Thursday 21st August 2008

 

ANOK PE

Ossian Brown is very excited to be working on the forthcoming Anok Pe Current 93 album INVOCATION AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN, with recordings in the process of being completed and due to be released this coming November on the new Coptic Cat label. For more information please visit.

www.durtro.com/newsf.html

 

CYCLOBE RECORDING UPDATE

Both Stephen and Ossian have been working on new Cyclobe sessions with old and dear Coil friends Cliff Stapleton and Mike York. We hope to make these recordings available to you in a completed form before the end of this year. New pieces include HOW ACLA DISAPPEARED FROM EARTH, PUFFBALL and I LOVE YOU PHANTOMS.

 

THE VISITORS - DELETED

All copies of The Visitors have now sold out and the CD in this form has now been deleted from our catalogue.

 

Sunday 3rd August 2008

 

PHANTOMCODE ARCHIVE AUCTIONS - NEW ADDITIONS


We are currently selling several items from our archive on eBay, including a rare white vinyl copy of our deleted Klang-Gallerie 7" single, Pathfinder/Remember Archangels Protect Us. Please note that this is the last copy of the Pathfinder single that we have for sale! Also up for auction are several interesting Coil/Current 93/related rarities, and an extremely rare Coum poster from 1976. If you're interested in viewing any of these items, our personal eBay seller's ID is 'phantomcode'. We will continue to hold similar auctions on a regular basis for the next few months.

Please visit:www.ebay.com

 

 

Friday 11th July 2008

 

GREETINGS IN 2008 !

 

 

As this is the first website update of 2008, please accept huge apologies for our absence this year! We're unable to go into precise details, but the past six months have been extremely hard and stressful for us, and we've had little time to concentrate on Cyclobe or any other creative activities. However, we're overjoyed to say that we can now, at last, re-focus on the future of Phantomcode and Cyclobe, and re-engage with what's really important. Below are a few items of news for you - we will soon be updating again, with some exciting developments regarding Ossian's recent and upcoming activities.

Best wishes to you all and thank-you for your continued interest and support.Slowly but surely crawling out of the shadows...

SeT & OB

 

CYCLOBE IN MYSPACE

 

We have recently entered into the bizarre world of friend collecting, with a semi-official Myspace page beautifully designed, maintained and moderated by our very talented and antlered new friend, Andrew Wilson. This myspace page houses previously unseen photographs of Cyclobe, free audio, including a recording of Frostflowers for Mikkel Gaup, originally released on the vinyl-only compilation album Electrically Induced Vibrations on Anomalous Records. It also has its own blog for news relating to our activities. We will be working with Andrew to air some otherwise previously unheard Cyclobe recordings on the page, including alternate mixes and tasters of new 'in process' material. (Note: Strangely there seems to be another Cyclobe myspace which has absolutely nothing to do with us except in name!)

Please visit: www.myspace.com/bestialcelestial

 

PHANTOMCODE ARCHIVE AUCTIONS


 Some of you will already be aware that we've been auctioning a number of items from our archive on eBay over the last few months. These consist mainly of Coil rarities, posters, test pressings, signed records etc., but also include rare Cyclobe items, United Dairies releases, and Current 93/Durtro Press collectibles. We will continue to hold similar auctions on a regular basis for the next few months. If you're interested in viewing any of these items please search for our sales on eBay: our personal seller's ID is 'phantomcode'.

Please visit:www.ebay.com

 

 
STEPHEN THROWER & DAVID KNIGHT COLLABORATION
 

Work is almost complete on a new collaborative recording project between Stephen Thrower and David Knight. With saxophone, clarinet, analogue synth and guitars setting sail across Krautrock's eeriest subterranean lake, this forthcoming album should be a night-time trip to savour. Further details will be posted here in the next couple of months.

David Knight is highly regarded for his work with Danielle Dax, most notably the wonderful Jesus Egg that Wept, as well as his long-time collaboration with Karl Blake, Shock Headed Peters. He has also released two excellent studio albums under the name Arkkon. Recently he's provided live musical backing for Lydia Lunch, and is (with Stephen) a regular member of The Amal Gamal Ensemble.

