News
6th October 2011
HAUNTED AIR
American Edition
We’re excited to announce that Ossian Brown’s book Haunted Air has been released this month in America.
Published by Jonathan Cape and distributed by IPG.
More Haunted Air related news to follow soon.
6th October 2011
CYCLOBE
WOUNDED GALAXIES TAP AT THE WINDOW
Vinyl Edition Sold Out
Thank you to everyone who supported the release of our album Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window.
We’re pleased to say all copies of the vinyl edition have now sold out from our website shop.
25th July 2011
AYIN ACLA
How Acla Disappeared from Earth
FILM
A wonderful short film made by Anna Thew is available to view now on our website film page.
As accompaniment, Cyclobe have recorded a special version of ‘How Acla Disappeared from Earth’.
1st July 2011
CYCLOBE
WOUNDED GALAXIES TAP AT THE WINDOW
Compact Disc
OUT NOW
The new CD edition of ‘Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window’ is now available from our website shop. It comes in a full colour deluxe laminated wallet containing a fold-out poster with artwork by Alex Rose.
A Special Limited Edition of 100 copies is also available through our website shop. This comprises the CD edition plus a bonus CDR containing a new, specially recorded 16-minute piece distending the album opening track. This new composition is called:
‘AYIN ACLA (Third Dream of the Night Circle)’
1st July 2011
Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window
CD ART EDITION
To celebrate the release of the CD edition of ‘Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window’ a Special Limited Art Edition was made available for pre-order to subscribers of the Cyclobe Newsletter. This edition has now sold out. Thank you to everyone who ordered, and our commiserations to those who weren’t able to secure a copy in time. To join the Cyclobe mailing list and to be notified of future art editions, limited CD releases, and projects related to Cyclobe, plus all other news, please send a message to us through the contact page on this website.
1st July 2011
Geoff Cox
ANNA & THE JUNIPER DOG
The second in a series of three beautifully produced books written by Cyclobe’s close friend and colloborator Geoff Cox is available now from Black Maps Press. We could not recommend it more highly. Geoff Cox’s uniquely enchanting story transports the reader on a breathtaking magical journey, illustrated throughout by the incredibly talented Rohan Daniel Eason.
blackmaps.org
1st July 2011
A New Book & CD
AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE
Strange Attractor press have published a wonderful new biography on the artist Austin Osman Spare. Elegantly designed and full of fascinating stories detailing the artist’s life up until the 1950s, it contains many spellbinding artworks, reproduced with great care. Many of these come from Ossian Brown’s personal collection of Spare art, most notably the front cover painting, a sidereal water colour created in 1933 from his ‘Experiments in Reality’ series. In conjunction with the publication, Ossian has assisted Strange Attractor Press in creating a limited edition fine art print of this painting, which is available from the Strange Attractor website. For more information please follow the link below.
Other ZOS news includes the release of an excellent new album by John Zorn, ‘A Satyr's Play’, which comes illustrated with a collection of magnificent and rare Austin Osman Spare drawings. Ossian was very proud to assist in the creation of this wonderful release.
tzadik.com
strangeattractor.co.uk
23rd June 2011
CYCLOBE
Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window
CD Release Schedule
From the 1st of July advance copies of the new Cyclobe CD 'Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window' will be available for sale through our website shop.
The album's official release date is the 25th of July, with copies of the CD being distributed by Cargo Records and Forced Exposure.
A special very limited edition CD of a new Cyclobe recording will also be available, but through our website only.
More details to follow shortly.
13th April 2011
AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE
Live at The Institute of Contemporary Arts
Stephen Thrower will be performing live on the 15th of April as a member of the Amal Gamal Ensemble at the ICA in London. The event hosted by Strange Attractor also includes performances by the Raagnarock Allstars and the Alexander Tucker Decomposed Orchestra. A specially created limited edition Amal Gamal Ensemble cd will be available at the show.
