About Me
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Nguni diviners function as bricoleurs. Amongst other things, the diviner manipulates a repertoire of traditionalist southern Nguni concepts concerning the ancestors, witches, and associated beliefs and rites to recreate, at one and the same remove, the social and symbolic orders of clients. Typical of the bricoleur is the use of whatever is handy and accessible - myths, beliefs, traditions, concrete objects, culture in the widest sense of the term - to communicate ideas and convey understandings to others. The bricoleur manipulates the received idiom and thus works predominantly with signs and symbols, metonymy and mataphor, switching between these codes to convey the requisite message (Herst 1990:156). The bricoleur or diviner frequently repositions these elements and, in their new use, they become condensed expressions of necessary relations. The diviner thus builds structures by fitting together the remains of events (Levi-Strauss 1966).
(Prins 1996:216)
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Live
Please send all enquiries to: the.bricoleur(at)gmail.com
Forthcoming:
I Don't Feel Well (CDr, Single, Ltd) part of The Falling Sickness series
St. Leonard at the Abyssal Plain (CD, EP)
Spiritual Machine (CD, EP)
Under the Tree of the Evil Eagle (CD, EP)
Discography
Releases:
The Falling Sickness (9 x CDr single's)
The Falling Down (CDr, Single, Ltd) 2007
Holy Insecurity (CDr, Single, Ltd) 2008
Remixes:
Heart Of The Sun (CD, Album) Storm And Thunder (Toxoplasmosis) Durtro, Jnana Records 2008
Tracks Appear On:
Not Alone (5xCD, Comp) Prah Pip Ta Durtro, Jnana Records 2006
Brother Focus: For the Inaugurator of the Pleasure Dome (Album) Living Myth Durtro, Jnana Records (forthcoming benefit tribute album for Kenneth Anger)
Engineer:
Current 93 - The Courtyard / Jerusalem (CD, Maxi, Ltd) Durtro, Jnana Records 2004 (Recorded and Mixed (with David Tibet))
Current 93 - How He Loved The Moon (Moonsongs For Jhonn Balance) (2xLP, Red + 7", Pic + Acetate, 7" + Box, Ltd) Beta-lactam Ring Records 2005 (Mixed: Joshua X:12, Deuteronomy XXXIII:14; Recorded and mixed (with David Tibet and Ben Chasney): Moonbird For Jhonn 7")
Current 93 - Halo (CD, Album, Ltd, Dig) Durtro 2004 (Live sound effects)
Current 93 - Hypnagogue I / Hypnagogue II (CD, Album) Hypnagogue II - A Dream Prologue Durtro, Jnana Records 2005 (Recorded and mixed (with David Tibet) track: Hypnagogue II - A Dream Prologue)
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (2xLP, Ltd) Durtro, Jnana Records 2006 (Recorded guitar of Ben Chasney and Michael Cashmore)
Not Alone (5xCD, Comp):
Pantaleimon - Change My World (Alternative Mix) Durtro, Jnana Records 2006 (Mixed (with Andria Degens))
Simon Finn - Crow Flies (Recorded and mixed)
Pantaleimon - Cloudburst (CD, EP) Durtro, Jnana Records 2007 (Mixed (with Andria Degens))
Pantaleimon - Change My World (CD, EP) PanDurtro 2003 (Recorded tracks 1,2 / Mixed tracks 2 to 5)
Pantaleimon - Mercy Oceans (CD, Album) Durtro, Jnana Records 2007 (Assistant engineer)
Richard Moult - Suite for Titouan (CDr) Dala Horse (Recorded and mixed)
Simon Finn - Pass The Distance (CD) Durtro, Jnana Records 2004 (Engineer - Master tape transfer)
Simon Finn - Magic Moments (CD) Durtro, Jnana Records 2005 (Recorded tracks: 3, 5, 9 )
Simon Finn - Silent City Creep (CD, Maxi, Ltd) Durtro, Jnana Records 2005 (Engineer)
Uncredited:
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (CD) (Recorded guitar of Ben Chasney and Michael Cashmore)
Six Organs of Admittance - The Manifestation (CD) (Recorded David Tibet's vocals)
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"The characteristic feature of mythical thought is that it expresses itself by means of a heterogeneous repertoire which, even if extensive, is nevertheless limited. It has to use this repertoire, however, whatever the task in hand, because it has nothing else at its disposal. Mythical thought is therefore a kind of intellectual 'bricolage'...Like 'bricolage' on the technical plane, mythical reflection can reach brilliant unforeseen results on the intellectual plane."
-- Levi-Strauss, THE SAVAGE MIND, p. 17.
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