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SONIC ART & PERFORMANCES


​Bring Me The Head of F.W. Murnau: A Ghost Story in Six Acts

After a long career in collaborative music projects, Bring Me The Head of F.W. Murnau: A Ghost Story in Six Acts is Zeena Schreck's first entirely solo recording project. Inspired by news reports on July 15, 2015, that the director's head had been stolen from his grave, the tone poems in this recording are sonic necromancy, reflecting the transition from the end of Murnau's worldly life to what his disembodied consciousness may have experienced in the afterlife. Many of the intricate sounds heard in these tracks were captured in field recordings at Murnau's former residence in Berlin and at his grave site in Stahnsdorf, Germany. The presence of the cinematic Master is perceived most effectively when listening to the tracks altogether, in sequential order, preferably with eyes closed and/or lights out.
Official release date was March 11, 2020, the 89th memorial anniversary of F.W. Murnau's tragic, untimely death.
All music and vocals composed and performed by Zeena Schreck, with the exception of drums by Hisham A. Bharoocha on track 4, “Tabu”.
Format: Extended Play CD with digipak cover and four-color, four-page, side-pocket insert.
Cover art: Original mixed media painting created especially for this sound art project by Ben Vaughn Zeitlin; concept by Zeena Schreck.
Photos of Zeena Schreck at F.W. Murnau's grave by Lance Anderson.
All other photos, graphic design and layout concept in the CD by Zeena Schreck.
Mixed and mastered in Berlin by Georg Kempa. Made in the Black Forest, Germany.
Video Sorcery by Tnopud Salocin
​

Digital download at Bandcamp  -or get the CD on this site.

​Zeena Schreck - 'Summer Swelter'

Sound Art by Zeena Schreck, created for the full moon lunar eclipse, July 27-28, 2018.




​Vintage Radio Werewolf live performance clip, Germany, circa 1991 (1)

Published on Aug 5, 2017 - From the Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf Archives: Concert footage from early 90s. Music video clip.
Music video clip credits: 
Videographer: Claus Laufenburg
Video editor: The man with the green gloves
Sound engineer: Thomas M.
Genre categories: #performanceart #postindustrial #soundscapes #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #darkambient #neoclassical #postpunk #darkwave #nikolasschreck #zeenaschreck



​Milarepa mantra chanted during meditation by Zeena for CHÖKHOR DÜCHEN, 2017.

In the Buddhist tradition, today is celebrated as the first teaching given by the Buddha Shakyamuni after attaining Enlightement. Any mantras recited on this day accumulate the positive merit ten million times. 
During the day's mantra meditations, as Zeena chanted the Milarepa mantra, birds came to listen.
The Tibetan sage Milarepa, born nearly a thousand years ago, was a powerful black magician in Tibet who renounced his sorcery ways, dedicating himself to the Dharma teachings. As a result, he become fully enlightened in one lifetime.
Milarepa is not only a source of inspiration to Zeena, who has also followed a similarly extreme path in life, but it is also into his lineage that she is initiated by her heart lama H.E. Ayang Rinpoche, one of the yogi lineage holders who has maintained Milarepa's teachings in pure, undiluted and unbroken form. 
​
Gratitude to H.E. Ayang Rinpoche for the image of Milarepa, Vajradhara and Vajrayogini used at the beginning of the video and for his wisdom and compassion which are boundless.

To learn more about the magical life of Milarepa, visit this page. ​
http://www.thranguhk.org/buddhism/en_milarepa.html 



​Summer Solstice 2017, Torino di Sangro, Italy

A clip of 
Buddha Amibabha & 
Medicine Buddha Ritual 

This clip depicts Tibetan Buddhist practices. Zeena renounced Satanism, her family's beliefs and severed use of the family name, "LaVey," in 1990. Therefore, whether you are Christian, Satanist or any other religion, please respect Zeena's chosen path of tantric Buddhism and NOT misinterpret or mislabel her or these sacred mantras as "satanic". Thank you.

