Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark2 - White & Black SmokeAfter leaving London in 1999 for the sleepy seaside retiree town of Weston super Mare, Coil co founders John Balance and Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson set up shop in a palatial eight bedroom estate to pursue the outer reaches of the group's heightening cabalistic chemistry. Among the staggering string of late era masterpieces they produced is lunar opus Musick Is To Play In The Dark, widely hailed as an artistic zenith upon it's release. The sessions

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which he published at his own expense in London in 1777

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whose "Scarpia is an ambassador of evil like no other

Whatever the similarities and differences between the two men

The record was recorded at Floki Studiosin Northern Iceland as the inaugural projectto launch experiential travel company

Out of the music

It climaxes in a final quintet of Mozartean poignancy - one of the great ensembles of the contemporary repertoire

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and closes with a Souvenir of Mendelssohnian grace and lightness

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