 

 
 
COIL - APE OF NAPLES & LIVE IN PORTO
 

Downloads are currently available from the Threshold House website of a live concert recorded in Porto, Portugal in 2003. This was a unique and peculiar evening given that Johnn Balance was not present due to bad health. COIL on this occasion were Peter Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra and Ossian Brown.

Meanwhile, the beautifully produced 4x LP boxset of The Ape Of Naples, released by Important Records, has already sold out.

www.thresholdhouse.com

 

 
NIGHTMARE USA 2nd EDITION
 
Stephen's recent book about American independent horror films, Nightmare USA, is now into its 2nd hardback edition, with a paperback edition to be published in the Autumn. (The new hardback edition is available direct from the FAB Press website at www.fabpress.com ). Response from fans and critics has been overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic, with rave reviews in Film Comment, Fangoria, Video Watchdog and Fortean Times, culminating in Stephen receiving a nomination from the British Fantasy Society, for Best Non Fiction Book. The result will be announced at this year's Fantasycon, held from 19th-to-21st September 2008. For more details please visit www.britishfantasysociety.org

 

 

 

 

ZIBAHKHANA [HELL'S GROUND] DVD RELEASE

 
Pakistan's first gore film Zibahkhana (aka Hell's Ground), directed by Omar Ali Khan, has now been released on DVD by TLA, as part of their 'Danger After Dark' series. While Pakistan's film industry produced a handful of supernaturally themed horror films, mainly in the 1960s, this marks the first time that Western levels of violence and horror have emerged from within its borders. Written and produced by film journalist turned DVD entrepreneur Pete Tombs, it marks the film production debut of his well-respected Mondo Macabro company. Stephen Thrower composed the films's electronic soundtrack in 2007, and Cyclobe listeners may also notice a key scene scored to a version of Strix Nebulosa from The Visitors album! (The film also features a wonderfully boisterous selection of Pakistani pop music from the 1970s.)
 

 

CYCLOBE MUSIC USED ON BBC COMEDY SHOW: IDEAL

 
Those of you watching the BBC comedy production Ideal will probably have been startled to hear the occasional Cyclobe song turning up as part of the show's eclectic soundtrack. So far, Strange Hotel, Inevitable Black Horn and Strix Nebulosa have been used in this strange and unique show, along with Steve's track Wrim Wram Wrom, from the Coil album Stolen and Contaminated Songs. Written and produced by Graham Duff, who also selects the music, Ideal centres around a dope dealer played by comedian and comic actor Johnny Vegas, whose flat is used as a crash-pad for various Boschian characters from the acid fringes of British lunacy. Featuring a recent guest appearance by city hobgoblin Mark E Smith (who else?) as Christ, Ideal is fantastically funny, grottily surreal, and highly recommended.

 

 

 

 

MATMOS LIVE AND STUDIO

Stephen was once again very pleased to lend his lungs to the mellifluous machinations of Matmos, this time for a three-hour improvised set at the Beaconsfield Art Centre in London - day two of a three-day event which also saw Matmos welcome Chris and Cosey to the stage. Steve has worked several times with Matmos, contributing live sax and clarinet, and he appears on a number of studio recordings, most recently Public Sex For Boyd McDonald from their excellent album, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast.

 

 

LIGHT BOX - IMAGINING OCTOBER SCREENING

Derek Jarman's rarely screened short film Imaging October was shown continuously for two months at Tate Britain, London, between the 5th April to 1st June. Stephen appeared in the film playing a Russian soldier, alongside the painter Peter Doig and a number of other actors. The film was shot in 1984 with a soundtrack by Benjamin Britten and additional music by Genesis P Orridge and Dave Ball. It marked Stephen's first involvement with Derek: he recorded the soundtrack for The Angelic Conversation with Coil later the same year, and can briefly be seen in the later films Caravaggio and The Last of England.

 

 

ARCHIVES: NEWS FROM 2004-2007

 

Saturday 4th August 2007

Thank-you to everyone who ordered, the Amal Gamal disc is now sold out and all orders have been despatched.

