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

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One from a limited edition of 1000 copies of the Hardback Special Edition, including the Furfur volume with pin. It's great, even when it gets into some of the acts I'm less interested in, the characters involved are still fascinating.

Twenty years on from its first publication, England’s Hidden Reverse stands as a remarkable work of music journalism, and the chronicle of some truly singular artists. So we are talking post-PTV offshoots - Christopherson and Balance’s justly celebrated Coil, myriad of David Tibet’s projects - as well as Stapleton and his nebulous Nurse With Wound orbit. During the 90's, I got pretty heavily into goth and industrial music; the darker and stranger, the better. This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse , the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives.Nämlich jenem, das ich zunehmend verspürte, als ich, vorm Bücherregal stehend, England's Hidden Reverse immer wieder auf später verschob. These folks were doing some revolutionary outsider art and this work allows a unhindered look at the dark tapestry that brought them together and in the darkness bound them. It's not an easy read simply because it can be pretty dark and depressing in terms of themes and just the personalities involved.

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. But for anyone interested in a vibrant alternative to the overwhelmingly over-produced, glossy blandness of the era (and one that is, mystifyingly, being 'rebooted' at the moment), this is an essential read. 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?

The author actually goes out of his way to excuse this behavior, comparing the use of fascist symbols in punk music, but claiming that by not expounding upon the reason for using these symbols they have more artistic merit than punk. When I was still in the middle of reading this book, I enthused to a friend, “It's like I’ve finally been given a context for all this stuff!

The central figures in England’s Hidden Reverse emerged in the post-punk era, but took as their year zero not 1977 and punk’s rock-derived guitars but Throbbing Gristle’s emergence from performance art collective COUM in 1975 and the birth of industrial music. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. This is such a beautifully produced book, testament perhaps to the power of independent publishers to produce work of care and precision beyond the usual bounds of the majors. Das Problem mit Begriffen wie Meisterwerk besteht dabei in erster Linie darin, dass sie allzu flächendeckend verwendet werden, was letztlich die Wertigkeit des Begriffs selbst verwässert.

It is true that many subsequently repudiated these dalliances, but there is no doubt that it was an element of the scene for a while and a full discussion of this would have added to the overall picture. The same hipsters who leeched onto anodyne black metal bands like Wolves in the Throne Room, scrubbing ‘problematic’ bands like Burzum and Graveland from history in good Orwellian fashion.

A really great and comprehensive primer on that special niche of dark, occulty, groundless, gothy musical stuff that came out of England starting in the 1970s. Written over a period of six years and first published in 2003, the book moves between John Balance and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson of Coil’s original Threshold House in Chiswick and the old boys’ school they later moved to in Weston-super-Mare, to Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound’s goat farm and visionary art environment in Cooloorta in Southern Ireland, to the roof of a house in Muswell Hill where David Tibet of Current 93 receives a vision of Noddy crucified in the sky. This expanded edition comes completely redesigned, with many new and previously unseen photographs and ephemera.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. In Summe ist man ob der Diversität verschiedenster separat und/oder zusammen arbeitender Charaktere schlicht überwältigt - und verliebt. This newly expanded edition of England’s Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands’ personal archives. Dick’s paranoid fantasies with works of Christian mysticism like The Cloud of Unknowing and gnostic texts like The Thunder, Perfect Mind.