The doors open at 7.30 and tickets for the event are £5.00. To book in advance please visit the ICA website.
www.ica.org.uk8th March 2011
ULVER
Stephen Thrower guests on new album
The Norwegian group Ulver recently invited Stephen Thrower to contribute to their new album ‘War of The Roses’. These new recordings are due for release this coming April on Kscope. For more information please follow this link www.jester-records.com/ulver/ulver.html
26th November 2010
Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson
1955 - 2010
Leaving us broken hearted, on the 25th of November, our sweet dear friend passed away in his sleep.
We'll miss him deeply.
If you would like to sign the book of condolences please visit Threshold House
13th October 2010
CYCLOBE
Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window
OUT NOW
The official and final release dates for Cyclobe's new album are as follows:
Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window (white vinyl edition)
13th October
Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window (black vinyl edition)
1st November
With our best wishes
Ossian Brown & Stephen Thrower
4th October 2010
CYCLOBE
THE ECLIPSER/THE MOTHS OF PRE-SLEEP
On the 20th of October Cyclobe release a new single "The Eclipser" c/w "The Moths of Pre-Sleep". These two new recordings come with a beautiful, psychedelic and magickal cover by the artist Alex Rose. Released on the Dot Dot Dot music label based in Cork, Ireland, "The Eclipser" will be available in an limited edition of 300 copies, pressed on clear 7" vinyl. Copies can be obtained from the label via this link below.
4th October 2010
Ossian Brown
HAUNTED AIR
Ossian Brown's first book “Haunted Air” is published by Jonathan Cape in the UK on the 28th October. Focussing on Ossian's phantasmagorical collection of early Hallowe'en photography, America c. 1875 - 1955, his unique and extraordinary book comes with an introduction by David Lynch and an afterword by Geoff Cox. “Haunted Air” is available for pre-order from the Random House website.
“The roots of Hallowe’en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls’ Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging ‘soul cakes’ in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay.
From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half-remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Hallowee’en was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival’s intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living and the living, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back.”
The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementoes of the treasured, now unrecognisable, other. Torn from album pages, sold piecemeal for pennies and scattered, abandoned to melancholy chance and the hands of strangers.”
4th October 2010
CYCLOBE
WOUNDED GALAXIES TAP AT THE WINDOW
Art Edition
All copies of the 'Wounded Galaxies' art edition have sold out in advance through our mailing list. Thank-you to everyone who ordered this special edition, and our sincere apologies to anyone who was unable to secure a copy in time.
More detailed information about this art edition, including a list of contents and photographs of the artwork, will be displayed on our website this coming Samhain, October the 31st.
If you are not a member of our mailing list and would like to be notified in advance of special editions like this, as well as other Cyclobe related activities including limited CD releases and concert news, please send us a message through the contact page on this website.
With our best wishes
and many thanks,
Ossian Brown & Stephen Thrower
23rd August 2010
CYCLOBE
Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window
NEWS UPDATE
Due to a couple of minor delays we now expect delivery of the new Cyclobe album by mid September, which means that it will be released shortly after.
Wounded Galaxies will initially be available as a vinyl release only. A CD version will follow, but at present we're unable to give a fixed release date for this.
The vinyl album will be available as a limited edition 180 gram pressing of 1000 copies.
All records sold through this website will be the white vinyl pressing, the remaining 500 copies sold though our distributers will be on black vinyl.
The first 300 copies sold will have an additional insert, consisting of a magical short tale by Geoff Cox-Dorée.
We also intend to make available a very limited white label art edition with individual hand painted front covers by Ossian Brown. These will come with an additional CD containing a radically different mix of the album's title track available only with this edition.
More details to follow very soon.
10th August 2010
UnicaZürn
Live at the Horse Hospital
UnicaZürn are pleased to announce they will be performing at
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade London WC1N 1JD Tel: 020 7833 3644 on September 17th 2010.
Please check the Horse Hospital website for confirmation of the correct performance time, entrance £5.
www.theHorseHospital.com
13th May 2010
CYCLOBE
Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window
We are very pleased to announce that the title of our forthcoming album is 'Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window'. Recording and mastering are now finished, and the disc is scheduled for pressing in June. We'll have news of the official release date soon.
