(Experimental) John Balance – The Art, Music & Writings Of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance (The Years 1979-1986) - 2024, 320 kbps [Murderwerkers, Stabmental, Cultural Amnesia, Coil, A House, Peter Christopherson]

Продолжительность: 00:40:53
Треклист:
Murderwerkers 1979-1981
01. Murderwerkers - Murderwerkers (Part 1) [00:16:41]
02. Murderwerkers - Murderwerkers (Part 2) [00:24:12]

Продолжительность: 00:51:06
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Murderwerkers 1979-1981 / Stabmental 1980
01. Murderwerkers - Murderwerkers (Part 3) [00:12:20]
02. Murderwerkers - The Darker Side Of Psychic Youth (Part1) (First Track Blue Funk (Scars For E) On Standard Response 1980) [00:14:40]
03. Murderwerkers - The Darker Side Of Psychic Youth (Part 2) [00:13:31]
04. Stabmental - Thin Veil Of Blood (On Deleted Funtime: Various Tunes By Various Loons 1980) [00:03:03]
05. Stabmental - Jamming Session (Part 1) [00:04:02]
06. Stabmental - Jamming Session (Part 2) [00:03:27]

Продолжительность: 00:51:34
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A House - The Playroom Tape 1981 / The Live Tape 1981
The Playroom Tape 1981
01. A House - Antarctic [00:01:43]
02. A House - Slaughterhouse [00:03:43]
03. A House - It's All The Same [00:07:17]
04. A House - Send Section [00:05:12]
05. A House - Purple Dress [00:02:21]
06. A House - Weathering [00:06:37]
The Live Tape 1981
07. A House - Voice From Radio [00:04:51]
08. A House - Slaughterhouse [00:03:38]
09. A House - Lucy Loves [00:04:05]
10. A House - Purple Dress [00:02:54]
11. A House - I Can't Talk To You Just Now [00:02:24]
12. A House - Meandering [00:02:27]
13. A House - Shanti Shanti [00:01:48]
14. A House - Summer Song [00:02:26]

Продолжительность: 00:51:49
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John Balance / Cultural Amnesia / Demos And Solo Recordings On The Hearsay And Heresy Label 1982/1983 / Tracks With And Written For Cultural Amnesia 1980 - 1983
Demos And Solo Recordings On The Hearsay And Heresy Label 1982/1983
01. John Balance - Child Walks Away (Hearsay And Heresy 1982) [00:02:26]
02. John Balance - On Balance / Touches And Torments 1 (Hearsay And Heresy 1982) [00:04:42]
03. John Balance - Comfortable (Raw Like Sewage) [00:01:36]
04. John Balance - Stealing The Words / Birdsong Collage 3/8/1982 [00:04:21]
05. John Balance - Untitled Drum Machine Harmonized [00:02:57]
06. John Balance - Casio Tones Fuzz / Whah [00:02:13]
07. John Balance - Touches And Torments 2 (I See Your Face) (Hearsay And Heresy 1982) [00:02:20]
08. Peter Christopherson - Sleazy's Song For The Puppy (For John Balance) [00:03:24]
Tracks With And Written For Cultural Amnesia 1980-1983
09. Cultural Amnesia - Yellowsong [00:02:02]
10. Cultural Amnesia - Scars For E [00:06:43]
11. Cultural Amnesia - Fetish For Today [00:03:28]
12. Cultural Amnesia - Here To Go [00:04:09]
13. Cultural Amnesia - Hot In The House [00:06:19]
14. Cultural Amnesia - Spoilt Children [00:05:03]

Продолжительность: 00:45:27
Треклист:
John Balance / Demos And Solo Recordings On The Hearsay And Heresy Label 1982/1983
01. John Balance - Casio Works 1, 2/1983 [00:10:03]
02. John Balance - Casio Works 2, 2/1983 [00:04:00]
03. John Balance - Casio Works 3, 2/1983 [00:10:38]
04. John Balance - Untitled Drum Machine Casio [00:04:58]
05. John Balance - Untitled Whale Song Collage [00:06:48]
06. John Balance - Stealing The Words (Long Version) [00:08:58]

Продолжительность: 00:41:34
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John Balance As Coil / John Balance With Peter Christopherson As Coil / Early Demos, Versions And Compilation Contributions 1983 - 1985
01. Coil - Red Weather (On Bethel) 1983 [00:04:11]
02. Coil - Silence And Secrecy (Section) Live At Magenta Club, London 5/8/1983 [00:04:51]
03. Coil - S Is For Sleep (On The Elephant Table Album) 1983 [00:03:25]
04. Coil - Here To Here (Double Headed Secret) (On The Beast 666) 1983 [00:04:47]
05. Coil - Dream Photography (On Peyrere) 1985 [00:03:20]
06. Coil - Sicktone (Demo) [00:03:28]
07. Coil - The Wheel (Early Version - Sparser Mix) [00:03:00]
08. Coil - Aqua Regis (Take 1) [00:03:57]
09. Coil - A Minor Catastrophe (Demo) [00:02:46]
10. Coil - His Body Was A Playground For The Nazi Elite (Take 1 - Early Version) [00:02:32]
11. Coil - Homage To Sewage (On Life At The Top) 1984 [00:02:20]
12. Coil - Neither His Nor Yours (On A Diamond Hidden) 1985 [00:02:52]

