Available now from the Roil Noise label is The Blue-Lidded Daughter of Sunset, a split release between Gydja and Thee Girls Ov Ctephin. A celebration of the goddess Nuit, this features two long tracks, The Consciousness of the Continuity of Existence from Thee Girls Ov Ctephin and She Who Holds A Thousand Souls from Gydja.

"Sing the rapturous love- ( Read more... )

It's been online for a week or two now, but the Gydja website has been overhauled. When i can find the time, i'll probably do the same with everything else sitting on the server.

Now with added shopping cart features and an automated news page so things will, extremeties crossed, not go out of date so frequently.

I'm very proud to announce a compilation just released on the AtmoWorks label features a new track by Gydja. The track, Noaide, is joined by contributions from Vir Unis, Bunk_Data, MJ Dawn, dreamState, Igneous Flame, Galactic Anthems, The Elf Machine, Interstitial, Steve Brand, Dr. Victor and Apne Sinn.

Available from http://store.atmoworks.com/ as ( Read more... )

Just came across a couple of reviews of Gydja's Helchemy collected on Afe Records site.

From Gothronic, reviewed by Bauke Vanderval of The Law-Rah Collective (not sure about the Wiccan reference):
Before me is a whole stash of releases by the Italian label Afe Records. An independent label run by Andrea Marutti for the incrowd of the ambient, ( Read more... )

The History of British Magick After Crowley - Dave Evans
I was really looking forward to reading this book. If i recall correctly, it was one of those "spoil myself with one expensive item" items in an Amazon order of more modestly priced books and CDs. I mean, 435 pages of post-Crowley magickal history, what wonders it must explore, what depth it ( Read more... )

Today i received copies of a new full length Gydja release on AFE Records, the label of Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known). Called Helchemy, it features two 25 minute tracks: The Spirit of the Earth With Venom Intoxicate and The Black Sea, the Black Lune, the Black Soll. Helchemy is a title i've used and intended to use for work on and off over the ( Read more... )

Out now from the Gears of Sand label is a new full length release from Gydja. Machina Mundi deals with clockwork universes and other deterministic cosmologies and what happens to those world views when they fall out of favour. The label describes it as a listening experience that "brings to mind vast images of an entire floating planet-- ( Read more... )

Most of my northern trad friends will have come across this via our usual routes of information, but for those few who haven't, plus those "regular" friends who may be hiding secret talents or proclivities under a bushel, i post it here. Given the amount of devotional Calls For Submissions that have been made in the last couple of years, i thought ( Read more... )

Just received my copy of Elizabeth Vongvisith's second book of lovely devotional poetry. I'm rather pleased with how the cover art came out. Available from Asphodel Press.


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Out now from Cold Spring Records is a double-CD compilation John Barleycorn Reborn, with artwork by yours truly. It is described as exploring "the darker side of British folk music, evoking the mystery of our ancient past and peoples, the strangeness of their beliefs, arcane traditions and the remnants of this carried down the centuries as folklore ( Read more... )