Friday 20 November 2015

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








Wednesday 21 October 2015

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....
 

Saturday 30 May 2015

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.
 

 
 

Wednesday 27 May 2015

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




Thursday 14 May 2015

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

Thursday 7 May 2015

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....



Thursday 16 April 2015

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




Friday 20 March 2015

Incense / homeopathy....



Over the years our use of incense in live rituals has often been noted, the ingredients vary, initially the recipe was based on one to invoke Beleth, a demon from the Goetia, as He is a great patron of the arte of musick: “ Bileth is a great king and a terrible, riding on a pale horsse, before whome go trumpets, and all kind of melodious musicke”.  Frankincense was a major ingredient. This was to be used in a church, and I also obtained some pigs blood (not purely gathered in any sense, but as desecration/insult was the object, no matter) which was duly spat upon the altar. I think what I realised was that what began as a simple ‘dirty’ gesture, became more a re-consecration, its own holiness. I instinctively loved the ‘red crystal’ scent of frankincense, pure and resinous, yet with an indescribable tang of animal musk underneath, and this led to the use of two other ingredients that share this quality, red amber and dragons blood. Also our own scents, and those of the animals that we love and belong to (Felis, and Mustiladae) share this ‘flux of unclean cat’ quality, simply we are drawn to them, and them to us.

And it was in this time (2008) that Samantha mixed her ‘Plenilune’ incense, containing her blood, a small amount of which has always been added to the incense used at shows. So as ingredients are added, there has always been a residue from the previous batch, providing a continuity, and as the percent of the original declines, it becomes homeopathic, less obvious, but possibly more powerful,a microcosm that can effect change in the macrocosm, as above, so below (and again this links to the ‘temple within a temple’, maps of Gondal, model villages, baby train layouts, the camera obscura in Powell and Pressburgers ‘a matter of life and death’ (and also their creation of ‘tibet’ in black narcissuss) all obsessive (re)creations of dream kingdoms via symbol, model, ‘token’.)
Further inspiration came from these observations, by the Great Beast, from 777:

For he not only suggests, but shows his way of being suggested ‘upon’ by external stimuli. The opoponax we use came from Mama Creepy in Tennessee, resembles a big bag full of meteoric ore/desert waste and has become a major ingredient in the Musick Ritual. We shall be mixing a big batch soon, using all of the above, and some other choice ingredients (and trace elements), ready for our show, a Cold Spring special night, with Tunnels of Ah, Iron Fist of the Sun and Khost at the Deaf Institute, Manchester on July 23rd, and to be included as an extra ingredient for the release of a special Stiff Opposition Cdr, entitled ‘Military Temples’ which will be available here, and nowhere else, in the next few weeks. Thank you…

Thursday 26 February 2015

Emily says: Greetings from Gondal!

That this Little Dragon Cat is called Emily, is no mere affectation, No Coward Soul, hers

Firstly, though, the guitar is gone..., thanks to one of our loyal supporters

Now, Draconis, as The Land of the Dragon, (not the physical one, roughly ringed by Keighley, Skipton, Bolton Abbey, Ilkley, Baildon , Bingley,) but the metaphysical one that links Bhutan/Leng, Khem, Algol and Sirius is a 'Paracosm', eg part of another slice of the multiverse. And so, 'Gondal is an imaginary world or paracosm created by Bramwell, Emily and Anne Bronte in their youthful jevenilia. Gondal is an island in the North Pacific, just north of the island Gaaldine. It included at least four kingdoms: Gondal, Angora, Exina and Alcona'. Therefore Emily's Dream Kingdom of Magick Power. She walked and lived in West Yorkshire, yet Made-believe she was in Gondal, and there she sang her songs, and wrote her poems. I walk in Gondal too, feel its winds and rains, sing its songs, make music of them, and of course bring home some of its trinkets, relics, objects of magick power: roots and skulls and rocks.

And so as I reap, I shall bring to this market, sparingly, a few items for sale in the next weeks and months....




Some existing ornaments, and some semi raw materials...




and an ancient Gondalian oak, it's own finished sculpture

thank you..

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Thank you/old guitar...

Firstly, the thanks is for all who attended our Valentines Night, and especially to Sir Andrew King, who helped us to new heights, by bringing the old songs to life, and letting us bleed into them, and them into us...  kind words and pictures at http://cole.vsco.co/journal/conjuring-a-blood-niagara

secondly, the wolf is at the door, a little more sharply etched than ever, thanks to the impending cessation of my state 'benefits', the result of which will be more attempts to sell the produce of our hands and hearts, and sundry other items, the first of which is: my old guitar:


epiphone 'gibson' les paul junior circa 1999, bought new for £195, featured on almost all the total/sunroof 1999-2004, particualy notable on rock power, cloudz (the prince sample track), and 'trampled dawns' on silver bear mist.


the very bright morning sun has brought out how mucky with rosin from the bowing it is, but hopefully that adds to the charm..... £37, cash on collection from the BD22 area, email: skullflowertruth@gmail.com to arrange...



Thursday 22 January 2015

Valentines Night


Saturday 14th February, the Skullflower duo, with special secret guest / collaborator, will perform, invoke, and open gateways at Londons cafe oto. https://cafeoto.co.uk/events/skullflower/