It gives me great pleasure to announce here that a project I have been a part of for a number of years, along with other memebers of the Hermaphroditic ChaOrder of the Silver Dusk, is available for pre-order, and will be released by the Polish label Zoharum on the Summer Solstice, June 21st 2011.
The project was Initiated amidst discussions among the artistical adepts in the Silver Dusks private email list. The idea was for any person involved who wished to participate to create several tracks of musick, and then send them to someone else in the nonhierarchical network to add additional layers of musick to. This process was repeated, with many individuals starting and finishing different tracks. Some originated in live jams when two or more members were physically present. After several years of starts and stops, and spore-addic activity on the project, the final pieces of the musickal puzzle were coagulated together in Oryelle Defenestrate-Bascules cauldron of wonder. My own contributions are included on several tracks so please check it out and pre-order a copy… be the Beast for this Babalon.
In the meantime here is some more enticing info for ya about the Work :
”The Silver Dusk’s 156 = Musick Project is an experiment of Process: Magickal Musick was recorded by members of The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK -usually in ritual context or with invocational intent- then posted on CD to other member/s in another country for them to add more layers to. This continued progressively until completion.
The style of music ranges from neoclassical ambient orchestral multi-instrumental corroborations and layered electronic experimentations to simple primal ritual corroborees with sticks and bells and harmonious voices around a fire by the Hekate Tree.
Included are several live improvisations from when various members converged physically in different locales: From the initial 9-person onstage live jam of ‘She Shall Ride He’ in Melbourne Australia 2004 which launched the project synchronous with others starting tracks in the US and Korea, to the harmonics of the 12 participants in the EquiNOXULiuqE Circle in Hekate’s Grove in Seattle, Sept 2010.
156 is the number by Hebrew Qabbala of BABALON, the fiery Thelemic Goddess of Love and Lust, and also of KAOS, the 7-headed Beast on which She rides.
Contributor Kestral’s revelation that Musick (spelt with a k as Crowley spelt Magick with a k, to differentiate it from common stage magic and give it numerical significance as 418 =The Great Work) also = 156 was the inspiration for this CD’s title. Babalon was the primary deity invoked in many of the tracks herein, for Her passion is indeed akin to the mystery of music and the sonic majesty of an aural ‘apocalypse’ (meaning unveiling or revelation).
Kestral’s full formula of 156 as Musick will be outlined in the audio and extra text with the limited CDR that comes with only 156 of the copies of the project.
The HermAphroditic ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK is an international network/webplay of artist-magickians, employing musick, visual arts, theatre, ritual, and various other multimedia as menstruums for earthing magical currents. A counterpoint (yet bridge) to the solar and structured magic of the The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Silver Dusk employs a primarily intuitive, lunar and artistic apprehension of magic.
Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is a ChAOrder Magickian and Baphometic avatar dedicated to the reification of surrealism and the realization of magickal aesthethis via the multi-media of Art/s: Musick, drawing, ritual theatre, film, sculpture… Hailing from Australia, Orryelle travels, performs and exhibits art worldwide -though this will be his first time in Poland! He is an initiated Adinath Tantric, Aghori, Thelemite and Voudon Gnostic. He directs the Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company, and even when performing solo while traveling, always incorporates elements of dance, theatre and ritual into his live musical performances. Primarily employing violin and voice, Orryelle also sometimes works with experimental electronic backing-tracks from various collaborators around the world. His shows are dynamic invocations, a combination of structured songs and spontaneous improvisations. Currently Orryelle is also working on ‘The Tela Quadrivium’ -a fourfold Alchemical book-web being progressively published by Fulgur Limited (UK) -so far Conjunctio (2008) and Coagula (2011) – http://www.fulgur.co.uk
He is also the creator of The Book of Kaos Tarot (iNSPiRALink. Multimedia Press). His publications and art prints will also be available at the live music and ritual theatre performances. ”
Check out the awesome flash video created by Kazim here:
http://www.crossroads.wild.net.au/156.html
The ringing of the bells and the long carrier tone that eventually emerges beneath it signals the beginning of a descent into the underworld. Two tracks on each side carry me down an icy river of song. The ingredients are minimal, but a good cook can do a lot with just a few things, and I never felt heavy or gross from a cluttered presentation or an over-saturation of fatty content. This sonic fuel burns clean. And like any good meal the nourishment derived from the listening experience strengthened my nervous system, while none-the-less tuning it to alien frequencies. Here is an example of automatic music, and the methodology produces similar unconscious material as that evoked in automatic writing. It all makes for a fascinating foray into electronica as prepared by such experienced exemplars of the craft as Drew McDowall and Tres Warren.
