HoodooEngine Announce $5 Pre-Orders

Johan unleashing DIY FURY

The album is chock full of tongue-in-cheek occult and conspiracy missives served up as part of an all out auditory assault. 

You can preorder for $5 on Bandcamp. That means 8 pre-masters now, and the whole 13 track album when it comes out. All for five bucks. Kick ass!

It's going into mastering now at Bob Idakaar's studio -- tubes should lend some nice warmth. We're hoping for a final release in September, though it might be slightly after. After working on this project for years, there's no sense in rushing the final stage.

Check out this interview for Dark Entries if you're new to the HoodooEngine style of insanity, and want to know a bit about the project. Or this podcast interview on solipsisticNATION along with Karsh Kale, Tim Skold (Manson, KMFDM), and Ogre (Skinny Puppy, Ohgr.) 

solipsistic NATION: Tim Skold Ogre and Hoodoo Engine

From Solipsistic Nation:

In the last couple of weeks I learned that Karsh Kale, Tim Sköld, Nivek Ogre and HoodooEngine had released or were about to release new albums. I dig them all so I do what I do sent out the emails and made the phone calls. There were other musicians, labels and festivals I wanted to feature on the show as well but they didn’t happen due to availability and time constraints and before I knew it, this week’s show had been distilled into a gem of greatness.
I discovered Karsh Kale right about the same time I discovered the Asian Massive (or Asian Underground) scene. Over the years I watched the careers of Karsh Kale, Asian Dub Foundation and others grow over the years and it’s a wonder that I haven’t had someone like Karsh on the show earlier. Karsh has released six albums and recorded and performed with everyone from Zakir Hussain to Yoko Ono. Karsh’s latest album,Cinema, is his most ambitious album to date. It’s big, bold and melodramatic, and Karsh’s experience scoring films has had an impact on the scope of Cinema.
Tim Sköld was another surprise! Before I knew it, one night after work I found myself in front of a microphone talking to Tim about his long career, from his rock roots in bands like Kingpin and Shotgun Messiah and then later playing with the likes of KMFDM and Marilyn Manson. Tim also released a solo album back in 1996 and 15 years later he’s followed it up with Anomie, due out May 10th. Tim was great to talk with and I found that he’s as much an agent provocateur in person as he is in his music. I also had some great questions to ask him from folks like Jeremy and Royb0t from Twitter and Facebook.
Ogre’s is set to release a second album with ohGr called unDeveloped that also due to be released May 10th. Ogre and Skinny Puppy have scored the post apocalyptic soundtrack to our lives for nearly 30 years. While Skinny Puppy was my introduction into industrial music, there’s industrial music and then there’s Skinny Puppy. They’re in their own category and to call them industrial is kind of limiting. I was curious to see what directions Ogre would explore through ohGr and to be honest, I didn’t like unDeveloped at first. As Ogre mentions during our chat, people rarely give music full attention because they’re usually multitasking while they’re listening to music. I was doing the same thing with unDeveloped but one night while I was going out for a run I listened to unDeveloped and without being aware of it I found myself lost in the album and now I think it’s one of my favorite album of 2011.
Once I finally realized that Tim and Ogre were going to be guests on this week’s show I knew I had to include Hoodoo Engine. I’ve wanted to play tracks from their EgoWhore album since it was released in 2010 but it was just one of those scheduling things. Hoodoo Engine would be perfect for today’s show and to top it off, they’re gearing up to release their new album, Murder the World, and it’s more wretched and evil than EgoWhore, if such a thing is even possible. The core of Hoodoo Engine is Marz233, James Curcio and Johann Ess. Just to be above board, both James and I are on the Alterati Network, but I’ve known James long before Alterati when I interviewed him about his book, Join My Cult. While you anxiously wait for the release of Murder the World you can watch Clark, a gonzo mockumentary reality show art film surrounding the struggles of an independent artist in a capitalist world. 

Hoodoo Engine Primary Members
(Not pictured: Iron Will, Scott Landes, & The Illuminist)

Oh, special thanks to tricil for providing the incidental music during my interviews with Tim and Hoodoo Engine. While I was putting together today’s show I realized that I didn’t have any instrumental music from either of them and went on Twitter and asked if anyone had some tracks I could use for music beds. tricil stepped responded in minutes and generously let me use his tracks “rcc3″ and “conserve destroy.” There are links to download those two tracks below.

Listen to the Interview now!

