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‘Not Alone’ benefit CD monies donated to Médicins Sans Frontières’ HIV+/AIDS campaign
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The total we have donated to MSF/Doctors Without Borders from sales of the Durtro Jnana various artists ‘Not Alone’ benefit CD has now reached Canadian $34,000 (approximately UK£16,432, US$33,600, €22.885). Our profound thanks to all of those—artists and buyers—who have helped in raising this amount of money for MSF/DWB's work with HIV+ and AIDS in West Africa.
If you are interested in buying this 75 artist, 5 CD set, please go to www.jnanarecords.com. Click on the ‘Not Alone’ link on that site for more information and a complete artist/tracklisting, and click on the ‘Shop’ link on that site to purchase.
Pantaleimon’s ‘Mercy Oceans’ album receives 10/10 on Foxy Digitalis
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There is a beautiful 10 out of 10 review of Pantaleimon's ‘Mercy Oceans’ by Charles Franklin on the Foxy Digitalis website. It can be found here.
New releases on NWW member Colin Potter’s ICR label
Far Black Furlong: ‘Far Black Furlong’
'Far Black Furlong' is a rapturous, symphonic work in six movements. The music describes tides—from the summer breeze through barley, to the shimmering stretch of a vast ocean extending to the shifting birth pangs of stars. Much of the music was recorded at outdoor locations—such as the barley fields of the Clun forest—and is performed on acoustic instruments.
FBF is baroque oboeist Mark Baigent, composer Richard Moult, dulcimer player John Letcher, the Canadian flautist Amanda Votta, Shropshire poet Bryony Lees, guitarist Ian Tengwall and Andy Cotterill on electronics.
Far Black Furlong: ‘Haidd’
There is a special edition (150 copies) of ‘Far Black Furlong’ which comes with an additional CDR, ‘Haidd’—a beautiful 34 minute remix/reworking of their previous album.
Colin Potter: The Sights of the Drowned Fable
This is a recording of a performance at the Resonator festival, held at the University of Central Lancashire in July 2007. A 43 minute long journey through many structures.
www.icrdistribution.com
Skitliv cover Current 93’s ‘Good Morning, Great Moloch’
A beautiful and sinister version of this song by C93, from their ‘Sleep Has His House’ album, has been covered by Skitliv, the group fronted by ex-Mayhem singer Maniac. It can be listened to on David Tibet's MySpace at www.myspace.com/davidtibet
Maja Elliot and Marc Henri Lamande live in Paris Thursday 27 December
Maja Elliott appears in performance with Marc Henri Lamande on 27 December. Details here are in French (PDF, 368k). For further information contact Vultures Musick at vulturesmusick@free.fr or visit their MySpace at www.myspace.com/vulturesmusic
My favourite albums and books at the moment
I was recently sent a copy of the new album by Ulver, ‘The Shadows of the Sun’. I have to say this is one of the most mesmerising records I have heard for many years, a monumental, and monumentally sad, epic. It is the first album I have ever heard by them. I played it eight times in two days, and then on the train to London—and then on the train back from London. REALLY remarkable.
www.jester-records.com/ulver
www.myspace.com/ulver1
Then the next day KatieJane Garside, of Queen Adreena and Daisy Chainsaw, sent me ‘The Ventriloquist’, the new album by her project Ruby Throat. This is absolutely and beautifully hypnotic—for me her most thrilling and touching work to date, in a career which has produced already many works of great power and beauty. It is limited to 500 copies so it may be already sold out.
www.katiejanegarside.com
www.rubythroat.co.uk
Six Organs of Admittance's new album ‘Shelter from the Ash’ is as stunning and unpredictable and gorgeous as I expected it would be. Ben Chasny is a genius. What else can I say?
I also recently finished reading Michel Faber's ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ which is, quite simply, one of he most enthralling books I have ever read. I couldn't put it down. No matter how good anyone tells you this book is (including myself)—it is even better than they are telling you. And, long though the book is, I wished it could just have kept on for much longer. I then read a novella by him, ‘The Courage Consor’, which was masterful and haunting.
Coptically, I am currently reading the Coptic edition of the Nag Hammadi text, ‘The Gospel of the Egyptians’, also known as ‘The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit’, which can be found, excellently edited by Alexander Böhlig and Frederik Wisse, in Volume 2 of the 5-volume Brill edition of ‘The Coptic Gnostic Library’, as well as in an English translation in Bentley Layton's superlative ‘The Gnostic Scriptures’ (Doubleday).
Love and peace to you all,
David+++
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