The New Backwards

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The New Backwards
The New Backwards cover
Studio album studio by Coil
Released 2008
Recorded 1993-2007(?)
Genre Experimental
Label Threshold House
Producer Coil
Coil chronology
Duplais Balance
(2006)		 The New Backwards
(2008)

The New Backwards is an album by Coil released in 2008 as a 12" vinyl, CD and downloads in FLAC, aac and mp3 formats. The album was originally released as a 12" vinyl as part of a box set re-issue of the album The Ape of Naples.[1] The album is comprised of material remixed and reworked from the Backwards demo which was recorded at Nothing Records studio circa 1993.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD, FLAC, aac, mp3

  1. "Careful What You Wish For" - 9:06
  2. "AYOR" - 7:40
  3. "Nature Is A Language" - 8:00
  4. "Fire Of The Green Dragon" - 7:54
  5. "Algerian Basses" - 5:02
  6. "Copacaballa" - 6:50
  7. "Paint Me As A Dead Soul" - 6:31
  8. "Backwards" - 5:22
  9. "Princess Margaret's Man In The D'jamalfna" - 8:45

[edit] 12" vinyl

  • This is the fourth vinyl from the 4-vinyl Ape of Naples box set.

Side G

  1. "Careful What You Wish For" - 9:07
  2. "Nature Is A Language" - 8:00
  3. "Algerian Basses" - 5:02

Side H

  1. "Copacabbala" - 6:49
  2. "Paint Me As A Dead Soul" - 6:29
  3. "Princess Margaret's Man In The D'Jamalfna" - 8:46

[edit] Backwards demo

Backwards
Backwards cover
Studio album (bootleg) by Coil
Recorded 1993?
Genre Experimental, Dark Ambient
Length 47:07
Producer Coil

Backwards was a studio bootleg recording by Coil. The origin of the source of "Backwards" is believed to have been a leak of the studio demo, in the form of a cassette[2]. However, the entire demo was broadcast when Dutch Radio4, a radio station in Amsterdam, had Coil as in studio guests to coincide with a live performance on the date of 2001 June 01. The program was broadcast on 2001 June 18 and a four disc CD-R set of the entire broadcast, made by the radio station, was released in an unknown quantity as Dutch Radio4 Supplement. Although part of the proposed album was eventually released as The Ape Of Naples, the material is so augmented that there are very few recognizable samples.

The album was the proposed release on Trent Reznor's former label Nothing Records. However, the release was continuously put off. The Ape Of Naples is considered to be the reincarnation of this demo[3] as it features completely reworked versions of "Heaven's Blade", "A.Y.O.R.", and other songs that are believed to have been originally created around the time of Backwards. "Simenon" and "Bee Has Photos" are built largely on the foundation of the song "Protection" which was released on the single Born Again Pagans.

"Bee Has Photos" and "Eqyptian Basses" are not considered to be officially part of this bootleg as they were released as part of the Songs of the Week download series and not on the supposed original demo[4]. However the version from Songs of the Week is an alternate version, much shorter in length.

On the live Coil album, Live Three, a song called "Backwards" is performed. This song is an incarnation of the songs "Simenon" and "Bee Has Photos".

This bootleg comprises the material for an album with several proposed titles, such as "International Dark Skies"[1], "God Please Fuck My Mind For Good", "Fire Of The Mind"[2], "The World Ended A Long Time Ago"[3] and "Backwards"[5]. Other proposed titles are also possibly referenced by this material.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Heaven's Blade" – 7:23
  2. "Wir-Click-Wir" – 6:21
  3. "Elves" – 3:10
  4. "Simenon" – 3:49
  5. "A.Y.O.R." – 3:51
  6. "Spastiche" – 3:09
  7. "Crumb Time" – 4:33
  8. "March Of Time" – 6:03

Two extra tracks, "Bee Has The Photos" and "Egyptian Basses," have been circulated with the demos.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Compulsion. Compulsion (1992 Winter). Retrieved on 2006-12-27.
  2. ^ The Complete Interview. Brainwashed.com (1997 May 05). Retrieved on 2006-12-27.
  3. ^ Coil News 2001. Brainwashed.com (2001). Retrieved on 2006-12-23.
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