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Durtro News: 1 July 2008

Posted by Kenn on 1 July 2008

Thank you for listening and coming. A general update on our activities follows.

Work is progressing smoothly on David’s lyric book ‘Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods’, with the kind assistance of Ayse Tuzlak, José Pacheco and Nigel Ince. We are still hoping to publish it in November 2008.

It is now probable that the ‘Aleph on Hallucinatory Mountain’ album will now be released on David’s 49th birthday on 5 March, 2009, and there will be accompanying concerts in the USA, England and Europe.

Before the release of the album, there will be a series of releases building up to the album, including two books — one hand-printed, the other a hardback — with both having (different) accompanying CDs, as well as a full-length album which introduces the themes of ‘Aleph on Hallucinatory Mountain’. More news of these items when they are in stock.

It seems that David’s solo art show will now be held in December 2008 at the Isis Gallery in central London.

We are also working on the ‘Collected Works of Count Stenbock’; this will include ALL the material written by Count Stenbock which has been published up till now by Durtro Press, as well as a couple of pieces which have never been published anywhere at all. At the moment I think we will be publishing it in both hardback and paperback formats.

The Nick Blinko book, which is titled ‘The Haunted Head’, has been proofed, and will be going into print shortly. We are still undecided as to whether it will be released in paperback as well as hardback. Presently we plan a limited edition hardback, each copy of which will be signed by Nick and which will also have an original drawing by Nick. It seems that there will also be a 1-track CD with a newly recorded song by Rudimentary Peni created especially for the book. People who don’t know of Nick’s art can find information here, here and here. His work is on show in some of the world’s leading collections of art brut and outsider art.

Pantaleimon: “Heart of the Sun” now available

‘Heart of the Sun’ is the wonderfully remixed and realised version of ‘Mercy Oceans’. It also features four brand new exclusive tracks including a collaboration with Strings of Consciousness and a cover version of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s ‘Even If Love’. We are very pleased to announce that we now have copies available to order from Durtro and Jnana.

Full list of tracks and remixers:

1. At Dawn (Vogel) Andrew W.K
2. The Sun Came Out (Dawn Porous) Colin Potter
3. Under The Water (Iridescence) Fovea Hex
4. All The Birds (Melting Canvas) Andrew Liles
5. Today For Shore Pantaleimon
6. Storm And Thunder (Toxoplasmosis) The Bricoleur
7. Bourne (Somnialescent) Stephen O”Malley
8. Even If Love (Eclipse) Susan Stenger
9. Raw Heart (Cloisters) Plinth
10. Heart Of The Sun (Shimmering) Pantaleimon with Strings Of Consciousness
11. We Love (Pink Light ) Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
12. High Star (Celestial Voices) Cartertutti
13. I Am (Solar Dust) Lilium
14. Another Day Tomorrow Pantaleimon

“Heart of the Sun” will be on general release in the shops from 31st July 2008. Buy now from Durtro, priced £10 plus postage and packing and VAT (sales tax; where applicable) and Jnana, priced US $ 14.99 plus postage and packing. Click the links below to hear some samples. You can hear some of the tracks on the Pantaleimon MySpace page: www.myspace.com/pantaleimon

Under the Water (Iridescence) Fovea Hex • At Dawn Andrew WK • I Am Solar (Dust) Lilium

Pantaleimon: “Tall Trees” EP now available

We are very excited to announce that the brand new four-track CD is now available from Abaton Book Company. “Tall Trees” was recorded by Pantaleimon in Dorset and East Sussex in the Summer 2007, with Michael Tanner (Plinth) and Nick Palmer (Directorsound). All the tracks were especially created for this project.

1. The Warming
2. Dance of the Honey Bees
3. Sing Night Swallow
4. Tall Trees

Abaton always release their CDs in extremely small editions, so be quick with your ordering!

Click the links below to hear some samples. Full length tracks can be heard, and a free download of “Dance of the Honey Bees” is available, from the Pantaleimon MySpace page: www.myspace.com/pantaleimon

Tall Trees • Dance of the Honey Bees

Current 93 as Anok Pe “Birth Canal Blues” T-shirts back in stock

We now have the medium and extra large male sizes back in stock. Please order here.

