INELEGANT EPISTLES:
1.Carless Idle Chatter
2.Merely Nodding
3.Raw Mode Of Life
4. Rumour And Dishonour
5.Ugliness Is A Form Of Genius
The above is an excerpt from the "Kreeme Horn-In praise of the Grotesque" Essay by Genesis P-Orridge which appears in "The Fenris Wolf" Issue 5 available from Carl Abrahamsson's Edda publishing imprint.
http://www.edda.se/
North American orders can be placed through Edda's overseas distributor at http://www.jdholmes.com/shop/jdholmes/category/EddaPublishing.html
Elements of this writing were worked into a Collaborative recording with Cevin Key as "Beauty is the Enemy" appearing on Cevin's solo album "Music for Cats." Gen's left his spoken word piece on Cevin's answering machine, in keeping with how a lot of the Cevin Key/Download and Genesis Collaborations worked.
A few lines from the Oscar Wilde story "A picture of Dorian Gray" are appropriated in the "Kreeme Horn/ All Beauty is our Enemy" work.
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Sunday, August 4, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert revitalize HIGHBROW LOWLIFE...Collab with Genesis release Aug 15th
Reposted from Carl Abrahamsson's blog...
Highbrow Lowlife
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| Thomas Tibert, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Carl Abrahamsson. Photo by Ryan Martin. |
But... We have so much material in the archives and now also a much better distribution network for digital releases, so there's really nothing there to stop Highbrow Lowlife from becoming a very smooth vehicle for our musical expressions – new as well as old ones.
There will be physical/tangible releases too, mainly vinyl, but that takes slightly longer to strategize. So we'll begin slowly but surely by making as much material as possible available digitally.
The first release will be an EP called I Travel. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge reads a trippy poem to music that was originally made for our joint album Wordship (2004), but the EP also contains two remixes. The release date is August 15th, so stay alert!
We have just now fixed our own YouTube channel, where we'll post old as well as new films by Cotton Ferox, White Stains and other relevant acts/people. The first video posted is I Travel F-Side. Enjoy! To see it in a slightly better quality, please go straight to the clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HWzb2sSXoVI
A Highbrow Lowlife website is also being structured and will hopingly see the light of day late August.
Thanks for being interested. Stay tuned and you'll be provided with a lot of mind bending music!
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Genesis and White Stains perform in Nefertiti in Gothenburg on the 29th
Entry from Carl Abrahamsson's blog at http://carlabrahamsson.blogspot.se
With "At Stockholm" being one of my favorite Genesis projects ever ,this is quite exciting news!
Psychick gig bliss up a head!
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| Genesis P-Orridge, Gothenburg 1989. © Carl Abrahamsson |
It's never too late or too soon to look back and enjoy the past. Especially when it deals with future, as it does now. On June 29th, White Stains will resurface after a 20 year hiatus/hibernation. This in order to celebrate two specific projects: White Stains' 1990 album At Stockholm and Cotton Ferox' album Wordship (2004). Is there a common denominator? Of course. We made these albums together with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge – a living legend if there ever was one.
As we enter the stage at Nefertiti in Gothenburg on the 29th, Genesis will be with us. Not to make specific renditions or versions from our two albums, but rather to encourage and celebrate the atmosphere they contain. Very likely, we will surf on this wave of recurrence/resurgence to make a third album too. It would be stupid not to.
Late 1989, I organised a small spoken word tour for Genesis in Scandinavia. We had also already planned to record some of Gen's readings in a studio setting. As White Stains had just integrated sonic wizard Thomas Tibert, who had his own studio, everything moved on pleasant automatic. Gen read his poems perfectly – most of them were recorded on first takes – and when we later made the music for the poems it was like hand in glove on all levels. With textual material like that and a reading that smooth and professional, it's very hard not to make history.
Other adventures then intervened, as they usually do. But in 2002, it felt like it was high time again. As Genesis was coming over to do a lecture on his work at experimental music centre Fylkingen in Stockholm, Tibert and I prepared new music (then as Cotton Ferox) and it was bliss all over again. The result was released in 2004 in the form ofWordship. Some of these vocal recordings had also been used on Cotton Ferox' debut album First Time Hurts in 2002.