Thursday 2nd August 2007

 

 

AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE RELEASE "TRANSITIONAL RECORDINGS" ON LIMITED EDITION CD

While preparing for their recent appearance at Jean Hervé Peron's Schiphorst Avant-Garde Festival (see below), The Amal Gamal Ensemble compiled a CDR of material from their 'work in progress' files, to be sold at the event. Further copies of the disc are now available, for a limited time only, through this website.

The line-up is as follows: Karl Blake (bass & treatments); Dave Knight (guitar & treatments); Gavin Mitchell (synthesizer & tapes); Orlando (organ & piano); David Smith (drums & percussion); Stephen Thrower (synthesizer & software). The disc, which lasts approximately 32 minutes, features four tracks: End of Free Recovery ; Blues for Black Shuck ; Shawtburst ; and Longate .

The music on this disc was initially made in the summer of 2006, during a twelve-hour recording session which yielded almost three hours of improvised material. Since then, it has been subject to mutation, mixing, production and editing; a process not yet finished, but which the band feel has already yielded exciting results. The four songs featured may or may not be destined for the first Amal Gamal album; nevertheless, in the meantime they shed some light on the working process of the group, and hint at what is to come.

Visit our merchandise page if you'd like to obtain a copy. This edition is limited to 100 copies and is available on a strictly first come first served basis.


 

Wednesday 27th June

 

AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE PLAY SCHIPHORST FESTIVAL, GERMANY

 

From Stephen Thrower:

I'm very happy to confirm that The Amal Gamal Ensemble will be performing as guests of Faust's Jean Hervé Peron at the AvantGarde Festival Schiphorst. The location for the Festival is a wonderful old farm, located in Stormarn, a rural district in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany, between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The nearest big city is Hamburg. Travel arrangements can be found on the excellent and informative Festival website at http://www.avantgarde-festival.de/index.php?id=81

ADVANCE PURCHASES:

3-DAY-PASS - 45 €

TICKETS AT THE FARM GATE:

DAY-PASS
- friday: 20 €
- saturday: 25 €
- sunday: 15 €

3-DAY-PASS
- friday/saturday/sunday: 50 € 

The Festival is hosted every year by Jean-Hervé Peron and spans three days, from Friday to Sunday - we shall be playing on the Saturday night, probably late in the evening. Among the other guests will be Damo Suzuki, Zappi W.Diermaier, La Terre Tremble, Sunseastar and many more. See http://www.avantgardefestival.de/ for more details.

 

Tuesday 1st May

 
 
CYCLOBE at DONAU FESTIVAL
 

We'd like to say a huge thank-you to all who were able to attend our debut performance at the Donau Festival in Krems, Austria, last week. We were overjoyed to discover that the show was sold out. Our sincerest thanks for the wonderful audience reception and for the encouraging feedback that we received after the show.

Set-list:

Sentinels
Strange Hotel
Faces That Sink Ships
Frostflowers for Mikkel Gaup
Remember, Archangels Protect Us...
Arc

Line-up:

Ossian Brown
Stephen Thrower
Thighpaulsandra
Cliff Stapleton

We'd like to thank all the other artists and friends who performed during the two days we were in Austria; the friendly and helpful Festival crew; special thanks to Danny and Richie for deft handling of our projections; to Anna Thew for her marvellous 'Winter' and 'Spring' films; Marc Morris for DVD authoring; Vicki Bennett for technical assistance and advice; Enrico Croci; Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo; and of course our most grateful thanks to David Michael Tibet, for inviting us onboard and for being so supportive of our work.

Ossian Brown and Stephen Thrower

 

Tuesday 12th March 2007
 
 
CYCLOBE CONCERT NEWS:
 
