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Ben Harris Profoundly uncomfortable listening. You’ll likely miss most of the spoken word elements during the first spin, partly because of the raw and heavily accented delivery, and partly because the few snippets you’ll notice are so appalling and abject that you may fear closer scrutiny. Both somehow barbaric and transcendental in a way too few industrial bands can match nowadays. Favorite track: Baptism of Fire.
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Cold Spring are proud to announce the complete recording of ‘A Slow Fade To Total Transparency’. Recorded 24th August 1983, at the Air Gallery, London, UK.
All audio has been remastered from the original tapes, is previously unreleased, and is EXCLUSIVE to this release.
Personnel for the performance — John Balance (Coil), John Gosling (Zos Kia), Marc Almond (Soft Cell) and live mix by Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle).
Liner notes by Michel Faber (‘Under The Skin’, ‘The Crimson Petal And The White’).
1. «HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS» — the complete 23 minute piece.
2. «HOW TO DESTROY ANGELS — ZOS KIA REMIX» — a 9 minute unheard remix by John Gosling.
3. «BAPTISM OF FIRE» — unreleased recording of Zos Kia / Coil at Recession Studios, London, England, October 12, 1983.
Michel Faber: «Imagine how out-of-step with the dominant culture COIL were when they unveiled themselves in the Air Gallery to perform A Slow Fade To Total Transparency. Subtitled How To Destroy Angels, the music — a backing track prepared by JOHN BALANCE, JOHN GOSLING and PETER CHRISTOPHERSON — bears only scant resemblance to the How To Destroy Angels 12″ that Coil would release as their debut vinyl the following year. Instead of the meditative ritual gongs of the 12″, what we hear here is a restless, queasy melange of industrial noise, its eerie whistles the perfect backdrop for MARC ALMOND as he recites a bitter tirade against an ex-lover».
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«One of those rare moments in time when a seminal label digs up a thirty-five year-old gem in all it’s dusty profound glory. it recalls a lost understanding of the true underground of the era. the players here really understood the thrill of unabashed performative freedom without repercussions. This recording provides an unmasked look into the hard-edged intersection between live performance, poetry and sound for what it was, packed with unfiltered, raw energy». (Tone Shift)
«The audio of the performance has been superbly cleaned up. This is classic Almond though, uninhibited and set free from the confines of the lyrical pop song format. How To Destroy Angels is a worthwhile audio document of the raw vision of one of the earliest manifestations of Coil. The performance is visceral and extreme. [it] also marked the beginning of an enduring relationship between Marc Almond and Coil. an essential document in the early history of Coil involving performance, ritual and music». (Compulsion)
«. this is a real rarity, which sheds new light on the origins of band whose effect has been significant and enduring. Moreover, it’s not only vastly illuminating in context of the nascent Coil sound, but a document which joints a number of dots in the wider context: and for that, this is an essential release». (Aural Aggravation)
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Coil + Zos Kia + Marc Almond – How To Destroy Angels
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Track 1: Recorded live at The Air Gallery 24/8/83
Track 3: Recorded live at the Recession Studios 12/10/83
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My wife just unknowingly gave this the most accurate review I’ve seen so far. «It sounds like something you would hear playing at a haunted house.»
Here we have an uncut, longer version of Coil’s first ever live performance from 1983, released originally on the «Transparent» CD and the previous «How to Destroy Angels» CD, which have already been remastered and re-issued before, as recently as 2017, and received scathing reviews from me.
I am a Coil fanatic, obsessed for many years with their unique pagan ambient ethos and luminous, clear sound design, and so I feel compelled to make it clear that this album represents very little of what made Coil unique. It is little more than an exploratory stumble by inexperienced artists who have yet to find their direction. I had hope I would not have to contend with continued posthumous attempts to milk the so-called value of this early performance, separated by many years from all of Coil’s notable works, and with few traces of the artists’ personalities, which I grew to recognize.
The record label is doing a significant amount of hype and puffery to ascribe undue importance to this recording. The press release, for example, states, «Imagine how out-of-step with the dominant culture Coil were when they unveiled themselves in the Air Gallery», painting the album as a transgressive, bold new sound and political statement. I couldn’t disagree more, as the murky noise found on this album is all too typical of early 80’s industrial/noise improvisation, as heard on countless nameless cassette releases and bootlegs, with little to distinguish it from Throbbing Gristle performances aside from the fact that the person doing the spoken narrations is not Genesis P-Orridge.
In contrast to previously released versions of this performance, there is a 23 minute, titular opening track which contains an unbroken longform narration in a thick British accent, apparently spoken by Marc Almond, though I wouldn’t have recognized his voice as the singing voice I know. The words are discernable if one focuses, and I can make out grisly descriptions of the negative physiology effects of snorting cocaine and other drugs. Faint siren wails of feedback undulate in a loop behind the voice.
Confusingly, the liner notes state that all audio found on this release is exclusive and previously unreleased, a strange statement for a document of a live performance which has been released multiple times, albeit before in abridged form. Indeed, doing a direct A to B comparison, I don’t notice any of the same sounds or passages as found on previous releases, noting that the previous versions of «Transparent» contain a far greater presence of obliterated harsh noise and shrill, female screaming. This version is primarily narration, and light on the noise.
Where did these recordings come from? How long was the original live performance? How can this be an unabridged version if it is does not contain any of the same parts as the original issue? While these things are not clear, I suppose I don’t care, seeing as I don’t enjoy or ascribe much value to any part of the performance, or any of these re-issues. If the label’s intention was to create some kind of definitive version of this recording, they have utterly failed, as one needs both versions in order to have all of the released audio. The different re-issues seem to reflect wholly different performances (which is not possible as Coil is widely known to have done only this single performance in 1983), or different parts of the same performance which do not overlap in any capacity. In addition to this, the sound quality is dismal, far below even the more blown out sounding disks of the Throbbing Gristle live box sets which came out more than 15 years ago. As such, this is a shameful cash grab. Coil is literally dead. There is no more to be discovered. My recommendation is to treat any further such re-issues with extreme suspicion, and do not pay money for them.