Stalker and Loki
Let’s hope that 2012 is a better year than 2011 was for all of us. Well is wasn’t too bad for me personally as not much can get me down, but I mean the recession, the riots, global disasters etc…… I have many new projects on the go for this coming year, new recordings, new art and a book all about my work and life. Plenty to look forward to. So thank you for visiting my website and a big pink girly fluffy bunny hug to you all. Love Val and Gail XXX
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I will put these new “Doppleganger” paintings in the “Art section” when I get some time to photograph and download them. Look out for a book about my art next year from TIMELESS BOOKS. Also I’ve got a Korg Sampler keyboard thingy which I will be using on my forthcoming CDR album of 30 copies only called “The Black Star Recordings” This will be the greatest album ever made. Oh aye indeed. No messing. Christmas is coming Val is getting fat. It’s all the chocolate, I must stop it. That and the booze. Mind you I’ve not had a cig for over 6 months now, neither has our Gail. Saving a bleedin’ fortune, I’m not kidding, also I can breath propely without coughing my guts up every morning. Oh, Gail has got this program thingy on her laptop called “Dragon Speak”? Anyway you can just talk to it and it types what you say, so that novel that I’ve been planning for ages. It’s very weird. But, you like weird don’t you…………I know I do.
OUT NOW the final album from the USA Avant garde experimentalists WYRM, with tracks and cover art by Val Denham.
$7.00Topi-Network release 5
WYRM ‘Mantras For An Incognizant World’ -last WYRM album is Avaliable NOW!
$7 Plus $2 shipping.
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“Mantras For An Incognizant World” is the final, full-length installation from WYRM. The project is now defunct and all activities have ceased. 11 years the archetype had been explored and exploited–new territories will be mapped out with Solumenata.
This farewell incarnation of WYRM were a stellar line-up comprised of Allan Zane & Liz Lang (founding members), Val Denham (artist and musician extraordinaire), PBK (veteran “noise-ambient” composer), Thomas Park (drone master-musician known for his work as Mystified), the pure genius of the Aural Surrealists Matthew Amundsen (Surface Hoar) and Sid Redlin (Boron Nuzzle, Le Scrambled Debutante, et al.), and the obscure fringe-artist Joey Day (UPC).
“Mantras For An Incognizant World” is a reflection upon/true testament of our times–mediations for a world TRULY asleep and LOST…
R.I.P. WYRM
Okay, this is the new album, or rather I should say “double album” as this CDR contains almost 80 minutes of brand new material by myself the artist Val Denham.
It is titled “BLUELANDS”
A couple of the songs are in earlier, but very different versions, such as “Individual”, “Do You know Who I Am?” and “As I walked out one Evening”. These new reworkings are radically different. The rest of the 25 songs are brand new unheard material. I have signed and numbered the covers and the actual CDR.
There are ONLY 30 copies available, there will never be anymore unless this album is released officially by a label in the future. So, first come first served. These limited edition releases always sell out and then end up being sold for silly money when people realise that when I say “30 only” I really mean it.
Okay. I was going to do a nice blue photo of myself naked for the cover, but I’ve decided that seeing as last time with the “Mad” album, the hand painted covers were so successful, maybe I should do another hand painted job instead. So I’m going to hand paint 30 blank card CD covers. Pray for me. Ooh, you are going to love this one, I just know it. Oh and Pedro, don’t worry I’ve saved one for you sugarplum.
Val XX
SOLD OUT
I’ve added some new images in the artwork section of Tranart. You’ll have to search for them as all the images are in alphabetical order. You can enlarge any image on this website by clicking on the image itself.
Here’s a new one called “Poison Nectar”.
Val’s shoes!
free album download – release for new moon, June 1 2011
featuring Massimo & Pierce, Val Denham and Andrew Zealley
vocals recorded in London, Toronto and Zurich
arranged, programmed and produced in the sky by PSBEUYS, 2008-2010
cover painting by Val Denham
11-track album
About QUEEN LEAR:
Anarcocks and PSBEUYS are pleased to announce the birth of QUEEN LEAR — a collaborative trans-Atlantic studio project produced by PSBEUYS featuring Massimo & Pierce (of Black Sun Productions), Val Denham, and Andrew Zealley.
Amanda Lear motivates QUEEN LEAR, feeds its curiosity, drives its desires. From Amanda’s early appearances—as the cover model on Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure/on the arm of Berlin-period David Bowie/as companion and muse to Salvador Dali—to surreal dance floors 1970s and ’80s, Italian tee-vee, game show hijinx, ‘tween-age dreams: Amanda Lear generates I-Dentity. Impossible to ignore. “Follow Me.”
Queen Lear is growing out of its head. Taking root in Sweet Revenge (Ariola-Eurodisc, 1978), sticky finger buds and black holes, pretty boys and mother.