It's been our great privilege on this record to work with a number of our dear friends. The full line up is as follows:
Ossian Brown
Stephen Thrower
with:
John Contreras
Cliff Stapleton
Thighpaulsandra
Michael J York
We're also thrilled to announce that the wonderful front cover artwork is courtesy of the artist Fred Tomaselli.
'Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window' will be available directly through our website, initially as a limited edition 180g-vinyl release.If you have not already joined our mailing list, and would like to be notified when the album is on sale, please send us a message through the 'Contact' page on this website.
The track titles are as follows:
Side One
How Acla Disappeared from Earth
The Woods are Alive With the Smell of His Coming
Side Two
We'll Witness the Resurrection of Dead Butterflies
(Three Moons)
Sleeper:
The Blue Towers, The Copper Bells
Ghost Ribbon
The Unknowable Index
Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window
With our best wishes
Ossian Brown & Stephen Thrower
30th March 2010
CYCLOBE
Mastering New Album
On April the 6th Cyclobe master their new album, to be released on the Phantomcode label shortly after. The album will initially be available only as a limited edition 180 gram vinyl pressing. If you would like to be notified when the record becomes available, please send a message to us though our contact page on this website and we'll add you to our mailing list. The album title will be announced shortly, along with the final release date.
30th March 2010
BITTEN HALO
by Alex Rose and Ossian Brown
Ossian Brown is thrilled to announce his collaboration with the artist Alex Rose on a piece titled 'Bitten Halo', which will be shown in Rose's forthcoming New York exhibition 'Withdrawal' at the Envoy Gallery, 131 Chrystie, NYC 10002. 212 226 4555.
For more information please follow this link here
30th March 2010
UnicaZürn
PERFORM AT SCHIPHORST AVANT-GARDE FESTIVAL
UnicaZürn (Stephen Thrower and David Knight) will be performing at the upcoming Schiphorst Avant-Garde Festival near Hamburg, between the 2nd and 4th of July 2010. The annual festival is organized and curated by Jean Hervé Peron of Faust.
For more information please visit the festival's website here
30th March 2010
CYCLOBE
DU & ICH INTERVIEW
Cyclobe have recently been interviewed for the German gay magazine DU & ICH by Evgenij Dvorkin. The piece is featured in the February/March issue features alongside a photograph by the very talented Ruth Bayer.
For more information please visit the website here
30th March 2010
COIL
COLOUR SOUND OBLIVION
The long-awaited Coil DVD box-set, Colour Sound Oblivion, is now available for pre-order from the Threshold House website. This beautiful and incredibly lavish collection features 14 DVD films from all of Coil's live incarnations and invocations. It includes the earliest 'How to Destroy Angels' performance at the Air Gallery in London, copious live material from the 'Time Machines', 'Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil', and 'All the Horned Animals' tours, plus later concerts. The set also comes with a collection of more than 100 photographic cards, including many backstage and personal pictures provided by Ossian Brown and the other Coil members. Ossian appears in many of the films included in this set. Please visit the Threshold House website to read more information about this release and to order copies.
For more information please visit the website here
30th March 2010
OSSIAN BROWN
ON MONOHALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN
The new vinyl edition of Monohallucinatory Mountain by Current 93 is now available through the Coptic Cat website. Monohallucinatory Mountain features contributions from Ossian Brown amongst many other artists in the Current 93 whirled. To name a few: Baby Dee, William Breeze, John Contreras, James Blackshaw, Alex Neilson, Riki Lee Jones and Keith Wood. This record is a limited edition release of only 500 copies all of which are signed and numbered by David Tibet.
