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

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 23^rd, 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…

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..

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...

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/

Draconis

equinoxial fulcrum.all change

starting a new nitemare job and lasting 2.5 weeks in it, kittens nursed and kittens dying, Rosalies beloved Sabbath lost and found dead, at peace in a shed, not locked in: Eleven glorious years for a puzzled mild farm kitten who wanted to come inside.

And Brienne who slipped away in my arms, having known so little of lyfe.....sleep little sister. I pass them on to the loving paws of LeRoi....

hanging on in: ghost, ice and our tiny whalien, thanks to eternal mother cat of the wraiths and strays of west yorkshire: Poppy

everyone knows. even playing a show, which becomes drama of guitarnecks snapped by airport baggage. new dutch clampdown on weedselling coffee shops. we nearly don't play, but turn it around at showtime. lovely plain old chuchhaus upstairs hall. staind glass of the 'adolescent jesus'. becomes our red hall hell. the gabalnumun cedar amber pan high altar. three fender twin silvers and the white wolf. after we partied with exquisite virus, we tested and found true, and laughed.
http://thequietus.com/articles/16299-incubate-2014-carter-tutti-void-goat-review
is actually right, the elements in the alchemy are 'wrong' but somehow right, and the overall, feel (adult!) of the Alchemy is Right!

and finally, draconis arriving: sounding and looking better even than hoped. Thank you Justin and Abby.

It can be purchased from us at fifteen pounds, and rest assured, no copy will escape us without the addition of some small extra benediction....
post £2 uk, £3 europe, £4 rest of world, paypal to sdlunier@hotmail.com
onwards....

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