Desert Eclipse Revelations ⛬ HAUNTLETTER 003
Desert Eclipse Revelations ⛬ HAUNTLETTER 003
October Eclipse Tour ⛬ New E.P. ⛬ Revelator Rosz Haunts On
And Lo! We embark on a southwestern musickal creepy-crawl in the shade of the 2023 Ring-Of-Fire Eclipse…
My kin-spectre, Mary Joon, and I are about to embark on a two week sojourn through my childhood desert haunts beginning October 10th. We also just released a surprise split E.P. between Mary’s Moon Division and my Revel Rosz titled MOON ⛬ REVEL to support our desert-waltz! So, for those of you that are unaware, please accept my apology for not telling you, or really much of anyone, sooner (I’ll explain below). You can visit https://moonrevel.univer.se/ for tour dates, updates and pertinent links.
Read on for more about this magickal, musickal and ramshackle tour and ways to support us on this sojourn.
This trip’s planning was as ramshackle as the musick we’ll be performing: disparate parts, ephemeral and whimsical, focused yet sporadic machinations that seemingly tether all together.
There are many objectives for such a haunt-jaunt that I shall reveal here.
It all began with learning about the Ring-Of-Fire Eclipse’s totality path on October 14th, and with it, a mad idea that I couldn’t shake…
As readers are familiar, I blame a major ritual working I performed underneath the totality of the 2017 summer eclipse in the Oregon wild. My howls and spirit fingers pew-pew’d psychic sperms into the egg of the sun that birth-shined upon my life ever since! And here it is again, the totality in my path — what could become a more perfect bow to the first volume of Hauntomancy workings I am planning? I see a volume of these writings and musicks, anyway, and this eclipse as its bookend. A fitting coda to a project that has dealt so heavily with the past, forgotten aspects, and probable prospects of self-spectre.
But in PROSPECTRE fashion, I could not return or invoke SPECTRE-specific accouterments! I would need to build from what came before for the thirdscene of something new. So I mulled over how this eclipse could factor without wanting to return to Oregon for it. Alas, like all archetypal upturns and plot-change tropes in a protagonist tale, something just fell on my lap…
My bosom buddy (he would love me calling him that) Logan reached out and said he was traveling up to Seattle in early October but needed to be back to catch the eclipse on his land in Taos County, New Mexico and that Mary and I should join him. This land provides a prospectre in-it-of-itself as we are invited to potentially build a custom life there. SHAZAM!
Long story short, we’ll be caravan’ing with the pooch in tow having decided to make it a round trip to fit distant friends and family in along the way. That’s when another a-ha hit me, “Hell, we should just play music at every stop. Hell, we should just do a short tour.”
Mary and I been meaning to perform together in public after years of relocating and maneuvering life-isms, but we will also begin the first part of the tour constellation in Taos, New Mexico — my alma-mater state and potential future amongst acres of land purchased by Logan. I’ve been meaning to get Mary out to the desert, largely to quell her beach-born idea life on the terrain, and for us to break ground and futurecast a possible escape-route out of concrete jungle humdrums.
It was kismet that the musick began to peg other stars in the constellation. And by the graces of friends across the low-deserts of Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California, we managed to finagle stage time in a variety of spaces (and more shows likely). Again, you can look at our ECLIPSE TOUR one-page for updated tour stops and pertinent links: https://moonrevel.univer.se/
Suffice it to say, we took the opportunity to throw finances and heavy schedules to the wind for the many reasons listed above. However, we also decided to release an E.P. to help fund some necessities. Two of the tracks are from Mary’s long-worked debut album from her project, Moon Division, and two are recent “fuzz-gospel” experiments under the Hauntomancy re-birthed moniker, Revel Rosz. I am very proud of Mary’s songs and also played various instruments, produced, and mixed her tracks and a lot of the album.
Unfortunately, Bandcamp takes quite a cut of our profits! So we decided to start a low-key SPOTFUND site to help raise funds for the trip. Any and all donation will be met with direct downloads of the E.P., shoutouts via Pragmagick, and we are planning on sending handmade, DIY arts to those who donate more than 20 dollars (and probably less!)
Ways to directly support our tour (please include note of who you are and email address):
SPOTFUND - http://spot.fund/wwr89sc
PAYPAL - http://paypal.me/keatsross
VENMO - https://account.venmo.com/u/Mary-McKeever-Seattle
The Eclipse and this tour mark the last big working of the first print volume of Haunt Manual’s Hauntomancy! I will still be posting monthly here ad infinitum; I am just going to collect all of the workings thus far, edit and expand the writings and design and publish a hardback of the very first compendium of Hauntomancy workings.
I am hoping to crowdfund the custom printing of a hardback along with 4 musickal releases (on cassette or vinyl) as a special package. But Keats, there is only 3 Audiomancy Haunt Manual working thus far and the PROSPECTRE ritual hasn’t been released as an album yet? Ah, the PROSPECTRE album release is coming by, if not on, Halloween! And what is this elusive fourth musickal release you (no one) asked? Why, that’s Revel Rosz’s forthcoming studio album, and one that may or may not contain versions of tracks on this brand new E.P.!
