The New Backwards

Infobox Album |
Name = The New Backwards
Type = studio
Longtype = studio
Artist = Coil


Released = 2008
Recorded = 1993-2007(?)
Genre = Experimental
Length =
Label = Threshold House
Producer = Coil
Reviews =
Last album = "Duplais Balance" (2006)
This album = "The New Backwards" (2008)
Next album =
Misc =

The New Backwards is an album by Coil released in 2008. The album is comprised of material remixed and reworked from the "Backwards" demo, which was submitted to Torso Records in 1993 and then further recorded at Trent Reznor's Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the mid-1990s for a planned release on Reznor's Nothing Records imprint on major label Interscope Records. These remixes were made by Peter Christopherson and Danny Hyde in Bangkok in 2007. [ [http://thresholdhouse.greedbag.com/release/~the-new-backwards-0/] ]

The album was originally released on 12" vinyl as part of a box set reissue of the album "The Ape of Naples". [ [http://www.discogs.com/release/1267436] ] It is currently available on 12" vinyl, compact disc, and downloads in FLAC, aac, and mp3 formats.

Track listing

CD, FLAC, aac, mp3

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

12" vinyl

*This is the fourth vinyl from the 4-vinyl Ape of Naples box set.Side G
#"Careful What You Wish For" - 9:07
#"Nature Is A Language" - 8:00
#"Algerian Basses" - 5:02Side H
#"Copacabbala" - 6:49
#"Paint Me As A Dead Soul" - 6:29
#"Princess Margaret's Man In The D'Jamalfna" - 8:46

Backwards demo

Infobox Album |
Name = Backwards
Type = Studio album
Longtype = (bootleg)
Artist = Coil


Recorded = 1993(?)
Genre = Experimental,
Dark ambient
Length = 47:07
Producer = Coil
Reviews =
This album = "Backwards" "(1993?)"

"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 [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/saamoa/pages/backwards.html] . 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 proposed release on Nothing Records was continuously put off. "The Ape Of Naples" is considered to be the reincarnation of this demo [http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=545433&sid=e701d7653798db3cccc111c9a8009c64#545433] 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 [http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/saamoa/pages/backwards.html] . 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"cite web
url = http://brainwashed.com/coil/writings/compulsion.html
title = Compulsion
publisher = "Compulsion" (1992 Winter)
accessdate= 2006-12-27] , "God Please Fuck My Mind For Good", "Fire Of The Mind"cite web
url = http://brainwashed.com/coil/writings/jwint.html
title = The Complete Interview
publisher = "Brainwashed.com" (1997 May 05)
accessdate= 2006-12-27] , "The World Ended A Long Time Ago",cite web
url = http://brainwashed.com/coil/news/news2001.html
title = Coil News 2001
publisher = "Brainwashed.com" (2001)
accessdate= 2006-12-23] and "Backwards". [ [http://brainwashed.com/coil/news/news1997.html] ] Other proposed titles are also possibly referenced by this material.

Track listing

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

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

References