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Human Greed will be playing on board the Ship of Fools club - afloat upon the River Thames - on sunday November 15th.

More Details - http://www.myspace.com/shipoffoolsclub

Moscow based physical theatre company blackSKYwhite will be appearing in the London International Mime Festival, at the ICA, in January 2010.

Their performance, the London debut of "USSR Was Here" will feature soundtrack recordings by Human Greed.

This makes us very happy. Me alegra!

Here is a clip of their performance Bertrand's Toys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_OSbEgR-fM

Episode 7 of Thomas Bey William Bailey's recommended "Belsona Academy" podcast features a 30 minute Human Greed special.

"Join us on this weeks Belsona Academy for a journey into Human Greed's Heart of Darkenss (and into other much more nuanced and indescribable states of being as well) Courtesy of Michael Begg we have an HG exclusive to this show entitled "Introduction to Fortress Longing: the interior campaign for the safe and complete return of the Sleeping Egyptian to the desert." Building upon a psycho-ambient repertoire that has earned HG comparisons to Arvo Part Henryk Gorecki and other purveyors of lush emotionality this new piece is Begg's first recorded narrative in 10 odd years. In it he deals with an illuminating moment of confrontation of death, and the singular after effects"

http://belsonaacademy.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-09-12T21_00_15-07_00

Update July 2009

LIVE
Human Greed will be performing at Edinburgh’s Cocoon Counter Culture Festival on Sept 12th
More Details : http://www.itsycollective.org/#/cocoon/4534258776

Human Greed will be performing at London’s Ship of Fools Club on Nov 15th
More Details : http://www.myspace.com/shipoffoolsclub


RECORDING
Human Greed, with guest voice provided by Poland’s LeeDVD, have contributed an exclusive track, “Moonsuite 3: Dalkeith’s Next Top Model” to the Lumberton Trading Compilation CD “Autumn Blood (Constructions)” Release Date Aug/Sep 09
More Details : http://lumbertontrading.com

Human Greed have contributed an exclusive track, “Fortress Longing: British Museum” to the forthcoming Tursa/Kaparte compilation “With Friends Like These” Release Date Aug/Sep 09
More Details : http://www.myspace.com/withfriendslike

The track “The Graces Departing” from Human Greed’s “Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star”, featuring Fovea Hex’s Clodagh Simonds, and Julia Kent will (so we are told) feature on the cover disk of Gonzo Circus Magazine’s Sep issue
More Details : www.gonzocircus.com/

Michael Begg makes a guest appearance on the new Blind Cave Salamander album, Troglobite. Release Date Sep 09
More Details : http://www.darksite.ch/shayo/

The special double vinyl Human Greed album “Black Hill: Full Moon Over Blighted Star” is back on track after a long hiatus. The LP, to be released on Erototox Decodings will feature some of the CD tracks and some new material exclusive to the vinyl format release. This exclusive material comprises further sections of the “Moonsuite”.
Things are still a little too sketchy to offer a release date – but more soon!

An old sketch from the archives, “Parasite Device” featuring Kenji Siratori, has been uploaded to the new Human Greed iLike profile : http://www.ilike.com/artist/Human+Greed/

Also, expect word soon regarding the eagerly anticipated FOVEA HEX album!


WORDS
Canadian writer, DJ and film-maker Kate MacDonald engaged in lengthy email exchanges with Michael Begg earlier in the year which has manifested in two interviews.

One appeared on Adverse Effect (http://adverse-effect.blogspot.com/2009/05/fine-arts-of-language-and-sound.html) while another, extended piece appeared in issue 3 of Paraphilia Magazine (http://www.paraphiliamagazine.com/)

Paraphillia Issue 3 also features a section of Michael Begg’s “Moonsuite” text

Human Greed will be performing at the Cocoon Counter Culture Festival in Edinburgh on September 12th...

http://www.itsycollective.org/#/cocoon-info/4534334004

Human Greed will be performing at the Ship of Fools event in London on November 15th...

http://www.kaparte.info/

Paraphilia Magazine's third issue has just been released. In there can be found some of the textual material informing and underlying Human Greed's Moonsuite. Including the section on "Dalkeith's Next Top Model" which - co-incidentally - is the section of Moonsuite narrated by LeeDVD on Human Greed's contribution to the forthcoming Lumberton Trading Co compilation "Autumn Blood (Constructions)"

Also, within this issue can be found "When Greed is Good" which is a continuation of the dialogue/interview between Canadian writer and film maker Kate MacDonald and Human Greed's Michael Begg that grew out of the original interview material for the Adverse Effect interview "Fine Arts of Language and Sound"

The magazine is free to download in PDF format and can be found here: http://www.paraphiliamagazine.com

Choice quote? "I feel as much sorrow for a generation who have been given no room for their own minds to grow as I feel deep, profound seething hatred and loathing for Simon Cowell"

Full details and links to all of the above can be found on the Human Greed Facebook Page...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Human-Greed/15185042697

Brainwashed have published a lovely revirew of Black Hill.

Read it here

"Black Hill occupies a realm that is somewhere between the gorgeous drones of Stars of the Lid and the haunting and solemn “Symphony No. 3” by Henryk Górecki... This is powerful stuff and takes a while to fully digest it. The oily darkness that the music conjures up gets deeper and deeper with every listen, a resonant and otherworldly tremor that is at once human and sublime. "

Human Greed News from Omnempathy

Hello Friends,

Just a brief note to mention that, at last, Human Greed's new album "Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star" is ready for release. The official release date is Dec 1st – but Omnempathy have received a consignment from the pressing plant which can be released right away!

The CD, released by Lumberton Trading Co (www.lumbertontrading.com) features the strongest HG material yet: 59 minutes, 15 brand new tracks, and very special appearances from Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons), Fabrizio Palumbo (Larsen, Blind Cave Salamander), Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex, Mellow Candle) and David Tibet (Current 93).

The release also features beautiful original artwork from Deryk Thomas and Alan McGowan.

Direct orders can be placed for immediate first class posting via the Omnempathy site…

http://www.omnempathy.com/order.asp

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To mark the release of Black Hill, Human Greed are going to be performing live for the first time!

The "Cosy Brown Snow Shows" will take place in Poland in early December.

Dec 4th Laznia Contemporary Arts Center, Gdansk – show also features a lecture from Polish Artist Zbigniew Libera (http://raster.art.pl/gallery/artists/libera/libera.htm)

Dec 5th Plan B, Warsaw

Dec 7th Caryca Club, Krakow, with local support act from the Audio Tong label

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Stay warm!

Fovea Hex will be performing at the Electric Picnic Festival in Ireland on August 29th. Line up will be Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, Cora Venus Lunny, Michael Begg, Colin Potter and Kate Ellis.
::: http://electricpicnic.ie/

Also, just confirmed, Fovea Hex will be performing at Reggio Emilia, Italy, on November 1st. This event will also feature Blind Cave Salamander and a solo set from Colin Potter. Fovea Hex line up; Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, Cora Venus Lunny, Michael Begg, Colin Potter, Julia Kent

Michael Begg/Human Greed will perform at Laznia Center of Modern Art, Gdansk, Poland on December 5th. All things being well, there will be a further date in Krakow in conjunction with this.

::: http://www.laznia.pl/