Screen Ceremonies
By David Toop
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Track listing
- 1 Ceremony Behind Screens 4:58
- 2 The Darkened Room 11:01
- 3 Dream Fluid 1:22
- 4 The Psychic 6:18
- 5 Howler Monkey Shits and Roars 2:26
- 6 Butoh-Porno 7:17
- 7 Reverse World 5:56
- 8 Mica Screen 6:34
- 9 I Hear Voices 13:25
- Total length: 59:17
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David Toop makes his formal solo debut (sans sound-sculpture-sculptor Max Eastley, sans Steve Beresford & London Musicians Collective cohorts) with Screen Ceremonies. It is also the inaugural and practically the funereal release by The Wire Editions, which for several years after this remained an Editions of one.
In a word, this album is dark as fuck. It creeps, it caresses, it moans in pleasure and pain. It murmurs like a lover, then scares you shitless. You think I'm exaggerating? Track 2 is dedicated to the wife he lost to suicide a few months before. Those 11 minutes will not gently rock you to sleep. And yet... the album is indeed oddly soothing, more peaceful (or maybe the word is "muted"... or "concussed") compared to Buried Dreams before it and Pink Noir to follow.
The guy on the cover knows what's up. Wince and shy away as you might, the stuff you don't want to know about -- but need to know about -- is still right there over your shoulder.
It's still right there.
In a word, this album is dark as fuck. It creeps, it caresses, it moans in pleasure and pain. It murmurs like a lover, then scares you shitless. You think I'm exaggerating? Track 2 is dedicated to the wife he lost to suicide a few months before. Those 11 minutes will not gently rock you to sleep. And yet... the album is indeed oddly soothing, more peaceful (or maybe the word is "muted"... or "concussed") compared to Buried Dreams before it and Pink Noir to follow.
The guy on the cover knows what's up. Wince and shy away as you might, the stuff you don't want to know about -- but need to know about -- is still right there over your shoulder.
It's still right there.
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Catalog
9 Mar 2024
20 Feb 2024
4 Feb 2024
21 Dec 2023
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1
Ceremony Behind Screens
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2
The Darkened Room
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3
Dream Fluid
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4
The Psychic
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5
Howler Monkey Shits and Roars
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6
Butoh-Porno
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7
Reverse World
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8
Mica Screen
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9
I Hear Voices
14 Oct 2023
2 Sep 2023
31 Jul 2023
21 May 2023
17 May 2023
5 May 2023
7 Mar 2023
9 Jan 2023
26 Sep 2022
19 May 2022
25 Apr 2022