MYRNINEREST is EclipseMooned to announce she will be playing St. Petersburg’s Kuryokhin Centre on Friday 6 December and Moscow’s Moscow Hall on Saturday 7 December 2013. MYRNINEREST collage, using artwork by Madge Gill, by Giulio Di Mauro.
MYRNINEREST wish to thank all of those whose kindness and generosity of spirit made our time there so happy and powerful. Especial thanks to Remo Soland, Ruth Stofer, Roger Hofmann and Lotte Greber. You are ALL at the ALEPH DOOR!
A beautiful and thoughtful article has been written (in French) by my friend Josianne Guilloud-Cavat. To read it go here.
All photos by and © Stefano Schröter: www.stefano.zenfolio.com.
More of Stefano’s photos from this event are to be found in a gallery on the Coptic Cat website.
MYRNINEREST is Tickled Babylonish to release her first T-shirt. Printed in Scarlet Woman ink on And Afterwards the Desert Sand cotton fabric. No Horsie Meat added. Available for pre-order now from Coptic Cat. We should have them in about two weeks. £16 plus postage and packing.
MYRNINEREST are OverMoon to announce that we have begun working with Qujunktions who are now our exclusive booking agents for everywhere, except for North America. Anyone interested in booking MYRNINEREST should contact Mark Slater at . Amen to Æons.
“No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it—no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or in our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather.” – George MacDonald
We are UtterOverMoon to announce that CONSTELLATION ONE of releases by MYRNINEREST on her new imprint and label THE SPHERES are now available. ALL releases by MYRNINEREST will be on THE SPHERES. Please note however that THE SPHERES FOUR is only available from North American outlets.
A bundle containing the two vinyl album mixes of “JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON (THE SPHERES ONE and THE SPHERES TWO), the UK/EU CD album (THE SPHERES THREE), Journey to Avebury (THE SPHERES FIVE) and the book of “JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON was available from the Coptic Cat shop. The first 193 bundles came with a numbered A5 colour print of a painting by English artist Madge Gill—from whose work the name MYRNINEREST is taken—which were signed by James Blackshaw, The Bricoleur, Andrew Liles and David Michael. The bundles have now sold out.
Some of the individual items are also available separately: please see links below.
All vinyl and CD versions are also available for download from the Coptic Cat online shop. The download booklets for all versions of “JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON contain the album artwork and the lyrics. The download booklet for JOURNEY TO AVEBURY contains the album artwork. All the MYRNINEREST releases are also available for download from www.myrninerest.bandcamp.com.
Many MYRNINEREST items will only be available from www.myrninerest.com. We recommend signing up for our email updates (see the box on this page) to be kept in touch with all projects and releases by MYRNINEREST.
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“JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON: THE ALBUM
“JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON, their harrowing and haunted debut, featuring James Blackshaw and David Tibet, is centred on David’s friendship with, and love for, the late Jhonn Balance of Coil as well as Jhonn’s death and how it affected the circle of friends around Jhonn. With all lyrics by David and all music written by James, the album was recorded during February 2012 with James Blackshaw on classical guitar and harmonium and David as vocalist.
CLICK HERE to hear the first 93 seconds of the album.
Both LP formats and the CD format contain the same songs, but with different mixes by the three different artists mixing the album. The track titles differ between the vinyl and CD.
THE SPHERES ONE (12" vinyl LP) is mixed by James Blackshaw and comes in a full colour reverse board sleeve with a 4 page insert containing the album’s text and reproductions of two charcoal drawings by Jhonn Balance. The painting on the LP cover is also by Jhonn Balance. It carries a cuneiform barcode and the catalogue number THE SPHERES ONE on the spine. THE SPHERES ONE is only available by mail order and at concerts. The insert differs slightly to the insert for THE SPHERES TWO. THE SPHERES ONE is limited to 500 copies. £18.99 plus postage and packing.
TRACKLISTING: “Babylon” or “Snap” • The Dead Queen of Cleves • Aiwass the Wooden Hall • Magick in the Haunted Air? • Flat Æons Chorus • Crow Hotel • Red Me • Waiting for the Jays • Meanwhile the Helicopter • World War Ninety-Three • Flame Stable • In Your Mouth is Rome
CLICK HERE to buy THE SPHERES ONE
THE SPHERES TWO (12" vinyl LP) is mixed by The Bricoleur and comes in an identical sleeve to THE SPHERES ONE except that the catalogue number on the spine is THE SPHERES TWO and it carries a standard numerical barcode. The insert differs slightly to the insert for THE SPHERES ONE. It is available by mail order and at concerts and also in shops. It is distributed by Cargo UK. The first pressing is of 1,500 copies. £15.99 plus postage and packing.