Video Filming: Miriam of Thorium Heavy Industries

Audio/Video Editing: The man with the green gloves

©2017, ZeenaSchreck.com | All Rights Reserved



​50th Anniversary as Ritual Performance Artist & Spiritual Warrior

San Francisco is currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. This week also marks the dark-side of the city's history. On May 23, 1967 Zeena made her international debut as performance-artist at the first public satanic baptism, orchestrated by her parents' in-house carnival show. She has commemorated the event by creating a personally charged reflective, meditative ritual in the form of a soundscape and video collage. 
[Video below]



​Kali InvoKali Invocation, at Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin.  (Live performance clip) Jan. 14, 2017

Presented by Viviana Druga for Urban Witches not Bitches#2 Exhibit 
Percussion and shruti box: Brandon Rosenbluth
Background Artwork: Shaltmira

Filmed & edited by 
Thorium Heavy Industries

Audio/video engineering by 
The Man with the Green Gloves.

©2017 All Rights Reserved



Against Time from THE LIGHTNING & THE SUN Vinyl EP

Featured Track: 'Against Time' from 'The Lightning & The Sun' & all other Radio Werewolf ambient instrumentals and cover versions now available on ''The Vinyl Solution'' CD @ http://www.zeenaschreck.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

Sonic Ritual Concert at Kantine am Berghain Berlin, February 28, 2016

Zeena Schreck
Performing Sonic Ritual Concert
at Kantine am Berghain Berlin
February 28, 2016

Accompanied by
Cory Vielma

Presented by 
GreyZone Concerts 
as 
Special Guest of
King Dude 

Filmed and Edited by
Thorium Heavy Industries

Playlist:
1. Introduction 0:33 
2. Kali Mantra 8:40 
3. An Untitled Protest (Country Joe and The Fish, Together 1968) 16:00 
4. Sethian Dream Oracle Mantra 22:35
5. Trinity (Radio Werewolf, Songs For The End Of The World 1991) 27:08 
6. Amitabha Mantra 40:28 

Zeena Schreck Performs a Typhonian Tantric Ritual Soundscape at the Egyptian Museum, Leipzig

Zeena Schreck Performs a Typhonian Tantric Ritual Soundscape at the Egyptian Museum, Leipzig
Presented by: Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival for dark music and arts.
May 23, 2015, Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig

After a twenty-four year retreat from the German music scene, this event was Zeena Schreck‘s return to sonic magic performance-art appearances in Europe. A historical event by a legendary figure of modern magic, mysticism, and experimental-ambient music—this is more than just a secular musical concert. Surrounded by the sacred, magically charged ancient artifacts housed in Leipzig’s Egyptian Museum, the performance was a unique ritual soundscape composed by Zeena especially to suit the theme of the Egyptian Museum. As Zeena is also High Priestess of Seth and leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement, the Egyptian Museum was a prime genius-loci to present ancient Egyptian aspects of Zeena’s spiritual-sonic practices. This was the second in a series of ritual music installments inaugurated with the 2013 performance-art event at The Community Church of New York, curated by Performa-13.

Historical context:
Professor Albrecht Dieterich, a student of the University of Leipzig, wrote the first study in modern times of the god Abraxas with his influential Abraxas: Studien zur Religionsgeschichte des spätern Altertums published in Leipzig in 1891. He was also one of the first scholars to work with the Greek Magical Papyri or Papyri Graecae Magicae, a collection of ancient magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals from Graeco-Roman Egypt, a body of treatises essential to Zeena’s work reviving an authentic Sethian religion in modern times. Continuing the Leipzig and WGT connection to the ancient Egyptian god Seth, Karl Preisendanz collected the texts and published them in two volumes in 1928 and 1931. A projected third volume, containing new texts and indices, reached the stage of galley proofs dated “Pentecost 1941,” (WGT is always held on Pfingsten or Pentecost), but the type was destroyed during the bombing of Leipzig during World War II.

This performance was comprised of excerpts from these very texts, thereby bringing many of these ancient spells to life once again, after thousands of years in silence, by chanting them aloud in a public house of ancient Egyptian religious artifacts.

Zeena Schreck, Live from the Eye of the Storm - Performa 13 Biennial, New York, November 8, 2013

Zeena Schreck, Live from the Eye of the Storm - Pt. 1
"The storm serves as metaphor for the chaotic and impermanent world we live in."

