Male Nude, Leg Up (1952) by Horst. From a series of photo prints at Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art until 5th November.
• At Bandcamp: “Tuareg guitar mixed with traditional rural folk”: Eghass Malan by Les Filles de Illighadad; “Pan dimensional spacecraft hover over ancient pyramids on worlds undreamed of”: Lemurian Dawn by Memnon Sa.
• Songs of Discomposure: Quietus writers pick their most disturbing pieces of music. Also at The Quietus: John Foxx on his collaborations with Harold Budd and Ruben Garcia.
• Eros In Arabia, the first album by Richard Horowitz, has been deleted since 1981, and is consequently very difficult to find. Freedom To Spend are reissuing it next month.
• JG Ballard—The Interview Concordance. A companion to the concordance of Ballard’s published works. Some of the interviews may be found here.
• At Dangerous Minds: The Male Figure: Bruce of Los Angeles and the perfection of midcentury beefcake.
• Mixes of the week: XLR8R Podcast 508 by Jennifer Cardini, and Secret Thirteen Mix 231 by Alex XIII.
• Post Punk: a set of postage stamp designs by Dorothy for punk and post-punk bands.
• At Spoon & Tamago: Kanban: The exquisite art of historic Japanese store signs.
• At Greydogtales: Photography of the Folk Horror Revival.
• The Secret Life Of Arabia (1977) by David Bowie | Arabian Knights (1981) by Siouxsie And The Banshees | Arabiant (2002) by Radar
The Les Filles de Illighadad sounds fantastic.
The most disturbing piece of music I’ve heard is Giacinto Scelsi’s five movement piece Uaxuctum. (Subtitled, “The legend of the Maya city, destroyed by themselves for religious reasons”) Truly the soundtrack for doomsday. Like the guy had looked so long into the darkness he saw what’s really there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0gyV4F-VKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNADyxldB6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9MrHxnicxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJaE4OJsXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Ivi7XNl5U
Oh yeah, I’ve heard a few of Scelsi’s compositions. I included the wonderfully-titled Uaxuctum in this list of recommended listening for Halloween:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2011/10/31/a-playlist-for-halloween-orchestral-and-electro-acoustic/
I suppose I ought to try making a mix of that collection although it would be very long and a tough thing to listen to all the way through.