CRONEWORK! Out for Beltane!
Cronework – Re-enchanting the label: A compilation of spells by self-identified women and gender-diverse artists. You get 5 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
“It is to the discovery of reasons and logics other than those of capitalist development that I refer when I speak of ‘re-enchanting the world’, a practice I believe is central to most anti-systemic movements and a precondition for resistance to exploitation.”
Sylvia Federici, Re-enchanting the World (2019)
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Cronework – Re-enchanting the label is a compilation where every song is a spell. Brighton’s riot-grrrl-indie-femme-pop Fuck You and Your A-Sides have curated a feminist release through inviting self-identified women and gender-diverse* artists to submit tracks.
The tracks engage with both traditional folklore, and modern interpretations of esoteric magical practice. Musical diversity ranges from chanting ancient verses to Eletronica, Indiepop and Industrial. As a listener you engage with the music as it manifests the spellwork. If you want to go deeper, instructions for each spell song are included, alongside unique artwork created for every artwork, in an accompanying spell book. The artwork was either created by the musicians themselves or participants from community workshops run in collaboration with the Magnetic Ideals Reconnect programme. Interested participants were welcomed whether artist, musician, witch or just curious to step into our circle and contribute.
Through giving voice and a sense of community to marginalised groups and the still stigmatised practice of political magics, the compilation engages with Sylvia Federici’s practice of ‘re-enchanting the world’. This can be seen as central to anti-systemic movements and a precondition for resistance to exploitation present in today’s ever isolated and isolating world.
[*gender-diverse includes transwomen, trans men, people who identify outside of the man/women binary including non-binary and gender queer people, self-identified women includes all women]
releases May 1, 2025
Fuck You and Your A-Sides
@fuck_u_and_yr_asides (Instagram)
soundcloud.com/fuckyouandyourasides
fuckyouandyourasides.bandcamp.com
Difficult Art & Music on Bandcamp or Instagram
Includes my Higora charm, Against a Wen. Read more on medieval magic here.