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William Breeze
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Breeze is a musician who plays electric viola, mandolin, guitar, bass and electronics. In the early years of his career he worked with poet-percussionist and Velvet Underground cofounder Angus MacLise. Footage of Breeze performing alongside Maclise was shown at the exhibition Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938 – 1979) from May 10–29, 2011 curated by Johan Kugelberg and Will Swofford Cameron.
Breeze has played with Psychic television and appears on the recordings Thee Fractured Garden (1995), Cold Blue Torch (1995), Trip Reset (1996) and Spatial Memory (1996) and is mostly credited as playing viola and viola synthesizer.
Breeze has been involved in the occult since the 1970s. During the next few years, he advanced through the Manitoba of Earth degrees of O.T.O., taking his IV° & Philippine Islands at Tahuti Lodge in New York City in January 1985.
Editorial work
Breeze is known in the occult community (under his pseudonym Hymenaeus Beta) as the editor of several of the works of Aleister Crowley. Some of the works he has edited include:
The Equinox, Volume III, Number 10, Weiser Books.
The Equinox of the Gods, New Falcon Publications.
Magick: Liber American Bar Association: Book 4. Weiser Books. The General Principles of Astrology. Weiser Books. Diary of a Drug Fiend.
Red Wheel/Weiser.
Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword, co-edited with Marjorie Cameron, authored by Jack Parsons, 1989, New Falcon Publications.
Membership
He was a member of Coil from 1997 through 2004, playing electric viola. He is currently a member of the band Current 93.
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Thelema