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Megalithomania!
''Megalithomania!'' is a live album by Coil recorded at their performance at the Megalithomania festival at Conway Hall in London, England. It is limited to a pressing of 230 copies, 123 of which were available in their box set ''The Key to Joy Is Disobedience''. This performance consists of an extended performance of only one song, "The Universe Is a Haunted House", which has never been released as a studio version. Another live version of the song appears on ''Live Four''; it is also listed on "CD B" of '' Live One'', although it is actually the same track as "Blue Chasms". Track listing #"The Universe Is a Haunted House" – 40:22 Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes. Coil * Jhon Balance – musician * Peter Christopherson – musician * Thighpaulsandra – musician * Ossian Brown – musician Additional personnel * Danny Hyde – sound engineer References External links * * ''Megalithomania!''at Brainwashed Brainwashed may refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thighpaulsandra
Timothy Lewis – best known by the stage name Thighpaulsandra – is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist, known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. He began his career working with Julian Cope in the late 1980s, becoming a member of Cope's touring band. A collaboration with Cope in 1993 followed, forming the experimental duo Queen Elizabeth. In 1997, former Cope guitarist Mike Mooney invited Thighpaulsandra to fill in for the departing Kate Radley on a Spiritualized tour, and he remained with the band until early 2008. In 1998, Lewis also became a member of the experimental band Coil. He has subsequently released several solo albums under the Thighpaulsandra moniker. Lewis currently performs and records as part of URUK with Massimo Pupillo (of Italian band Zu) and UUUU, a band also featuring Valentina Magaletti and Wire members Graham Lewis and Matthew Simms. He has also been playing with The Charlatans' Tim Burgess since 2020, as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Key To Joy Is Disobedience
''The Key to Joy Is Disobedience'' was a box set released by the group Coil. It contains the following releases: '' Live Four'', '' Live Three'', '' Live Two'', '' Live One'', ''ANS'', and '' Megalithomania!''. Background The set is often incorrectly referred to as "Live Box". Upon its release, the set cost just under $200. Other than CDs, the set contains four art prints, one of which is signed and one of which contains an actual drawing. A list of beast boxes is included as well. A black glass disc and a clear glass disc are also included, supposedly for scrying use. The set is sealed with a sticker that must be broken in order to access its contents. The box set's title is based on a line from Aleister Crowley'"Hymn to Lucifer" "The Key of Joy is disobedience." Edition This box set is limited to an edition of 100 normal copies and 23 special copies, which are subtitled "Beast Box". These so-called "beast boxes" each have their own individual titles. The titles are as foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossian Brown
Ossian Brown (born 3 April 1969, London, England) is an English musician and artist, most notable for being a member of the groups Coil and Cyclobe. He joined Coil in 1999 and remained with them until the band’s cessation following the death of singer John Balance in 2004. He worked on several albums and performed live with the group at The Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican in London, and numerous venues throughout Europe. Brown formed Cyclobe in 1996 with his partner Stephen Thrower (also a one-time member of Coil). They released their first album ''Luminous Darkness'' in 1999, named after a series of paintings by their friend, the filmmaker Derek Jarman. Cyclobe went on to release a number of albums, most notably ''Wounded Galaxies Tap at The Window'' (2010). The group seldom perform live: their first and only concert in the United Kingdom was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in 2012, at the invitation of singer and artist Anohni, who performed with them for this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ANS (box)
''ANS'' is a box set by Coil. The album uses a strange and esoteric photoelectric synthesizer known as the ANS synthesizer. It was built around half a century ago and still to this day sits where it was originally conceived; in the Moscow State University. Release history This 3 CD release also came with a DVD that held animations created by Peter Christopherson which synched with four songs that are not included on any of the CDs. It is an expanded release of ''ANS'', with CD A being the same as that release. Originally limited to 500 copies, it was re-released together with several other albums. The re-release appears to be mostly identical to the original edition, the only notable difference being that the front covers of the CDs and DVD are slightly different now. Several of the drawings that were made to create the music are shown, although it is nowhere stated to which track the drawings do correspond. It is stated in the insert that the songs are the work of Jhonn Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coil (band)
Coil were an English experimental music group formed in 1982 in London and dissolved in 2005. Initially envisioned as a solo project by musician John Balance (of the band Psychic TV), Coil evolved into a full-time project with the addition of his partner and Psychic TV bandmate Peter Christopherson, formerly of pioneering industrial music group Throbbing Gristle. Coil's work explored themes related to the occult, sexuality, alchemy, and drugs while influencing genres such as gothic rock, neofolk and dark ambient. AllMusic called the group "one of the most beloved, mythologized groups to emerge from the British post-industrial music, post-industrial scene." After the release of their 1984 debut EP ''How to Destroy Angels (Coil EP), How to Destroy Angels'', Coil joined Some Bizzare Records, through which they released two full-length albums, ''Scatology (album), Scatology'' (1984) and ''Horse Rotorvator'' (1986). In 1985, the group began working on a series of soundtracks, among th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live One (Coil Album)