Performa 13 Biennial, November 8, 2013 (Pt. 1 - Typhonian mantra excerpted)
This performance marked the 11th anniversary of the Sethian Liberation Movement.
Frank Haines Presents:
Zeena Schreck, Live from the Eye of the Storm
Percussion by Hisham Akira Bharoocha & Anders Hermund

Wardrobe by Ohne Titel
Curated by Mark Beasley
Video editor: Anders Hermund


Related links:
Review: http://bushwickdaily.com/2013/11/the-...
Zeena writing for Vice magazing about the event: http://www.vice.com/read/step-into-th...
Description: http://13.performa-arts.org/event/fra... 
Artist page: http://13.performa-arts.org/artists/z...

FRANK HAINES presents:
ZEENA SCHRECK, LIVE FROM THE EYE OF THE STORM [Preview video to the performance]
Mantra & Singing Bowl: Zeena
Percussion: Hishasm Akira Bharoocha
Audio/Video: Cory Vielma

ZEENA, accompanied by Hisham Bharoocha (first percussion) and Anders Hermund (second percussion), in a vocal based work as chant tapping into the ritual use of vocalized sacred syllables from Vajrayana, Shaktism and Sethian-Typhonian left-way tantric practices, originating from emptiness, gradually transforming into a sound and voice collage on a stage set design by Frank Haines. Zeena's wardrobe by Ohne Title. 

RADIO WEREWOLF: LUCHORPAN

LUCHORPAN
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: Love Conquers All
Music by: Zeena Schreck
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved

“LUCHORPAN makes audible the faery realm, the elves, kobolds and mischievous “little people” who guard the treasures of pagan European heritage. In this case, as they appear in their Gaelic, Irish form.”
-Zeena Schreck
From the Radio Werewolf Press Release for Love Conquers All.


These Boots Are Made For Walking - Cover Version

These Boots Are Made For Walking
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: The Vinyl Solution - Analog Artifacts, Ritual Instrumentals and Undercover Versions
Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved 
Visual Choreographer: The man with the green gloves

The Vinyl Solution compiles newly remastered re-releases of 12 ambient sonic magic tracks from Zeena and Nikolas Schreck's rare Radio Werewolf vinyl recording collaborations between 1989-1992 as well as 2 bonus tracks never previously released to the public by Radio Werewolf, now for the first time in one collection.
Available HERE


SLEEPWALKER
Group: Radio Werewolf 
Album: The Lightening and the Sun / The Vinyl Solution
Music by: Zeena
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
"Sleepwalker" by Zeena, is featured on the Radio Werewolf CD "The Vinyl Solution - Analog Artifacts, Ritual Instrumentals and Undercover Versions".

PLEASURE DOME
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: Love Conquers All
Music & Vocals: Zeena
Vocals: Nikolas Schreck
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
Visual Choreographer: Tony Sokol

“PLEASURE DOME is the temple of carnal delight first approached through HEIDENTOR. A Hymn to the life-creating power of Eros, restoring the body to its sacred significance. Sex, reconsecrated as a union of eternal forces, sinless and holy.”
-Zeena Schreck
From the Radio Werewolf Press Release for Love Conquers All.


Love Conquers All
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: Love Conquers All
Music, vocals, lyrics, keyboard: Nikolas Schreck. 
Lyrics, vocals: Zeena
Viola: Vladimir Rosinski
Percussion: Christoph D.
Visual Choreographer: Tony Sokol

Lyrics

Zeena:

Full moon commands 
the tides to flow for us
in a secret sea
Love invincible

Lighthouse beckons
in this raging storm
The ship is sailing far,
far from shore

Nikolas:

Sacred rite of blood
that gave birth to thee
Fated unity
Love conquers all

Zeena:

...Conques All

Red light of Venus
shining forth
Love invincible
as morning star

When we first kissed
we knew everything
simply everything
we're a cult of two

Nikolas:

...Cult of two

Zeena:

When we first loved
we killed everyone
simply everyone
we're a cult of two

Nikolas:

...Cult of two

In your heart lays the key
to a mystery
A great mystery

Love conquers all

In your eyes 
all the secrets
of alchemy
were revealed to me

Love conquers all

In your kiss was there born 
a mythology
A new mythology
Love conquers all

Zeena:

...Conquers all

Fortuna crowns us 
with laurel leaves,
endless victories

Red light of Venus
Shining forth
as Morning Star
Morning Star 

Nikolas:

In the last crimson rays
of the setting sun
you are beautiful

Together:

Love conquers all.


