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The Heart of Every Avalanche

 

The Heart of Every Avalanche
(Audiothrillseeker/Migman)

This
to me that was whispered
with cacaphonic brevity
like the heart of an avalanche
that scored me in three
What was it? for it did not
remain
it passed through my hollow bones
dripped like wax
from thought
to poisoned thought

this unreason
this mirage
this illusion
the serpent
wore a mask of you

in a golden moment poised
a glance
now stolen
from
my
memory
I will weave you some kind of spell
flare into your righteous
annihilation face
your pain
will endure

I am going
I am nearly
gone

I am learning
to unlearn
the ball of thoughts
unwind
unwoven
each simple thread
yearns to become
complex structures

gone
nearly
gone now
a part destination
an incomplete plan
wreck-a-nowhere

I am drawing it deep
your face
is fading
still, burning

so, from now on
there will be only
a series of lovers
whose hearts join
in temporal unison
sing our gasping songs
through nights of discovery

And so, as she returned
to my bed
and in that tender spoon
her kisses came
and I knew
there would be others
for both
and though we might part
to converge again
some point,
down the line

A collection of provoking tunes stirred up from the depths. Heavily improvised images, themes, moods, mythologies and esoterica including collaborations in sound design/music and poetry also sound designs and music compositions for film and TV.

Follow Audiothrillseeker via
Bandcamp
Soundcloud
YouTube
Facebook
and
Anthology profile

Dave Migman is a prolific writer of poetry and dark fiction. There is a novel entitled The Wolf Stepped Out, a sort of urban ‘Inferno’, and there is also a spoken word album called ‘Sheol’, an artistic collaboration with Serbian musician Spleen Erebus. There are also many pomes and stories scattered over the vast, immeasurable space of the cyber realm.

Much of Dave’s recent work reflects his love for travel and his engagements with an animate, mythological reality. For twenty years he has earned a living by carving stones in Edinburgh, Scotland. He draws his inspiration from a vast reference base culled from various obscure sources over the past two decades. There are Celtic, Pictish, Viking, Neolithic and many more besides. In doing this he also explores ancient mythological threads that reoccur in various cultures. All this bears influence upon his art and writing.

Follow Dave Migman via
Bandcamp
Soundcloud
The Wolf Stepped Out
and
Anthology Profile

 

Magick, Music and Ritual 12, the 2016 anthology album from the Hermetic Library
Hermetic Library Anthology Album – Magick Music and Ritual 12

Riding Cygnus

 

Riding Cygnus
(Audiothrillseeker)

An improvised sonic interpretation of Cygnus mythology. The journey of the soul between death and birth, carried by the bird and the importance of that place in the sky. Also loosely based on the design of the city of Canberra, Australia.

A collection of provoking tunes stirred up from the depths. Heavily improvised images, themes, moods, mythologies and esoterica including collaborations in sound design/music and poetry also sound designs and music compositions for film and TV.

Follow Audiothrillseeker via anthology profile

 

Magick, Music and Ritual 10, the 2014 anthology album from the Hermetic Library
Hermetic Library Anthology Album – Magick Music and Ritual 10

 

These Are Not Tears

 

These Are Not Tears
(Audiothrillseeker/Migman)

Music and mixing was performed by Australian musician Audiothrillseeker conjures the essence of the words by Dave Migman, adding, as all good music should, a further, profound dimension.

our dissolution runs in rivulets
down our cheeks begging
forgiveness from the hollows
of our misinterpreted lives
in our solvency, inadequacy
the pieces dissolving, the jigsaw
is a kaleidoscopic craze
in which we seek fresh patterns
to imbibe meaning into each strata
as we struggle onwards
sometimes laughing, sometimes crying
but always now apart
longing the halcyon fantasy
that marks the narrative of
our passing
you are a stingray spike through a tongue
you are turquoise embedded in flesh
an old man gasping for air
on a Mediterranean night.
Everything you touch ignites or dies.
there was no diversion from the sound
they were diametrically exposed to each other
he sat, immobilised, as the cello
drew powder from his bones
and the chanter rang the chambers
of his heart like a sonorous bell
can’t say I want the stress of your
disaster freaking up the warp of my weft
the April sun is drying out the shingle
the plane arrows the apricot dusk
I have several blessings to count
Several to curse, several to discount
Another beer to fudge the balmy
cunt and feed the bastard night alive
again to curse, to drop, to fall
Do they laugh at our freakish dance?
Surely we are casting doubts upon
The paradigms of their contrivance
For it is their ‘shit’ not ours, and
Though I do not doubt our insanity
I also consider theirs more virulent!
Ours is that of imbeciles drunk on
The scant passion of moments past
Clinging to our obsession with the
Temerity of limpets – the bastion
Of faith and faithless, dreams
Or emptiness, the sun hollers
Through the pink, some one is drowning
In the silence of the ocean

Dave Migman:

Dave Migman is a prolific writer of poetry and dark fiction. There is a novel entitled The Wolf Stepped Out, a sort of urban ‘Inferno’, and there is also a spoken word album called ‘Sheol’, an artistic collaboration with Serbian musician Spleen Erebus. There are also many pomes and stories scattered over the vast, immeasurable space of the cyber realm.

