Zos Kia/Coil-On Balance

Here's an oldie but a goodie, Zos Kia/Coil's On Balance from Transparent (1984, Nekrophile/1998, Eskaton ). I'm guessing the title of this absinthine classic, actually an early Coil track, is a play on the name of Coil co-founder John Balance or, perhaps, an arcane reference to the Egyptian Book of the Dead. A teletype drum machine and fuzzed bassline support droney organ and the occasional burst of bruitist counterpoint. Lasting from 1982-83, The Zos Kia/Coil (John Gosling, John Balance, Min and Peter Christopherson) marriage was short lived. As we know, Balance and Christopherson departed to plunge darker depths as Coil.