Monthly Archives: January 2013

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

Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Daniel

…a brave man would invent something that never happened! Joyce In both Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist and the prototype of the latter – Stephen Hero – Joyce is concerned with the presenting of ‘truth’. Not only is … Continue reading →

Posted in British Literature, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature, Recommended reads | Tagged Aristotle, books., British Literature, British Novel, Charles Tart, Dublin, Dubliners, Edwardian History, experimental literature, F.H. Bradley, fiction, Fred Alan Wolf, Gordon Strong, Greek Drama, Irish history, Irish literature, James Joyce, Literature, Michael Davis, Mikhail Bakhtin, Modernism, Myth, mythology, novel, philosophy, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Richard Kearney, Stephen Hero, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Ulysses, Victorian History, Werner Heisenberg | 1 Comment

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

Monthly Archives: January 2013

Dead Can Dance and the Neoclassical Darkwave Legacy

Guest Blog by Gordon Strong: James Joyce – Myth as Narrative

Magical Images and the Magical Imagination by Gareth Knight

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