LIVE at The Zurich Experiment, Dec. 30, 1991
PROLOGUE: Turn Off, Tune In, Drop Out
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: The Vinyl Solution
Vocals: Zeena & Wolfgang 
Soundscape: Zeena
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
Visual Choreographer: Tony Sokol

Text to Prologue:

[Voice: Master of Ceremonies Wolfgang]
Willkommen beim Zürich Experiment. 
Sie sind hier zusammengerufen worden, um an einem historischen Experiment in akustischer Magie teilzunehmen. Während der nächsten Minuten wird Ihr Verstand von vielen Jahren Programmierung, Fehlinformationen und gesellschaftlicher Kontrollmechanismen gesäubert und befreit werden.
Heute nacht haben Sie aus freiem Willen eine andere Dimension des Denkens betreten. Am Ende des Experiments werden Sie nicht mehr dieselbe Person sein wie bei Ihrer Ankunft an diesem Ort. 
Dankeschön.

[Voice: Alpha She-Wolf Zeena]
Good Evening. You've tuned into Radio Werewolf, the Voice of Terror, broadcasting at a frequency of 666 megahertz. The following is a Transmission of the Nightmare Network.
Thank You.
________________________
English translation:
Welcome to the Zurich experiment.
You have been summoned here to participate in a historic experiment in acoustic magic. During the next few minutes, your minds will be cleansed and freed from many years of programming, misinformation and social control mechanisms.
Tonight you have voluntarily entered another dimension of thought. At the end of the experiment, you will not be the same person as you were when you arrived at this location.
Thank you.
________________________
Zeena and Nikolas Schreck ceremonially concluded the legendary sonic-magic project Radio Werewolf with The Zürich Experiment, held at the historic Kaufleuten concert hall, Zurich, Switzerland at Midnight, December 30, 1991. 
This live recording from that event has been digitally remastered in 2012 and is available on The Vinyl Solution - CD

SALON KITTY
Group: Radio Werewolf

Album: Love Conquers All
Vocals, lyrics: Zeena
Music, keyboard: Nikolas Schreck
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
Visual Choreographer: Tony Sokol

LYRICS

Let me tell you sweet
a tale about a kitty.
She was a little spy
she kept her litter pretty

Some girls catch butterflies;
some like precious jewels;
this cat collects secrets
from her drooling menagerie of fools

Where do the secrets go
when the life of kitty dies?
Does she take them to the grave,
or bring them back with her next life?

Some kitties play with string,
some enjoy little mice.
The kitties who play with danger
are sure to play with your life.

The walls have eyes.
Cats have nine lives.
If you laugh now,
A cat may someday be your wife.

You may wonder how, 
I know all these nasty secrets.
When the birdies start to tweet,
I go into one of my cat-fits.

Some people hear pretty music,
some hear a ring in their head.
I hear your anguished stories
as you lay still in bed.

The walls have ears.
Keep shut your fears.
Or they will haunt you 
when you stare into the mirror.

The walls have eyes.
Cats have nine lives.
You may try to run, 
but you can never hide.

When this present life
of mine comes to an end,
and you think my mewer's shut tight
remember I'll come back again.

So next time you see a cat cross,
with the flickering of her tail,
I may be fixing to pounce
And drain your blood 'til you're pale.

The walls have eyes.
Cats have nine lives.
And you will see those eyes 
before you when you die.
​
***************************


T.W.O. 
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: Love Conquers All
Music, lyrics, keyboard, vocals: Zeena
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
Visual Choreographer: Tony Sokol

LYRICS

Two becomes one
One becomes none
None becomes forever
Again and again

Beauty and Beast
Blended in bliss
by the serpent's kiss

Between sleeping and waking 
is dreaming.

Venus and Mars
Love and War
No one ever wonders 
why it's not so anymore.

Is romance dead?
Chivalry forgotten?
In this time of decadence.

