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Artist:	COIL
Title:	Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1
Label:	CHALICE (THAILAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	GRAAL 003CD

New digipak reissues from Peter Christopherson's new homebase in Thailand! The best and most desirable Coil albums of all time, unavailable for years and years -- finally back! "The fourth 'official' Coil CD. It replaces Backwards (scheduled for Trent Reznor's Nothing label) as the follow up to 1991's Love's Secret Domain. The speed and spontaneity of the recordings might have resulted in a leaner, more sparing production, but Musick is still hallmarked by the special care Coil take in minting new, idiosyncratic sounds. Working through sleep-deprived states, in which body and mind simultaneously register every slight, shuddering change caused by the mixing desk's variations in timbre, tone colour and tempo, Coil have come up with a particularly unstable molecule as the base unit of Musick. The way these are strung together in loose silvery ribbons gives the album its special, weirdly ectoplasmic feel." --Biba Kopf/The Wire

Artist:	COIL
Title:	Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2
Label:	CHALICE (THAILAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	GRAAL 005CD

New 2006 repressing of this year 2000 classic! "Jon Balance, Peter Christopherson and Thighpaulsandra release the follow up to the classic Musick To Play In The Dark Volume 1. This release sees Rose McDowall from Sorrow adding her pixie vocals to some of the proceedings. Comes in a digipak." "Coil return with their second record that seems to be devoted to all things lunar, hot on the heels of their excellent Astral Disaster. Like the last volume, the songs, seeming structured more by some startlingly good intuition more than anything else, sonically unfold like a great story; the surprises genuine, subtle instead of affected. The attention to detail is exquisite, and I imagine the care put into the way their records sound would make most of their contemporaries question their ear or work ethic or both. Especially fine: the opener 'Something,' which seems to mutate its mood so completely by the end that I was wondering where it started, and the second to last track 'Where Are You?' (the first time on the record Jon Balance's vocals are untreated; listen closely and he's inside your head). Though one could sort through the landscapes here and come up with a short speculative list of what they've been listening to (AE, perhaps INA-GRM stuff), ultimately Coil sound like nothing but themselves." -- Billy Kiely

Artist:	COIL
Title:	The Remote Viewer
Label:	THRESHOLD HOUSE (THAILAND)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	THBKK 001CD

Restocked. New "deluxe" version of this obscure Coil release, pressed in Thailand. Previously released as a CD-R only in an edition of 500, sold on tour in 2004 -- and generally impossible to get. The first CD features 3 versions of "Remote Viewing", by the Coil lineup of Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Ossian Brown, Cliff Stapleton & Mike York. This new version (w/ standard manufactured CDs) adds a 3" CD of bonus material using original sounds and sources of the period, recorded in 2006. Comes in a double card wallet (similar to The Ape of Naples), containing "sympathetically remastered" versions of the original CD-R album.

Artist:	COIL
Title:	Black Antlers
Label:	THRESHOLD HOUSE (THAILAND)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	THBKK 002CD

New "deluxe" version of Coil's Black Antlers, pressed in Thailand. With exclusive bonus 3" added for the first pressing, featuring the tracks "Departed" and "Things We Never Had." These are new 2006 Peter Christopherson productions. "Available only on dates of Coil's Even an Evil Fatigue tour in 2004, Black Antlers is a stopgap release that consists of early studio and live versions of songs that were being worked on for the next official studio album. Due to Jhonn Balance's accidental death, most of the tracks on Black Antlers would become final yet unpolished versions." --All Music Guide

Artist:	COIL
Title:	...and the ambulance died in his arms
Label:	THRESHOLD HOUSE (THAILAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	THRESH 001CD

New 2006 repress from Thailand. "The first Coil release post the death of founder Jhonn Balance is a limited edition release of the band's All Tomorrow's Parties performance in April 2003. Five tracks spanning an hour from Balance, Sleazy, Thighpaulsandra and Tom Edwards of Coil's extraordinary enveloping, psychedelic electronics, all pieces previously unreleased save the closing version of 'The Dreamer Is Still Asleep.' A first monument to an amazing talent."

Artist:	COIL
Title:	The Ape of Naples
Label:	THRESHOLD HOUSE (THAILAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	THRESH 002CD

Repressed! "This will be the final ever album from Coil -- sure to become a classic in the traditions of melodic Coil albums like the Music to Play in the Dark series, Love's Secret Domain and of Horse Rotorvator and Scatology. It includes songs recorded in Trent Reznor's New Orleans studio, now extensively re-worked by Peter in light of events, right through to new works that Jhonn Balance recorded the vocals for, just days before his death." Features material written and performed over the years 1982-2005, packaged in cardboard sleeve with extensive fold-out lyric sheet/poster. An stunning final chapter from Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson, perfectly realized.

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