Pyramid Coil

Released
19-07-2017

This album is in two boxes (sides) that can be played in sequence or separately.

Tracks 1-8 belong to Box Drawers

Tracks 9-19 belong to Box Feathers


credits

Count G – keyboards, loops, drones, cut-ups, quotations, voice, clarinet, field noise, sound scavenging, and eavesdropping

Deviant Fond – guitar on "Fell to Earth"

Mr. Kyp – telephone voice on "Perfect Stooges"

Poems by Stathis Gourgouris

"In the morning I will" includes the Greek poem “Apokrisis”

"PrometheusX4" is a live remix of musical material from Heiner Goebbels’s setting of Heiner Müller’s "The Liberation of Prometheus", created for a performance of the poem at documenta 14 in Athens (September 20, 2016)

The voice on "The Internal Panther" is Huey P. Newton being interviewed by William F. Buckley on Firing Line (January 23, 1973)

Extra cassette material in "A centipede of memory" culled from Eduard Artemyev, Autopsia, Bonobo, Todd Brunner, William Burroughs, Heiner Goebbels, Henry Cow, Jason X, Bill Laswell, Lena Platonos

Additional sample-glue sprinkles by Aksak Maboul, Albert Ayler, Nels Cline, Grant Green, Massacre, Merzbow, John Phillips, Sun Ra

Recorded and mixed in The Boys Room at Riverside Studios, New York, except for the improvisations “Aesthetic.../…Anesthetic” which were recorded live at The Interplanetarium (April 22, 2017). Mastered at Terra Infirma.

Cover photos and design: Petros Gourgouris (pkg-art.com}


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