TRACKLISTING: “Babylon” or “Snap” • The Dead Queen of Cleves • Aiwass the Wooden Hall • Magick in the Haunted Air? • Flat Æons Chorus • Crow Hotel • Red Me • Waiting for the Jays • Meanwhile the Helicopter • World War Ninety-Three • Flame Stable • In Your Mouth is Rome
CLICK HERE to buy THE SPHERES TWO
THE SPHERES THREE (CD) is mixed by Andrew Liles and comes in a full colour digipak with a 20 page booklet containing the album’s text and reproductions of two charcoal drawings by Jhonn Balance. The painting by Jhonn Balance on the cover is different to the painting on the cover of the LP sleeve; the painting on the LP sleeve’s cover is the painting by Balance used for the booklet in the CD. It has a different handwritten version of the group’s name MYRNINEREST by Madge Gill. It is available by mail order and at concerts and also in shops. It is distributed by Cargo UK. The first pressing is of 2,000 copies. £11.99 plus postage and packing.
TRACKLISTING: The Sun Like a Hound • A DogStar at the DogBar • Chaos in his ChoirBoy • FangBell, TwiLight • BadLuckClock • To Be Trapeze • Roadworks For TinkerBell • Ten Green Sothis Bottles • The Dog is Unwell • Breast Point: Cairo 1904 • CatNip Pastures • Long Home Sick Tonight
THE SPHERES THREE is currently OUT OF STOCK
THE SPHERES FOUR (CD) is identical to THE SPHERES THREE. However, the image on the cover and booklet have been reversed, and it has a different handwritten version of the group’s name MYRNINEREST by Madge Gill. It is available by mail order and at concerts and also in shops. It is distributed in the USA by Revolver USA and in Canada by F>A>B>. The first pressing is of 2,000 copies. This is not available through Coptic Cat mail order or at the London show. It can only be purchased in North America or through the mailorder shop at Coptic Cat Canada: www.copticcat.ca.
TRACKLISTING: The Sun Like a Hound • A DogStar at the DogBar • Chaos in his ChoirBoy • FangBell, TwiLight • BadLuckClock • To Be Trapeze • Roadworks For TinkerBell • Ten Green Sothis Bottles • The Dog is Unwell • Breast Point: Cairo 1904 • CatNip Pastures • Long Home Sick Tonight
“JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON: THE BOOK
The first publication in the new imprint THE SPHERES is the full text of “JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON by David Michael. The book prints the text in its original Hallucinatory Channelled Verses, before the verses were brought together into the texts for the individual songs. This beautiful book is 64 pages long, bound in a coarse woven white cloth with maroon blocking to the front and back covers and to the spine, head- and tail-bands and sewn signatures. Measuring 5.8" x 4.1" (148 mm x 105 mm), the book has full colour endpapers reproducing a letter from Jhonn Balance to David Tibet, a drawing of a Harpie by Balance and a colour photograph of Balance and Tibet walking as shadows. This is the most beautiful book we have yet published; more books are to be published soon by THE SPHERES. £19.04 plus postage and packing.
CLICK HERE to buy the book
JOURNEY TO AVEBURY: THE 12” MINI-ALBUM
Journey to Avebury (THE SPHERES FIVE) is MYRNINEREST’s soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s film of the same name—Jhonn Balance’s favourite film by Jarman—and has been issued to commemorate MYRNINEREST’s London concert on 4 August and features David Michael on vocals, Andrew Liles on electric rain, and Michael Cashmore on piano, based on a theme by James Blackshaw. This one-sided 12" record comes in a full colour sleeve. The piece is 13:36 in length. 1,000 copies have been made. £7.99 plus postage and packing.
CLICK HERE to hear the first 93 seconds of the album.
CLICK HERE to buy Journey to Avebury
We are delighted and honoured to be asked by Antony Hegarty to appear at his Meltdown on Saturday 4 August. Myrninerest perform our debut album “JHONN,” UTTERED BABYLON with our beloved friends Cyclobe co-headlining the event. Also shown will be some films by Derek Jarman which evoke the title of the evening.