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Livros sobre música que vale a pena ler - Cromo #97: Man Is The Animal: A Coil Zine Issue Three

 Este não é um livro mas é um fanzine... muito parecido com um livro.

autor: Cormac Pentecost (edição) - Vários

título: Man Is The Animal: A Coil Zine - Issue Three

editora: Temporal Boundary Press
nº de páginas: 72
isbn: N/A

data: 2022

formato: A5

Contents

Man Is The Animal – Preface - Introduction – 4

Singularities Of Art And Nature, by John Coulthart – 6

“There’s a Man Laying Down In A Grave Somewhere”, by Joseph Breitman – 13

“Shadows Only Exist When The Spotlight Is On, An Interview with Mead McLean – 16

“In Perpetual Motion”: The Coil Manifesto As Theory In Practice, by Nick Soulsby – 26

The Manifesto – 41

Coil’s Fano Concert, by Kiefer Gorena – 43

Peter Christopherson Is Alive And Well And Living In Parentheses! – by Nick Hudson – 63

 

Introduction / Preface

Man Is The Animal

Cormac Pentecost

The posthumous life of Coil continues apace as reissues of the back catalogue keep appearing. This is to be welcomed because it seems incredible that major works by such an important group can remain unavailable on all formats. The general default position with regards to music access now is that everything is available instantly. It seems very strange to search on Amazon or streaming services and find that the only way to hear some of Coil’s classic works is through unofficial downloads. The more widely that these works can be made available the better. Having said that, it is necessary to acknowledge that Coil’s legacy is a particularly mess and contested affair. Man is The Animal takes no position on which releases are more authentic or official than others. Indeed, as I’m old enough to remember being grateful for a third generation tape, or a scratched vinyl copy. I’m delighted by any decent quality reissue of Coil’s material.

In a strange way, the problem with accessing Coil’s music might have an upside because it conveys a sense of scarcity and specialness to their work which is difficult to find elsewhere. If there is a magickal intent to their work (and there definitely is) this scarcity helps to conjure a totemic quality to the back catalogue. But it is important that we don’t get too stuck on the objects themselves. In issue one of Man is the Animal, Sean Oscar discussed his own ambivalent feelings regarding the hauntological aspects of Coil’s back catalogue and the almost sacred veneration of their physical releases: ‘I don’t think I’m even interested in owning an “authentic Coil record” anymore. It would be like trying to grasp and hold onto someone else’s memories, like obsessing over the material of the threads while remaining deaf to the rising harmony of their vibrations.’

In the present issue, John Coulthard expresses a similar attitude with regards to the ideas behind Coil’s work: ‘In interviews the discussion was often less concerned with the songs than the ideas or philosophies or experiences that inform them.’ We are fortunate that later this year we will be able to dive in to many of these interviews due to the work of Nick Soulsby whose Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil will be published by Strange Attractor Press. Nick has his second article for Man is the Animal in this issue., examining the evolving history of the Coil manifesto through its many iterations. A new version of the manifesto is presented herein based on Nick’s research.

Elsewhere, there is poetry from Joseph Breitman; Kiefer Gorena from the Coil Live Archive looks at the band’s 2002 performance in Fano; whilst Nick Hudson takes a very different live show as the starting point for his meditation on Coil’s unique sound world.

And so, with this new issue, we again seek to keep the harmony of their vibrations rising.

TQ Zine - 55: Fanzine TQ55: Fanzine música: Fanzine Julho 2022

Fanzine

TQ Zine

Issue 55

Julho de 2022

48 páginas

UK

http://tqzine.blogspot.com/

 O TQ zine é um magazine / fanzine que recupera, em todos os sentidos, o espírito DIY dos famosos e numerosos fanzines dos anos 80. Com melhor apresentação, face aos meios técnicos ao nosso dispor neste época, não deixa de evidenciar, mal olhamos para ele, o referido espírito DYI. É aliás fruto do trabalho "solitário" de Andrew Wood, aka Andy Wood, aka TarQuin, aka @TarQuin23. Já vai no número 55 e só agora o descobri, pelo que este é o primeiro número aqui recenseado. A assinatura de 6 ou 7 números é barata e tem a vantagem de não parar na alfândega (pelo menos este não parou). Vale bem a pena. Confiram em http://tqzine.blogspot.com/.

