IX Tab - Spindle & The Bregnut Tree

Well, I finally finished the IX Tab album; it's called Spindle & The Bregnut Tree and it's available from here, if you're interested... along with a host of guff and goans about it...

There's a full colour (sort of) 4 page CD booklet with associated information about all the tracks plus a not at all full colour leaflet with the early copies. Limited to 50 or so copies, unless I get more printed...

If it helps, it's sort of themed on West Country bad turns and lost tidings; all of the tracks mean something to me, maybe to you... and there's guest appearances by the usual suspects: Doris Stokes, Glenn Close, Austin Osman Spare, Marshall Applewhite, Gene Hackman, Rock Hudson, Nietzsche, Crackling Dubb and Olivia Newton John...

12 tracks, 70+ minutes of fine slurr, lost sound, crackled graft and logbeats...

You've heard this one:

But here's another:

Colour Sound Oblivion Coil

Love this Val Denham portrait. It manages somehow to capture an intensity and a normality, a humanity... this is the kind of portrait I'm sure Houellebecq was on about in The Map And The Territory. A rare thing. I found this again here, where there's loads of Coil related images, scans, covers etc. Some of which I've never seen before (and I've looked... a lot) Glad someone's still fanning the flames. Miss them. There's also a brilliant Cyclobe interview here . I especially like this bit:

I'm not saying music has to be complicated, or that it has to take a long time to make to be interesting, but I do think people need to take more time. The world is too 'now' orientated and we're littering, smothering each others’ minds with all this uncensored mundanity.

It's something too few people say. Another, incidentally, saying much the same thing is Kevin Shields, of course and he's also been interviewed at the Quietus. Really interesting. Anyway, if it's possible to be bored with nowness, I think I am. It's a seductive quality, spontaneity (or valuing spontaneity) but... maybe it's run its course for a little while. Time and Place. Take your time, folks...

The Voice Of The Devil

Ulver - The Voice Of The Devil (Plate 4)

Bits from here. Blake seems very musical, I think. Seems like music. He'd have been into Witch House, I reckon. Or spotted you for some Bauhaus covers. Or smoked some bracken with you, out on the heath, and got drizzled to some Death metal. He'd have heard that Raime 12" by now. We should pull Blake into the mix a little more, he seems to have been forgotten. Not sure that Ulver should be the testament in music; we need an In The Blake Midwinter mix...