We wish to thank Old Evropa Cafe, Energy Zone and the Siddharta music club for inviting Black Sun Productions to perform at the IV Congresso Post-Industriale last April 7th in Parto, Italy.


We've felt home at the Congresso and we are overwhelmed by the reactions to our participation and to Chemism, which was released that night.


We especially wish to thank the fantastic audience who attended the event in such great number and who showed us so much love and support. Despite the technical problems occoured during our set, we loved performing in front of you and we had an amazing time sharing with you all the energy of that eventful night. You've been so good to us that we already miss you... We love you all and we hope to see you again soon.


THANKS & LOVE


Massimo & Pierce of Black Sun Productions

CHEMISM

Dedicated to William S. Burroughs on the 10th anniversary since his death, CHEMISM Black Sun Productions' new album on Old Evropa Cafe, is largely inspired by William S. Burroughs' 1971 novel The Wild Boys.

"I believe that you Pierce and Massimo and Drazen and you all are William Burrough's WILD BOYS come over into the REAL WORLD. I know he would have loved you all and blessed you with his word and picture spells. I wish you could have know him. Still... IN DREAMS he exists as strong and salty as a river of sigils and sperm. " - Jhonn Balance, April 2002



"The Wild Boys introduces several themes into the author's magical universe: the struggle to escape the mechanisms of social control; the search for transcendence of the biological trap of duality, and the narrator's ability to rewrite (and thereby destroy) his own past. The Wild Boys, subtitled "A book of the dead" has been described by some critics as a homosexual version of 'Peter Pan'. Set in an apocalyptic near-future, The Wild Boys contrasts the struggle between the remnants of civilisation which exist in totalitarian enclaves and the wild boys - a revolutionary tribe of youths who exist in a utopian, instinctual state. The wild boys exist outside of the conventions of civilisation, free from the control mechanisms of religion, nation, family and 'normal' sexuality. A magical universe, where rigorous training in guerrilla tactics leads towards specialised biological mutations; where the total gratification of desire creates a magical technology of liberation.



The wild boys themselves live as a tribe - without leaders or hierarchy but with a shared group consciousness. Rather than being individual characters, they are a manifestation of all that is repressed in civilised society, in particular, the forces we know as Eros and Thanatos. In the novel, the wild boys periodically explode into orgies of wild, unstoppable violence or lust. Through the use of drugs and sex, the wild boys discover a magical technology of restoring the dead to life, and so free themselves from biological dependence on women, birth, and death. Lacking an individual sense of self, they can cross to and from the land of the dead and exist in a liminal state between the worlds. They are, within Burroughs' magical universe, a male-only version of the maenads, representing the chaotic power of instinctual desire when manifested in a living form. Also, they can be likened to the ancient Greek Pan, manifesting as the call to the wild, which reaches out to the susceptible. In The Wild Boys, the image of a smiling wild boy becomes a hugely popular media icon which spreads the wild-boy virus across civilisation, causing more and more youths to join the wild boys.



The wild boys are a utopian (perhaps dystopian) fantasy, but that is the whole point. As an articulation of Burroughs' need to escape the confines of modern culture, he has created a beachhead into an alternative dream. The wild boys present not only a homoerotic fantasy of immediate sexual gratification, but also the potentiality to be a space where new forms of 'otherness' might develop." - Phil Hine, 2000