COIL BLUE DEREK JARMAN 7" LP THROBBING GRISTLE-NWW-RARE

	£		36
	$		48

COIL

THEMES FOR DEREK JARMAN'S BLUE 7" 

Loci 01

Limited Edition: 619/1000 copies 

Mega rare early release limited to 1000 numbered copies in blue vinyl prepared to commemorate Coil's appearence on the soundtrack of Derek Jarman's film Blue. 

Some info on the release: Extremely tough to track down Coil release. This is the original 1st edition and only edition (sold out ages ago) released on Threshold House and coming with the numbered card insert (your copy #619/1000) in a plastic clear sleeve. Only 1000 of these babies in existence. Close to the sounds of Zoviet France, Nurse with wound, Thomas Koner and Giancarlo Toniutti, Hafler Trio, Whitehouse, John Duncan, Maurizio Bianchi. Recommended. 

Formed in London in 1983 by John Balance as a solo side project to Psychic TV, the project soon developed into a full-scale musical group in 1984, when he cemented a partnership with Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Christopherson had been a founder of Psychic TV and member of Throbbing Gristle. For over twenty years Coil had been at the forefront of European experimentalism and electronic music. Peter Christopherson has decided that, with the passing of Jhonn Balance, Coil cannot continue. Coil used also the aliases ELpH, The Eskaton, Time Machines, Sickness of Snakes and Black Light District. As early as 1985, the group began working on a series of soundtracks, amongst them music for the first Hellraiser movie based on the novel The Hellbound Heart by their acquaintance at that time, Clive Barker. Following Gosling's departure Balance and Christopherson teamed up with Boyd Rice, and under the alias Sickness of Snakes released the split album Nightmare Culture with the experimental group Current 93. Coil's expansive line-up led to an ever-evolving style not readily pigeonholed into a single genre. They worked in such genres as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, drone music, and minimalism, creating what Balance explicitly referred to as "magickal music". Although Coil expressed interest in many musical groups, they rarely, if ever, claimed to be influenced by them. Coil explicitly stated the influence of such non-musical sources as William Burroughs, Aleister Crowley, Bryon Gysin and Austin Spare. Furthermore, the group were friends with Burroughs and owned some of Spare's original artwork. John Balance encouraged fans to trade, discuss and discover new and different forms of music, stressing the importance of variety. Music that Coil expressed interest in is diverse and wide-ranging, from musique concrete to folk music to hardcore punk to classical. Among the musical artists Coil expressed interest in are the early electronic, experimental and minimalistic pioneers: Harry Partch, La Monte Young,  Karlheinz Stockhausen (once referred to by Balance as "an honorary member of Coil"), Alvin Lucier, and Arvo Pärt. Coil also expressed interest in krautrock groups including Cluster, Amon Düül II, Can, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. Rock musicians and groups Coil have expressed interest in are: Angus Maclise, Captain Beefheart, Flipper, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Nico, Pere Ubu, The Birthday Party, The Velvet Underground and The Virgin Prunes. Coil expressed an interest in the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, and in 1986 used a sample of a piece of his music on the Horse Rotorvator song "The Anal Staircase". Furthermore, on the album Black Antlers Coil dedicated a song to Sun Ra and covered a song by Bam Bam. Coil's influence on electronic music has become more evident since the death of Balance with electronic musicians from all over the world collaborating on a series of tribute albums. Some notable artists who appeared on these albums are Alec Empire, Chris Connelly and K.K. Null (see ...It Just Is). Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor has also expressed his influence by the group. The track "At The Heart Of It All" (found on Scatology) later became the name of an Aphex Twin track on Nine Inch Nails remix album Further Down the Spiral. It is possible that Trent Reznor named the track as a reference to Coil, since Coil also provided remixes for Further Down the Spiral.

Condition: Excellent condition for vinyl, while plastic cover lies in excellent condition too, gently used.

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