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It Just Is..

In Memoriam:Jhonn Balance

From http://musikalia-unkle.blogspot.com/

Tribute records can often be dicey affairs. Honorable intentions aside, many of these records suffer from uneven performances, whether fawning imitations or slapdash efforts. What makes this memorial compilation to the late COIL composer/vocalist/percussionist Jhonn Balance - from the Russian experimental electronic label/magazine Fulldozer and the Ukrainian label Nocharizma - so impeccable is that it reveals the hidden popularity (at least to Westerners) of COIL in Russia and former satellite states like the Ukraine and Belarus and how good many of these many electronic acts are that likely be unfamiliar to North American and European audiences. Groups like THEODOR BASTARD, BIBLIOTEKA PROSPERO, SPIES BOYS, and VOLGA and artists like KOTRA, A(lex). Vorodeyev, hhtp, Serge Tereshkine, and KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK. More well-known names like SCANNER, COH, Chris Connelly, Alec Empire, K.K.Null, and ALVA NOTO do grace the compilation, but so do many little-known contributors from Japan, Turkey, the U.S., the U.K., Austria, and Sweden. All of which makes this double-CD intriguing not only in terms of opening the doors to these new (at least to these ears) acts, but also in exploring how they tackle COIL's enigmatic polyglot sound. With COIL, Balance and Peter Christopherson constructed their own hermetic parallel universe that we were invited to explore, but was ultimately shrouded in mystery, magick, and mysticism. It was a world of dreams, arcane British history, hallucinogens, chaos theory, sexuality, spirituality, madness, and darkness. For these relentless experimenters, the conscious, the unconscious and the primal forces of nature were intertwined into a form of pagan alchemy. COIL likewise infused these transformative, alchemical forces into its music, drawing from industrial, noise, glitch, neo-folk, spoken word, church music, dark ambient, drones, modern classical, minimalism, and electro-dance. COIL could be spare or orchestral, savage and macabre or ecstatic and uplifting, grandiose or intimate, haunting or serene. Most of all, it was daring and beautiful. Despite COIL's lofty aesthetic, these 27 groups and artists more than rise to the challenge of paying homage to the unpredictable, self-destructive Balance. The bar is set high immediately by Christopherson under the guise of the THRESHOLD HOUSEBOY'S CHOIR on "Mahil Athal Nadrach" and by Balance himself, who adds his vocals to sometime COIL member, THIGHPAULSANDRA's "Christ Teeth," recorded seven months before Balance's death. "Mahil" is an affecting hybrid of post-rock and IDM based around marimba and accordion figures and a heavily manipulated Asian voice. "Christ Teeth" is a malevolent piece of paranoiac and bruising industrial dance reminiscent of COIL's "Scatology" and "Horse Rotorvator" and featuring Balance, in a wicked and tortured sneer, spitting out the chorus: "Your friends are trying to kill you." For the most part, the other tributes lean more towards the darker, noisier, and more industrial side of the spectrum. The album's one weakness is that some of the pieces veer too close to the cartoon goth of NINE INCH NAILS, yet are often saved by virtue of the sheer depth and substance of the COIL songs the artists have chosen to interpret. Highlights are too plenty to mention and there isn't a completely bum track here, with each artist capturing the essence of COIL's visionary music without sacrificing its own distinctive identity. That said, Chris Connelly's acoustic-guitar-driven pop song, "What Lefts But Solid Gold," is a peculiarity amid all the noisy electronics. According to COIL's website, Threshold House, the last song Balance sang was "Going Up," a reworking of the theme from 1970s U.K. TV show "Are You Being Served?" at a show in Dublin in October 2004. In a clearly prophetic moment, Balance sang the line, "Are you ready to go now?" over and over again, with his last words being "It just is." Three weeks later, he was dead.

Tracklist:
CD1
01 The Threshold Houseboy's Choir - Mahil Athal Nadrach
02 Thighpaulsandra - Christ's Teeth (feat. Jhonn Balance)
03 Theodor Bastard - Love's Secret Domain
04 Kotra - Volt of a Worm
05 Spies Boys - Nasa-Arab
06 Alec Empire - Tribute to Coil (Short Version)
07 2/5 BZ - I Am a Green Child
08 Chris Connelly - Connelly Whats Left But Solid Gold
09 Biblioteka Prospero - Heartworms
10 Phillip Klingler aka PBK - It Just Is
11 KK.Null - Scatovator
12 EU - Absolute Elsewhere
13 Darling Kandie - Paingame
14 Pomassl - Oil Philimm
15 Alexei Borisov - Truth (feat. Ivan Sakolovsky & Dmitri Kutergin)

CD2
01 Coh - No Balance
02 Alva Noto - Odradek (Music to Play in the Dark)
03 Schlammpeitziger - Konfliktfickfahig (Live)
04 Goodiny & PCP - Black Sunraiz
05 Scanner - To Meet the Moon
06 Brompton's Cocktail - Soma Gestalt (Edit)
07 Mystified - Scratches and Dust (Night Echo Version)
08 Hhtp - Eclipse
09 Noises of Russia & Olga Komok/Nikolay Rubanov - Remote Viewer
10 Kryptogen Rundfunk - Throughout Time
11 A.Vorodeyev - Slur (Acoustic Plumbum V.)
12 Serge Tereshkine - Teenage Lighting
13 Volga - Anal Staircase
14 I.L.I. - Green Water
15 M.R.F./Elena Voynarovskaya - Immortality (Live)
16 Theodor Bastard - Love's Secret Domain (Instrumental)

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