Preparations for Cyclobe's debut live performance at the Donau Festival in Krems, Austria, are currently underway, with the show lined up for the 20th April in the beautiful Minoritenkirche Church. We can now say that we'll be performing alongside the wonderful Baby Dee and Sun O))). Sun O))) having been added to the bill after Marc Almond sadly had to cancel his appearance. The evening will commence at 6pm with our performance opening a series of four sessions curated by David Michael Tibet. Among his choices are Matmos, Nurse With Wound, Bonny Prince Billy, Om, Pantaleimon, Little Annie, and of course Current 93. The umbrella title for this year's festival is 'Dangerous Games'. Also added to the festivities, but appearing the following weekend are Throbbing Gristle, so this festival really is going to be a wonderful gathering. We will be joined for this performance by our friends Thighpaulsandra (synthesizers) and Cliff Stapleton (Hurdy Gurdy). Both artists played with us on the Paraparaparalellogrammatica album, while Thighpaulsandra co-produced part of The Visitors which Cliff appeared on too, albeit in spirit form. We're also very happy to say that we'll be incorporating works by the London based filmmaker Anna Thew, a friend and experimental artist with whom we have collaborated in the past.
 
 
 
 
NIGHTMARE USA BOOK NEWS
 

We are overjoyed to announce that Stephen Thrower's new book Nightmare USA has now been completed, after many years of preparation. The book, which delves into the weirdest obscurities and wildest horrors of America's exploitation film industry, will be published by FAB Press and is due for release in May. To mark the event there will be a special book launch and film screening at the Riverside Studios, in Hammersmith, London on the 4th of May. All the day's movie screenings having been chosen by Steve and feature in Nightmare USA. Signed books will also be available on the day.


For more information about the book,visit: www.fabpress.com/vsearch.php?CO=FAB070
For more information about the films, visit: www.fabpress.com/vsearch.php?CO=SP167
For information about The Riverside Studios, visit: www.riversidestudios.co.uk/

 

Wednesday 24th January 2007

CYCLOBE TO PLAY LIVE IN THE SPRING:

We're pleased to announce that our first ever live performance as Cyclobe will take place in Austria, on the 20th April, 2007. The occasion is the Donau Festival in Krems, curated by David Michael Tibet of Current 93, which takes place over a two day period, Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st. In addition to ourselves, the Cyclobe line-up for this performance will include Thighpaulsandra and Cliff Stapleton.

The other artists scheduled to perform are:

Nurse With Wound
Matmos featuring Jay Lesser
Current 93
Marc Almond
Baby Dee
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Fovea Hex
Julia Kent
Larsen featuring Jóhann Jóhannsson
Little Annie
Om
Simon Finn

Also for more information please refer to David Tibet's Durtro site http://www.durtro.com and the official website for the festival http://www.donaufestival.at
 
Wednesday 20th September

 

AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE AT THE ROUNDHOUSE - POSTSCRIPT

 

 

The Amal Gamal Ensemble's performance at The Roundhouse took place later in the evening than planned. One member, Orlando, melted away completely and others were seen visibly wilting. Special guest Danielle Dax, seen above suffering severe g-forces, is expected to record with Amal Gamal in the near future. More details when we have them. We'd like to thank everyone who came along, and apologize for the later than advertised appearance, which unfortunately was beyond our control.

 

 
Friday 8th September

 

AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE PLAY THE ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON, WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER

 
 

THE AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE have been invited to play the upcoming 'We Are All Going To Die' event by Resonance FM on Wednesday the 16th of September at the recently refurbished and legendary ROUNDHOUSE in Camden Town, London. The Amal Gamal line-up will comprise Stephen Thrower, Gavin Mitchell, David Knight, Karl Blake, David Smith, Orlando, and Danielle Dax (this will be Danielle's first appearance with Amal Gamal since their show together in Paris last May). Doors open at 7pm, Amal Gamal will play at around 10pm.

From the Resonance website: "A special fund-raising concert for our Aerial Appeal. Is it possible to have a clean death in a vacuum? We're All Going To Die is an operatic, radiophonic concatenation of space ephemera and near-Earth collision paranoia, hosted by Resonance104.4fm. As part of Space Soon: art and human spaceflight, presented by The Arts Catalyst, 9 - 13 September. The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH."

Admission:  £6.00.   All proceeds to the Resonance Aerial Fund!

Also appearing on the night: The Bohman Brothers, Ken Hollings, Tom McCarthy, DJ Original Bear, the Resonance Radio Orchestra, DJ Rocket 88, Johny Trunk and Lembit Opik MP.