For more information please visit the website here
8th January 2010
OSSIAN BROWN
at the Viktor Wynd gallery
An original artwork by Ossian Brown will
be shown at the Viktor Wynd gallery in East London as a part of an
exhibition curated by Mark Pilkington of Strange Attractor. This first
'Strange Attractor Salon' will also be showing works by:
Phil Baker * Joel Biroco * Richard Brown * John Coulthart * Rod
Dickinson * Disinformation * English Heretic * Tessa Farmer * Blue
Firth * Alison Gill * Doug Harvey * Josephine Harvatt * Ken Hollings * Julian House * Ali Hutchinson * Alyssa Joye * Maud
Larsson * Gary Lachman * Xtina Lamb * John Lundberg * Man From Uranus *
Eleanor Morgan * Frances Morgan * Drew Mulholland * Bridget Nicholls *
Oscillatorial Binnage * Katie Owens * Edwin Pouncey * Arik Roper *
Gavin Semple * Martin Sexton * USURP * Robert Wallis * Catharyne Ward *
Eric Wright *
The exhibition runs from the 7th to the 31st of January 2010 and is located at 11 Mare Street, London, UK, E8 4RP.
For more information please follow this link
17th November 2009
CYCLOBE
'The Woods are Alive With the Smell of His Coming'
Premiere at 'The Dark Monarch' exhibition
Tate St Ives
Owl by David Noonan
A new composition by Cyclobe, 'The Woods are Alive with the Smell of His Coming' will be premiered at the Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, on the 21st of November as part of an exhibition entitled 'The Dark Monarch - Magic and Modernity in British Art'. The exhibition comprises work by a wide variety of artists; Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth, Austin Osman Spare, Ithell Colquhoun, David Noonan, Richard Dadd, Derek Jarman, Samuel Palmer and Damien Hirst to name but a few. Cyclobe's audio presentation is a twenty minute pre-recorded piece, which is due to be released on their forthcoming album early in the new year. The event, a specially created symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, includes a variety of discussions and lectures from exhibition curators Martin Clark, Michael Bracewell and Alun Rowlands. Chris Stephens, Curator (Modern British Art) & Head of Displays at Tate Britain will also be present, as well as exhibiting artists Jeremy Millar, Mark Titchner and Clare Woods. There will be a screening of the excellent Incredible String Band's 'Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending' with director Peter Neal in attendance, and a short film by Angela Cockayne and Philip Hoare (author of 'England's Lost Eden'). From his own collection, Ossian Brown has contributed the 1955 painting 'The Qliphoth' by Austin Osman Spare, part of the 'Contexture of Being' series, for the exhibition's beautiful catalogue. Unfortunately, having only just confirmed our involvement we've not been able to share information about this sooner. We will be present at the event and look forward to seeing anyone who's able to attend. Tickets are limited so please check with the gallery for availability.
For ticket and schedule information please click here
29 October 2009
CYCLOBE - audio players activated
To hear extracts from previous Cyclobe albums as well as premonitions of future releases, click on the links to audio players that can be found running along the bottom of each page. These selections are not permanent and will change at various dates. Our intention is to share glimpses of our back catalogue, to reveal current works in progress, and to make extracts available from forthcoming releases.
20th October 2009
UnicaZürn
Temporal Lapse special edition news
Come Samhain, the 31st of October, UnicaZürn's bonus CD 'Temporal Lapse' will no longer be available with copies of the album 'Temporal Bends'. 'Temporal Lapse' was available at the album launch party and subsequently through this website only, so anyone wishing to obtain a copy should order here before the end of the month.
14 October 2009
DOWN TERRACE
wins Raindance best film award
Stephen Thrower recently recorded several electronic music cues for the soundtrack of Down Terrace, a bleakly funny crime drama directed by Ben Wheatley. It's a pleasure to announce that the film has recently won two festival prizes. On the 4th of October it won the US-based Fantastic Fest's Next Wave Award for best feature and best screenplay, and on the 11th of October it took Best UK Feature at the Raindance Festival in London. Congratulations are due to director Ben, producer Andy Starke, and the brilliant ensemble cast, particularly Robin Hill who also co-wrote./p>
"Surreal and sinister, this is a splendid exercise in anti-social realism that deserves to reach a wider audience." - Empire online
07 October 2009
Geoff Cox
ANNA AND THE WITCH'S BOTTLE
Our dear friend and collaborator Geoff Cox has written a very beautiful, magical and unique children's book called 'Anna & The Witch's Bottle' (published by Black Maps Press). The book has also been illustrated with some excellent pen and ink drawings by the artist Rohan Daniel Eason. Please visit the Black Maps Limited website for further details and ordering.
