD/DVDs will also come in a special Blue/Black metallic outer bag. Total run of the CD + DVD is 1,500 copies. The Double LP (limited to 1,000 copies) comes in a foil blocked gatefold sleeve in different coloured vinyl (250 Clear vinyl in a special silver metallic outer bag and 750 Gold vinyl) and contains all the songs from the original album plus all other material officially recorded and released between 1984-85. Each LP contains a special postcard. The wooden USB which comes in a limited edition(130 only) tin case contains everything featured on the CD + DVD and Double LP as well as the 'Night And Fog' reclaimed bootleg live album recorded in 1984 plus a large exclusive photo gallery showing many rare and unseen photos from the period. All artwork for the CDs/LPS has been reinvented and all recordings DIJitally re-mastered. A limited edition "NADA PLUS!" T-shirt will also be available with the release. CD 1 ( "NADA!"...) THE HONOUR OF SILENCE THE CALLING (Mk II) LEPER LORD RAIN OF DESPAIR FORETOLD BEHIND THE ROSE (FIELDS OF RAPE) SHE SAID DESTROY CAROUSEL C'EST UN REVE CRUSH MY LOVE CD 2 (...PLUS!") THE TORTURE GARDEN LAST FAREWELL DOUBT TO NOTHING FIELDS OF RAPE C'EST UN REVE SHE SAID DESTROY THE CALLING LEPER LORD * DOUBT TO NOTHING* FIELDS OF RAPE* HE SAID DESTROY* *(unreleased version) DVD THE HONOUR OF SILENCE LEPER LORD SHE SAID DESTROY DOUBT TO NOTHING DEATH OF THE WEST FIELDS OF RAPE THE TORTURE GARDEN RAIN OF DESPAIR CAROUSEL FORETOLD THE CALLING TILL THE LIVING FLESH IS BURNED C'EST UN REVE LEOPARD FLOWERS FALL APART COME BEFORE CHRIST AND MURDER LOVE KAMERADSCHAFT Double LP THE HONOUR OF SILENCE THE CALLING (Mk II) LEPER LORD RAIN OF DESPAIR FORETOLD BEHIND THE ROSE (FIELDS OF RAPE) SHE SAID DESTROY CAROUSEL C'EST UN REVE CRUSH MY LOVE LAST FAREWELL THE TORTURE GARDEN DOUBT TO NOTHING THE CALLING BORN AGAIN CAROUSEL (BOLT MIX) USB Extra: 'NIGHT AND FOG'< v THE TORTURE GARDEN CHRISTINE THE LIZARD KLAUS BARBIE TILL THE LIVING FLESH IS BURNED FIELDS OF RAPE (TIBET MIX) THE CALLING SHE SAID DESTROY FIELDS OF RAPE HEAVEN STREET Recorded live at The Fridge in London, 28.VIII.84 CD + DVD/LP Wholesale & retail orders: info@pylonrecords.com CD + DVD/LP/T-shirt Individual Direct Mail Order: www.pylonrecords.com For more information go to www.deathinjune.net older news |
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