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I've Moved!
I moved to Wordpress in April! So, update your links etc to larkfall.wordpress.com !
These pages will stick around for a while, but will probably be either scrubbed or archived on the Wordpress site early next year.
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Cocidius and Superboy
A couple more recent newsworthy items of Legardiana:
Reverb Worship kindly sent me some copies of the re-release of Stella and Astrophel. Looks (and sounds!) great! You can order copies from the Reverb Worship site, or drop me a note if you'd like to order a copy from me (UK = £6.00 / Europe = £7.00 / USA & ROW = £8.00).
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Psychobabble and More
There's a rare Xenis Emputae Travelling Band performance on the 17th of December at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. I've gathered a four voice magical choir to a performance based around vowels. Initially the concept was to work along the lines of Peter Michael Hamel and Prima Materia's 'vowel improvisations' and overtone singing, but things ( Read more... ) -
"Come buy our fruits, come buy!"
Lots of exciting news! First, I am very proud to have some of my music included in the CD that accompanies the latest volume of Abraxas journal. The standard of writing and artwork therein is very high and the production is to Fulgur's usual brilliant standard. The journal is available in softcover and hardback at the Fulgur site.
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Relics of Goddess Worship in Early English Music
It's been a while since I've played a gig, but I'm quite excited by the prospect of the first performance with my group The Institute of Stone Age Sex. The lineup includes members of the A-Band/Ultrahumanitarian, Ashtray Navigations and Almias. It's as part of the Harrogate Fringe Festival's Fringe Crawl event this Saturday (30th), leading up to a ( Read more... ) -
On the Existence of Priapic Bat Gods
A post in memoriam of Kenneth Grant, written as an accompaniment to the piece on The Cult of the Ku in Strange Attractor Journal:
On the Existence of Priapic Bat Gods:
Notes on the Secret Organisation of the Zotzil
In Hecate’s Fountain Kenneth Grant tells us that his New Isis Lodge not only participated in rites with a Cult of the Ku, but also had ( Read more... ) -
Ashtrays and Barrows
A roundup of recent bits and pieces:
Recently my friend Seth Cooke put together a two-part ‘This is your Life’-style feature on Ashtray Navigations. I’ve written a bit, along with Neil Campbell, Alex Neilson and the usual suspects. This is also the first time I’ve ever been called glamorous… read the first part here.
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Archiving
I've recently started archiving most of my work over the last decade. A revised site is still woefully incomplete, but in the meantime you can find around a number Xenis Emputae Travelling Band and related recordings at Archive.org:
The Crooked Pool (2008)
Gamaaea (2007)
Split with Ashtray Navigations (2007)
Stella and Astrophel (2006)
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Mind Expanding Discographies III - Music for Inner Space
This was a surprising find during a trip to York... I've got a soft-spot for Nevill Drury, having read his book The Shaman and the Magician in my teens, but I'd no idea that he'd written a book entitled Music for Inner Space: Techniques for Meditation & Visualisation (Prism Press, 1985). Nor did I know that he was a complete freak for kosmische ( Read more... ) -
Dark Swan, Green Lion
Some random ravings about Heptonstall, with photos by Layla Bert Smith.
After reading Ted Hughes' Remains of Elmet and being inspired by Fay Godwin's beautiful photograph of the church, radiant amidst sun and mist, it was decided that we had to take a trip to Heptonstall. Walking up through Hebden Bridge, past the Hell Hole, ruddy crags and a ( Read more... )