''Live One'' was a double live album released by Coil. This CD was the fourth of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are ''Live Four'', ''Live Three'' and ''Live Two''. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set ''The Key to Joy Is Disobedience''. Background "CD A" was originally released as ''Coil Presents Time Machines''. It is a recording of a performance which took place on 2 April 2000 at the Cornucopea festival in the Royal Festival Hall in London, England. "CD B" is a recording of a live concert that took place at Sónar in Barcelona, Spain on 17 June 2000. The studio instrumental used during this performance has surfaced on the internet. The video for this show is also available on the ''Colour Sound Oblivion'' 16DVD set. "Everything Keeps Dissolving", "Blue Chasms" and "Elves" are otherwise unreleased. However, "Elves" was widely circulated on the bootleg ''Backwards'', in its original studio form; That version, however, is notably absent of Balanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Hyde
Danny Hyde is an experimental musician and remix artist. Hyde has contributed to production and mixing on many Coil albums, including ''Horse Rotorvator'', ''Love's Secret Domain'', ''The Remote Viewer'', '' Black Antlers'',''The Ape of Naples'', and '' The New Backwards''. Hyde has also worked with Psychic TV and Pop Will Eat Itself. Hyde participated in the creation of many remixes while working with Coil, including several for Nine Inch Nails that were released on ''Fixed'', ''Closer To God'' and certified gold release ''Further Down the Spiral'' as well as the rerelease of quadruple-platinum album ''The Downward Spiral''. His remix of Nine Inch Nails' song "Closer" was featured in the film ''Seven''. Hyde's solo effort, Aural Rage, features contributions by Coil members John Balance and Peter Christopherson. Following the passing of John Balance and the subsequent end of Coil, Hyde assisted Christopherson with ''The Remote Viewer'' and '' Black Antlers'' reissues, Christophe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Christopherson
Peter Martin Christopherson (also known as Sleazy, 27 February 1955 – 25 November 2010) was an English musician, video director, commercial artist, designer and photographer, and former member of British design agency Hipgnosis. He also founded the Industrial Records band Throbbing Gristle (TG). After the disbandment of Throbbing Gristle, he participated in the formation of Psychic TV along with Genesis P-Orridge and Geoff Rushton—Rushton later changed his name to John Balance. After his short time in Psychic TV, Christopherson formed Coil with Balance, which lasted for just under 23 years, until Balance died of a fall in the Weston-super-Mare home he shared with Christopherson. Christopherson participated in the reunification of Throbbing Gristle and, after his relocation to Thailand in 2005, composed an album for his solo endeavour The Threshold HouseBoys Choir. Christopherson died in his sleep on 25 November 2010. Early life Christopherson was born on 27 February 1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Balance
Geoffrey Nigel Laurence Rushton (16 February 1962 – 13 November 2004), better known under the pseudonyms John Balance or the later variation Jhonn Balance, was an English musician, occultist, artist and poet. He was best known as a co-founder of the experimental music group Coil, in collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson.. Coil was active from 1982 to Balance's death in 2004. He was responsible for the majority of Coil's vocals, lyrics and chants, along with synthesizers and various other instruments both commonplace and esoteric. Outside Coil he collaborated with Cultural Amnesia (at the beginning of the 1980s), Nurse with Wound, Death in June, Psychic TV, Current 93, Chris & Cosey, Thighpaulsandra, and produced several Nine Inch Nails remixes. Early life and career Balance was born Geoffrey Laurence Burton. He took the surname 'Rushton' from his stepfather. During his teens, Balance became acquainted with Christopherson as a fan of the latter's g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brainwashed (website)
Brainwashed is a not-for-profit music website supporting eclectic music. Brainwashed features news, reviews, a podcast, hosts websites for many musical artists and record labels, and has organized two music festivals, Brainwaves. Over fifty people contribute to the archives of Brainwashed. Brainwashed also releases music as Brainwashed Recordings. History Brainwashed.com was launched on April 16, 1996 for the purpose of hosting Web sites for various musical artists. The sites contained news, discography, press releases, interviews, photos, merchandise, sound files, lyrics, tour dates when available. The original sites included Meat Beat Manifesto, Greater Than One, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, and Cabaret Voltaire. Sites like Meat Beat Manifesto, Coil, and the Legendary Pink Dots were recognized by the artists as official at the time and the URLs were printed in numerous releases, others like Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Four
''Live Four'' was a compilation CD of live Coil songs. This CD was the first of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are ''Live Three'', ''Live Two'' and '' Live One''. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set ''The Key to Joy Is Disobedience''. Background The performance dates for "Bang Bang" and "An Unearthly Red" were performed in Prague on 27 October 2002. "I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves)", "Last Rites of Spring", "Are You Shivering", "Amethyst Deceivers", "The Universe is a Haunted House", "Ostia" and "I Don't Want To Be The One" are from a performance that took place on 29 October 2002 at Flex in Vienna, Austria. "I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves)", "The Universe is a Haunted House", "Bang Bang" and "An Unearthly Red" are songs that have never had a proper studio release. "Last Rites of Spring" was originally released in studio form as "The Last Rites of Spring" on the album ''Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)''. "Are You Shivering?" was orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