The Roundhouse website has scant details about the evening, but may be useful for information on finding the place, and parking. Click here: THE ROUNDHOUSE

 
6TH JULY 2006

 

LUMINOUS DARKNESS SOLD OUT

We regret to say that we have sold out of our first album LUMINOUS DARKNESS, which is therefore now deleted. We intend to re-release this album in an updated form at some point in the future, but this will not happen for some time.

 

COIL RE-RELEASES

 
The Coil albums ANS (CD/DVD boxset) and THE REMOTE VIEWER (CD), both of which feature Ossian Brown, are due to be re-released shortly on Threshold House. For further details, check with THRESHOLD HOUSE

 

21ST MARCH 2006

 
 

THE AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE PARIS GIG - UPDATE!

Stephen and THE AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE will now be playing LE 1ER CHANTIER MUSICAL on MONDAY THE 8TH OF MAY 2006, not Saturday the 6th as previously reported. Arrive early, as the band will be playing in the afternoon, not the evening, to allow for a greater freedom of decibels! The festival, which runs from the 5th to 8th of May, will also feature performances by Danielle Dax, Shock-Headed Peters, Evil Twin, Baby Dee and Arkkon. Venue: Le Chantier, 24 rue Hénard, Paris / F. Tickets are available in advance: 58 Euros (or 24 Euros for 1 day) through sevenpines@free.fr or visit their website at http://www.chantier-musical.tk/

 

8TH MARCH 2006

MERCHANDISE UPDATE

We are pleased to announce that our online merchandise page is now functioning as normal, and we are once again able to take orders via PayPal.

GALLERY UPDATE
Several new images have been added to the Gallery, as part of our ongoing rejuvenation/dehibernation. Look out for more additions as the month progresses.

 

27TH FEBRUARY 2006

 

'NOT ALONE' – AIDS BENEFIT ALBUM RELEASED THIS MONTH

Curated by Mark Logan and David Late Tibet, this 5-disc set features 75 artists, including Cyclobe, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Matmos, Thighpaulsandra, Shock-Headed Peters, Thee Majesty, Antony and the Johnsons, Marc Almond, Jim O'Rourke and many more. All proceeds from this project will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontierès for their work on the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Visit http://www.jnanarecords.com/ for details on how to buy.

 

 

THE AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE ALLEZ À PARIS

Stephen's improvisation group THE AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE will play at LE 1ER CHANTIER MUSICAL on Saturday the 6th of May 2006. (Be aware that the final arrangements have not yet been made and it is possible the Ensemble will play on Sunday. More news and clarification when we get it!) The festival, which runs from the 5th to 8th of May, will also feature performances by Danielle Dax, Shock-Headed Peters, Evil Twin, Baby Dee and Arkkon. Venue: Le Chantier, 24 rue Hénard, Paris / F. Tickets are available in advance: 58 Euros (or 24 Euros for 1 day) through sevenpines@free.fr or visit thier website at http://www.chantier-musical.tk/

 

FORTHCOMING MATMOS ALBUM

Matmos are set to release their excellent new album THE ROSE HAS TEETH IN THE MOUTH OF A BEAST on Matador on May 9th 2006. It features Stephen on saxophone on the track PUBLIC SEX FOR BOYD MCDONALD. Watch out for further live collaborations with Matmos following last year's Camber Sands gig and the Queen Elizabeth Hall event.

NAPOLI HOMINI-DOMINI

Coil's final album THE APE OF NAPLES is now available via Threshold House. The album features synthesizer and scrying contributions from Ossian. Visit http://www.thresholdhouse.com to buy online.

MERCHANDISE PAGE DOWN TEMPORARILY

Our own merchandise store is down at present. Sorry for inconvienience, we'll let you know as soon as possible when the problems have been ironed out.

 

 

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FEBRUARY 19th 2005 CYCLOBE NEWSLETTER

 

ANGRY EELECTRIC FINGER NEWS:

Angry Eelectric Finger 2 - Paraparaparallelogrammatica

At last: we're relieved and of course very pleased to say that we now have copies of our new album in collaboration with the wanderful Nurse With Wound - Paraparaparallelogrammatica. No thanks to the British postal system. Over the next few days we'll be making some of these available in our merchandise shop so keep your Aye-Ayes peeled, as they say. The vinyl edition has now sold out.

