Horse Rotorvator

by Coil

Horse Rotorvator cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Some Bizzare, Force, Threshold House, K.422
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 4.14/5 from 12 ratings

Artists on this release: Stephen E. Thrower, John Balance, Peter Christopherson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

On 'Horse Rotorvator', Coil refines its experimental industrial sound into a form of modern psychedelia, constructing a tense and unnerving atmosphere through a collage of tribal drumming, funereal horns, and disquieting samples. The album's grand, sweeping compositions explore themes of death, betrayal, and apocalypse, notably meditating on the murder of filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and featuring a stark cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Who by Fire”. Its fusion of brute noise and creepily serene arrangements established the work as a frightening and unique landmark of 1980s avant-garde music.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. The Anal Staircase
  2. Slur
  3. Babylero
  4. Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)
  5. Herald
  6. Penetralia
  7. Circles Of Mania
  8. Blood From The Air
  9. Who By Fire
  10. The Golden Section
  11. The First Five Minutes After Death

Credits

  • John Balance - performer, vocals, writer, Vocal
  • Peter Christopherson - performer, writer
  • Stephen E. Thrower - performer, woodwinds, guitar, percussion
  • Marc Almond - background vocals
  • Coil - producer, writer
  • Rico Conning - recorded by
  • Tony Harris - recorded by
  • Danny Hyde - recorded by
  • Paul Samuelson - recorded by
  • Paul Vaughan - spoken vocals, Spoken Vocals Vocal
  • Raoul Revere - Background Vocals Vocal
  • [anonymous] - Vocal
  • Billy McGee - Strings
  • J.G. Thirlwell - Brass

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