Last week, Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford of The Baptist’s Head and Open Enlightenment were kind enough to answer several questions I put to them.  I have edited the questions for the sake of brevity and to make myself look less a twit.  Initially only Duncan was had agreed to participate in the interview, leading to a change in tone of my questions.

Duncan and Alan both demonstrate a lot of growth in their thought, and I believe many points I touch on rely on legacy material. I hope you enjoy.

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My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding was so last week. This week we’re all about Tales of the New Isis Lodge.

English Heretic, the producers of this fascinating new musical, describe themselves as England’s “very finest occult archaeologists, astral geographers and mystical toponymists”. They aim to “help people decode and realise the alchemical ciphers and conspiratorial interplay of the buildings and landscapes around them”.

Somehow this translates into making a 65 minute musical of “lush and occult exotica issuing from a transplutonic transmitter”.

The English Heretic blog, maintained by “Dr Champagne”, describes the musical as

Drawing its structure from the ultra decadent and ornate rituals described in Grant’s book Hecate’s Fountain English Heretic guide you through Egyptian pre-history to the fungi of Yuggoth, re-imagine flower power in an Indian Tantric idiom, describe the workings of Chinese sorcerers, realise the neither-neither hidden within the jump rhythms of Count Basie and invoke Choronzon in the Crimson Desert. Aeons in its reification and packaged in delicious artwork, stylised as a homage to Grant’s Typhonian tomes.

Wow!

The CD is £8 and can be purchased from their online shop. James of Mauve Zone Recordings is already a fan.

Spotted on LAShTAL.com, and further encouraged by Nova at The Third Mind.

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