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My Father’s Story

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Daniel

Reblogged from Hugh Fox III: Introduction Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders of the Pushcart Prize for literature. He has been published in … Continue reading →

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Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Daniel

Thank heavens they’re back! After a 16 year hiatus Dead Can Dance reformed to put out a new album called Anastasis, which although does not quite reach the heights of Spleen and Ideal, The Serpent’s Egg, or Aion, is still … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Reviews, Uncategorized | Tagged 4AD, Aion, Alchymical Muse, All My Faith Lost, Amber Asylum, ambient, Anastasis, Anathema, Angels of Venice, Arabic, Arborea, Arcana, Artesia, Ashram, Ataraxia, Autumn Tears, Autumn’s Grey Solace, Aythis, Azam Ali, Bacio di Tosca, bagpipe, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blur, Brendan Perry, Breton, Brian Eno, British Folk, Bulgaria, Bulgarian, Byzantine, Camerata Mediovalo, Carter Tutti, Celtic, Chandeen, Chaostar, Chris & Cosey, cittern, Cocteau Twins, Collection d’Arnell Andrea, Corde Oblique, Cornish, Corvus Corax, Cye Wood, Daargard, Damon Albarn, Daniel Staniforth, Dead Can Dance, Delayaman, Diary of Dreams, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas, Dracula, Dunkelschön, Elend, English, Ensemble Orphique, Estampie, Fable, Faun, Finnish, flute, folk, French Provençal, Gaelic, Galician-Portuguese, German, German Folk, Gladiator, Gorillaz, Goth, Gothic, Gregorian Chant, Halgalz’ Runedance, harp, Hedningarna, Hindi, hurdy gurdy, In the Nursery, Indian, Irfan, John Renbourn, Judeo-Spanish, Karda Estra, Klaus Schultz, Latin, Lisa Gerrard, Love is Colder than Death, Love Spirals Downwards, Loveliescrushing, Luna Trick, Madrigals, Manx, Marcello de Francisci, mediaeval, Mediaeval Baebes, Mediavolo, Medieval, Mediterranean, Mirablis, Miranda Sex Garden, Mors Syphilitica, music, Myth, Narsilion, Negradonna, neo-celtic, Neoclassical Darkwave, Neoclassicism, Niyaz, Noise, North Africa, Nox Arcana, Omnia, Ophelia’s Dream, Orchestral, Ordo Funebris, Otto Dix, pagan, Patrick Cassidy, Pentangle, Persephone, Persia, Persian, Peter Ulrich, Pieter Bourke, Plainsong, Poeta Magica, Projekt Records, Qntal, Ranja, Rebsie Fairholm, Renaissance, Schandmaul, Sephardic, Sieben, Soap&Skin, Sopor Aeternus, Spleen and ideal, Stellamara, Stille Volk, sToa, Symphonic, Tehni, the Balkans, the Caucasus, The Frozen Autumn, The Moon and the Nightspirit, The Serpent's Egg, This Ascension, This Mortal Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Tinkerscuss, Trance to the Sun, Triskillian, Trobar de Morte, Ulver, Unto Ashes, Valravn, Vas, Victorian Gothic, Welsh. Circulus, Whalerider, Within the realm of a dying sun | 2 Comments

Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Daniel

In times past the knowledge and use of magical images was once a closely guarded secret stowed in the minds and vaults of initiates and adepts in the Mystery Schools. But now celebrated esoteric scholar and practitioner, Gareth Knight, offers … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, New books, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Astral Plane, Cabbala, Channeling, Channelling, Coleridge, esoteric, Gareth Knight, Imagination, Kabbalah, Magic, meditation, Mysteries, Mystery Schools, Occult, Pathworking, qabala, Skylight Press, Sun Chalice Books, Symbolism, tarot, Trancework, Tree of Life, Visualization, Western Mysteries, Western Mystery Tradition | Leave a comment

MAGICAL SITES OF THE COTSWOLDS – A Calendar by Rebsie Fairholm

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Daniel

Need the perfect Christmas present for your friends and family? Here is a beautiful 2013 calendar presenting the wonderful photographs of Skylight Press book designer and author, Rebsie Fairholm, featuring favourite magical sites from around her beloved Cotswolds. Rebsie is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Esoteric, Essays, New authors, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged 2013 Calendar, Art, Calendars, Cheltenham, Cheltonia, Christmas Presents, Cotswolds, Daughter of the Soil, English countryside, English Culture, English history, esoteric, Gardening, Gloucestershire, Great Britain, Heritage, Magic, Magical, Magical sites, Nature, Photographs, photography, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Sacred Earth, sacred geometry, Sacred Sites, Skylight Press, Sulis Manouevre | Leave a comment

Take a Wee Tour of Scotland with author, Steve Blamires

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Daniel

Steve Blamires has published two books with Skylight Press, including the recent Chronicles of the Sidhe about the enigmatic Scottish writer, Fiona Macleod. Steve is originally from the Isle of Arran in the west of Scotland where the Gaelic and … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Celtic, Cruise, expedition cruise ship, Gaelic, glen tarsan, Hebrides, Inner Hebrides, international travel industry, Isle of Arran, Isle of Iona, Isle of Mull, Isle of Staffa, National Geographic, Scotland, Scottish history, Scottish Literature, Steve Blamires, Tourism, travel, Treshnish Isles, Wee Tour Company | Leave a comment

Skylight Booksignings!

