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VOICES FROM THELEMA - 2009 -

	TITLE	VOICES FROM THELEMA
	ARTIST	k11
	FORMAT	cd
	RELEASED	2009
	LABEL	Aurora Borealis

Deluxe CD, enhanced with a Qucktime movie, housed in a digi pack with glued in 32 page full colour booklet, out March 9th, 2009.

Voices from Thelema is an instrumental trans-communication action with short wave radio receivers realized inside Thelema Abbey in Cefalù, October 14, 2007.

The ruined building stands derelict and on the verge of collapse, though still holds many secrets and has been a focus for much counter cultural activity since its foundation by Aleister Crowley in 1920 as a religious centre and commune where he could instruct disciples in his emerging Thelemic religion and systems of magick in a rural atmosphere, far from the overpowering prevailing morality of England. Activities included meditation and ritual magick, as well as the sensationalised drug taking and sex magick. The wall of many of the rooms were painted with fantastic murals by Crowley himself, depicting many of the elementals and demons encountered in his magickal exercises, and the remains of many of these adorn the accompanying booklet. After being ejected from Italy following scandal and outcry over the goings on at the Abbey, the walls were whitewashed and destroyed. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger, himself a devotee of Crowley, later uncovered and filmed some of its murals in his film 'Thelema Abbey' (1955), now considered lost, and the Abbey has been a place of pilgrimage for many ever since.

K11 now revisits this site and seeks to uncover the genius loci, the very essence of the building itself, to reach out into the ether and construct meaning and reality from that which is beyond our grasp. The three tracks are the result of this work and, each bearing titles of Thelemic significance, can be said to hold the essence of all that remains at Cefalu, like the background radiation that tells of the Big Bang. DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW