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Death In June, Boyd Rice

Scorpion Wind

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Originally released in 1996 as Scorpion Wind's Heaven Sent CD/LP this album has long been considered the 'lost' classic collaboration between Death In June's neo-folk pioneer Douglas P. and industrial music's renegade innovator Boyd Rice. Recorded in Australia prior to the pair starring in the cult film Pearls Before Swine, it is a unique, melodic and richly orchestrated ode to modern living, modern loving -- and modern hating. Joined by percussionist John Murphy (ex-SPK, The Associates, Current 93) for the first of what was to prove many collaborations between the 'Unregistered 3' and young Australian group Strength Through Joy (now Ostara), these recordings proved to be the perfect follow up to 1990's ground-breaking Boyd Rice & Friends album Music, Martinis & Misanthopy. However, due to legal problems with distribution, few were to hear this. Now for the first time in nearly ten years a digitally remastered CD is available including two extra tracks from the era and stunning new artwork, presented in a red and black foil-blocked 'softpak
Details
Cat. number: NERUS 39
Year: 2008

Release notes

All tracks recorded at Big Sound Studios, Adelaide, S.A. Australia 1995-96 for Scorpion Wind's "Heaven Sent" LP/CD released 1996. Remastered at Big Sound Studios, S.A. Australia, June 2007. Printed in EU

Tracklist
1Love Love Love (Equilibrium)3:55
2Preserve Thy Loneliness4:43
3In Vino Veritas4:29
4Paradise Of Perfection6:30
5Roasted Cadaver3:52
6The Cruelty Of The Heavens8:13
7There Is No More Sleep4:58
8Some Colossus4:49
9The Path Of The Cross4:05
10Never13:19
11Message1:00
12Funeral For 313:12
13A Toast0:14
Credits
Douglas P.
Arranged By, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Written-By
Timothy Jenn
Guitar, Keyboards, Written-By (8)
Richard Leviathan
Percussion
John Murphy
Percussion, Vocals, Tape, Written-By (6)
Cambell Finley
Trumpet
Boyd Rice
Vocals, Written-By