Update: Madrid le Blanc

A write up of the festival has been finished. Please head over to my personal blog to view it (meanvegan.blogspot.com). I also may be posting it to Heathen Harvest, if they allow me to do that.

All of the video footage is captured with the exception of one problematic hour captured to a CF card. That will soon be resolved, I hope. Over 150gigs of hard drive is now dedicated to the festival.

Pesanta

With the coming of Madrid le Blanc on the horizon, I've news of a new division of The ƒ Consortium - Pesanta.
I will be releasing all media under the label of Pesanta, including DVDs, CDs, and vinyl records. There are a few tentative releases of really great live recordings, all of which will be limited to under 300. The Bain Wolfkind DVD, as well as the Madrid Le Blanc DVD/CD with both be available in larger circulation, as well as a small and extravagant limited run.
Website should be online, with news of these possible releases by the end of the month.

Updates

As mentioned on Bain Wolfkind's myspace blog(here) I shall be editing additional footage onto the upcoming dvd release, featuring live footage and intimate (.... maybe not the best word to use) interview footage and a photo slideshow. There were brief talks with Albin Julius of releasing it through HauRuck!, however the dvd needs to find itself in finished form before anything further can be worked out.

I hope to have news of a release date within the next two months.


Other news - Due to a very frustrating manufacture error, 3 out of 5 sets of my new years eve footage from Leipzig were rendered basically unusable. In conclusion - DO NOT BUY ZOOM AUDIO RECORDERS.

Madrid in may I hope. Die Weisse Rose, Andrew King, Foresta Di Ferro, KnifeLadder, Allerseelen, Svarrogh and other awesome acts (understatement). I'm really hoping everything works out for that, for it's going to be a satanically weekend!

If Madrid doesn't work out - or even if it does and I can get my planning spot on - I'll be headed to Seattle for a Waldteufel and A Minority of One show at the Northwest Folklife Festival.

A Leipzig New Year's in Pictures.

Not very many photos for how long the evening was, however most of the night was spent shooting video. And when I say most of the night I mean nearly 6 tapes. That's quite a bit for one evening in my book. Images of Die Weisse Rose, Nebelung, ROME, Camerata Mediolanense, and Allerseelen.
Enjoy!

Travel Plans

August 1st I will be in Portland, OR., tentatively interviewing B'eirth of In Gowan Ring and Birch Book. The evening of the 1st I will be shooting video and photographing his show at the Someday Lounge.

August 3rd I will be in the Trinity Alps area interviewing Malakhi Thorn, creator of Heathen Harvest about the inspiration behind the webzine and his involvement and thoughts of the post-industrial culture.

Both of the interviews and the live footage/stills will be posted on my site, as well as featured on Heathen Harvest. The footage is also being compiled for a neofolk documentary I currently have in the works.