COH - LOVE UNCUT:

We also have a few more copies of Ivan Pavlov's Love Uncut available on CD. Stephen collaborated on this release alongside old partners in crime Peter Christopherson and our much-missed friend, now Traverser of the Aeons, Jhonn Balance.

CYCLOBE TO APPEAR AT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL?

Important, please note: Cyclobe will not be performing 'live' at the up and coming ETHER event with Matmos on March 19th 2005. We will be DJ-ing though: spinning some tunes å là Dave Lee Travis stylee, before our American pals Matmos stalk the stage. Hopefully some of you can make it along for the evening, which should be a lot of fun. Matmos will be headlining, with support from Charlemagne Palestine and Zeena Parkins with Ikue Mori. More details from www.rfh.org.uk/ether or box office +44 (0)870 380 0400.

NEWS STEPHEN THROWER PLAYING LIVE WITH MATMOS AT ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES:

Steve has been invited to perform live with our friends Matmos at the upcoming All Tomorrows Parties festival held at the old Pontins camp in Camber Sands, near Rye. on Saturday 26th of February 2005. Steve was a contributor to the Matmos album A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure and the accompanying CD EP California Rhinoplasty. Other artists performing at the festival include SLINT, MIIGHTY FLASHLIGHT, THE NAYSAYER, BORN HELLER, MOGWAI, BRIGHTBLACK, THE MELVINS and POLAR GOLDIE CATS. More details at http://www.intuitivemusic.com/content/view/1247/142/

CORRECTION: AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE LIVE IN BRISTOL:

NOT IN BATH AS PREVIOUSLY LISTED!!!

The Amal Gamal Ensemble are performing live in Bristol, at The Cube Microplex, on Friday 18th of March, as part of THE THEATER OF THE ETERNAL DRONE, an event hosted by legendary krautrock utopians, The Kosmiche Club. Grok will also be playing. Doors open at 8pm, tickets for the event are £5. The audience can also look forward to a MYSTERY MIDNIGHT MOVIE Š no dress code required, but severe dermatoses, marked insomnia, irritability, hyperactivity, and personality changes are recommended.

THANK-YOU:

We'd really like to express our gratitude to everyone who got in touch over the last few months following the recent loss of our dear friend Geff Rushton/Jhonn Balance. Urth will be far less strange and a much quieter place without him.

Remember, Archangels Protect Us....

Stephen Thrower & Ossian Brown 19th Febuary 200514th OCTOBER 2004

ANGRY EELECTRIC FINGER - UPDATE
The limited edition vinyl release of Angry Eelectric Finger has now sold out from the Beta-Lactam Ring Records website by pre-order sales. This edition was limited to 550 copies only on 180 gram vinyl. The unlimited CD release of all three albums will follow shortly and is also available to order in advance from Beta-Lactam Ring. See our Gallery for a look at Steve Stapleton's wonderful new artwork for this album. Follow this link to hear a new unheard extract from the Cyclobe/Nurse With Wound Paraparaparallelogrammatica

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DELICIOUS MONSTERS!
A new Cyclobe recording 'INDULGE YOURSELVES WITH OUR DELICIOUS MONSTERS' has just been completed and handed over to Mr David Tibet for the Doctors Without Borders HIV/AIDS benefit album he's currently working on with Mark Logan. Some of the other artists also contributing to this project are Devendra Banhart, Nurse With Wound, Antony and the Johnsons, Michael Gira, Thighpaulsandra, David Toop, William Basinski amongst many others. More news to follow.

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WORLD SERPENT POPS ITS CLOGS
As I'm sure most of you are already aware, our distributors World Serpent recently declared bankruptcy. Thankfully we were able to retrieve what was left of our stock so for the meanwhile both our albums will still be available from us on the website.

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BETA-LACTAM RING RECORDS
We're very glad to announce that we'll be working with the American label Beta-Lactam Ring Records on our next (as yet untitled) Cyclobe project. In the meanwhile our full length collaboration with Nurse With Wound, ANGRY EELECTRIC FINGER is due for release November 2004.