Much of Dave’s recent work reflects his love for travel and his engagements with an animate, mythological reality. For twenty years he has earned a living by carving stones in Edinburgh, Scotland. He draws his inspiration from a vast reference base culled from various obscure sources over the past two decades. There are Celtic, Pictish, Viking, Neolithic and many more besides. In doing this he also explores ancient mythological threads that reoccur in various cultures. All this bears influence upon his art and writing.

Follow Dave Migman via anthology profile

Audiothrillseeker:

A collection of provoking tunes stirred up from the depths. Heavily improvised images, themes, moods, mythologies and esoterica including collaborations in sound design/music and poetry also sound designs and music compositions for film and TV.

Follow Audiothrillseeker via anthology profile

 

Magick, Music and Ritual 10, the 2014 anthology album from the Hermetic Library
Hermetic Library Anthology Album – Magick Music and Ritual 10

 

The Hermetic Library Anthology Album – Magic, Music and Ritual 10

Magick, Music and Ritual 10, the one and only album in 2014, from the Hermetic Library Anthology project is now released for immediate digital download.

Magick, Music and Ritual 10, the 2014 anthology album from the Hermetic Library

 

Please join the Hermetic Library in thanking and promoting these artists who have contributed their work to this benefit anthology album project by picking up this release. Please also spread the word to people you think may be interested in the work of artists who combine magick, music and ritual.

Be sure to also check out the entire Hermetic Library Anthology project, all the previous releases; and consider picking up the digital download of this album and any other that strikes your fancy to help support the work of the library!

 

 

The full tracklist for the 2014 anthology album consists of 26 tracks by 21 artists in two parts:

Part I

  1. Black Lesbian Fishermen – LIL 05:06
  2. Ophwurld with Alan Sitar Brown – Nibiru Zombie Apocalypse 07:55
  3. Ace of Space – Lording it up in a World Full of Weirdos 03:00
  4. Robert Furtkamp – Follow the Moon 04:18
  5. Ex Astra – Aqva Caelestis 09:05
  6. Esperantoland – Vagueness is the Key 02:50
  7. Dave Migman and Audiothrillseeker – These Are Not Tears 03:16
  8. OrosKhaos – The Great Descent 16:55
  9. December Luna – Samhain Set 03:50
  10. frogtoboggan with Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang – Sketch of an Ancestral Dream 03:40
  11. Karyæ – Glad That I Live Am I 04:55
  12. Somnolent – Dreaming Green 04:32
  13. J Flash – Dying Gods 03:44

Part II

  1. MVNIHVD – Silence is Mine 03:14
  2. Shams93 – Doomsday 04:56
  3. December Luna – Kepler 22b 04:06
  4. Ace of Space – Heugh Lighthouse 02:28
  5. Twelve Hides – Ghayat al-Hakim 06:09
  6. Somnolent – Wooden Wombs 06:17
  7. DulT – BlackNature [Dusk] 01:42
  8. Viginti Tres Sæcula – Karthago-Cefalù 05:00
  9. MVNIHVD – Language of Wounds 06:57
  10. United Gods – At the Outer Rim of Xiazhoung 03:13
  11. Salem:1976 – Hymn of the Bog Hag 06:21
  12. Audiothrillseeker – Riding Cygnus 04:54
  13. Dave Migman – The Magnificent Accord 03:54

 

Magick, Music and Ritual 10, the one and only album release for 2014 from the Anthology Project, is being released around Autumnal Equinox, Sun in Libra, 2014, with 26 tracks and over 2 hours of music by 21 artists, new and returning voices, and some tracks exclusive to the Hermetic Library and this anthology.

The artwork for this issue was created by Terra Bosart and is an interpretation of Atu 0, the Fool, in Tarot. One way of counting years is to use a cycle of Tarot cards. The current year count is Anno V 0 which can be represented by, and thus can be seen as having correspondence to, a combination of both Atu V, the Hierophant, and Atu 0, the Fool.

In addition to the cover, for the first time, this anthology release includes two bonus images. The first is an illustration that accompanies the OrosKhaos track “The Great Descent”. The second image is a visual word play on “Magick Music Ritual” by Craig Conley, who appears on this release as part of the group Esperantoland. These bonus images are part of the download and are intended to offer an additional surface on which to reflect the feelings and thoughts developed by listening and deepened in relationship to this playlist.