(Direct download) 

Pre-order a copy of The Immanence of Myth, published by Weaponized in July 2011. (Or sign up to be notified of its release on Amazon.com)

Modern Myths Interview with James Curcio on Occult Sentinel

This is a live interview that ran about a month ago on Occult Sentinel, which I realized I didn't pass along here, as I was so focused on working on Clark at the time. (Play through that link or download directly here.) 
In it we talk about The Immanence of Myth, the Gonzomentary Clark, the novel Fallen Nation: Party At The World's End, and HoodooEngine's first album Egowhore. I feel that, my stammering aside, it was a pretty good coverage of that moment in time in terms of what I was working on and kind of usual "work load" I'm trying to get out the door at any given time. 
I hope you enjoy, if you haven't listened already. I also hope to see as many of the contributors here on the site engaged in so many projects so we can get that stuff up here and out to all of you, and I hope you support it. I recently added Rudy Rauben's Medicine Show to the store here on the site, and expect to see many more projects come together over this year.
However: I see the traffic growing and all but the only thing that is going to keep this kind of work going long, bottom line, is your financial support. Please don't forget this. 
A few little updates on those projects: 

• The Immanence of Myth is getting ready to be proofed and should be on track to be released as hardcopy and ebook by Weaponized in July. Pre-orders are already available. Pick one up. 
• I am shopping Fallen Nation: Party At The World's End to a number of publishers. I plan on recording an audiobook and have plans for it to become a full transmedia series, but part of that involves partnering with a publisher with the pull and assets to help make that a reality. A version of the book is available right now through Lulu, which I plan to pull when a publisher locks in a 'real' deal with me. I've done this because I know finding the right publisher could take years and I'd like to have the book available to you in the meantime. 
• Clark is in partial hiatus, as we slowly work on our interview pieces and some B roll material to cut together a film-length version. There have been technical difficulties keeping me from properly post-producing and mastering the sound. Don't get me started. But we'll figure it out. Meantime, enjoy the show! We almost literally killed ourselves for your enjoyment. 
• HoodooEngine has finally gotten to the point where we are full out mixing many of the tracks for our second album. It is, as I said, heavier, more progressive, and darker in many ways than the first. Johan Ess is taking the helm with the mixing now, as we've been having some hardware issues with our other setups and he did such a banging job with mastering EgoWhore. I'm sure I'll be pestering him throughout the post- process, however.

Pre-order a copy of The Immanence of Myth, published by Weaponized in July 2011.

Counterculture Consumer-mas Books and Music

All you read and 
Wear or see and 

Hear on TV 

Is a product 

Waiting for your 

Fairly dirty Dollar. 

So shut up and 

Buy, Buy, Buy, 

My new record. 

Buy, Buy, Buy, 

Send more money. 

Full disclosure: Despite appearances, I often feel awkward about self promotion. I hate being sold to, and to a certain extent, I hate selling, though I obviously believe in my work enough to spend countless hours working on it, and I furthermore belive that-- when matched with the right people at the right time-- the work is valuable. In interviews I can talk ceaselessly about the creative process but ask me for a pitch and I'll likely clam up and crack an inappropriate joke. It's not that I don't believe deeply in the collaborations and solo work I'm doing at any given point, even if there is always room for improvement as well...it's just that I cling to that myth that the work should speak for itself, and no one likes feeling like a damn used car salesman.

But in light of the Holidaze and all, I'm going to swallow that absurd misgiving for a moment and suggest that you pick up an unusual Christmas Consumer-mas present for someone special. Bonus: You can get that extra glow for helping support a dilettante independent artist, and for being an "early adopter."

Fallen Nation: Party At The World's End [Early release edition. $14.95 228 pg. book. $2.99 eBook.]

A psychedelic joyride into the death of the American Dream. Also a great novel for your teenage kids if they're smart and you want to set them on a life of philosophy, debauchery, and petty larceny.

HoodooEngine: EgoWhore [CD $9.99, tracks $.99 each on iTunes.] An album I worked on that we wrapped in the autumn. We're working on the follow-up now.

"EgoWhore," transports you through a dystopian Sci-fi tour of industrial strength metal and hardcore crunktronica. It is a true product of the digital / DIY generation, produced mostly on a Macbook Pro with the assistance of enough entheogens to bewilder an entire caravan of oxen.

Immanence of Myth [Early release edition. $21.99 470 page book. $3.99 eBook.] This is the nonfiction anthology of modern myth I've been writing and researching for the past few years. Over half of the 429 pages are my own, but many of the contributions help add different perspectives. Includes many interviews with myth-makers and artists of various mediums at the end, including David Mack (Kabuki, Daredevil), Laurie Lipton, John Harrigan (Foolish People), S Jenx, Rudy Rauben, and many others. Good for anyone that wants to think "outside the box" about how myths and ideas shape our internal worlds, and how you can play a role in that if you're an author, a musician, a visual artist, a film-maker ... 

For eBook readers, Wade suggests: "Download a program called Calibre and you can translate your purchases into either .mobi or .epub for free."

(NOTE: The early release editions are going to be yanked as soon as publishing deals are inked in 2011. They contain all the content the finals will, but may still have some typos / copy errors. The forthcoming publication announcement appears to be immanent, no pun, for Immanence of Myth. If you are a publisher interested in working with me on the Fallen Nation series, by all means drop a line. I'm in discussion with a few groups but it's always good to have options.)