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Ward Phillips · 1985 · Tape · GB · Interchange

<div> <div> <div id="tracklist" class="section tracklist" data-toggle="tracklist"> <div>Tracklist</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div class="section_content">A1 Derefpen To Sztokryzocki &nbsp; <br /> A2 Red Hook &nbsp; <br /> A3 Nathicana (Prelude) &nbsp; <br /> B Fleshworks (Prelude) &nbsp;</div> </div> Notes <div>Limited edition of 47 hand numbered copies. Comes in a plastic bag with vinyl sticker cover and 7 A5 cards plus small insert advertising deluxe edition of this release.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Info by John Smith via https://siderealpressxtras.blogspot.com/2020/05/interchange-magazine-interchange-was_28.html</div> <div>As I have stated elsewhere in my posts, Ward Phillips was the vehicle of my own musical offerings. I was very keen to distance my musical work from the magazine mainly because I liked the idea of the project being anonymous and that nobody I knew would feel obliged to say that they liked (or of course hated) it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As I hope it is obvious, the name (and the titles) reflected my obsession with the life and works of the American author HP Lovecraft, Ward Phillips being one of Lovecraft&rsquo;s own pseudonyms.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lovecraft was undergoing something of a revival at the time and a number of artists were inspired by his work; for example there was Cthulhu records in Germany, the Uncommunity were producing cassettes directly inspired by the author and Coil&rsquo;s own label Threshold House was a reference to him. Their record logo was designed by a member of an occult/literary group called the Esoteric Order Of Dagon which drew members (including myself) from a number of disciplines and was loosely associated with both the Typhonian and Chaos schools of Magick - which I also was involved with, either personally knowing members or by writing to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lovecraft also had more personal resonances with myself and a number of my friends. For was he not, like ourselves, a gentleman of independent but impoverished means (we were unemployed or on student grants), nocturnal, a person who railed against contemporary society and it&rsquo;s destruction of the old, and an author whose works were permeated with the unusual and bizarre? It is thus hardly surprising that his influence permeated my music.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of the sound sources themselves I still prefer to say very little other than that locational ambience was important, and instead offer this contemporary (but I believe unpublished) sheet that I probably prepared as &lsquo;publicity,&rsquo; though I don&rsquo;t think I ever actually did any. The &rsquo;studio&rsquo; I mention was my living room. The illustration that accompanies it was a piece of &lsquo;automatic painting&rsquo;, a subject I was inspired to try after seeing the works of the Surrealists and especially those of the artist/occultist Austin Osman Spare. A few other pieces of mine are reproduced as part of the cassette package. My current book project Side Real Press is also a nod to Spare and its logo another piece of automatic artwork.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div>