Veldig eldritch

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Leader: sultanofbrunei
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Created on: 4 Oct 2009
Description:
Veldig Eldritch is a group that exists at the nexus of western esotericism, nature, mathematics, language, memory, the occult and Europe's pagan past.

Inspiration:

Music and sound:
library music
"Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age"
"The Wicker Man" soundtrack
early Boards of Canada short "interlude" tracks
Fever Ray
Moon Wiring Club's "Unknown Monarch"
The Ghost Box label (Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Belbury Poly, The Advisory Circle, Eric Zann, etc...)
Sharron Kraus's "Bacca Pipes" and similar folk
Comus
Eno
Buddha machines
BBC Radiophonic anything
Trunk Records
Zdenek Liska

Books and authors:
Electric Eden
Man, Myth & Magic
"Always A Welcome" - David Lawrence
The Enchanted World Series
"Dreams in the Witch House" - HP Lovecraft
The Voynich Manuscript
Grimoires
Umberto Eco
medieval travelogues
Borges
"The Mysteries of Harris Burdick"
The Wire (magazine)

Art and artists:
alchemical imagery
Kathleen Lolley
Michael Sowa
Terry Gilliam
The Brothers Quay
Jan Svankmajer

Disciplines:
Western esotericism (magic, mysticism, witchery)
Hauntology
Philology
Mathematics (number theory, geometry)
Semiotics

Buildings and locations:
Forests
Groves
Lofoten Islands
Bogs
Old dark pubs, preferably in basements or down an alley
All things demapped
Abandoned railroads
Old maritime architecture
Large abandoned buildings
Isolated islands in the very north Atlantic or in the very south Atlantic
Hog Island and other abandoned islands

Time & events:
The Children's Crusade of 1212
Fog
Dawn
Twilight
Late-Victorian seances
Edwardian spiritualism
Storms and droughts revealing long lost structures

People, flora and demigods:
Mermen
Familiars
Pan
The Green Man
Mushrooms
Sea serpents (Kraken)
Prester John

Things:
Fireplaces
Pylons
Creaky wooden floors
The bone of Luz
Unused letters (ash, thorn, wynn, eth)
Disappearing lakes
Sleeping Buddha statues
Mandrakes
The asparagus fleet
Ghost ships and shipwrecks
Things submerged by a reservoir
Hollow mottes
Old piers and wharfs

Movies and TV:
"The Stone Tape"
"The Woman In Black"
"The Innocents"
"Don't Look Now"
"Quatermass and the Pit"
"The Prisoner"
"Curse of the Crimson Altar"
"Ghostwatch"
"Warning to the Curious"

Blogs:
Found0bjects
The Belbury Parish Magazine
Cafe Kaput
Futility Closet


***Please feel free to suggest additional sources of inspiration***

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  • tessemily

    Dude. http://www.last.fm/music/Coven?ac=coven

    December 2011

  • ichocky

    the test card itself & the music that accompanied it

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    G I Gurdjeiff , Katherine Mansfield, P D Ouspensky , "To the Lighthouse" Virginia Woolf, C A Dawson Scott " The Haunting", Mary Butts,

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    "The Occult" & "Mysteries" by Colin Wilson

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    TC Lethbridge and by extension, pendulums (not the shit band !)

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    spate of 'sea -monster' sightings in cornwall 1976 + ?

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    doc sheils ?

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    Armada Ghost Book series (1970's)

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    black moth super rainbow ?

    July 2011

  • ichocky

    Wire Music - Alan lamb, anyone ?

    July 2011

  • Pinguinne

    Salem! (?)

    June 2011

  • sultanofbrunei

    oh yeah, good stuff!

    February 2010

  • thin_soup

    .....tidal crossings.....palimpsests......"Protect and Survive"......water towers......tundra/moorland......comedia dell'arte......St. Kilda.......Colleen's "Everyone Alive Wants Answers".........early sound recordings........ancient waymarkers.......the Cathars.......witch bottles........Pearls Before Swine's "Balaklava"........dead languages........ Nice group!

    February 2010

  • sultanofbrunei

    Broadcast and The Focus Group's "Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age" is The Wire's album of the year!

    January 2010

  • sultanofbrunei

    Welcome shu_shu! I'm hoping the group grows.

    December 2009

  • shu_shu

    Hey this is a fairly new group! such a great find! ~ The weekly top artists are very much appreciated :)

    December 2009

  • PaintedSound

    I should also mention that Tobacco's album "Fucked Up Friends" takes this vibe and applies it to the American 70's childhood. It's an album full of dirt, hair, gum, and snow imagery, and such things. It's got a great eerie electronic vibe, but it's also pretty catchy. His band, Black Moth Super Rainbow, is similar, but takes the weird vibe and makes it more about psychedelics.

    October 2009

  • sultanofbrunei

    Awesome! It's good to find like-minded people who appreciate similar weird music.

    October 2009

  • PaintedSound

    By the way, I'm an undergrad film student and I've been working on a series of semi-hauntological films lately. I'm on my second one right now. The first one is an absurdist found-footage mockumentary in the style of old 60's educational films. Once I'm finished with the whole project it'll have its own website. For now though, if you're interested, you can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAW9nzQGt8&feature=channel_page

    October 2009

  • PaintedSound

    Thanks for the invite! Your group description did an excellent job of summing up a style of music that I've always gravitated to, from various starting points. My prog rock tastes led me to Comus, my film tastes led me to The Brothers Quay (and Jan Svankmajer), my weird 80's music tastes led me to Eno (and by the way, "Ambient IV: On Land" and "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" definitely are his most hauntological records), and my love of weirdo electronic music brought me to Boards of Canada, White Noise, and Ghost Box. Great stuff, and it's great to see it brought together! I assume you've read K-Punk's blog posts about hauntology? He has some great writings on Nigel Kneale's films, the show Sapphire and Steel (very worth watching for the hauntological value if nothing else), Ghost Box, and Mordant Music. His blog is at http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/ Man, great stuff! I love the creepy, mysterious feeling stuff like this invokes.

    October 2009
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