Продолжительность: 00:42:02
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Coil / How To Destroy Angles 1984 / Sickness Of Snakes Mixes 1983/1984
How To Destroy Angels 1984
01. Coil - How To Destroy Angels (1984) [00:16:44]
02. Coil - Absolute Elsewhere [00:03:22]
Sickness Of Snakes Mixes 1983/1984
03. Coil - Various Hands (Original Mix) [00:03:37]
04. Coil - The Swelling Of Leeches (Demo) [00:02:12]
05. Coil - Pope Held Upside Down (Original Mix) [00:03:45]
06. Coil - The Wheel - Early (Demo) [00:02:58]
07. Coil - His Body Was A Playground For The Nazi Elite (Demo) [00:03:34]
08. Coil - Untitled 1 [00:02:46]
09. Coil - The Swelling Of Leeches (The Original Mix) [00:03:01]

Продолжительность: 00:45:54
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Coil / Demos 1984/1985
01. Coil - Boy In A Suitcase [00:08:01]
02. Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death (Backsound Layer) [00:03:37]
03. Coil - Aqua Regalia (Demo) [00:06:15]
04. Coil - Ergot (Demo) [00:06:16]
05. Coil - Tenderness Of Wolves (Early Instrumental) [00:04:27]
06. Coil - Ubu Noir (Early Version) [00:01:10]
07. Coil - Panik (Take 6) [00:04:04]
08. Coil - Cathedral In Flames (Early Version) [00:05:36]
09. Coil - Godhead = Deathead (Instrumental, Different Version) [00:06:24]

Продолжительность: 00:27:13
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Coil / Sound Sources For Tape Release: The New Blockaders / Coil / Vortex Campaign 1984
01. Coil - Raw Coil (Synth) [00:05:01]
02. Coil - Raw Coil (Guitar) [00:08:50]
03. Coil - Raw Aleister Crowley (Spoken Word) [00:13:21]

Since his untimely passing in 2004, it has remained impossible to calculate the importance and lasting legacy of John Balance. Most well know as the founding member of Coil, which began as a solo project before becoming a collaboration with his partner Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, even before that lasting and remarkably influential project, Balance had made a huge mark on the British underground, including membership in Psychic TV, numerous other musical projects, including Murderwerkers, published seven issues of a fanzine, Stabmental, and was a tireless correspondent with members of scenes in the UK and abroad, in addition to supporting many of those artists via his release of the highly collectable “Endzeit”, “Bethel”, and “The Men with the Deadly Dreams” compilations.
Over the last few years we’ve witnessed a slow trickle of vinyl reissues focused Balance’s work within Coil, but VOD’s latest, “The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986”, takes a rare dive into a sprawling body of never before heard and unreleased material made by the artist during some his most important and prolific years. Issued as a 9LP wooden box set, accompanied by 282-page book, Shirt / Slipmat / certificate, in a black vinyl edition, limited to 666 copies, it’s easily one of the most exciting releases of the year for any fan of Coil, Balance, or British underground music at large.
“The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986”, diving into a largely unheard sound world of John Balance, begins, logically, with nearly two LPs worth of material recorded between 1979 and 1980 of his earliest solo outings under the guise of Murderwerkers, fleshed out further with material by Stabmental, his collaboration with Tom Craig between 1980 and 1981. From here we move onto two LPs gathering some incredible solo recordings made between between 1982 and 1983, in addition to material made with the project Cultural Amnesia, as well as some early Coil recordings that illuminate the nascent stage of the seminal project. This momentum is carried forth with a further full LP of contributions that the project made to various compilations in 1984, then a full LP of Coil sessions, demos and outtakes recorded from 1983-1985, before concluding with an LP of Coil sound sources for the New Blockaders / Coil / Vortex Campaign Tape from 1984.
While this material presents an extensive and previously untapped overview of Balance’s sonic activity between 1979 and 1986, “The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance” is equally immersive and valuable via its incredible, 282-page book offering rare insights and overview to his early life and work, his thinking, goals and work-in-progress, comprising 30 pages of essays and memories by Nick Soulsby, Nicolas Ballet, Phil Barrington, Cultural Amnesia, Euan Craik, Alex Fergusson, Tom Craig, Adi Newton and Vittore Baroni, all dealing with all kinds of aspects of John Balance, from friendship to mail-art to music-collaborations. In addition to this, it also also includes the complete re-publishing of his magazine Stabmental Issue 1-7 with 106 pages which he published with Tom and Euan between 1979 and 1981, an overview of rare Tapes from back those days with John's audio and design contribution and participation, 12 pages of artwork-examples, 44 pages of extracts from early magazine-publications with interviews, etc., and 51 pages of letters written by John between 1979 and 1986 that give a wonderful insight into his way of thinking. To Round it all out, the collection also includes an extra 28-page booklet with the letters to Adi Newton written by Balance between 1979-1981.
Needless to say, all of this collected together - the 9LPs and books - accompanied by a shirt, slipmat, and certificate - makes “The Art, Music & Writings of Geoffrey Rushton Alias John Balance - The Years 1979-1986” one of the most remarkable efforts ever dedicated to Balance and Coil ever released. Issued by VOD in a stunning wooden box-set edition of 666 copies, what else can we say? This one is mind-blowing in every way.