Kathartes
When your God falls, ours will still remain. And we'll be drunk on liquor brewed from the ashes of your sacred institutions.
Kathartes is art through sound. A serum for toxic culture; it is an antibody response to the plauge of this rotting superstructure. It is venom for the holy, and a narcotic for the profane. It is only through delving into death, that we learn the cycles of life. It is only through frayed perceptions, that we are granted the sight of authenticity.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Live rituals are occasionally performed. In warehouses and in parks.
Your musical influences
Shamanism, Swans, Coil, Angels of Light, CMI, Cassandra Complex, Skinny Puppy, Lustmord, Throbbing Gristle, John Zorn, The Sisters of Mercy, Faun, absinthe, Last Rites, Ministry, Delerium, Qntal, raison D'etre, Front Line Assembly, Pink Floyd, Bauhaus, Tanzwut, Jane's Addiction, Alice Cooper, Funker Vogt, Joy Division, Siouxsie and The Banshees, mead, VNV Nation, The Doors, Motorhead, Granular Synthesis, mortiis, Wumpscut, Corvus Corax, Louie Armstrong, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Sopor Aeternus, Genitorturers, Revolting Cocks, Die Form, Fields of the Nephilim, Led Zeppelin, Tribal, Ethnic, Joseph Haydn, Medieval, Bach, Crowley, Spare, Xenakis, wine, Aquinas, Vedism, Taoism, New Orleans Stomp, Clive Barker, HP Lovecraft, Werner Herzog, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Runes and Runelore, beer, Peter J Carroll, JG Ballard, Crowley, A.O Spare, Thelema, Jospeh Conrad, Kabbalah, Vedism and Aghorism, true crime, deviant pathology, surrealism, fetishism, sex
What equipment do you use?
Powerbook G4, variety of outboard digital and analog gear, Juno 60 and Ensoniq boards.
