We have a fondness for music.

We like music that haunts us whole and grants us a door to the dream. Music ochre and buried, liminal and limitless. We like music that pokes at the edges of sound, of geography, of taxonomy. Music that watches without flinching. Sky-stretched music. Music tender and tremulous, possessive and possessed. Music that knows what it can’t live without.

Established in 2015, Half Mystic is an international, independent, and interdisciplinary publishing project dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. The work of our contributors and authors has been recognised by Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, the Pushcart Prize, the MTV Video Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, the Grammy Awards, and beyond.

Our free blog showcases essays, interviews, histories, and selections that form and fortify the shape of music at once as hum, as howl, as hymn. Our semiannual books are experiments in obsession and ritual, pulse points set to 4/4 time, a sacred muck of voices once unsung and unheard. Our annual journal issues are limited edition collections of poetry, prose, and visual art featuring the work of 20 contributors devoted to a single musical theme. Our live and online gatherings perform literature and music in conversation and context. This is the music we came for: the wreck, and not the story of the wreck. The thing itself, and not the myth.

We believe in sacrifice and solitude, in dissonance and defiance, in wildflowers and wallflowers, in the mundane and the marvellous, in all things full of gods. We believe in the strange and fragile beast of desire. We believe in cataclysm. We believe in resurrection. We believe in truth.

And mostly, we believe in music.

To be honest, even after a decade we’re not entirely sure what that means—but this project is our best attempt at figuring it out, one carefully crafted release at a time.

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