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Giant Paw

an ancient furball stalks the land...

About Me


'flood' by joe vaux, inspired by giant paw track 'flood' to be released soon
The Ancient Order of the Giant Paw was a secret society formed in London during the 1880s A contemporary of the ' Golden Dawn ' , it was based around an icon which was believed to be the severed paw of a she-demon.....
The legend of the Giant Paw claimed that the Paw was cut off by Abdul Alhazred , a mad poet of Sana, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia -- the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients -- and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death..........
In this desert he attempted to invoke the she-demon Theasalli , a cat/bear like entity which roamed the earth in search of children whose souls she stole to enable her to lactate the 'milk of life', and animate her demon spawn..........
The legend states that Alhazred succeeded in calling the demon , which became so enraged it tried to drag him into a mighty chasm to the pits of hell, a fate he escaped by severing the monster's paw with his scimitar.........
Over history the Giant Paw passed through many hands, Olaus Wormius mentions it in his texts of 1487 , it crops up again in Henri Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim's influential work De occulta philosophia libri tres (1531), before becoming the property of the Elizabethan magician and astrologer Dr John Dee during his stay in Prague in 1587, given to him by the alchemist Jacob Eliezer known as the "Black Rabbi"..........
The Giant Paw then disappears , the next record of its existence being the formation of the ' Ancient Order Of The Giant Paw ' in London by John Ravenscroft , the son of a wealthy mill owner who had amassed a huge fortune during the early years of the industrial revolution.........
Initially just a playboys vice and opium den, the club members soon turned their hand to dabbling in the occult (a very fashionable pastime in the latter half of the 19 th century) but with dire consequences for Ravenscroft who became implicated in the murder of several East End children who had been discovered ' torn to pieces as if by some monstrous animal ' and although his family's influence kept him from the hangman's noose, he lived out his days in Bedlam..........
The Giant Paw is still the property of the Ravenscroft family, having been passed down the generations as an heirloom, and is now kept at their family estate in Bodmin, Cornwall...........
Since 1983 there have been over 60 sightings of large cat-like creatures on Bodmin Moor ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/136546.stm ) .........
In 2005 John Ravenscroft the 4 th started the record label ' FERAL electronics '.............
Their first signing was the band Giant Paw...........
In 2006 Giant Paw decided they would not be a traditional 'band' anymore, but would be a musical greetings card company issuing strictly limited edition hand made cards containing numbered CD-Rs of specially recorded songs......................
LIMITED EDITION ART CARD SERIES 1 RELEASES:
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ISSUE 1 (DECEMBER 2005)- A WINTER TALE...
one track cd inside individually hand numbered ' snow paw' design card. Strictly limited to 50 cards.....SOLD OUT
ISSUE 2 (NOVEMBER 2006)- EARLY RISER/ SOMETHING AROUND A....
two track cd inside limited edition hand screen printed card...design by Chin Keeler ( Doberman Family).strictly limited to 200 hand numbered cards....SOLD OUT.
ISSUE 3 (AUTUMN 2007)- MOSQUITO/SILENCE...
two track cd inside limited edition hand screen printed card...design by Chin Keeler ( Doberman Family).strictly limited to 200 hand numbered cards.....SOLD OUT.
ISSUE 4 (SUMMER 2008)- FLOOD/SURGE...
two track cd inside limited edition hand screen printed card...design by Chin Keeler ( Doberman Family).strictly limited to 200 hand numbered cards... OUT SOON

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mosquito/silence artcard/cd artwork by chin keeler release date 29th sept 2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/21/2006
Band Website: giantpaw.co.uk
Band Members:tony fisher: guitars, effects
chris p mowforth: bass
andy heintz: keyboards, tapes, effects, voices., musical saw, kazoo
tom augsburger- percussion
aided and abetted at various times by the GIANT PAWchestra
( tove redevall- guitar & vocals,
tracy vandal- vocals,
thea heintz- violin,
sallie robbins- cello,
maria alavarez echenique- vocal translation )

Influences: mainzer cats, mark ryden, liz mcgrath, howls moving castle, nursery rhymes, amphetamines, alan moore, sandman, tetsuo, ealing comedy, film noir, retro futurism, robots, animation, spongebob, taxidermy, abandoned buildings, anthropomorphism, psychedelia, lowbrow art, paranoia, daleks, burlesque, masks, cold war, celebrity, stasys eidrigevicius, jan svenkmajer, cabaret, oil projecters, fire, full metal alchemist, gantz, chobits, karas, ghost in the shell, art toys
Sounds Like: when you get water in your ears
Record Label: FERAL electronics
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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more details of the highly anticipated 'GlassShrimp' curated night at the buffalo bar have seeped out... the date has been confirmed as Saturday 26th July 2008!... that's right! a Saturday n...
Posted by Giant Paw on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:13:00 PST

Organ fanzine make us blush!...FLOOD/SURGE = SINGLE OF THE WEEK!

those lovely people at Organ Fanzine have kindly awarded us single of the week in this weeks issue....SINGLE OF THE WEEKGIANT PAW  ART CARD SERIES 1, ISSUE 4 (Feral Arts) - I like that we never know...
Posted by Giant Paw on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:22:00 PST

what Rough Trade say about the new card...

GIANT PAWfloodRelease Date: Pre-Release (Expected on 16/06/2008)formed around an expanding collective of musicians, artist, recordists and philanthropists giant paw continue to exist on the margins, n...
Posted by Giant Paw on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:56:00 PST

Limited Edition Artcard/cd Series 1: Issue 4 pre-orders

Limited Edition Artcard/cd Series 1: Issue 4 - flood/surgeavailable for pre-order at Rough Trade websitehttp://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?sear ch_type=sku&sku=301920
Posted by Giant Paw on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:54:00 PST

22.5.8 facts.

The Cesarians + Velodrome + Giant Paw + Craig Shaw And The Illuminators + Core All Stars Thu May 22 Bardens Boudoir, 36-44 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 7XJ Weimer/jazz/rock cabaret from T...
Posted by Giant Paw on Mon, 19 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

The Cesarians & Giant Paw - Bardens Boudoir Thursday 22nd May

Giant Paw will play Barden's Boudoir, Dalston, on Thursday 22nd May with the mighty Cesarians...there wil be 5 bands on that night, and all for a mere £5!....a quid a band!we will be on stage at about...
Posted by Giant Paw on Sat, 03 May 2008 10:18:00 PST

Giant Paw/ Feral Electronics .... Stoke Newington download

the resonance fm 'stoke newington ' programme is posted up for download/streaming here: http://www.freq.org.uk/overground.html enjoy! information overload.....the feral electronics track is a spoken w...
Posted by Giant Paw on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:28:00 PST

kosmische club mix...

hey hey hey....check out the wonderful kosmische club mix available for download for a short while at http://www.kosmische.org/current.htmlwhere you will find Giant Paw nestled in amongst Circle, Fuc...
Posted by Giant Paw on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:08:00 PST

sneaky scamps...

...giant paw played a short secret gig at Core Arts in Homerton , Hackney as part of a fundraiser/party for the center ( www.corearts.co.uk) last weekend! fear not though, they will be playing out ag...
Posted by Giant Paw on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:57:00 PST

PAW on the radio 104.4fm thurs 13th march 8pm

Resonance FM ( http://www.resonancefm.com/ ) 104.4FM on your radio Thu, 13 Mar, 20:00  21:00   Description....Overground - an N16 scene "There is no Underground in N16 - the only way to ge...
Posted by Giant Paw on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:31:00 PST