The Perfect Guy

After many months of endless work, I am pleased to say my album, The Perfect Guy, is finally out.

As usual, I play all the instruments and do all the vocals and write all the lyrics. Completing an album takes so much effort, thought process, and late nights and weekends. But it is finally here.

You can access my Spotify by simply searching my name ‘H Bastawy‘ or following the link next to what you are reading here.

With it being Halloween, you can put the album on while reading some of my books. Suggestions for Halloween include:

Vampire on Fire

&

Lord Sandwich, the Count of White Blood Cells

You can find the books here.

I have also been busy completing a project I started many years ago: a book called Transcendentalism.

I started this book many years ago in a notebook at Starbucks in Chapel Allerton here in Leeds, in the midst of the first attack.

I have finally completed it many years later after the second attack.

I won as usual, even more formidably than the first time and exposed a lot of falsehoods and fake information.

Transcendentalism is the science and philosophy of the transcendent anomaly, and opening the mind to infinite possibilities. You can buy the book here.

The Apolliad: Le Chanson de Soleil

The Apolliad is a continuation of The Hesiad series. It marks the end of an era and the beginning of another in the incarnations of the main character of both series. The Apolliad is a series of two books, subtitled Le Chanson de Soleil. The subtitle pays homage to the spirit of the previous series and acknowledges the global nature of the character’s multifaceted lives in its polysemic interpretations.

Le Chanson de Soleil means ‘the song of the sun’ in French. I chose the subtitle after careful consideration and the choice of a French subtitle is for its linguistic, literary and historical attributes rather than for any geographical or particularly French associations. The subtitle pays tribute to other legends chronicled also in rhyme, mostly in French, about a millenia ago, as well as reflects the character’s life which spans several thousand years.

As for the title itself, The Apolliad, it is after Apollo. Apollo is a god of light of antiquity, who is also an incarnation of Horus, and a manifestaion of Zeus and Thor. In The Apolliad, the main character, lays grounds for a long-lasting empire and culminates a journey that spanned several thousand years.

The bookcover is after one of my paintings. The sun and the hawk are one and the same. They are almost one being, or several beings in a state of constant becoming or everlasting unison. The themes of the painting, or the bookcover in this case, flirt with other tales from antiquities of similar motifes albeit of a different nature.

Pegasus

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Approved the cover proof for my book The Hesiad: A Brief Diary of a Heretical God. It is the first in a trilogy that traces the journey of a main character across several incarnations. The trilogy is lyrical verse and it is rooted in classical mythology. It is also highly influenced by some of my travels and adventures.

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