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Of a Neophyte, and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel. Aubrey Beardsley for the Pall Mall Magazine, 1893.
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\u2022 The occult preoccupations of the 1970s appear to be in the ascendant just now. Whether this is mere nostalgia or something in the zeitgeist remains to be seen but BBC Radio 4 aired an hour-long documentary on the subject this weekend entitled Black Aquarius<\/em><\/a>. The guest list implies an inevitable focus on film and television but Matthew Sweet covered a lot of ground, taking in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, Dennis Wheatley, The Process Church, and Alex Sanders, the public face of British witchcraft in the 1960s and 70s. Earlier this week at AnOther the focus was on Maxine Sanders<\/a>, High Priestess of the Alexandrian coven and putative fashion icon even though she was generally photographed naked. Maxine and husband Alex are unavoidable when reading about UK occultism in the 1970s; among other things they were occult advisors to Satanic rock band Black Widow, and also released an album of their own in 1970, A Witch Is Born<\/em><\/a>. Of more interest is Sacrifice<\/em> by Black Widow<\/a>, a 55-minute concert for German TV’s Beat Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jacques Rivette’s OUT 1<\/em><\/a> (1971) is a film more talked about than seen, in part because of a running time that exceeds 12 hours. So news of a Blu-ray release later this year<\/a> is very welcome.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Bruce LaBruce<\/a>: taking zombie porn and gay homophobic skinheads to MoMA”. The director goes through his filmography with Nadja Sayej.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Art is anarchistic, and when it becomes categorized, it loses impact.” RIP Bernard Stollman<\/a>, founder of the amazing ESP-Disk<\/a> record label.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Magickal (and pseudonymous) synth music by Mort Garson: Black Mass<\/em><\/a> (1971) by Lucifer, and The Unexplained<\/em><\/a> (1975) by Ataraxia.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kevin Titterton<\/a> on Angelo\u00a0Badalamenti and the soundtrack that made Twin Peaks<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 149 by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rare Decay<\/em><\/a>, a free bonus track from Aurora<\/em> by Ben Frost.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Alan Garner<\/a> is celebrated in a new collection, First Light<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dangerous Minds: The Residents’ radio special<\/a>, 1977.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Black Sabbath<\/a><\/em> (1969) by Coven | Black Sabbath<\/a><\/em> (1970) by Black Sabbath | Her Lips Were Wet With Venom (Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas 1 & 2)<\/a><\/em> (2006) by Boris & Sunn O)))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of a Neophyte, and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel. Aubrey Beardsley for the Pall Mall Magazine, 1893. \u2022 The occult preoccupations of the 1970s appear to be in the ascendant just now. Whether this is mere nostalgia or something in the zeitgeist remains to be seen but BBC … Continue reading “Weekend links 256”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,29,57,7,5,3,16,12],"tags":[634,391,7230,2029,94,2421,2181,1471,7239,3845,5014,2094,7238,265,3710,7234,7228,7232,7236,7227,7231,7235,7233,7237,2147,7229,879],"class_list":["post-16688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-electronica","category-fashion","category-film","category-gay","category-music","category-occult","category-photography","tag-alan-garner","tag-aleister-crowley","tag-alex-sanders","tag-angelo-badalamenti","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-ben-frost","tag-bernard-stollman","tag-black-sabbath","tag-black-sabbath-group","tag-black-widow-group","tag-boris-group","tag-bruce-labruce","tag-coven-group","tag-david-lynch","tag-dennis-wheatley","tag-esp-disk","tag-hermetic-order-of-the-golden-dawn","tag-jacques-rivette","tag-kevin-titterton","tag-matthew-sweet","tag-maxine-sanders","tag-mort-garson","tag-nadja-sayej","tag-robert-aiki-aubrey-lowe","tag-sunn-o","tag-the-process-church","tag-the-residents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4la","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}