É ainda possível comprar os números atrasados, se bem que muitos (e dos mais interessantes) estejam esgotados, como por exemplo, um dedicado em exclusivo a Kaus Dinger (arghhh) - TQ48 - . A propósito, este é um fanzine essencialmente dedicado à música, mas com a particularidade de cada número ser temático e de a música ser abordada nas suas mais variadas vertentes. No caos do presente número, o tema é a música, ou antes, os músicos e a doença mental. Vários artigos e entrevistas debruçam-se sobre esta problemática duma forma muito honesta, directa e frontal. Os músicos e a música tratados neste fanzine são todos "underground" e desconhecidos. Estão a ver já, é aqui que está o que interessa. Neste e noutros fanzines mais obscuros que, como disse no início, desde há uns tempos começaram de novo a florescer, logo a seguir às cassetes :-)

Last but not the least, cada fanzine é sempre acompanhado por um conjunto de yum-codes que permitem o download das versões digitais de trabalhos, principalmente dos músicos que contribuem para esse número do fanzine... isto para além de 7 ou 8 de boas-vindas, aquando da subscrição do fanzine.

Deixo-vos, abaixo, com o editorial de Kieran Mahon, que co-edita este número é é um músico já relativamente conhecido no meio. A entrevista de fundo é com o John Geiger Ohlin, aka The New Emphatic.

TQ55 – ‘The Mental Health Issue’ is available from 15th July and is a massive 48 pages and includes up to 4 subscriber only Yum Codes from;

Difficult Art and Music

Jonas Geiger Ohlin

Megaheadphoneboy

The New Emphatic

EDITORIAL

TQ55 has been co-edited by Kieran Mahon & TarQuin

Why bother? A while back I wrote to Tar Quin and suggested that I maight submit a piece for TQ on the subject of being a creative person and balancing this with everyday life and the many challenges this brings. I certainly felt like I had something I wanted get off of my own chest about this, but Andy suggested it might be a good idea to expand upon this theme and create a special issuel dedicated to mental health. I'd like to thank him for this and the opportunity to contribute to TQ alongside a handful of my musical peers. I'd also like to thank him for his patiente with me and the stream of missed deadlines along the way.

The tortured artist trope has always been questionable, but does being a creative person lead to certain outcomes? If you make music and you are part of a small/no audience underground, are there periods of despondency and why do they happen? How does a person balance their creative needs with the everyday responsibilities of family, work and paying bills? Has social media added pressure and expectations to the mix?

When you've spent hours and hours crafting a sprawling noise symphony that's taken every ounce of your heart and mind, that you somehow found the time and space to make, how do you feel three days after sharing when Bandcamp stats tell you no one has downloaded, and no one has even listened to more than four minutes of your 45 minutes piece? And you feel embarassed sharing it one more time on Twitter because the harsh indifference is too much to take, and you don't want to moan about it on there again. Or post that, "Sod it, I am giving up" message - again, and all the while you can see the successes of others and they eat away at you. You know you're supposed to be a better person than that.

What do you do when you've not been able to sit sown and focus on the idea that's been in your head because you get home from work knackered each evening, and the dinners need cooking, the clothes need washing, and you're got a debt nagging at you, and you've lost the power cable to your mixer somewhere in the bedroom, and you still don't have a space to set your gear properly, but the idea doesn't go away and instead becomes a monster, no longer giving you pleasure at the creative possibilities, but now just another weight on your mind. A burden.

Yet you keep going. Because it isn't a choice. It is just what you do. And on better days you realise that is how it is for everyone, one way or another. The universe isn't conspiring against you. You will find time. You will make time. Because you must.

Then, just before you hit 'send' on your doom Tweet you see that two people have downloaded your latest offering, and someone else has posted a nice comment about it. This isn't trivial. It is what you need. Just a little bit of recognition from yourself. You're doing the right thing. Keep going.

Kieran.

Colaboradores deste número:

Kieran Mahon

Paul PMZ

Ola Aldous

Jonas Geiger Ohlin

Chris Whitehead

Beano

Daniel Hignell

Andy Myers

Ian Cusack

Daniel Gregory

Acep Hale

Tarquin