This is the first appearence of Coil,the post Throbbing Gristle/post Psychic TV vehicle for Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and John Balance (both, alas,now Deceased.)
Zos
Kia was initially formed by John "Zoskia" Gosling along with John
Balance and Min. This trio - along with Peter Christopherson on sound
and other guests - recorded and performed several concerts in 1982/83
under the names Zos Kia and Coil, and this is the source of the material
on the "Transparent" .
In 1983, Balance and Christopherson left to
concentrate on Coil full-time. All material released under the Zos Kia
name alone was primarily the work of John Gosling.
The
music/non-music on this cassette has moments that are genuinely
unsettling, and achieve that very rare peak in music, which is to sound ,
for want of a better word,....evil. A musical statement only achieved
by very few composers, Nurse With Wound,Penderecki
and Bartok spring to mind, but i am struggling to think of any
more!(although i'm sure if i go away and come back later i can think of
some!)
The bloodclotting screams(emitted by someone called Joan
d'Arc?) on "Rape",for example, is a particularly tense white knuckle
moment; marvellous stuff.
The work on here is far superior to that on Coil's first album, "Scatology",
which i've tried to like, but have now given up on it as a bold effort
in tying too hard; it just doen't seem to flow naturally like
"Transparent".(and the same goes for "Horse Rotavator" too in my humble
opinion.)
Later Coil releases , post 'dancey' phase,like"Musick to play in the Dark" and "Musick to Play in the Dark2",and their best album "The Ape of Naples" ,though, are beyond criticism.
Track Listing:
01. Zos Kia - Sicktone
02. Zos Kia - Baptism Of Fire
03. Zos Kia - Rape
04. Zos Kia - Poisons
05. Zos Kia - Truth
06. Coil / Zos Kia - Sewn Open
07. Coil - Silence & Secrecy (Section)
08. Coil - Here To Here (Double Headed Secret)
09. Coil - Stealing The Words
10. Coil - On Balance
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