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Mini-reviews of books and music I enjoy. #Musicsky #Booksky #Hauntology #KosmischeMusik
The combination of players is outstanding, making this a classic of ethno-jazz-fusion.
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Dave Pike Set โ Infra-Red [MPS Records reissue 2011. Originally 1970]
I've yet to hear a Dave Pike recording I didn't like, but this album and lineup are particularly good. The secret weapon is Volker Kriegel on guitar, sitar, percussion, and vocals...
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and La-La-La vocals.
With extensive liner notes from Mr. Trunk.
"This CD is a touch jazzy, a little insane, wonderfully scatty, and dangerously addictive. You'll be singing these hooky little tracks for years to come..." - Jonny Trunk
Mike Sammes & The Mike Sammes Singers โ Music For Biscuits: Lost Advertising & Rare Film Sounds by... [Trunk Records. 2006]
A compilation of 1960s and 1970s commercial music by Mike Sammes, 44 tracks in total. It's very bright and cheerful-sounding with plenty of Bah-Bah-Bah, Doo-Doo-Doo,
other odious fools who did the footwork in spreading their bastardization of yoga in the West.
The book confirms my suspicion that whenever one encounters mysticism in the modern world, it is almost always a mask with a fascist grimace under it.
Madame Blavatsky and the theosophists rear their ugly heads because, of course, they do.
It gets worse. The reader is introduced to J.F.C. Fuller (British fascist with ties to the Years of Lead in Italy), Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, and a parade of Hitler fans, assorted cranks, and
Home traces the development of postural practice in the West from its origins in the early 20th century by Pierre Bernard, drawing on a combination of European physical culture, circus tricks, and an Orientalist mishmash of concepts to sell quite profitably to wealthy seekers of wisdom.
14.02.2026 01:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Steward Home. Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness. Pluto Press, 2025.
There's a reason why 'conspirituality' is a concept. While yoga and the new age are often coded as liberal, their roots lie in far-right and fascist culture.
# fascism #new_age
Suns Of Arqa โ Un1verse City [EMI. 2001]
In the player.
This is proving to be one of my favourite SoA releases. Whirling dub trance music. Marvelous stuff.
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...two albums, so top marks from me.
youtu.be/HijWgJlo9lg
Third Ear Band โ Radio Session [Voiceprint. 1994]
A mini-album of two pieces recorded at Alchemical Studios, Kent. The band this time around features Mick Carter (Guitar), Paul Minns
(Oboe), Glen Sweeney (percussion) and Ursula Smith (violin).
It's in the style of their first ...
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I have a new interview with the Liminal Currents podcast. It's pretty long but the second half is an long discussion of Nazi-Satanism.
www.buzzsprout.com/2442448/epis...
The Sun is very disappointed with us.
26.09.2025 00:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Xhol โ Motherfuckers GmbH & Co KG [Germanophone reissue 1995. Originally 1972]
Initially, I thought this album was an unfocused affair, but it sounds better and better as time goes by. Xhol presents us with trippy jazzbo experiments and an extended version of Love Potion 25.
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A confirmed classic.
24.09.2025 15:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A noisily wonderful album. I treasure my copy on Caroline Records.
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The Belbury Circle โ Outward Journeys [Ghost Box. 2017]
An enjoyable synth pop collaboration between Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly) & Cate Brooks (The Advisory Circle). Special guest John Foxx provides vocals on two tracks. Bonus points for Julian House's vaporwave-inspired cover art.
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"This is after all what connects the weird power of after-images and the strange glamour of phospor. The day to day output of this machine is a synthesis of ancient dreams and light entertainment."
- A Microphone in the Hedgerow, MB Devot
The Focus Group โ Hey Let Loose Your Love [Ghost Box reissue 2023. Originally 2005]
Musique concrรจte from Julian House, where recollections of odd incidents and fragments of memories flit by.
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...Nosferatu The Vampyre). I believe only a portion of each album was used as the film's score.
Putting all that aside, Florian Fricke's (and associates') music is majestic and otherworldly. I've been a fan since the mid-70s, and the music has accompanied me through life.
Popol Vuh โ On The Way To A Little Way (Soundtrack Of "Nosferatu") [Spalax reissue 1993. Originally 1978]
One of the two albums that purport to be the soundtrack to the Werner Herzog film, the other was Brรผder Des Schattens - Sรถhne Des Lichts (Original Soundtracks Of Werner Herzog's ...
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