Brother and sister
share secret love
Twin lives together
as hand and glove

Fire melts ice
Day turns to night
Life becomes death
No wrong, no right 

Blood flows from the heart
Thoughts flow from the brain
emotion is real only in 
your own game

Armor and lace
Dagger and rose
We hold in this long embrace

Between breathing and loving 
is living

Now stand man and woman
At the break of day
Destiny awaits them
They soar far away

Two will be as one 

Always.
*************
​


HEIDENTOR
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: Love Conquers All
Music, lyrics, keyboard, vocals: Zeena
Percussion: Christoph D.
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
Visual Choreographer: The man with the green gloves

LYRICS

Down, down, down, through
the ages of lost forgotten souls.
Feel dizzy approaching the gate;
hear primal screams -- don't run, it's too late.

Dance with me, dance with me she laughs
You cry as you're slowly sucked under
Midsummernight's sky.

Succubus, succubus never is late
and a victim is waiting at Pagan Gate.

Spinning her web 
'round your twirling head.
She sucks you dry
while you wish you were dead.

There's blood on her lips;
your fate in her eyes.
But you'll not see it 
with your head 'tween her thighs.

Rain washes like fire
in Summer soon dear;
morbid desire has no
room for fear.

At Heidentor
Heidentor.

Dance with me, dance with me, she laughs.
You cry as you're slowly sucked under
Midsummernight's sky.

Succubus, succubus never is late
when a victim is waiting at Pagan Gate.

At Heidentor
Heidentor
Heidentor.

There's blood on her lips;
your fate in her eyes.
But you'll not see it 
with your head 'tween her thighs.

Spinning her web 
'round your twirling head.
She sucks you dry
while you wish you were dead.

Can you hear the hot winds howl
and the footfall of the prowl?
Initiation now complete in 
closed, dark chambers of your sleep.

Only one short night ago
you entered these doors
from mortal sorrow.

Tomorrow morning you wake
with strange sensation 
that lust you will take.

At Heidentor
Heidentor
Heidentor.

Now you are she 
in this endless fate.
As the next one awaits you,
at Pagan Gate.
*****************

PRINCE WILDWOLF
Group: Radio Werewolf
Album: Love Conquers All
Music: Ron Jamerson
Text, vocals: Kirby
Vocals: Zeena
Keyboard: Audrey Kitzen
Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved
Visual Choreographer: Tony Sokol

LYRICS

Female:

From Verenal comes 
the Prince Wildwolf
Riding surreptitiously
on phantom wagons
from town to town

Usually he is seen riding 
on one of the coach horses
On this particular occasion
he rides into the banquet hall
and dismounts

His sharp dogs claws
won't catch on the hard waxen floor
So he falls and is unable to stand

Her Majesty the Queen enters
with a cat up to her cheek
and throws everybody out
then squeals as she spots her 
unexpected visitor

He speaks in a growling voice
that only she can understand

Male:

“I'm from Kambach. Kambach.
I'm the wolf of the Kambach road.
A good place to lose your whatnot.
I take you now for my shameful
wicked new-mown hay girl.

“This means make a wish 
to Faltenheim filth
...I've already made mine
And hurl salt over your shoulder
at Midnight”

Can such a wild werewolf be tamed?
He is smelling the new-mown hay 
for perhaps the last time.

Seeing as the Prince is a werewolf,
Her Majesty kisses him
and she becomes one also

Female:

“My Highness is craziness
and yet this Highness is me
(Howl)”

The wolves go into the chapel
Their black fur is left on the pews
Then their amorous chase
continues out into the garden

Male:

“I know your name, your Highness
but do you know mine?

Female:

“Of course! You're the snarling
Prince Wildwolf
And when I'm in my nightgown
you'll linger in my shadow

“I'll be punished for losing 
my whatnots
But then, what's a good
whatnot for?

“Sing me dead 
and kiss me dead
Hold me close 
and never wake me”

Male:

“I play dark music 
to the gown of your Highness
I foam at the lips 
whenever I kiss you”

Female:

“The Prince Wildwolf
seeps into her shadow
and joins her in the dark
of her royal bedroom”

Together:

Sing me dead
and kiss me dead
Hold me close
and never wake me
******************
​

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