Ossian Brown
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Ossian Brown is an English musician and artist.
Brown is notable for being a full time member of the music groups Coil
and Cyclobe
.
Ossian Brown's first book 'Haunted Air' was published in 2010 by Jonathan Cape
in the United Kingdom, with an introduction by David Lynch
and an afterword by Geoff Cox.
Brown is notable for being a full time member of the music groups Coil
Coil (band)
Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...
and Cyclobe
Cyclobe
Cyclobe are a music duo based in London, formed by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown. They make hallucinatory electronic soundscapes by mixing sampled and heavily synthesized sounds with acoustic arrangements for strings and woodwind. Their approach draws upon diverse forms, including acousmatic,...
.
Ossian Brown's first book 'Haunted Air' was published in 2010 by Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...
in the United Kingdom, with an introduction by David Lynch
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
and an afterword by Geoff Cox.
with Coil
- Queens Of The Circulating LibraryQueens Of The Circulating LibraryQueens of the Circulating Library is a 2000 album by the experimental British group Coil. It is unusual in the sense that it is perhaps the only release without participation from Peter Christopherson. On this album, Coil were: "Thighpaulsandra & John Balance with Dorothy Lewis as the queen of the...
(2000) - Coil Presents Time MachinesCoil Presents Time MachinesCoil Presents Time Machines was a live CD by Coil. This CD was produced in a limited amount of 1,000 copies and was given away with the initial mail orders of Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2. The CD is a live performance which took place on April 2, 2000 at the Cornucopia festival in the Royal...
(2000) - Constant Shallowness Leads To EvilConstant Shallowness Leads To EvilConstant Shallowness Leads To Evil is a CD by Coil, released the same year as Queens of the Circulating Library. Like Queens, this album comes packaged in a pink c-shell case....
(2000) - The Remote ViewerThe Remote ViewerThe Remote Viewer was originally released in CD-R format by Coil. The three track album was released in 2002 May in an edition of 500 copies. The initial three copies were signed and numbered, then auctioned off. The album was later re-edited by Peter Christopherson and expanded to include a second...
(2002) - ANS (2003)
- Live One (2003)
- Live ThreeLive ThreeLive Three was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 6 April 2002 at Teatro delle Celebrazioni in Bologna, Italy. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four, Live Two and Live One...
(2003) - Live FourLive FourLive Four was a compilation CD of live Coil songs. This CD was the first of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Three, Live Two and Live One. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience.The performance dates for "Bang Bang" and "An...
(2003) - The Restitution Of Decayed IntelligenceThe Restitution Of Decayed IntelligenceThe Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence is a 12" vinyl by Coil which heavily references samples from The Remote Viewer.The vinyl was released in four versions as limited editions: 450 numbered copies were pressed on black vinyl....
(2003) - Megalithomania!Megalithomania!Megalithomania! was an official CD-R release by Coil limited to a pressing of 230 copies, 123 of which were available in their box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience...
(2003) - The Key To Joy Is DisobedienceThe Key To Joy Is DisobedienceThe Key To Joy Is Disobedience was a box set released by the group Coil. It contains the following releases: Live Four, Live Three, Live Two, Live One, ANS and Megalithomania!. The set is often incorrectly referred to as "Live Box". Upon its release, the set cost just under $200...
(2004) - ANSANS (box)ANS is an box set created and produced by Coil. The album uses a strange and esoteric photoelectric synthesizer known as the ANS synthesizer. It was built around half a century ago and still to this day sits where it was originally conceived; in the Moscow State University...
(2004) - The Ape Of NaplesThe Ape Of NaplesThe Ape of Naples is the final album from Coil. It was released after the death of lead vocalist John Balance, who died on 13 November 2004. The title of this album was originally intended to be "Fire of the Mind"....
(2005) - Colour Sound Oblivion (2010)
with Cyclobe
- Luminous Darkness (1999)
- The Visitors (2001)
- Pathfinder/Remember Archangels Protect Us (2003)
- Angry Eelectric Finger 2: Paraparaparallelogrammatica (2004) (Collaboration with Nurse With Wound)
- The Eclipser/The Moths of Pre-Sleep (2010)
- Wounded Galaxies Tap at the Window (2010)
with The Nodding Folk
- The Apocalyptic Folk In The Nodding God UnveiledThe Nodding FolkThe Nodding Folk was the name of an industrial music supergroup with members David Tibet, James Mannox, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Sam Mannox-Wood, Simon Norris, and Steven Stapleton from the groups Current 93, Spasm, Nurse with Wound, Cyclobe and Coil...
(1993)