Someone as versatile as Genesis must surely have a hard time with projections from others. Is Genesis an (oc)cultural engineer, an industrial music pioneer, a collage artist, a philosopher, a magician etc? Well, of course, all of these and then some. But there is one all-permeating quintessence that is unmistakeable. Genesis is a poet. This is what fascinated me in the beginning of our friendship, and it still does. That's why it'll be an honour to share the stage with Gen and celebrate his/her poetry and the bizarre music that Tibert and I have concocted over the years. They go well together.
The performance will be neither "industrial" nor "electronica" nor "spoken word" but rather all of it in a colourful and quaquaversal mix created to make emotional jump cuts and possible existential mutations. It will be a grand old time spanning from ancient history to the distant future. I hope you'll be there together with us at Nefertiti in Gothenburg on June 29th, 2013, on this exciting adventure.
PS. You can buy all of the above albums at the iTunes Music Store. By buying the albums instead of illegally downloading them, you help us in the process of making and releasing new music. Thank you.
I should also mention that the concert is the public final event of a four day conference/symposium at the University of Gothenburg dealing with esotericism, occultism, alternative health movements and many other interesting things. Please consider taking part in this too!
"In the beginning there were White Stains." (Genesis 23:1)
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The Fenris Wolf 5 howls at you!
Info on long-time Genesis supporter and Collaborator, Carl Abrahamsson's Fenris Wolf magazine/ book series.
The Fenris Wolf 5 howls at you (lovingly)!
Edda Newsletter no. 5, July 2nd, 2012
Welcome to the Edda Newsletter!
We hope you're enjoying a splendid summer and also that you're as excited as we are about the new issue of The Fenris Wolf! We expect it from the printers next week and it will start "shipping" on July 16th. If you can order now? Yes, of course you can!
This volume, the fifth, contains material by Jason Louv, Patrick Lundborg, Gary Lachman, Timothy O’Neill, Dianus del Bosco Sacro, David Griffin, Philip Farber, Aki Cederberg, Renata Wieczorek, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ezra Pound, Gary Dickinson, Robert Podgurski, Stephen Ellis, Mel Lyman, Hiram Corso, Frater Nagasiva, Peter Grey, Vera Mladenovska Nikolich, Kevin Slaughter, Lionel Snell, Phanes Apollonius, Lana Krieg and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as the psychedelic William Shakespeare, secret societies, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, neurological interpretations of magic, the esoteric gardens of Quinta da Regaleira in Portugal, Italian witchcraft, Pierre Molinier, Derek Jarman, the I Ching, Geomancy, the logic of evil and vice versa, Remy de Gourmont, Aleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis, Macedonian vampires, Satanism, Goethe’s Faust, and the creation of a “mega Golem” within the context of developing a contemporary yet timeless terminology of magic.
350 pages. 148 x 210 mm, sewn paperback. Cover art by Fredrik Söderberg. Limited edition of 666 hand numbered copies. The book costs 350:- SEK per copy. Including postage, this means: Sweden: 420:- SEK, Europe: 520:- SEK, Rest of the world: 550:- SEK. Please note: We don't sell copies to US customers. We will ship copies of The Fenris Wolf 5 to our American distributor, JD HOLMES, during the summer. JD is already taking pre-orders for this title.
There will be an extra special limited collectors' edition of The Fenris Wolf 5. Only SEVEN (7) copies will be made available in special shape: the "Planetary Edition" presents the book hardbound in black leather and issued in a slipcase with solar and lunar sigils. Please note: With each copy comes a watercolour painting by Fredrik Söderberg, i.e. one unique painting for each of the seven classic planets. Included is also a reading copy from the "normal" edition of The Fenris Wolf 5. The cost per copy is 7000:- SEK plus postage. This edition is sold exclusively on a "first come, first served" basis, beginning NOW. Please note that this collectors' edition can be sold to US customers too. One copy per customer. If interested, send an e-mail asap.
If you haven't yet picked up a copy of our wonderful edition of Edward Bulwer Lytton's VRIL: The Power of the Coming Race, illustrated by Christine Ödlund, we're offering a special package deal, valid up until July 31st: Buy one copy of The Fenris Wolf 5 and one copy of VRIL and get a heavy discount. Including postage: Sweden 600:- SEK, Europe: 700:- SEK, Rest of the world: 800:- SEK. Unfortunately, this offer is not available to American customers.
