These Saturday-night performances represent a special event for our deluxe ticket holders. Deluxe tickets are limited so be sure to order in advance as the venue has a capacity limit.
Amodali
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Amodali is an experimental vocalist/musician. Creating sonic sculptures, primal vocalizations, that form a unique vocabulary of ecstatic consciousness. Describing her work as ‘aural cartography of the awakened female magical body’, she uses voice as a medium for exploration of magic, trance states, and esoteric sexuality, engaging participants with complex, challenging jouissance.
Amodali has produced an extensive body of work extending over twenty years dedicated to exploring the 156 current. Performances are libidinous, visceral, serpentine manifestations of investigations into various phenomena associated with magical sexuality. She is most often associated with the ten-year project Mother Destruction, which was a vehicle for explorations of ‘seidr’ or ‘Seething’, a form of Nordic shamanism.
Returning to long established roots as an electronic, experimental musician, 2011 performances will feature ‘Liber Incarnadine’, a recently launched online, interactive project: an experiment which seeks to nurture pan-sexual, magical engagement with the primordial, universal Eros under the auspices of Our Lady Babalon, creating a focus for the erotic impulse, love and its crystallization within the written word. An open invitation is extended to individuals to make anonymous text contributions to the L.I. site. The text is seamlessly taken into a virtual ‘grail’ to create an infinite love letter to Our Lady. Visuals from the site will be projected in the live venue, extracts of the text will be taken at random and incorporated into Amodali’s performance, where it will be vocalized as chant. Tracks from the new album of the same name will also be featured.
L.I. is the first public liturgy of ‘Incarnadine Lodge’ a Gnostic, illuminist body dedicated to research and exploration of the 156 current, sex magic and alchemy. L.I. brings together many threads of Amodali’s work and research into the relationships between sonics, language, sexuality and magick. A response to the evolutionary imperative implied by the 156 current, in cultivating magical, ecstatic engagement and developing this into forms that can be shared by all.
“For as thy blood is mingled in the cup of BABALON, so is thine heart the universal heart.” (From The Vision and the Voice, “The Cry of the 5th Aethyr”)
LUX Interna
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For over a decade now, Lux Interna has been crafting aural altars to the inner light. Originally brought into being through Joshua Levi Ian and Kathryn Gentzke, the project has been host to a shifting constellation of musical talents over the years, each leaving their trace upon the musical landscape. Through tapestries of minor chords, human voice, delicate drones and violent sprawls of sound, Lux Interna continues to hymn the hidden god with impassioned intensity, seeking fire in the tension between transcendence and immanence. While the earlier albums were often associated with the genre of neofolk, their recent work has evidenced a musical shift marked by a heavier, more ritualistic sound, incorporating electric instruments, loops, and percussion, haunted by flourishes of ghostly banjo and droning fngerstyle guitar. While undoubtedly drawing inspiration from Joshua’s intensive studies of Abrahamic mysticism and Christian esotericism, Lux Interna’s lyrics continue to be harvested from a deeply personal and idiosyncratic field of symbols and visions.
To date, Lux Interna has released five full length CDs and one 10″ with the German cult label Eis & Licht, as well as the Brooklyn-based darkwave label, Projekt Records. In addition, Lux Interna has participated on many European and American compilation releases, including Forseti Lebt, the musical tribute to the work of Andreas Ritter, and was featured in the historical musicological work Looking for Europe. Joshua and Kathryn are currently hard at work on a new full length slated to be released on Projekt Records in Autumn 2011.
Over the past decade, Lux Interna has performed across the globe from Moscow to Los Angeles, including two appearances at the Gotik Wave Trefen in Leipzig, Germany. And Joshua and Kathryn have had the pleasure of collaborating with several celebrated members of the underground music community such as Kris Force of Amber Asylum, Andreas Ritter of Forseti, and Henryk Vogel of Darkwood, and have also contributed vocals to the latest full length release by the legendary German dark folk band, Sonne Hagal.
At the Esoteric Book Conference, Lux Interna will be performing all new material from their upcoming release on Projekt Records, there is Light in the Body, there is Blood in the Sun: a cycle of songs that weave sound as skin for spirit, exploring the chiasm between flesh, light, divinity, world, and word.
Waldteufel
Waldteufel is a project founded by Markus Wolff while he was still in Crash Worship. It has existed since 1995 and at the beginning included Annabel Lee whose violin and viola performances and arrangements gave the first album Heimliches Deutschland its unique character. After that, Wolff produced some songs on his own until he found a worthy cohort in Tyrsson Sinclair. Together, they produced the two following albums, Sanguis and Rauhnacht, and embarked on playing quite a few noteworthy concerts, including the Flammenzauber Festival in Germany and a Wild Hunt performance at the Old Church in Portland. After some more experimental solo performances, Wolff more recently has resumed life activity with the help of two friends, Brian B. and Jason. They combine the emphasis on organic unusual percussion brought in from Jason’s project A Minority Of One, and the multiple talents of Brian on stringed instruments, harmonium and percussion.
At the Esoteric Book Conference, the trio will focus on a new work, based on an epic poem by Alexander von Bernus. Bernus was a 20th Century alchemist, poet, and follower of Rudolf Steiner’s teachings. His Gesang an Luzifer (Ode to Lucifer) was first published in 1923. This work will be augmented by songs based on words by Stefan George, Bruno Goetz, and Karl Wolfskehl, whose poetry often combines Pagan and (esoteric) Christian ideas, as well as works of a more nature-mystical quality.