England`s Hidden Reverse – A Secret History of The Esoteric Underground 2e

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Keenan's Herangehensweise an NWW und C93 ist freilich ähnlich geartet, wenn auch das Potential ähnlich mitzureißen wie Coil schwer davon abhängt, wie gut oder schlecht man Stapletons und Tibets Lebensprojekte kennt und schätzt. Here’s Jesse Dorris, writing at Pitchfork about the 2020 reissue of their Musick to Play in the Dark : “‘Are You Shivering’ sets the stage with a ferocious roar, like a groaning opening of black rubber curtains; it recedes to reveal a glistening expanse of slippery little noises sliced into dripping tinsel. despite not being as familiar with current 93 and not really familiar with nurse with wound at all, i really enjoyed learning about the histories of all these artists ! Throbbing Gristle had created a kind of defiled psychedelia that all three bands stretched and redefined in their own ways, drawing on the esoteric Magickal lore of Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare and a host of other fringe figures, and pursuing a common interest in altered states of consciousness. Neuware -An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.

In 2020, David Tibet gives art shows in galleries whose curators hold his religious views in amused contempt. This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose careers intersected with the bands’, initially published alongside Strange Attractor’s first limited edition of the book. Jhonn and Sleazy helped ease this queer boy’s confusion, guided him through assorted chemical journeys, and kept him wondrous of the world. He conducted numerous interviewers with all the key players, and was granted unprecedented access to their archives.It's a tragedy reading it in hindsight of John Balance's death, since we can see the chaotic impulses and self-destructiveness in some of his behaviour and music, and we know how it all ends.

Nämlich jenem, das ich zunehmend verspürte, als ich, vorm Bücherregal stehend, England's Hidden Reverse immer wieder auf später verschob.I must also point out before I go that it is FILLED with loads and loads of fantastic and rare pictures of the bands; mostly of Coil and C93 (there is a little bit more of a focus on Coil and C93 over NWW - just a little - but I feel that's because NWW have shied away from having a frontman somewhat, and also because their music is less based on literature or esoterica than the other bands - NWW is heavily discussed, dissected and chroniclized though and NWW fans will find plenty here). Between all that (and Marc Almond, Judy Dench, and the other big names in their orbit), how on Earth did Coil retain their relative obscurity? A shadowy scene whose work accents peculiarities of Englishness through the links and affinities they've forged with earlier generations of outsiders. I’m going to be honest from the start – there’s no way I can be in any way objective about this stuff. Begriffe, die uns in unseren postmodernen (jeweiligen) Szeneselbstverständnissen nahezu alltäglich erscheinen, wurden hier zu einer Erweiterung des Kunstbegriffs zusammengefügt, die wohl nie ganz durchdrungen oder verstanden werden, nur aber retrospektiv heroisiert werden kann.