Name: England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Brand: David Keenan

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9781913689452

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Paperback

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&nbsp;Includes exclusive postcard signed by David Keenan

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2023-06-13

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PGUK

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Paperback | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive

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David Keenan

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Music

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Strange Attractor

Scottish author, critic, musician and owner of the now defunct [l=Volcanic Tongue] shop, mail-order business and record label.

A record label born in Olympia, WA and relocated to Portland, OR in March 2002. Strange Attractor is inspired by and strives to document challenging, "out" music.

Originally a radio program called "Strange Attractors" on Olympia 89.3 FM Community Radio, the label splintered off to become Strange Attractors Audio House.

With a focus on capturing unique and unconventional sounds, Strange Attractor is dedicated to showcasing music that pushes boundaries and challenges traditional genres.

An expanded edition of the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground - with the first biography of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound. 

This newly expanded edition of England's Hidden Reverse, the classic exploration of the English esoteric musical underground that includes the first, and only, biographies of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound, is based on exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives. Together, these genre-defying bands and their circles represent the English underground in all its cultural, artistic, and sexual variety. Over four decades, the three intertwined groups have maintained a symbiotic, yet uneasy, relationship with the mainstream of popular culture, even as their music, beliefs, and practices have repelled them from it. Theirs was a clandestine scene whose work accents the many occulted peculiarities of Englishness that flow through generations of outsiders, channeling personalities as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Arthur Machen, Joe Orton, Shirley Collins, Björk, and Marc Almond. 

The story of this Hidden Reverse has, necessarily, remained a secret. Until now. This new volume contains almost 100 pages of extra material culled from Furfur, a collection of interviews with musicians and artists whose careers intersected with the bands', initially published alongside Strange Attractor's first limited edition of the book.

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition)

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Discover England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground (Revised and Expanded Edition) by David Keenan. Exclusive Rough Trade vinyl records with signed copies available. Explore the underground music scene with Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.