Coil: Queens Of The Circulating Library - COMPACT DISCS

Coil: Queens Of The Circulating Library - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Queens Of The Circulating Library

Artist:

Coil

Label:

Dais

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

011586674578

Genre:

Electronic

Release Date:

2023-01-13

Number of Discs:

1

Queens Of The Circulating Library stands alongside Time Machines and Nurse With Wound's Soliloquy For Lilith as a post-industrial pinnacle of sensory-warping long-form drone. Crafted by the distilled duo of Thighpaulsandra and John Balance, the 49-minute piece unfurls in swirling, cyclical waves, tidal as much as textural, channeling the spirit of levitational minimalism pioneered by La Monte Young. Touted as the first part in a continually mutating series of circulating musickal compositions upon it's initial release in 2000, the album remains a compelling case study in Coil's exceptional capacity for mutation and extremes.The theatrical introductory monologue delivered by Thighpaulsandra's mother - a career opera singer, in her 80's at the time of recording - sets the stage for a grandiose ascension. Written by Balance, the text is declamatory but dreamlike, refracted through megaphone echo: Return the book of knowledge / Return the marble index / File under Paradox / The forest is a college, each tree a university. As her voice fades, the lulling synthetic infinity deepens, congealing into transient crests of volume and haze, like slow-motion surf misting in moonlight. Thighpaulsandra describes their aesthetic intention as a bliss out, static but shape-shifting, an amniotic drift towards an eternal vanishing point. A supreme sonic embodiment of the slogan on the sleeve of Time Machines, two years prior: Persistence is all.

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