New zine dedicated to Coil: the esoteric music project pursued by Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson. Coil are greatly mourned and yet their project feels just as urgent now as it did when they were here. This zine will pore over the products they left behind, hoping to reinvigorate a living interest in their radical praxis. A5 perfect bound zine, 60 pages. "A timely publication, given the persistent and increasing interest in Coil, and one whose essays are all of a quality belied by the “zine” label which usually suggests something more fannish and trivial. This is a pleasing object even before you look inside, a perfect-bound A5 booklet with full-colour printing throughout, and a cover painting by Val Denham, an artist with Coil associations that reach back through the Some Bizzare period to art for Marc Almond and Throbbing Gristle. Denham also contributes one of the written pieces, Jhonn is Unbalanced, a touching memoir of Geoff Rushton/John (Jhonn) Balance. Among the other entries is a piece by Benjamin Noys, a writer whose previous studies have included an examination of the connections between my own art for the Reverbstorm comic series and the weird fiction of HP Lovecraft. Noys takes a similar approach here, finding reflections of Coil obsessions in the symbolism of alchemical magic and the weird fiction of Arthur Machen." 

Contents

The Vision and the Voice: Esoteric Dimensions of Coil's Vocals
by Hayes Hampton

A Hauntology of Coil
by Sean Oscar

Are You Loathsome Tonight?: Coil's Transformations
by Benjamin Noys

The Horseman Betrays His Steed
by Cormac Pentecost

The Spaces Between: Outside the Circles of Time and Love's Secret Domain
by Andy Sharp

Jhonn is Unbalanced
by Val Denham