While visiting Minneapolis as part of the Advanced Initiator Team, I had an interesting conversation with one of the local Brethren during which there was some lamentation that the Local Body hadn’t made more of an effort to promulgate to… Continue Reading
Mehenet, the New Orleans-based black metal project whose members are OTO initiates is undertaking their first national tour (dates included below). The line-up is: ALGOL: Vocals NEKYIA: Guitar TZPHARDEAH: Drums PHLEGETHON: Bass They are hard at work on their first… Continue Reading
The New Yorker’s just run a nice feature on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge which, as always, is witty, funny and thought-provoking in a profound yet entirely non-pompous way. Part of its introduction notes: “P-Orridge, whose well-worn features evoke both Ozzy Osbourne… Continue Reading
David Tibet, a Cabinet member of Ordo Templi Orientis recently announced the release of a new collaboration from production wizard and former Killing Joke bassist Youth. At DavidTibet.com he states: “Youth and I are OverAllMoons to announce the release soon… Continue Reading
The BBC reports that popular Qawwali singer Amjad Sabri has been assassinated in Karachi, a city in the south of Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban has taken responsibility for the murder. Best known in the West via the work of Nusrat Fateh Ali… Continue Reading
New Orleans isn’t the first place one might go to find a Thelemic Black Metal band. Mehenet combines the visceral aural onslaught beloved of metal fans with occult ritual, and the result is nothing less than magnificently evil. The members… Continue Reading
The Sunday NY Times recently published an article by Ben Ratliff about the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquiring the physical archives of the late singer/songwriter/cellist/composer Arthur Russell. Ratliff lays out his wildly divergent range of activities… Continue Reading
How do you digitize music dating from before musical notation? Becky Ferreira reports in Vice that the Optical Neume Recognition Project seeks to build a search engine for sifting through the millions of written “neumes,” which were primitive riffs on notation common in prayer… Continue Reading
Don Henley’s interview with David Browne, published in Rolling Stone this month, relates stories about The Eagles and how their 1972 debut album came together. Stories of Zelda Fitzgerald, sounds of chirping birds, Ouija boards, séances, palm reading, peyote trips and more meld to create… Continue Reading
A Thelema, NOW! fav is BACK! None other than Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Genesis talks to Frater Puck about what s/he’s been up to lately! And Genesis has been busy. The main topic is the Rubin Museum “Try To Altar Everything” exhibition. But… Continue Reading