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OTHER NEWS:

AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE LIVE IN TORINO
Steve will be making his first live performance outside of the United Kingdom with the Amal Gamal Ensemble on the 10th of December in Torino, Italy, possibly followed by a further appearance in Avignon, France (details to be announced). Also on the bill in Torino is our dearest fiend Thighpaulsandra, and Black Sun Productions. For more information follow this kink

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COIL - ANS
Ossian appears on... in the new Coil boxset album ANS.

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AUGUST 2004

NURSE WITH WOUND/CYCLOBE: ANGRY EELECTRIC FINGER - LATEST

information pulled from blrrecords.com

Angry Eelectric Finger, initially announced as forthcoming from World Serpent, will now be released by Beta-Lactam Ring. The original intention was for it to be released as a triple CD and triple vinyl set. Instead, it will now be broken down into individual CD and LP releases. The vinyl editions will be very limited. More details soon.

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NEW VAL DENHAM WEBSITE:
The vibratory, visionary artworld of our dear and beautiful (married) friend Val Denham can now be experienced at last on a new official website devoted to his work. Val has recently been working on a series of incredible new artworks for upcoming Cyclobe releases; and it's no exaggeration to call these latest pictures stunning! They will be posted on our website when we've finished the recordings: meanwhile, please do visit the new website to see a large selection of Val's paintings, spanning twenty years from his early work for Throbbing Gristle, Marc Almond in the 1980s right up to the present day. The site also features photographs of the glamorous animal, along with downloadable music from his groups The Death and Beauty Foundation and Silver Star Amoeba. There's also a merchandise page where you can obtain signed limited edition prints of his work.
www.valdenham.com

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HIV/AIDS BENEFIT:
Cyclobe are to contribute a new track towards a triple compilation CD compiled by David Tibet and Mark Logan, with all profits going to the charity Medecins Sans FrontiĖres (Doctors Without Borders), an organization working with HIV and AIDS sufferers in Africa. This Durtro/Jnana CD is planned for release some time between September and December 2004. Amongst the artists confirmed are:

David Toop ... BMX Bandits ... Paul Burch (Lambchop) ... Cyclobe ... William Basinski ... Brett Smiley ... Bill Fay ... JS Durtro Wagner ... Stephanie Volkmar ... Richard Buckner ... Simon Finn ... Six Organs of Admittance ... Michael Gira ... Antony ... Baby Dee ... Thighpaulsandra ... Jarboe ... Devendra Banhart ... Pantaleimon ... Faun Fables ... Nurse With Wound ... Sundial ... Current 93 ... Little Annie Anxiety ... Jim O'Rourke ... Backworld ... Matmos ... Peter Stormare ... Michael Yonkers ... Michael Masley ... Christoph Heemann ... Andrew Chalk ... Mirror ... The Pastels ... Jad Fair ... Linda Perhacs ... Rose McDowall/Sorrow ... Ka-Spel/Legendary Pink Dots ... Einar ÷rn/Ghostdigital ... irr.app. (ext.) ... Taurpis Tula

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THIGHPAULSANDRA WEBSITE:
Having just released his new album Rape Scene, Thighpaulsandra has relaunched his new website. It's undergone some serious cosmic surgery and now packs a powerful new pout. We suggest you pay him a visit. Rape Scene is available from his new on-line store, along with ? of all things ? 'Come On Thighpaulsandra' cum towels! Thighpaulsandra recently contributed to the Nurse With Wound/Cyclobe piece Paraparaparallelogrammatica.

www.thighpaulsandra.com

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MAY 16th 2004

MERCHANDISE PRICE CHANGES
We have made some slight price changes to our stock, all LP length CD's are now priced at £12.00 inclusive of postage and packing.

