COIL - Musick To Play In The Dark DLP Magazine What remains and what’s left

What remains and what’s left behind

the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human ‘ancient music’ that sat underneath Arthur Russell’s melodies on First Thought

Rich Otero (drums

Their music can be described as minimal synth with stripped down rhythm compositions and suitably cold duets

all in a span of twelve hours

COIL - Musick To Play In The Dark DLP Magazine What remains and what’s leftFew groups in recent history forged as confounding and alchemical a body of work as Coil, the partnership of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance. From album to album and phase to phase their recordings spelunk perplexing depths of esoteric industrial, occult electronics, and drugged poetry, both embodying and alienating parallel currents of their peers. The late 1990's in particular were a fertile era for the duo, embracing chance, chaos,