“I just can’t make you out. Are you real – or am I dreaming? This is all very confusing. Until, you start, sing-ing.” (“Enigma,” 1978).
About the artists:
Massimo & Pierce gained international recognition as stage performers for COIL during their 2002 European tour. As the core members of Black Sun Productions, this audio and performance duo have captivated audiences through original work ranging from performative sex rituals to musical cabaret. BSP have released 8 albums, including the epic double release The Impossibility of Silence (Old Europa, 2006). For more information, visit: www.anarcocks.com
Val Denham is a legendary transgendered artist, musician and stage performer. Her visual work has graced the covers of albums by Marc & the Mambas, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and the Some Bizarre record label. She collaborated with Massimo & Pierce on the album Somewhere Between Desire and Despair (Tourette, 2009). For more information, visit: www.valdenham.com
Andrew Zealley (aka PSBEUYS) is a sound artist who has collaborated with AA Bronson, Josefine Fine, Dara Gellman, Luis Jacob, John Greyson, Chrysanne Stathacos, Scott Treleaven and others. His PSBEUYS remixes for Black Sun Productions are featured on the album The Milky Smell of Phantom Sperm (Old Europa, 2008). In March he released a free download 5-track EP, Five Covers, with Robert Bolton under the name PRETTY BEUYS. For more information, visit: www.andrewzealley.com
I’ve added images in “Reviews” of my limited edition CD-R’s. The forthcoming release is entitled “Bluelands” and should be available this summer. I’m still working on it. It features contributions from Oli Novadnieks, Farmacia (a new radically different version of “Individual” from “Raw Powder) and Demian of O Paradis.
Here’s those Farmacia boys with copies of my “MAD” album.
Farmacia can be heard collaborating with myself on the track “Mandy” in the MUSIC section of Tranart. This song is to be released on a forthcoming compilation album on Vanitycase Records.
I love Farmacia and they love me.
Yup, it’s been a long wait, but it’s here at last. On the German HauRuck! label, it should be available all over the place. (Amazon, WH Smiths, ASDA, HMV, etc.)
A total masterpiece from Val Denham and O Paradis entitled “Transform Thyself” containing the popular track “Glow” as heard and seen in my video section on this website, plus 15 other fabulous songs of longing and weirdness. Well worth the wait, oh yes indeedy doody.
Here’s what the critics have to say………
“Transform Thyself” is the new album of intensely beautiful and heartfelt diamond tracks from the artist and musician Val Denham of Yorkshire, England, in collaboration with Barcelona’s very own O Paradis.
The result is nothing short of astounding.
O Paradis and Val Denham have both released their own musical adventures on various releases over the years, but this is something else.
“Transform Thyself” could well be considered a classic for years to come.
This time, Val Denham drops the experimental “Sound as Art” stance and instead opts for something far subtler, genuine and dare I say it, mature.
In her own words, “We wanted to make an album of real songs that would contaminate the listeners mind”.
Very true, every track sticks in the subconscious. Catchy is an inadequate word here.
Comparisons are hard to discern, Val Denham’s vocals being neither male nor female. The title of the album itself “Transform Thyself” may well be a metaphor for Val’s own transgender experience. The opening track “She’s a Witch” being especially revealing with the line “Don’t you know that a witch has a dick!” driven along by an infectious rhythm and hellish horns on the chorus. What an opener!
Each subsequent song seems to add more to the general mood of strange longing.
Every word is real here. Nothing faked by Val Denham and O Paradis.
Poignant and relevant to today’s angst ridden times. A lot to think about.
Strange moments do occasionally emerge perhaps simply to nod to the experiments of yesterday, but they do work within the context of the over all concept of the work.
“My Blackest Flowers” is wondrous example of this principle.
A dizzying array of instrumentation from O Paradis that at times borders on the painfully beautiful, Just one example being the wistful Satiesque piano on “Thinking of My Girl”, which is nothing short of haunting.
This is an album of 16 tracks that shine very bright about the fragility of the human condition.
“I watch the shadows fade away”
Should we call it a masterpiece?
Comes in a nice Digipak.
EAN: 403884631099 7 (HR!99)
TRACKLIST
1. She’s a Witch
2. Glow
3. Memories and Dreams
4. Now the Bottles Empty
5. Split
6. Thinking Of My Girl
7. My Blackest Flower
8. You’re Not My Type
9. Searching For Superman
10. My Lovely Val
11. We Don’t Spoil Another Couple
12. Saturday Night
13. Transform Thyself
14. Never Deny Them
15. Gravity
16. Icarus
VISIT O PARADIS or VAL DENHAM :
www.myspace.com/oparadis
www.myspace.com/valdenham
www.valdenham.com
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