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calebt on 07/18/2009 at 11:35AM
What's in a Name
"Between the twelth [sic] and the fourteenth centuries, nearly all the major heretical sects - the Templars, the Waldensians, the Cathars -- were accused of worshipping the Devil in the form of a large black cat. Many contemporary accounts described how their rituals involved the sacrifice of innocent children, cannibalism, grotesque sexual orgies, and obscene acts of ceremonial obeisance toward huge cats which were supposedly kissed on the anus (sub cauda)"
-from The Domestic Cat, edited by Dennis C. Turner & Patrick Bateson
Just in case you were wondering, that's where the name Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat comes from. Stef Heeren makes eerie, Belgian psych folk under that pagan moniker, but the church hasn't stopped him yet. They did, however, burn all the other Knights Templar at the stake, so it's best to get his recordings while you still can. A few of Heeren's tracks are available on the FMA, and they'll only leave you wanting more. Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat is another Kraak superstar, so you can see why WFMU has such an affinity for the label. He's had plenty of airtime to date, and now his tracks are persecution-proofed forever in our archive, no matter what kind of grotesque sexual orgies Heeren gets himself involved in.
