GOOD MORNING! Archival music journalism site RocksBackPages recently posted a teaser link to a piece on occultism in Rock music. The teaser sayeth: “Channelling the magick of Aleister Crowley and the neo-paganism of witchcraft, occult rock is the sound of… Continue Reading
Years ago, O.T.O. Deputy National Grand Master, Lon Milo Duquette, gave a lovely talk at a NOTOCON (Seattle?) that essentially revolved around mystic experience and the denouement of the talk was his performance of the quirky Jazz standard “Nature Boy,”… Continue Reading
Cute little article about Paul McCartney taking inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Fool On The Hill” from the tarot card Atu 0. An excerpt reads: “Koger’s explanation made Paul like the word ‘fool.’ ‘So I began to like the word… Continue Reading
Tzadik Records has announced a September of a new live album by by label founder, John Zorn – The Hermetic Organ Vol. 9 – Liber VII . This release is based on Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, by the Master Therion.… Continue Reading
Harry Smith Archives’ FB page posted this thang which utterly blew my mind: “Discovered quite a strange throwback in the archives: Harry in a Sotheby’s World Mastercard ad. From left: Jack Smith, unidentified man, Harry Smith, Panna Grady, William S.… Continue Reading
On her tenth full-length album of sensuous Art Pop, Parts of Speech Pieces of Sound, singer-songwriter, and actress Rebecca Pidgeon taps into the ongoing communication between body, mind and spirit through vibrations and energy. Recorded in Los Angeles with co-producer… Continue Reading
Theion Publishing has announced that they expect to open pre-orders for Sasha Chaitow’s study of the life and art of Joséphin Péladan, which will eventually be followed by more volumes devoted to the subject. Thelemites should dig that Crowley did spend… Continue Reading
Yesterday, O.T.O. Deutschland posted on FB: 140 years ago today on the 26th July 1882, Richard Wagner’s stage Christmas play Parsifal in Bayreuth celebrated its premiere. Included as a singer in the choir of the then 27-year-old Theodor Reuss, later… Continue Reading
Metalzine BraveWords posted a news story about the upcoming debut release from Gemetria, a NJ based tech-metal band from the Garden State who cite the Prophet of the Lovely Star an A.O. Spare as source of artistic inspiration. First video… Continue Reading
The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema is a title in the Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities series, edited by Tessel M. Bauduin, Henrik Johnsson. The posted description says: “Many modernist and avant-garde artists and authors were fascinated… Continue Reading