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Daniel

Today’s booksigning at Waterstones Gloucester went well with ChrisHill signing copies of his recent novel, Song of the Sea God. Skylight’s one and only Rebsie Fairholm sat with him for the event, which was touted a success. Skylight booksignings have happened all … Continue reading →

Posted in Australian Literature, British Literature, Literature, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged authors, books., booksignings, Chris Hill, Garry Craig Powell, Kirk Marshall, new books., Novels, Peregrin Wildoak, Rebsie Fairholm, Skylight Press | Leave a comment

A Review of Dr. Dee: An English Opera

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Daniel

I have always been fascinated by the Welsh mathematician, scientist, astrologer, occultist, astronomer, navigator, and angelologist – Dr. John Dee – and finally got around to listening to Dr. Dee: An English Opera by former Blur, Gorillaz, The Good the … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Music, Reviews | Tagged Alan Moore, Album review, Angels, Astrology, Astronomy, Blur, British History, Damon Albarn, dr john dee, Dr. Dee, Elizabethan, English history, English Opera, folk, Gorillaz, hermeticism, John Dee, Magic, Magus, Manchester, Manchester International Festival, Occult, Opera, Palace Theatre, period music, Psyche Folk, Renaissance, Shakespeare, Virgin Records | Leave a comment

A Skylit Gallery

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Daniel

Skylight Press has been truly blessed in many ways in its first two years of existence and one of the more marvellous developments, completely unforeseen and unplanned, is that many of its authors and compilers just also happen to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged abstract expressionist painter, Architecture, Art, Art Galleries, arts, artwork, Basil King, Black Mountain College, Book Art, Book covers, Charcoal, collage, Dee Sunshine, Drawing, drawings, esoteric, Etchings, Exhibitions, expressionism, fiction, Gloucestershire, Gouache, Green Man, Illlustrations, illustration, Infrared photography, Landscape, Margaret Randall, Matt Baldwin-Ives, Mikki Nylund, MilesCross, New York, New York Art scene, Nicaragua, Novelist, Occult, Oil Painting, Painting, Pastel painting, Photographs, photography, Photomontage, poetry, Rebsie Fairholm, Rikki Ducornet, Ruins, Sacred Sites, Scandinavia, Scandinavian art, Skylight Press, Social Activism, Stone Carvings, Surrealism, visionary poet, Watercolour painting, Will Alexander | 2 Comments

Faery Loves & Faery Lais: A Collection of Breton Lais as told by Gareth Knight

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Daniel

“The Breton lai is a relatively short narrative poem, usually accompanied by music, that appeared in France some time about the middle of the 12th century, spread by travelling musicians and story tellers called ‘jongleurs.’ What we find important about … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Literature, Music, New books, Poetry, Recommended reads | Tagged Arthurian legend, breton lai, Breton lais, Brittany, Celtic, Celtic revival, Celtic twilight, chrétien de troyes, Cornwall, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ella Young, English history, esoteric, faery, Faery Lore, fairytale, Fantasy, Fiona Macleod, Folktale, French History, Gareth Knight, George Russell, Henry II, Ireland, jongleurs, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Literature, Marie de France, mediaeval history, mediaeval literature medieval literature, Middle French, Myth, mythology, Pierre Gallais, R.J. Stewart, short narrative poem, W.B. Yeats, Wales, Wendy Berg | Leave a comment

How Much is My Strad Worth?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Daniel

Back in the days when I worked in a luthier’s shop selling and restoring violin family instruments there was an oft occurrence. About once or twice a week someone would come into the shop positively beaming and bearing and old … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Music, Recommended reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Amati, antonio Stradivari, cello, Cremona, cremonese violin, Giegenmacher, Guarneri, Guarneri del Gesu, instruments, italian violin, jacqueline du pre, luthery, luthier, Mantua, Mittenwald, Mstislav Rostropovic, music, Nicolo Amati, Strad, Stradivarius, stradivarius violin, stringed instruments, strings, Venice, violin, violin case, violin family instruments, violin maker, Yo Yo Ma | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Uncategorized

My Father’s Story

Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight

MAGICAL SITES OF THE COTSWOLDS – A Calendar by Rebsie Fairholm

Take a Wee Tour of Scotland with author, Steve Blamires

Skylight Booksignings!

A Review of Dr. Dee: An English Opera

Faery Loves & Faery Lais: A Collection of Breton Lais as told by Gareth Knight

How Much is My Strad Worth?

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