The new Nurse With Wound album, “Huffin” Rag Blues” released

The new album, their first for over four years, ‘Huffin’ Rag Blues’ is the inevitable conclusion of Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles’ passion for easy listening and lounge jazz. Contorted and carved into a distinctly Nurse With Wound sound ‘Huffin’ Rag Blues’ is a greasy amalgam of uneasy listening, shaken and stirred Molotov cocktails and quixotica. Full to the brim with squeals, screams, smokey vocals, drunken double basses, melting vibraphones and internal organs from outer space this album is an unlikely and unique excursion from beginning to end. As with all Nurse With Wound recordings it goes without saying… expect the unexpected. To obtain, go to www.dirter.co.uk, www.andrewliles.com and www.jnanarecords.com.

Clodagh Simonds/Fovea Hex/Blind Cave Salamander play July festival in South Tyrol, Italy

C93 associates Clodagh Simonds and Fabrizio Palumbo are appearing with their groups at the SoundThreshold festival in beautiful surroundings on 16 July. It looks like it will be quite extraordinary. For more details go to www.cealp.it/soundthreshold or email soundthreshold@gmail.com.

New Thomas Ligotti piece featured in “Collapse”

The fourth volume of ‘Collapse: Journal of Philosophical Research and Development’ is now available for sale online at www.urbanomic.com, and in selected bookshops (notably the Tate Modern and ICA in London). The volume is published as a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, and contributors include: Kristen Alvanson, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman, Michel Houellebecq, Oleg Kulik, Thomas Ligotti, Quentin Meillassoux, China Miéville, Reza Negarestani, Benjamin Noys, Rafani, Steven Shearer, George Sieg, Eugene Thacker, Keith Tilford, Todosch, James Trafford.

‘Collapse IV’ features a series of investigations by philosophers, writers and artists into ‘Concept Horror’. Contributors address the existential, aesthetic, theological and political dimensions of horror, interrogate its peculiar affinity with philosophical thought, and uncover the horrors that may lie in wait for those who pursue rational thought beyond the bounds of the reasonable. This unique volume continues Collapse’s pursuit of interdisciplinary miscegenation, the wide-ranging contributions interacting to produce common themes and suggestive connections. In the process a rich and compelling case emerges for the intimate bond between horror and philosophical thought.

‘Collapse Volume IV’ // Ed. R. Mackay, D. Veal // May 2008 // 406pp // Limited edition 1000 copies // ISBN 978-0-9553087-3-4 // £9.99.

Favourite albums and books of the moment

Without any doubt, my favourite album of the year so far is Judas Priest’s new 2CD set ‘Nostradamus’. I can’t even begin to describe how wonderful this is, and how jealous and bitter I am that I didn’t create this album myself.

I play it constantly. I have gone back to all my Judas Priest albums with absolute obeisance; I had really recently concentrated on my early favourites, ‘Sad Wings of Destiny’ and ‘Sin after Sin’, before hearing ‘Nostradamus’, but now I have returned with renewed Coptic Force ‘n’ Juice to all their works. Blissful.

I also want to say how much I love the new album by Lynn Jackson, ‘Soft Stars’ — absolutely my favourite work by her so far. Very touching, very beautiful, very pure and very true. You can hear her work here www.myspace.com/lynnjackson and buy the CD at www.bustedflatrecords.com.

And, very belatedly, I have started reading the works of Michel Houellebecq, starting with Atomised’. If you haven’t read this — and I am sure many of you discovered this author long before I did — I urge you to do so. One of the bleakest, funniest, most terrifyingly accurate and unsentimental books I have ever read. I would have to put it down after every couple of pages, as I was so overwhelmed with its beauty and power.

So, overawed by my inadequacy in the face of Judas Priest and Michel Houllebecq, I return to my Cartoon Apocalypses.

love to you all, Anok Pe David Tibet+++