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Caveat: The track here is mislabeled. This track is actually Algerian Basses. Arrrggghhhh:) (Above image from Important Records the amazing label that put this fine piece of work in the hands of fans like me:) Just got the Ape Of Naples boxset the other day, and though I love vinyl, currently I am sans turntable. Thank the gods for friends with not only such equipment (I really should have a slab player - and so should you:), but also the means of transfer to digital. (spaceling, I still have your mail regarding setup, just haven't had the means to either follow through or to make new lp acquisitions until recently) 4 lps. 3(one-sided. etched on the blank side) containing Ape(originally released in 2005, The Ape Of Naples is mostly reworkings of the sounds from the Backwards demo) and 1 containing other tracks from the Backwards demo reworked. 6 to be exact. side A: 1. Careful What you Wish For 2. Nature Is A Language 3. Algerian Basses side B: 1. Copacabbala 2. Paint Me As A Dead Soul 3. Princess Margaret's Man in the D'Jamalfna Here's one of those. The track I've uploaded is the only one without some manner of vocal from Balance, though he's likely there and processed. As I've got it at 320, MOG only liked the short track. I'll shrink another, as this is some damned fine work on the part of Sleazy and soul-impacting vocals from meester Balance (RIP). Knowledge: (from a recent thread on the coil list. author j. dean who's review can be found at Brainwashed) > "While researching my review of The New Backwards, I found out some information about the exact timeline of the famous "Backwards demos" that might be common knowledge to some veteran Coil fans, but was new to me. For a long time, I had labored under the assumption that the so-called "Backwards" demos were recorded in New Orleans, at Trent Reznor's studio, and represented work done by Coil intended for an album called "Backwards" to be released on Nothing Records. This was my impression, and while I can't point to any one source for this, I thought this was the accepted version of things. Turns out that this is very wrong. The demo tape containing Elves, Egyptian Basses, Simenon, Crumb Time, etc. etc. is actually from the very early 1990s, from sessions recorded not long after LSD(wassonii note: Love's Secret Domain ), in the UK. These demos were recorded for Torso Records and were leaked very soon after, and the bootlegs have been making the rounds ever since. As everyone knows, these demo recordings were instrumental, and though they are often great, are more like rough sketches than finished compositions. After doing these demos, Coil got sidetracked with other projects like Black Light District and other things that seemed to them more interesting to pursue at the time. The demos sat dormant, for the most part, until... Some vocals and extra bits were recorded 5-6 years later, in the mid-1990s when the Coil/NIN connection happened. "Cold Cell" and "AYOR" and (I think...) a version of "Fire of the Mind" (maybe also "The Test," "Sex With Sun Ra" and a few other tracks) were recorded around this time, but shelved indefinitely, except for a few things that got out via Songs of the Week or comp contributions. The album names Backwards/International Dark Skies/God Please Fuck My Mind For Good/The World Ended A Long Time Ago were all announced or rumored at one point or another, but it was basically the creative second-guessing of fans that conflated these names with the Torso demos and (to some extent) the Nothing Records album, as if they were all the same thing, a sort of Freudian dream condensation of all the things Coil hadn't finished yet. Then right towards the end, about 2002-3, some more recording sessions were held with the intention of bringing some of these tracks to completion. This is probably where vocals like "Nature is a Language," "The Most Accomplished Surgeon," etc. came from. Everything wasn't put together and finished until Sleazy and Danny Hyde returned to the material in 2007. So TNB actually represents an almagamation of recordings made over a period of nearly 18 years, many different time periods and recording sessions that were never necessarily meant to go together. In this sense, TNB is even more impressive than it seemed at first to me, as a work of creative synthesis, a recovery and resuscitation of a pile of mismatched fragments and abandoned ideas and sketches."

little birds word: ...Colour Sound Oblivion, taking a little longer than expected. ...Moon's Milk Bonus Disk (title unknown) will be released separately at first and then with the full box later, to include the book of Jhonns paintings. ...Time Machines with a 2nd CD (with new molecules) should be out by later this year/early next year. ...The New Backwards is being mastered for cd with additional tracks to those on the vinyl release and should see release "soon".

Until then, Hi! How are you?