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May 24, 2004
10 000 more fools are being born ...The counter on this blog's mother site, HWEB, is now up to 10 000 unique hits! It took a few years. The count is really 13 670 since "Nedstat Basic 3.0" was hooked up.
Every week, all the site's various parts gets about 3000 hits, from hundreds of people in dozens of countries all over. Yes, I nearly know where y'all live! Thanks for paying attention.
31 months of blogging stored in Archives, to the left. :-) JR Bruun (-:
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May 23, 2004
News from DominionThis just in from Michael Moynihan's Dominion:
This is the ninth newsletter from Dominion, providing details on recent releases in areas both of publishing (Dominion Press, and other print projects by Michael Moynihan and Annabel Lee, as well as their record label Storm) and music (Blood Axis, Alraune, and related recordings of interest), etc.
Sangre Cavallum, "Barbara Carmina"
The debut album of the brilliant Northern Portuguese traditionalist music group Sangre Cavallum has just been released on the Storm Records label, distribution worldwide through Tesco. This CD release features 18 tracks of militant and atavistic folk music of rare caliber. It is eloquently presented in a two-panel digipack cover with bronze metal stamping. The release has already been receiving glowing reviews in Europe. Below is the press release for "Barbara Carmina".
Sangre Cavallum-"Barbara Carmina" (Storm Records, STRM-10)
For Sangre Cavallum, folk music has everything to do with the folk: the people. This does not only comprise the community of the living, but also of the dead, the ancestors. For a folk to thrive over the course of time and develop a unique history, there must be firm ground into which roots have been sunk: a defendable fatherland. Sangre Cavallum have described their music as "Old and new tribute songs to the land of our birth."
Sangre Cavallum was formed in the winter of 1996. Before this, its members were already conducting research into the traditional instruments of their local region, and also undertaking field recordings. After a year of writing and recording, they released their elaborately packaged cassette album "Alborada do Douro--Cantares da Terra Castreja". It is now a sought-after rarity. During the period from 1998 to 2001 Sangre Cavallum performed live at concerts that while limited in number, are now legendary in stature. They have shared the stage with Fire + Ice, In Gowan Ring, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, and four times with Blood Axis. Sangre Cavallum also appeared at the Arcana Europe Festival in Spain in the summer of 2000.
In recent years Sangre Cavallum has composed, arranged, and assembled their debut album "Barbara Carmina" (Barbarian Hymns). It is hard to imagine this was done on a four-track cassette recorder, given the complexity and dynamic depth of the results (at times the recordings hark back to the heyday of 70s progressive rock, minus the bloated egos and expensive lightshows). The original mixes from these sessions were then meticulously remastered by Robert Ferbrache (Blood Axis, 16 Horsepower) at Absinthe Studios in Westminster, Colorado. Sangre Cavallum seize inspiration from the ancient folk customs, pre-Christian vestiges, and traditional music of their homeland in Northern Portugal/Galicia. This fertile area of mountains and valleys, rivers (such as the Douro and the Cavallum) and vineyards has its own profound spirit, distinct and detached from the rest of the country. Its long history is soaked through with the blood of warring Indo-European tribes, Celts and Romans. The voices of these strong men and women of the past, these ancestral specters, are what speak through the chants and melodies of Sangre Cavallum. Their work draws its potency from this moist, ghostly wellspring, in order to ignite the souls and blood of the living.
Sangre Cavallum's "Barbara Carmina" is available for $16 postpaid in the USA from the "new arrivals" section at:
http://www.tesco-distro.com/store/new.html
Factrix news:
The beginnings of an official website devoted the psychedelic industrial band Factrix can now be found online at
http://geocities.com/factrix@pacbell.net
In 2003 Storm Records issued the definitive 2-CD set "Artifact" (available from Tesco distribution). This audio/visual retrospective of the band's work in the early 1980s has received critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.
A substantial article by Village Voice music critic Simon Reynolds concerning the Factrix retrospective along with a retrospective of the Sheffield-based group Cabaret Voltaire can be found at: www.villagevoice.com/issues/0331/reynolds.php
For those interested in obtaining the "Artifact" CD set, it is available for $20.00 postpaid at:
www.tesco-distro.com/catalog/storm08.html
"Artifact" is also distributed by Revolver, Middle Pillar, and others, and should be available (or could be special ordered) through better independent record shops.
Rûna 14
Issue 14 of Rûna is now available and features: Michael Kelly on "Runes and Ogham"; Paul Fosterjohn on "Völsungadrekkr"; Thomas Karlsson on "The Rune Cross"; James Chisholm on Thomas Jefferson; and Michael Sangster on "The Lord of the Rings"; and much more. Price: $8 postpaid in the USA. Order from
Dominion, PO Box 129, Waterbury Center, VT 05677 USA.
Dominion@pshift.com
(Foreign customers should order Rûna directly from Chaos Intl., BM Sorcery, London WC1N 3XX)
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