Order the regular edition and the special offer by paying to PayPal. Our address there is: edda@edda.se
Please mark July the 19th in your calendars, especially if you're in London, England. We will celebrate the release of both VRIL and The Fenris Wolf 5 at the legendary Atlantis Bookshop, so please come join us!
On July the 21st, the festivities continue in Brighton, at the Scarlet Imprint Pleasure Dome festival/symposium. Carl will give a talk about visionary art and the occult, and most likely there will be some books there too – if we haven't run out in London, that is.
PLEASURE DOME information at http://www.scarletimprint.com/pleasuredome.htm
Thank you very much for being interested in what we do and what we publish.
Fredrik Söderberg & Carl Abrahamsson
Edda Publishing
http://www.edda.se/
Our mailing address is:
Edda
PO Box 8105
Stockholm 10420
Sweden
The Fenris Wolf 5 howls at you (lovingly)!
Edda Newsletter no. 5, July 2nd, 2012
Welcome to the Edda Newsletter!
We hope you're enjoying a splendid summer and also that you're as excited as we are about the new issue of The Fenris Wolf! We expect it from the printers next week and it will start "shipping" on July 16th. If you can order now? Yes, of course you can!
This volume, the fifth, contains material by Jason Louv, Patrick Lundborg, Gary Lachman, Timothy O’Neill, Dianus del Bosco Sacro, David Griffin, Philip Farber, Aki Cederberg, Renata Wieczorek, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ezra Pound, Gary Dickinson, Robert Podgurski, Stephen Ellis, Mel Lyman, Hiram Corso, Frater Nagasiva, Peter Grey, Vera Mladenovska Nikolich, Kevin Slaughter, Lionel Snell, Phanes Apollonius, Lana Krieg and Carl Abrahamsson, on topics as diverse as the psychedelic William Shakespeare, secret societies, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, neurological interpretations of magic, the esoteric gardens of Quinta da Regaleira in Portugal, Italian witchcraft, Pierre Molinier, Derek Jarman, the I Ching, Geomancy, the logic of evil and vice versa, Remy de Gourmont, Aleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis, Macedonian vampires, Satanism, Goethe’s Faust, and the creation of a “mega Golem” within the context of developing a contemporary yet timeless terminology of magic.
350 pages. 148 x 210 mm, sewn paperback. Cover art by Fredrik Söderberg. Limited edition of 666 hand numbered copies. The book costs 350:- SEK per copy. Including postage, this means: Sweden: 420:- SEK, Europe: 520:- SEK, Rest of the world: 550:- SEK. Please note: We don't sell copies to US customers. We will ship copies of The Fenris Wolf 5 to our American distributor, JD HOLMES, during the summer. JD is already taking pre-orders for this title.
There will be an extra special limited collectors' edition of The Fenris Wolf 5. Only SEVEN (7) copies will be made available in special shape: the "Planetary Edition" presents the book hardbound in black leather and issued in a slipcase with solar and lunar sigils. Please note: With each copy comes a watercolour painting by Fredrik Söderberg, i.e. one unique painting for each of the seven classic planets. Included is also a reading copy from the "normal" edition of The Fenris Wolf 5. The cost per copy is 7000:- SEK plus postage. This edition is sold exclusively on a "first come, first served" basis, beginning NOW. Please note that this collectors' edition can be sold to US customers too. One copy per customer. If interested, send an e-mail asap.
If you haven't yet picked up a copy of our wonderful edition of Edward Bulwer Lytton's VRIL: The Power of the Coming Race, illustrated by Christine Ödlund, we're offering a special package deal, valid up until July 31st: Buy one copy of The Fenris Wolf 5 and one copy of VRIL and get a heavy discount. Including postage: Sweden 600:- SEK, Europe: 700:- SEK, Rest of the world: 800:- SEK. Unfortunately, this offer is not available to American customers.
Order the regular edition and the special offer by paying to PayPal. Our address there is: edda@edda.se
Please mark July the 19th in your calendars, especially if you're in London, England. We will celebrate the release of both VRIL and The Fenris Wolf 5 at the legendary Atlantis Bookshop, so please come join us!
