$23.00
Second edition in a pink colored cassette shell, limited to 100 copies.
Back in 1987, Clive Barker’s supernatural body-horror classic Hellraiser hit cinemas worldwide and introduced audiences to the demonic Cenobites. Barker was a devoted Coil fan (Peter Christopherson and John Balance), and he famously said they were the only band he’d ever heard on record whose music he’d had to take off because, in his words, “they made his bowels churn”. He initially invited them to compose the film’s music, and the group began recording cues. But the producers at New World Pictures ultimately rejected the material in favor of a more traditional approach, bringing in Christopher Young, whose final score remains excellent, if less experimental. What remains from Coil is an unfinished soundtrack with surviving fragments and rough ideas, abruptly left behind mid-process, a glimpse into an alternate Hellraiser movie, one we can only fantasize into existence.
Nearly 40 years after the first Soleilmoon cassette edition was released, key long-term collaborator and Coil’s “secret third member" Danny Hyde located the original Hellraiser studio session tapes, and the bonus material recovered from them is presented here as an “expanded ritual” edition, reassembled into a standalone, possibly definitive and strangely beautiful nightmare suite. Play it in the dark and experience the consequences of raising hell...
TRACK LIST
A1. Attack Of The Sennapods 01:53
A2. The Box Theme (Mix 2) 05:30
A3. Main Title 03:23
A4. Zither Theme 01:04
A5. Hellbound Heart (Mix 1) 02:20
A6. No New World 03:53
A7. The Box Theme (Mix 1) 03:02
B1. Arcade sounds 03:56
B2. Cardinal Points 04:19
B3. Atmospheric Stuff 02:51
B4. Hellraiser Theme (Mix 2) 02:46
B5. Flutey Theme 01:08
B6. Unearthly Hell 07:14
Notes by Danny Hyde
Original artwork by Trevor Brown
Released under license from Musique Pour La Danse and Danny Hyde
Label: Soleilmoon
Catalog number SOL 206 C • UPC 753907790641
Cassette tape • Weight: 2 oz / 56 gm