Customer Reviews

Winter Solstice: North

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Coil did a Christmas song, that was a surprise. What wasn't a surprise was that it was excellent. My favorite track on this album is "A White Rainbow" which builds up and concludes wonderfully. A great track full of sound maipulation. This album follows in a similar vein with that of "Music to Play in the Dark vol. 1" An excellent almost trance inducing magikal journey to end the year.

track listing (slightly corrected from above) is as follows :

1. A White Rainbow
2. North
3. Magnetic North
4. Christmas Is Now Drawing Near
(performed by Rosa Mundi)

fourth in the equinox solstice series. great vocals and creative sounds, everything coil is known for. very limited and already deleted. get it before its gone.

This is the best of the Season EP's, it is closest to Music To Play In The Dark 1 and 2.

...because, after all, is anything really perfect? Or am I just being to hard? I rated Scatology and Astral Disaster 4 stars also, I'm feeling guilty and tight. This short and charming CD, North, is pleasant and evocative. Very flowing. The first track is beautifully plainchant-like melodic with enough 'noise' in it to keep it crisp and on edge, growing more abstract and moving toward well-crafted noise in the final 2 minutes. The second track is a few minutes of hypnotic, rhythmic textured noise with an electronically mutated often barely-discernable-from-the-mix vocal drone before dissolving into track 3: harmonic overtone soundscape with some backward tape loopy-sounding subtext and a chakra meditation gently intoned over this. Wonderful. Can't wait to hear this one alone in the dark. Track 4: Odd, Christmas song. Droney somewhat bagpipe-y strings and moody layered female vocals with some charming dark little twists. A nice tidbit to add to the stocking but rumor or perhaps fact has it not out for long and hence limited.