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MAY 1st 2004

PLEASE WELCOME PARAPARAPARALLELOGRAMMATICA!
ANGRY EELECTRIC FINGER
We're happy to announce that the first instalment of the new Nurse With Wound album Angry Eelectric Finger (Spitch'cock One) is now available for sale from our Merchandise page. This is a limited edition release of only 2000 copies of which we have a very limited number so if you'd like a copy 'run like the wind'! Cyclobe's contribution for this release is the gargantuan and.... purple melodrama, 'Paraparaparallelogrammatica', a new 12 minute piece in collaboration with Nurse With Wound. Also as part of this project are San Francisco's Irr. App. (Ext.) and Sonic Youth's Jim O' Rourke, whom Stephen Thrower previously worked with many years ago with his live improvisational group Put Put.

AMAL GAMAL PERFORMANCE
The Amal Gamal Ensemble (Stephen Thrower, along with Dave Knight, Karl Blake, Dave Smith, Orlando and Gavin Mitchell) will be playing at 14 Andre Street, off Amhurst Road, Hackney, London on Friday the 28th of May. This venue has a strictly limited capacity, so advance tickets are only available by emailing guineapig@jesusanswers.com. Your name will go on a list and details of the complete bill and details of the event will be sent out nearer the time.

Remember Archangels Protect Us...

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FEBUARY 2004

We'd like to thank everyone for all the positive feedback and interest we've received since launching the new website, our thanks also goes to those of you who bought our new single and the limited edition Death Bed DVD which have now both sold out.
We're about to embark on the last of our sessions for the as yet untitled 3rd Cyclobe album which we hope will be completed and released around September this year, distributed by World Serpent.
We're also working on a mail-order CD release containing extracts from Cyclobean improvisational sessions... recordings in phantom code. A lot of our fully completed pieces originate from these sessions, but not all the improvisations have been moulded into compositions - some of the looser remaining passages are enjoyable in their own right and it's these that we intend to release via the web-site. As soon as we have more information we'll be in touch. Finally, the 'under construction' gallery section will be updated very shortly.

Enjoy the coming of Spring, it's nearly with us!

Bestness to you all

Stephen Thrower & Ossian Brown

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JANUARY 1ST 2004

PATHFINDER 7" SINGLE
The new Pathfinder single is available now for pre-order in our merchandise section. We have a VERY limited number of this 7" vinyl release, only 50 in total, so if you'd like a copy we advise you to order quickly. Please indicate whether you prefer black or white vinyl (this will of course depend on what's left).

DEATHBED DVD with LTD CYCLOBE CDR
To accompany the signed DVD release of DEATH BED we've decided to include a limited edition CDR of the complete title music: a radically different, extended and reworked recording of 'Each and Every Word Must Die' from the first Cyclobe album LUMINOUS DARKNESS. Sadly we only have a few copies of the DVD so we're making this available in an edition of 32 copies only.

VAL DENHAM
Cyclobe would like to welcome the wonderful and painfully talented Val Denham who's been working with us on a number of beautiful, exciting and uniquely strange artworks for Phantomcode releases due in 2004. Val's artwork corresponds brilliantly with some of the new material we've been working on and we're over the moon, to say the least, with the atmosphere of the combined results. Two of Val's other artworks can be found on this website.

WEBSITE
A Huge thank-you goes to James Mannox for all his time, work and patience on the designing of this new Website/Cyclobian environment for us. We'd also like to thank all at Brainwashed for their continued support and work on the Cyclobe Brainwashed site which is still up and running at www.brainwashed.com/cyclobe. Worm regards to Jim Woodring for his magnificent Flesh Worm! And of course our Love and thanks to the beautiful Val Denham.

NURSE WITH WOUND/CYCLOBE
We're now pleased to announce that our collaboration with Nurse With Wound is completed, and due for release early 2004. Provisionally titled ANGRY EELECTRIC FINGER, it's to be a triple album/CD box set release: NWW collaborations with Jim O'Rourke and Irr. App. (Ext) will inhabit the other two discs. The Cyclobe/Nurse With Wound disc totals 55 minutes of wet slathered entrails, 10,000 year old deep-sea sponges oscillating under frozen oceans, and progressive psycho-sonics... Assisting Cyclobe on this release are Thighpaulsandra (special bells) and Cliff Stapleton (Hurdy Gurdy). The five new pieces are at present living under the title 'Who is This Who is Coming?' but this may change before release.

GROW ANTLERS!