The home page of Coptic Cat has a random photo generator, so every time the page is reloaded, a new image from the newly-increased number of 180 images in the bank is loaded. We have also added many, many new photos (and captions) to the MISCELLANEOUS section of the PHOTO GALLERY. And some more images of David’s friend Sasha Grey have been added to her section.
Regarding the extraordinarily beautiful box sets from VoD, Frank Maier has asked me to state this:
“All orders of the new Current 93 release on VOD Records have now been shipped to the customers. Both Current 93 wooden boxes (VOD 74 and VOD 75) as well as the deluxe fine linen folder are now sold out at VOD Records. You have to contact a VOD distributor directly to see if they have any copies left. All the offered standalone records from the VOD box sets VOD 74 and VOD 75 are still available from the VOD shop but we are also running low on quantity very quickly. For more information visit their website, English language here and German language here. The shop for both languages is here and takes you straight to the page which shows what is sold out and what remains of the various editions.”
After the great popularity of the C93 fair trade calico bags, we have decided to make another 200 copies of the same design, this time in five different colours: deep blue, deep red, deep green, pink and blue/green/jade – which we have called BirdColour. There will be 40 of each colour. The black version is now sold out. As soon as we have them in stock, we will mention in an update that they are available for order. Collect the set and become Hallucinatory BagMen and BagLadies, spreading the Current, and being as real and rainbows and as cool as flies wherever you go!
Three of my favourite ever artists are featured on this 3 track vinyl EP. It was initially expected to be on sale at the two C93 shows in London at the end of May 2010, but technical problems delayed its appearance then and there. It is now available from those artists. I am not sure of the price and quantities remaining with each artist. To get it from Comus contact them at www.comusmusic.co.uk or www.myspace.com/comusuk; to get it from Rameses III contact them at and to get it from Simon Finn contact him at www.simonfinn.co.uk. A couple of reviews follow.
“To commemorate the recent 25th anniversary Current 93 performances in London, a super limited number of these commemorative 7"s were pressed up (only 300 copies!), featuring exclusive tracks from three of the bands that performed with C93, psych drone combo Rameses III, psychedelic folk legend Simon Finn, and most excitingly, legendary seventies acid folk outfit, the mighty Comus!! The Comus track might be what gets folks most excited, and rightfully so, a recording of the group performing ‘Diana’ on the Melloboat, in Sweden, in 2008, their first show together after nearly 40 years!!! We tried to watch clips on YouTube, but the crowd was so amped, and howling and clapping and singing along, you could barely hear the band. Thankfully this recording is pristine, and the band sound incredible, even more woozy and carnivalesque and maniacal than they did back in the day, the playing practically perfect, the vocals incredible for the many decades that have passed, definitely makes us wish we had flown over.”
Andee, Aquarius Records, San Francisco. July 2010
“Pressed up in support of their performances at the recent 25th anniversary of Current 93 in London, modern drone outfit Rameses III gets sandwiched in between psych-folk deities of the early 1970s. Having had their careers revitalized in decades worth of intrigued rediscovery, Comus offers up a live version of ‘Diana’ taken from a Swedish music festival in 2008. Loss of the sickly green youthfulness that permeated the original does not dilute their sound and intent – age has made this one a little more regal but every bit as twisted. Simon Finn, a bent, primal folkie whose laser-eyebeam intense ‘Jerusalem’ (from an early 70s rarity called Pass the Distance) shook with an anxiety that busted itself right off the record. His more-recent turn here finds the artist revisiting the same simplicity found in his earlier work, his voice still holding up forty years later, a very personal and moving work that outpaces its brevity with Finn’s glowing, humane voice. Rameses III (ta) offer up one cleansing blast of minimal drone, guitars droning on in a symphony of shifting sands. 300 copies, purple vinyl, and you’ll forgive Finn’s first-time Photoshop user artwork.”
Doug Mosurock, Dusted, Still Single: Vol. 6, No. 14
My dear friend Ksenia Nefedova, one of the women who was one of the inspirations for ‘BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA’, has made a beautiful video of her intuitive responses to the track ‘Baalstorm! Baalstorm!’. The directors are Ksenia Uzhasno and Ksenia Nefedova. The actresses are JadeFace, Ksenia Nefedova and Aljona Kondor. It can be found here.
I have previously recommended the beautiful and fascinating books published by Teitan, and I hope those reading this will find the following information of interest. Their new publication is my favourite yet! And if you read the publicity material you will see a small quotation by myself in it!
I was very honoured indeed to be asked by William Breeze to add a few words to this excellent and beautiful and very comprehensive collection of the vast majority of Crowley’s short fiction. It is also remarkably cheap! I strongly recommend his fiction which, if sometimes uneven, at its best can be absolutely stunning.