Manifest Station

On the Sixth of December we will descend on Hebden Bridge to evoke the Dakshini Force and build altars of Set/Guedhe in the Werewolf Universe with that shadow stuff that their bible calls 'the Darkness of Aegypt'.

Driving over the moors to the Calder Valley, I have seen, the world cloaked in mist below me, and only a few plateaus, like islands, left, as if the the world were drowned, cleansed:

from 'Shadow of the Golden Fire' by David Murgatroyd

Rising from the Serbonian Bog....

(drafted in june. )
I wrote thusly (about 'military temples')
A Symphony of Seven Aires for the Witch Queen: Seventy minutes and Seven seconds
Seven jewels in her Diadem, the great mother; Typhon, Coatlicue, Chaos
All Evil proceeds from the Seven stars, Ursa major, great bear, upright in our sky, the axe, the cleaver, the neither, dividing thigh constellations, and then..., one more..., the (h)eighth, and then; one step more, across the parquet floor, one more star, ninth... twinkling green Siriuss.... where the jungles are, and the deadly nightshade firebirds cry around the ruined military temples, over which black shapes hover, blotting out the sky... the ships are leaving, this time, maybe forever. Before I pass out I see, etched in living crimson fire, runes on the space ships...
and lately have been reading 'the sword and the flute, Kali and Krsna: dark visions of the terrible and sublime in Hindu mythology' by David R. Kinsley, and was immediately struck by the fact that Krishna is Pan...
then dipped into (as one can with the typhonian trilogies by Sir Kenneth Grant) 'Outer Gateways' and stumbled into, and upon:

 and as Pan is to the noon, Set is the Darkness of Aegypt
 the dark god of the depths who ravishes his mother...

and his cross

and re-viving this 3 months later, see that my my measured dance on childhoods hallways is again, informed via circles and gyres, by the Ninth Arch. Always the Spiral....
 

Last Days of May

Jewel in the Skull...

work in progress...

Stiff Opposition Coat of Arms...

Zemblan Emblematic Heraldic Beasts. Did I ever mention '4 black suns and a sinister rainbow' is a described heraldic device in Game of Thrones? (future post about GoT and how it's a warm genetics house, accurately describes a world where magick is 'real' . See also 'Powr Mastrs' (how I long for transformation night)) Anyhow we love a little heraldry, a bit of a show, and the kirin has aquired a very special friend to dance with, in some terrible, awe-filled symmetry, and yes, even the toad seems to be high-kicking for joy...

Leonora...

A wonderful exhibition at the Tate Liverpool included amongst many visceral thrills and swoons and ferrets, the above, 'the magical world of the Mayas', a large work where the eye can roam and rove, and you can lose yourself in the details (the best immersive trip into a painted world of perfect beauty and awe we've had since Jupiter and Semele at the Moreau Museum, Paris) and, just to the left of snaky chasm, I found:

My Avatāra...

Our picture: the lens had suffered wine damage, and it was just darkness, so I 'enhanced' (just like blade runner, a tumbler of chivas regal, ice clinking and me talking to the computer) and He appeared.I don't think there's another image of him quite like this...

Dear Diary...

 

I nearly wrote note to self... but I love the Coil song Paranoid Inlay where Geff narrates: "Dear Diary, I must take risks. I must not be afraid of failure. What do I need to give up? Crystalline ladders, shiny things, mirror-balls." And speaking of mirror balls....

Live Aktion...

Special Thanks to Jo Cold Spring for designing this beautiful poster, redolent of the Tunnels of Set, and being Lost in the Woods...

Tyger...

picture for sale. £17 plus post. approx 7" square. pencil and ink on paper. 2010. 

Goodnight, thank you for your kind indulgence.

 

 

 

Possessions Dark Reflection

Voltigeurs - Possessions Dark Reflection
Within the realms of a fairly harsh discography, Voltigeurs' Possession is a Harsh One, so it's almost unfair, in a way, to reveal, and release, upon an unsuspecting multiverse, what is known to us, as Possesssion's Dark Reflection.
Issuing from the same time realm of madness /self discovery that Possession charted (west yorks and the reverse of the tree 2010-12), pdr collects the most outre, and 'wrong' pieces, that provided crazed detours, and monstrous outgrowths along the way.
When a set of tracks, an album, leaves the house it also leaves behind 'the others' - the music too 'just another track' or just too 'wonderful in the right mood but unlistenable the next day'.  These 'others' should perhaps have been locked in the attic. skullflower.bandcamp.com

Melek Taus

for my 53rd birthday my true love gave to me.....
a medieval psaltery
and a kirin.
A meditation played upon the psaltery, which is dedicated to the Peacock Angel, is now on skullflower.bandcamp.com
to which I will also be adding Last Shot at Heaven (with a few extra tracks) soon...
here is the kirin:

mb 15-5-15

Total 84-87

https://skullflower.bandcamp.com/releases

two tracks (terminator, trans nacht) are on 'hard + low', but the remainder is top notch 'broken flag' style 1980's MB...

I will be putting other old and new works up in the coming months....

Military Temples

'Military Temples (for coil)'
Skullflower remixed, retouched, and retooled by Black Sunroof!
Stiff Opposition 003

A Symphony of Seven Aires for the Witch Queen: Seventy minutes and Seven seconds
Seven jewels in her Diadem, the great mother; Typhon, Coatlicue, Chaos
All Evil proceeds from the Seven stars, Ursa major, great bear, upright in our sky, the axe, the cleaver, the neither, dividing thigh constellations, and then..., one more..., the (h)eighth, and then; one step more, across the parquet floor, one more star, ninth... twinkling green Siriuss.... where the jungles are, and the deadly nightshade firebirds cry around the ruined military temples, over which black shapes hover, blotting out the sky... the ships are leaving, this time, maybe forever. Before I pass out I see, etched in living crimson fire, runes on the space ships...
Temple One: of Glass
Temple Two: it's in the Trees, it's coming
Temple Three: Shards of black rotor blades
Temple Four: the Castanets of Death
Temple Five: of Red Leather and Bone
Temple Six: Like an Inca (Runes on a Spaceship)
Temple Seven: of Obsidian

Edition of 41 hand inked cdrs with Live Musick Ritual Altar incense in hand inked sleeve,
of which 11 are the deluxe edition with hand finished fetiche from Gondal/Land of the Dragon
£11 plus £2 post and packing uk (£3 europe/£4 rest of the world)
deluxe edition £22 (post and packing will be calculated individually)
write to blog address to reserve/payment details
there will be a digital release via bandcamp (plus some archival etc) eventually