The postman just brought a package of 5 Sussan Deyhim CDs. This pretty much defines my playlist for the rest of the day. Simply amazing stuff. There’s a nice package deal for 5 albums still up on her website… go for it!

“Not to know one’s true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing – a golem. And, indeed, this image, sickeningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies…”

As the year’s darkest hours are at hand, it is time to consult Janus about things gone and things to come. The Solstice provides a stopgap where one can rewind and fast-forward without much interference of background noise and other distractions. Quick reflections follow.

“Music has the ability to enrich the moment, to potentiate and dramatise the feelings of the individual, and sometimes to create channels of communication, exchanges of energy. It’s a form of communication, it’s a mutational form, which alters in relation to the listener’s being. The bottom line is that many artists don’t really know why [...]

“A lot of people don’t expect us to have a sense of humour at all. When we did ‘Tainted Love’, for example, a lot of people couldn’t see the point in us doing anything as morbid as that. But it was actually meant to be funny, although it did have a serious aspect in that …

A most peculiar figure paid a visit the other night. She was introduced to me as Death, and everything about her reflected a perfect union of attraction, compassion, beauty and grace. She looked at me, and through her eyes I saw places of immense beauty and bliss…

2008/11/22
@ BAF Club, Kantis
Helsinki, Finland

Live:
Hæretici 7o74
Niko Skorpio
Haare

The new album by Black Sun Productions, featuring an exclusive remix “The Milk of the Stars” by Niko Skorpio.

Mr. Kerval, from Colombia, interviewed me recently for Pan-O-Ra-Ma Journal. It is now online, direct link here: Niko Skorpio interview @ Pan-O-Ra-Ma Journal Also, Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys reviewed my recent album, in a way which leaves me rather speechless. Those fluent in Finnish can read the review here. And then some. Metaorganism also received quite [...]