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The Simulator (1936) by Dora Maar.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Surprise of the week for me was the discovery of a new album,\u00a0Kshatrya \u2013 The Eye Of The Bird<\/em><\/a>, by cult French composer Igor Wakh\u00e9vitch<\/a>. This had been out for a while but I’d managed to miss the announcements. The music was recorded in 1999 so isn’t exactly new but it’s the first new Wakh\u00e9vitch release (as opposed to a reissue or compilation) since Let’s Start<\/em> in 1979. Very good it is too, almost completely electronic but not as discordant as his synth-dominated Hathor<\/em> album.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Popol Vuh is a Mass for the heart.” Gerhard Augustin talks to Florian Fricke<\/a> about Popol Vuh’s music in a “rare” (lost? previously unseen?) interview. Undated but the City Raga<\/em> album is referred to as a recent release so it’s probably around 1995.<\/p>\n \u2022 Brian Dillon<\/a> on the voraciousness and oddity of Dora Maar\u2019s pictures. Related: Rick Poynor<\/a> on The Simulator<\/em> by Dora Maar.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen<\/a><\/em>, edited by Mark Valentine and Timothy J. Jarvis.<\/p>\n \u2022 Juliette Goodrich<\/a> on the tale of the Buchla synthesizer, the repair engineer, and a dormant drop of LSD.<\/p>\n \u2022 Scott Tobias<\/a> on Midnight Cowboy<\/em> at 50: why the X-rated best picture winner endures.<\/p>\n \u2022 A Hidden History of Women and Psychedelics by Mariavittoria Mangini<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Previews of Chords<\/em><\/a>, the new album by composer Ellen Arkbro.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 290 by Mark Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Somehow I became respectable,” says John Waters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Walerian Borowczyk<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Bandcamp Guide to\u00a0Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 G\u00e9n #1<\/em><\/a> by Ray Kunimoto.<\/p>\n \u2022 Secret Ceremony (Theme From Brond)<\/a><\/em> (1987) by Scala (Bill Nelson & Daryl Runswick) | Healing Ceremony<\/a><\/em> (1990) by African Head Charge | Ceremony Behind Screens<\/a><\/em> (1995) by David Toop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"