Outlandish, a new book from David Oddfellow
It's rarely quiet in Oddfellow's Towers. A new studio album is close to completion together with a limited edition single planned for 2025 on the Heaven's Lathe record label, more of which anon.
In the meantime I've also got a brand new book, Outlandish, coming out next month and is now available for pre-order. It’s a collection of essays, stories and a short graphic novella, all beautifully designed by Hastings’ Erica Smith and in full colour.
Pre-order a copy from Bandcamp now and you'll receive Outlandish two weeks before the official publication date (October 20th) plus a free download of the album Maison Mouton Session Vol 2.
But you want to know a bit more, right? Here’s the book jacket info…
Outlandish is a collection of writings, stories and essays that celebrate some of David Bramwell's favourite countercultural heroes and explore some rather unconventional journeys.
In the company of Werner Herzog, Eva Peron, Gram Parsons, Marina Abramovic, William Burroughs and Andrew Kotting – to name but a few –he takes the roads less travelled, unearthing an artist’s pilgrimage around the world with a giant, inflatable ‘deadad’; the world’s biggest treasure hunt, an extraordinary eleven-year odyssey involving Evita’s mummified corpse, an ethnobotanist’s search for the psychedelic secrets of the Amazon and a couple who walked the Great Wall of China from opposite ends, only to spilt up when they finally met in the middle.
Outlandish is also peppered with the biographies of Pop Art nun Sister Corita Kent, the singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson, psychonaut Amanda Feilding, theosophist Madam Blavatsky and hirsute wizard and author, Alan Moore. At the very end – and with dazzling illustrations from Nye Wright – is a Brighton-based graphic tale that incorporates the town’s hidden river, Aleister Crowley’s ashes and the occult talisman, the Hand of Glory.
Like the sound of it? Here’s the link.
Somewhere in the mountains of Sussex
David Oddfellow
