Hauntology

Library of the Occult shirts:

https://everpress.com/library-of-the-occult-logo-t

Macabre Church Lore online event, October 22, 2020:

 https://m.facebook.com/events/1241963066142561/

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My name is Bob Fischer, and my 1970s childhood was imbued with an odd sense of melancholy and a vague, unsettling disquiet. And oddly, I’m really rather happy about this. For decades, I vainly attempted to describe, evoke and recapture these feelings… until I realised that a generation of musicians, artists and writers were already – rather conveniently – doing the job for me. If you’re reading this, then it’s likely you’re familiar with the world of “hauntology” – of Ghost Box Records and Scarfolk Council and Boards of Canada – but if not, then that’s fine. I’d be delighted for this blog to act as a gentle introduction.

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The Haunted Generation (Bob Fischer)

Hauntologist Podcast Episode 6: featuring Polypores

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1038619/5672197?fbclid=IwAR2o8aePg0nGRiyPBztOegsGotKvZtlPcAIXHU75cPtyOxX8qLo37lIV_UI

required reading for the armchair hauntologist

Haven't seen this mentioned here, it's already a year old - from Richard Littler of Scarfolk fame.

The soundtrack was just released on Castles in Space.

https://satincare.bandcamp.com/album/love-beneath-the-surface

https://nyx-edc.bandcamp.com/album/deep-england

https://greyfrequency.bandcamp.com/album/paranormal

https://the-line-up.com/fake-horror-movie-scores?sid=060ac9da8ba496dacb40adeb2faba301&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The Lineup: Weekly Monday Newsletter 2021-04-12&utm_term=The Lineup - Content

picked up some  1974 mufon ufo journals today from jack jenkin's bro

Most of these are pants, but there are enough intriguing ones to dive into

https://www.ubu.com/sound/occult.html

Having a catch-up with this thread, it's interesting how there's quite a split between the roots of hauntology in popular culture and the way it seems to have headed. I recall a lot more stuff about public information films, '70s sci-fi, post-war brutalism, early analogue synths back in t'day, whereas there's much more emphasis on folklore, paganism and such these days.

I've always enjoyed stuff with a spooky atmosphere, but generally prefer the end of things which fall into the uncanny, rather than outright witchcraft, rituals and such. I used to write these little first-person stories about wandering around places I don't know and witnessing subtle but inexplicable weirdness, which influenced some of my early albums. The one I was happiest with was stumbling across a concrete industrial-looking complex - '60s brutalist style - in the middle of a moor, and only finding one door in the whole place, which I enter, to find an empty room. Even though I'm only in the room for a minute, when I leave, an entire day has passed. I wander around and am unable to find the door again. 

I quite fancy revisiting that kind of atmosphere in my music again.

Also:

television play by nigel kneale for itv's against the crowd dealing the subject of pestilence affecting cattle & sheep (also known as the 5th plague and later referred to in gustove dore's la grande bible de tours) from a local witch.

  On 5/16/2021 at 7:27 PM, Nebraska said:

 

 

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lol

  On 5/21/2021 at 12:55 AM, purlieu said:

lol

The water is waiting