You see, the new Revel Rosz album is an amalgamation of all the improvised and experimental Haunt Manual workings before it, but now measured, written and intentionally recorded into a new hypersigl in true PROSPECTRE fashion! I am making a new skin to encase, and a third mind to possess, a future-spectre’s body of artistic works.
OV PODKASTS & LIMINALSTREAMS
Mary & I also gabbed after a delirious day of work and rehearsal via a Pragmagick LiminalStream about the E.P., tour, her forthcoming album, and much more. I was intending to edit it down and release it as a Pragmagick podcast episode before we leave, but at this rate, and in between 60/hr work weeks, I’m not promising anything.
I will be composing a road journal, some videos and probably liminalstreams of the tour and our eclipse-capades via Patreon.com. We have such a heavy and wonderful jaunt ahead, and it will be documented!
Speaking of LiminalStreams, I released my ALWCipher deepdive with LISTENING POST ALPHA’s Bob-Ra-Inanna as a podcast yesterday. Many of you may already be privy to our stream, but it was my intention to release the podcast version (albeit unedited) after the WREN COLLIER & HAUNT MANUAL episode due to this stream being a brilliant footnote, if not a large appendix, to that produced chat.
I, of course, included a 5 minute intro discussing the tour, and shared a few tunes from the E.P. before the unedited stream starts. This was one of my favorite liminalstreams, well…ever, because it not only was a hoot, but also encapsulated such a menagerie of wonderful information. One for the books, indeed.
⛬ OV DAILY GRIMOIRES & MAGICKAL APPAREL
I’ve started an accidental venture of designing blank journals via Amazon publishing. I really wanted custom notebooks for all my longhand wyles whilst wanting to test self-publishing and book design, so, I created my first 300 page blank journal. I’m calling it a “DAILY GRIMOIRE” as my intention was to create a multi-use journal, sketchbook and magickal diary that I could re-up whenever the pages fill. I am utilizing the PRAGMAGICK Austin Osman Spare Planchette with minimal design elements for this one. If you need a book-size, paperback 300 page notebook for your own anarchic praxis, then this one is only 13 bones: https://a.co/d/8PgNPng
I am currently working on a workbook style journal that’s an organized document of individual, anarchic rituals all within a distilled schema. These should translate across any and all magickal mediums, and could even be used strictly for artistic purposes such as story or character creation (it does resemble a DnD character guide in a way). I will have these tested and printed upon my return, but here is sneak peek at an excerpt of my working template:
Also, illustrator, and fellow Haunt, Eric J. Millar and I got a little crazy with the proverbial cheezwhiz concerning print-on-demand apparel and our multitudes of designs, art and aesthetics! You can check out the WE THE HALLOWED TEESPRING site for some high-quality PRAGMAGICK, WE THE HALLOWED, OUTLET PRESS & DAKOTA SLIM apparel! I would like to mention that a lot of our designs are somewhat overpriced due to printing cost because any royalties made from sales is the smallest mark-up possibe! We priced them as low as we could because we, ourselves, want to be able to afford our own damn designs! There should be affordable shirts and various trinkets and stickers in there (there are a ton!)
WE THE HALLOWED TEESPRING: https://wethehallowed.creator-spring.com/
Eric and I also had a recent liminalstream discussing self-publishing and his new amazing art-book, WOMBAT:
There are plenty of other goings on that elude me now. I am in a delirium of overworked and focused on future-bliss about not being so, well, overworked. The tour will undoubtedly take a toll, be it energy, finances, or whatever hiccups await, but everything barks about a brilliant book-end, a coda, to an otherwise productive but heavy few seasons.
Halloween also marks Mary and my anniversary, and the 31st always howled to me as a true new-year, or a true perennial marker opposed to this Gregorian nonsense. I couldn’t be more excited to ring in the detritus among the ruins of my past, and conjure the skeletons of the future with romance, musick, travel and ponder-wanders. I hope the fall finds you well, and you too can bask in the warm detritus-fires of your own magicks. You’ll be hearing from me very, very soon. And maybe, I’ll see you in the Southwest…
Haunt on,
Revelator Keats Rosz
PATREON.COM/PRAGMAGICK
I want to give a big thanks to Eric J. Millar for his invaluable partnership in weathering the proud tides of human error. And of course, all the amazing patrons that have stayed with me as I swayed these past couple of months. Thank you Temple of Babalon Choronzon (Bobby, Leah & Groucho), Saroth The Mage, Sam Shadow, JJ Reine De Blanc, Jenny Rocky, Alex Leadbetter, Caltrop Creative, Brittany Brown, Bibi, CW Chanter, Jonicide, Jilly Beans, Corrie Anne, Spooky, Derek Hunter, Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, Carl Abrahammson, Tony Davis, Vanessa Kindell, Arnemancy and you, dear ghost, for your ongoing support.
ALL LINKS: http://pragmagick.com
PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/pragmagick
PAYPAL: http://www.paypal.me/keatsross
WE THE HALLOWED: https://wethehallowed.org