On July the 21st, the festivities continue in Brighton, at the Scarlet Imprint Pleasure Dome festival/symposium. Carl will give a talk about visionary art and the occult, and most likely there will be some books there too – if we haven't run out in London, that is.
PLEASURE DOME information at http://www.scarletimprint.com/pleasuredome.htm
Thank you very much for being interested in what we do and what we publish.
Fredrik Söderberg & Carl Abrahamsson
Edda Publishing
http://www.edda.se/
Our mailing address is:
Edda
PO Box 8105
Stockholm 10420
Sweden
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Fenris Wolf howls again!
Gen asked me to pass along this email/info on longtime collaborator Carl Abrahamsson's (the white stains/ cotton ferox) The Fenris Wolf site, an online cultural magazine. Shaping up quite nicely, please contribute and pass the links along.
From: Carl Abrahamsson / Edda.se
Dear Edda-friend,
I hope this finds you well and happy.
You might have noticed that there was no "Edda Edition" in your mailbox around the Winter Solstice. I was preoccupied with trying to decide which way to go with this project, and the result became more and more obvious (to me, anyway): forwards!
Edda Edition was quickly sucked into the mouth of The Fenris Wolf and chewed on, gulped down and digested. That was that.
– http://www.fenriswolf.se/
– is now active as an online culture magazine. Please have a look. The original Edda Edition-idea, to collect material, interviews, reviews etc, will live on here in a much more enticing way. I intend to update with new material at least once a week.
The Fenris Wolf will also, of course, live on as the ongoing book anthology series. Issue no. 4 will be published during the spring of 2011 and I will soon send out a special e-mail about pre-orders etc. It's going to be GREAT!
More on The Fenris Wolf site: I will review material that you send in. The address can be found here below.
Please note: It is possible to advertise on the FW site. If you have something to sell or if you want to draw traffic to your site, let me know and I will send you more information about that.
No major news on the EDDA-front at the moment. All items on the Edda-site are still available, so shop 'til you drop and enjoy the stuff!
http://www.edda.se/
All beast wishes from Stockholm!
Carl A
Edda.se c/o Carl Abrahamsson – P.O. Box 8105 – SE-104 20 Stockholm – Sweden
http://www.edda.se/ – http://www.cottonferox.se – http://www.fenriswolf.se
http://www.myspace.com/cottonferox
http://www.myspace.com/whitestains
http://www.carlabrahamsson.com/
Please visit the HIGHBROW LOWLIFE MUSIC STORE:
http://www.klicktrack.com/shop/index.jsp?cp=207
From: Carl Abrahamsson / Edda.se
Dear Edda-friend,
I hope this finds you well and happy.
You might have noticed that there was no "Edda Edition" in your mailbox around the Winter Solstice. I was preoccupied with trying to decide which way to go with this project, and the result became more and more obvious (to me, anyway): forwards!
Edda Edition was quickly sucked into the mouth of The Fenris Wolf and chewed on, gulped down and digested. That was that.
– http://www.fenriswolf.se/
– is now active as an online culture magazine. Please have a look. The original Edda Edition-idea, to collect material, interviews, reviews etc, will live on here in a much more enticing way. I intend to update with new material at least once a week.
The Fenris Wolf will also, of course, live on as the ongoing book anthology series. Issue no. 4 will be published during the spring of 2011 and I will soon send out a special e-mail about pre-orders etc. It's going to be GREAT!
More on The Fenris Wolf site: I will review material that you send in. The address can be found here below.
Please note: It is possible to advertise on the FW site. If you have something to sell or if you want to draw traffic to your site, let me know and I will send you more information about that.
No major news on the EDDA-front at the moment. All items on the Edda-site are still available, so shop 'til you drop and enjoy the stuff!
http://www.edda.se/
All beast wishes from Stockholm!
Carl A
Edda.se c/o Carl Abrahamsson – P.O. Box 8105 – SE-104 20 Stockholm – Sweden
http://www.edda.se/ – http://www.cottonferox.se – http://www.fenriswolf.se
http://www.myspace.com/cottonferox
http://www.myspace.com/whitestains
http://www.carlabrahamsson.com/
Please visit the HIGHBROW LOWLIFE MUSIC STORE:
http://www.klicktrack.com/shop/index.jsp?cp=207
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