Coil Astral Disaster Nurse with Wound Throbbing Gristle

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Coil Astral Disaster Nurse with Wound Throbbing Gristle grey vinyl limited to 1000 copies Vinyl is VG+..Cover is EX limited to 1000 copies on grey vinyl

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Tracks
side a

The Avatars
I Don't Want To be the One
2nd Sun Syndrome
The Sea Priestess

side b

MÜ-ÜR -

Personnel
John Balance
Peter Christopherson
Thighpaulsandra
Drew McDowell
Gary Ramon - sitar and guitar on "The Sea Priestess"
Edition
1000 grey vinyl


Notes
The track listing above is the proper one, although the cover of the LP is printed with the same track listing as the CD edition. The versions are the same as the CD editon.

John Balance writes notes on the songs:

"The Avatars"
The Avatars is a title of a book by one of my favourite mystical poet /writers George Russell who was Irish. He wrote under the name A.E. which was short for AEON.He has writen some of the most inspiring and inspired prose about direct enchantment and trancendental communion with Nature. I mention him in the COIL song Bee-stings (?) when I sing "Don't believe A.E. See for yourselves the summer fields" - A plea for experiential outings, pilgrimages etc.
Get out there - Travel! It's in both the journey and the destination...

Jimmy Page once declared he believed Kenneth Anger was an Avatar. A semi-God-form , a pure particular Spirit incarnated on this earth. A view he later renounced when they fell out. I think he was right myself.

The strange sound is a Syrinx sythesiser. A very scarce beast indeed... The track was my attempt to recall vivid childhood memories of when I used to try and sneak downstairs and watch the 'Quatermass' programmes on TV through a gap in the door.

"The Mothership and The Fatherland"
An attempt to explore the cosmic connection between 'flying saucers' and Krautrockery, UFOs and LFOs. Astral Acidity - LSD being a catalyst one supposes.The resultant progeny of the marriage of the two elements results in the birth of the "little lost children" who Kate Bush is singing about for us.The end has John speaking in tounges - Insect jabber.

The whole album really was recorded originally in two days over Samhain (Halloween) in a studio located below the level of the river Thames in ancient Southwark. An area the artist Austin Osman Spare frequented and knew particularly well. The theme of water, the sea, lunar influences again figure deeply in the whole of the album.We redid some of the material at our new studio that has a view of the sea. Tidal. Vital. Lunar. Tuna. Tuner.

The inner sleeve photo portraits were taken by Peter Christopherson and John Balance of each other during the total eclipse of the sun. "See the Black Sun Rise...".

"2nd Sun Syndrome"
Loops of anguish caused by the feeling of being a second son in a family lineage. Changed from "son" on the original vinyl release. Now turned and tuned into intergalactic transmissions. Sex with Sun Ra. We have our voice-mail system linked up to SETI main computor - It searches for intelligent life in space while we sleep, in dead time.

"The Sea Priestess"
We thank Frater Purdurabo on the sleeve of the record. This is a magickal name Aleister Crowley used. It means "I will endure". A lot of the lyrics are based on Aleister crowleys own written descriptions of the so called 'obscene' murals on the walls of The Abbey Of Thelema at Cefalu in Sicily. The place still exists. Peter and I made a pilgrimage there last year and while we there discovered a lost painting on an internal door, the door to his own bedroom, the fabled "Chambre de Couchmares". It was a very roughly done Chinese style astral landscapewith waterfalls and pagodas. All what remains of the original murals rediscovered and painstakingly restoredand by Kenneth Anger in the 50's are crumbling and devastatingly beyond restoration now. I spent the day there photographing what remains, bitterly crying at the terrible loss of such a direct and beautiful magickal temple. The rest of the lyrics were written as a result of experiments with a small obsidian scrying mirror. The sub-concious surfacing. Brion Gysin would scry for hours to gain entrance into the place "where light writes in space". Whatever pollutants and poisons Manunkind pours into the seas, they too will endure.

"I don't want to be the one"
I feel like this at times. Reticent and resentful and then, in turn, scared and angry. Overpowered by what visions I have to endure. I've had visions ever since I was a child. They used to overwhelm me so much I used to fight against them. I had no context for them. Now I use them and accept them. Or try to.

"MÜÜR"
Gold, frankincense and MUUR. Balm of the sea. A joinery of MU and UR. MU being a mythical ancient landmass now lying submerged somewhere underneath the Pacific ocean . An Eastern version of Atlantis. UR meaning 'proto' and before now. At the formation of. On saying the word MUUR out loud I believe I am saying one of the first words ever forced out of the throat of man. A Proto-Mantra. The voice is my voice transformed into that of the Sea Priestess."It's the sail of the century". I am talking about the shortsighted rape and plunder and poison of the sea for commerce.

"God saved me from drowning, then kicked me to death on the beach".

"The miraculous image of sound washed ashore"

"what's His is History. What's missed is Mystery"

M Mint... perfect no flaws never touched

NM Near Mint...played but still perfect

EX Excellent...very tiny barely visible flaws (CD/Record may have tiny marks) (Cover/Jacket has slight imperfections)

VG Very Good... few noticible flaws 90%-95% perfect (CD/Record may have a few scuffs or scratches) (Cover/Jacket has minor more noticible wear or slight edgewear)

G Good... severely flawed but still playable (CD/Record will have a lot of scuffs or scratches) (Cover/Jacket has severe wear or ringwear & edgewear)

All records/CDs are original pressings unless otherwise noted. There may be glare from my flash on the bottom of the image.