September 2009
CYCLOBE - September 2009
Welcome to the newly designed Cyclobe website. Currently accessible are the main news and merchandise pages. Over the following six weeks brand new content will be added, such as a film of Cyclobe's only live performance (Krems, Austria in April 2007).
Most importantly, we have been busy focussing on new material which - despite many false dawns - is about to see the light of day. The production deadline for the first new album-length Cyclobe project in five years is October 31st 2009. New Cyclobe recordings will then become available for sale and download.
A number of exciting book projects and film scores have also been undertaken. More about these to follow.
We'll subsequently be making available some scarce CDs from other projects which Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown have worked on. These will appear for a limited period only.
We'd like to thank PrettyMannox for designing this website, Geoff Cox for his exquisite Cyclobe scrawl and Mark Pilkington for his beautiful bat photograph.
With our very best wishes
Ossian Brown & Stephen Thrower, 16.09.09
30 July 2009
UnicaZürn - debut album: Temporal Bends
Album Launch Event: Wednesday 16th September 2009 at The Horse Hospital.
30 Colonnade, London, WC1N 1JD
020 7833 3644
popculture@thehorsehospital.com
Doors open 7.30pm
Admission free to all.
UnicaZürn celebrate the release of their debut CD album Temporal Bends with a launch event at The Horse Hospital. Unicazürn will perform a short set and copies of Temporal Bends will be available for purchase.
Label: uZu Music
Catalogue Number: UZ01
Release date: 16th September 2009
UnicaZürn are:
Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe; Coil)
David Knight (Arkkon; Shock Headed Peters; Danielle Dax; Lydia Lunch)
Both are also members of the improvisation group The Amal Gamal Ensemble.
Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, Temporal Bends is a journey through time, and a dive into the depths. UnicaZürn sessions have always been accompanied by the spectre of water; slow currents or lapping waves, windows of streaming rain, seashore horizons. Temporal Bends is aquatic, coastal music, connecting an experience of the rivers and seas of England with the micro-waterways of memory and the mind, through decompression and dehydration to full flood and saturation. The oceans and estuaries of late evenings past and yet to come.
UnicaZürn's core musical instrumentation is processed electric guitar, clarinet and saxophone. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower's reed playing provided a distinctive 'free-melancholy' in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add copious analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through Tangerine Dream's early albums to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music.
Special guest vocals on the song 'Jack Sorrow' by Danielle Dax, who also contributed the front cover painting.
With Temporal Bends, UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind's eye.
MySpace URL: www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial
30 July 2009
Current 93
'ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN'
Ossian Brown can be heard on the new Current 93 album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, recently released by Coptic Cat. A vinyl double album version in gatefold sleeve has just been released in an edition of 2,500 copies, with the first 150 copies available from Durtro signed by David Tibet. The tracks from the Aleph CD are on sides 1-3, while side 4 is a previously unreleased 20-minute piece called Adam at Docetic Mountain, with voice by David Tibet, electronics by Andrew Liles and drums/percussion by Alex Neilson. This deluxe package also includes the subscriber poster and all lyrics to the album. Price is £20 plus postage and packing.
Please note that the vinyl edition of this album is now sold out. The CD is still available. More information here
September 2009
AOS ABSINTHE WINS AWARD
Earlier this year Ossian Brown provided a haunting pastel work from his collection of Austin Osman Spare art ('Astral Body and Ghost', 1946) to adorn the label of a unique distillation of Absinthe entitled 'Absinthe Brevans A.O. Spare', prepared by Oliver Matter for the Swiss company Absinthe-Brevans. We're happy to announce that it has now won the 2009 'Best in Class' Gold Quality Award at The International Wine and Spirit Competition. See www.iwsc.net
