Emailing with Bobby BeauSoleil

Viola Bonaldi

 

 

 

 

 

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his is the raw interview Viola Bonaldi did with Bobby BeauSoleil in the summer of 2018. Viola Bonaldi wrote an article incorporating the raw material below for Salmuria.

 

You can read the English version here.

 

… Or if your first language happens to be Italian, read it here.

 

How did your passion for art — first music and then visual art — come about? Do you remember a specific moment or an episode that enlightened you? Did the Sixties atmosphere play an important role?

 

As far as I can tell, I mean, to the best of my recollection, I already had a passion to express myself in creative ways when I was born. According to what my mother told me later, about the time I took my first steps I was playing her pots and pans and making drawings on the walls of the house. READ MORE

 

 

 

The Ekphrastic Review

Anthony Stechyson

 

 

 

 

 

Whave recently participated in an interview with Anthony Stechyson for The Ekphrastic Review, about my visual art and process.

Many visual artists draw inspiration from the world around them. You’ve been in prison since 1970. What inspires you?

 

 

 

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Bardo Methodology Interview (Part One)

En Espanol

Niklas Göransson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wusician, writer and visual artist; Bobby BeauSoleil is also serving a life sentence in prison. His tale is one of being condemned to die, of cultivating spirituality in nightmarish surroundings, and drawing upon the arcane to survive hell. READ MORE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bardo Methodology Interview (Part Two)

Niklas Göransson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wobby BeauSoleil is nearing his fifth decade in American prison; time spent creating a colossal body of art. He speaks of Luciferian ascension and how dying by the sword bestowed upon him the gift of existential knowledge.


Alone, above all of his many known artistic pursuits, stands the 1979 soundtrack for the motion picture Lucifer Rising. In a tale that’s fascinating in its own right, though discussed at length numerous times before, Bobby was initially cast as Lucifer by the film’s director, Kenneth Anger – a counterculture filmmaker heavily inspired by Aleister Crowley. Being primarily a musician, BeauSoleil would also supply the soundtrack. The film was heavily delayed, Bobby went to prison and Jimmy Page from LED ZEPPELIN was hired to compose the score. However, Page and Anger had a falling out before the film was released so Bobby ended up recording it behind bars. READ MORE

 

 

 

It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine Interview with Bobby BeauSoleil

Klemen Breznikar

 

 

 

Hello Bobby! Thank you very much for taking your time and effort to discuss about your music. You were born in Santa Barbara, CA. What would you say were some of the early influences on you as far as music goes and at what age did you start playing an instrument?

 

When I was growing up in the 1950s, my hometown was said to be a place for the newly wed and nearly dead.  The local radio station played only cloying, stodgy fare for the most part, though I liked some of the instrumentals.  The music in the old horror movies I watched on TV appealed to me much more.  When I was 11 years old, I found an old Silvertone guitar in the attic of my grandmother’s house.  My parents couldn’t afford to get me guitar lessons so I began inventing my own music on that old guitar.  R&B, which was popular in Los Angeles, barely penetrated the local radio play list but finally, in the early ‘60s, surf and hot rod music insinuated itself into my consciousness.  The first popular song I learned to play was Link Wray’s “Rumble”. READ MORE

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Conversation with Bobby BeauSoleil

Kirin Anderson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he following is an interview with Bobby BeauSoleil.  To some of you who are Current 93 fans, the name might ring a bell, and of course, there are those grim and splendourous years known simply as The Sixties.  But, this is 1999.  If you want to know more about where Bobby BeauSoleil has been in his lifetime, what he's seen, and what he's done, there are ample histories available regarding the tragedy that lead Bobby to prison in the first place.  It is not my intention to discuss those things here, and there is no discussion of them in the following interview.  This interview is about who Bobby BeauSoleil is TODAY, and about the music he's been making for most of his life.  It's an interview full of joy, and grief, and wonder, and longing, but above all, hope.  I can honestly say that I've never interviewed another human being in my life, which was more gentle, more sincere, and more full of colourful joy than Bobby BeauSoleil.  His music is just as profound. READ MORE

 

 

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