The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com has an overall vision of Archiving, Engaging and Encouraging the living Western Esoteric Tradition, Hermeticism, and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. I started the benefit anthology project to help promote newer works in the Western Esoteric Tradition to the audience of the Hermetic Library and beyond. The anthology project also further raises awareness about the corpus and culture of magick and ritual.

I encourage you to check out the Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com, if you aren’t already familiar with it, as that’s the reason this project exists and may also offer inspiration to you. The site was started in 1996 and has ever since consistently been an extremely popular resource for students and researchers interested in the Western Esoteric Tradition.

Please join the Hermetic Library in promoting these artists who have contributed their work to this benefit anthology album project. Please also spread the word about these anthology albums to people you think may be interested in the work of artists who combine magick, music and ritual.

Hermetic Library
Hermetic Library Anthology Project

Production by John Griogair Bell
Cover artwork by Terra Bosart

All songs used with permission. All rights reserved.

The Heart of Every Avalanche

“The Heart of Every Avalanche” is a collaboration with Dave Migman added by Audiothrillseeker in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

The Heart Of Every Avalanche

This
to me that was whispered
with cacaphonic brevity
like the heart of an avalanche
that scored me in three
What was it? for it did not
remain
it passed through my hollow bones
dripped like wax
from thought
to poisoned thought

this unreason
this mirage
this illusion
the serpent
wore a mask of you

in a golden moment poised
a glance
now stolen
from
my
memory

I will weave you some kind of spell
flare into your righteous
annihilation face
your pain
will endure

I am going
I am nearly
gone

I am learning
to unlearn
the ball of thoughts
unwind
unwoven
each simple thread
yearns to become
complex structures

gone
nearly
gone now

a part destination
an incomplete plan
wreck-a-nowhere

I am drawing it deep
your face
is fading
still, burning

so, from now on
there will be only
a series of lovers
whose hearts join
in temporal unison
sing our gasping songs
through nights of discovery

And so, as she returned
to my bed
and in that tender spoon
her kisses came
and I knew
there would be others
for both
and though we might part
to converge again
some point,
down the line

These Are Not Tears

“These Are Not Tears” is a collaboration with Dave Migman added by Audiothrillseeker in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

Spoken word by Dave Migman.

“our dissolution runs in rivulets
down our cheeks begging
forgiveness from the hollows
of our misinterpreted lives

in our solvency, inadequacy

the pieces dissolving, the jigsaw
is a kaleidoscopic craze
in which we seek fresh patterns

to imbibe meaning into each strata

as we struggle onwards
sometimes laughing, sometimes crying
but always now apart
longing the halycon fantasy
that marks the narrative of
our passing

you are a stingray spike through a tongue
you are turquoise embedded in flesh
an old man gasping for air
on a Mediterranean night.
Everything you touch ignites or dies.

there was no diversion from the sound
they were diametrically exposed to each other
he sat, immobilised, as the cello
drew powder from his bones
and the chanter rang the chambers
of his heart like a sonorous bell

can’t say I want the stress of your
disaster freaking up the warp of my weft
the April sun is drying out the shingle
the plane arrows the apricot dusk
I have several blessings to count
Several to curse, several to discount
Another beer to fudge the balmy
cunt and feed the bastard night alive
again to curse, to drop, to fall

Do they laugh at our freakish dance?
Surely we are casting doubts upon
The paradigms of their contrivance
For it is their ‘shit’ not ours, and
Though I do not doubt our insanity
I also consider theirs more virulent!

Ours is that of imbeciles drunk on
The scant passion of moments past
Clinging to our obsession with the
Temerity of limpets – the bastion
Of faith and faithless, dreams
Or emptiness, the sun hollers
Through the pink, some one is drowning
In the silence of the ocean”

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.

Godless

“Godless” is a track added by Audiothrillseeker in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.

Bad Dreams

“Bad Dreams” is a track added by Audiothrillseeker in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

“Another waking REM period outpouring. This was a bad dream I had sleeping under a piano.”

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.

Sleep

“Sleep” is a track added by Audiothrillseeker in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

“Dreamy landscape. The result of many long waking REM periods in the early hours of the morning at the old Albert Studios. Pouring subconscious improvised smatterings from my mind onto tape and messing with it. Oliver Spencer provides the voice in a repetitious, hypnotic fashion.”

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.

Do We Need Someone

“Do We Need Someone” is a track added by Audiothrillseeker in the Hermetic Library audio pool.

 

The Hermetic Library audio pool is a participatory place for sharing sounds and music of a living Western Esoteric Tradition. Music and performance can be a form of ritual and magick. Works and artists have long been inspired by the ideas of Western Esotericism and Mysticism. This group is to help create a space for sharing, music and other audio, and connecting with artists who feel drawn to these topics and ideas, or, especially, incorporate and manifest ritual and magick in their works. If you would like to submit your work for consideration as part of the audio pool, head over to the Hermetic Library audio pool or contact the librarian.