COILECTIF “Homage to John Balance & Coil”, 2LP clear vinyl ROTOR0001
17 French bands from the genesis of industrial, experimental, noise, ambient, space, free jazz and sometimes unclassifiable cross-country music, plus more recent and emerging artists in the same vein, form COILECTIF.
ART&TECHNIQUE [vs JOHN BALANCE’s voices], BELA GOOSY, DEFICIT DES ANNEES ANTERIEURES aka DDAA, DE MANGE MACHINE, DESACCORD MAJEUR, ETANT DONNES, GAS ANOREX, GITANJALI & THE MASTERS OF MYSTIC ENTERTAINMENT aka VOX POPULI!, ILITCH [vs COIL’s samples], JAC BERROCAL & JACK BELSEN, LAURENT PERNICE & JACQUES BARBERI, LES NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES aka NLC, OTHILA, PACIFIC 231, PALO ALTO, SERVOVALVE, VIVENZA
These artists explore and express, openly and without limits, what Coil’s heritage suggests to them, an opportunity to make an homage to Geff Rushton aka John Balance or Jhon[n] who left us on November 13th 2004.
Coilectif is also an homage to all the musicians and illustrators Scherer & Ouporov participating to the project united for the first time in such an outline, where each one of them expresses what Coil’s universe evoques to him through lunar, astral and visionary excursions, keeping his own artistic identity.
It is not a compilation of remixes of Coil, nor a catalogue of tracks of these artists released before, but a genuine concept of creation in which this collective of artists homogenizes itself around a real artistic project. The 17 new tracks form an intimate, magnetic and timeless piece of work.
The vinyl edition come with quotations of various artists and with a text written for the project by the writer and philosopher Jean-Marc Vivenza called « méditation sur la mort ».
Alchemycal music concept, magic and mystic.
Although sold out, the first 100 numbered copies of the Coilectif album have been set aside and will be accompanied by authentic (unpriced) postage stamps from each of the 17 artists, and embellished by selected tracks from Coil, a project validated and authorized by Peter in 2008. The project has been put on hold for the time being, since Peter’s death.
