CONSTELLATION ONE of releases by MYRNINEREST now available for pre-order

Dear all:

“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 pre-ordering is now available for CONSTELLATION ONE of releases by MYRNINEREST on her new imprint and label THE SPHERES. ALL releases by MYRNINEREST will be on THE SPHERES. Please note all of these releases, except THE SPHERES FOUR, will be available at MYRNINEREST’s first appearance on 4 August at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of Antony’s Meltdown. If you are not attending our concert at Meltdown, these items will be available through the online shop at www.copticcat.com and, if ordered from our online shop, will be posted out on Monday 6 August. 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 is available from the Coptic Cat shop for £69 plus postage and packing, a saving of £5 on the cost of buying all the individual items separately. The first 193 bundles come with a numbered A5 colour print of a painting by English artist Madge Gill—from whose work the name MYRNINEREST is taken—which are signed by James Blackshaw, The Bricoleur, Andrew Liles and David Michael.

CLICK HERE to buy the bundle.

The individual items are also available separately: please see links below.

All vinyl and CD versions will also be available for download from the 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 their email updates on that 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 will only be 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 will be available by mail order and at concerts and also in shops. It will be distributed by Cargo UK. The first pressing is of 1,500 copies. £15.99 plus postage and packing.

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 will be available by mail order and at concerts and also in shops. It will be 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

CLICK HERE to buy THE SPHERES THREE

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 will be available by mail order and at concerts and also in shops. It will be 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.

“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 THE SPHERES FIVE

Other news

CURRENT 93 ‘LIGHTBRINGER=LIGHTSINKER’: THE HAND-PAINTED EDITION OF LUCIFER OVER LONDON

About 3 months ago, Coptic Cat made the below announcement. There are now TWO copies left of the edition; if anyone wishes to purchase one of the last two copies, please contact us at contact@copticcat.com with ‘LightBringer=LightSinker’ in the subject. Details of PayPal payment or UK £ sterling cheque payment will be sent by return email.

David has started work on an edition of 39 copies of C93’s Lucifer Over London 12" vinyl record. Each copy comes with a line drawing, entitled LightBringer=LightSinker, drawn in red and white ink by David on a gatefold black 12" sleeve. On the inner gatefold he has written, again in white ink, the first two lines of text from the song “Lucifer Over London", and the title LightBringer=LightSinker is written by him on the back of the sleeve along with the number of the copy. Each copy is signed on the front by him in white ink. The vinyl is not a test pressing, but the original red vinyl record with printed labels. Each copy is treated as a commission and the painting will be made after having received the payment.

Each copy costs £193 plus postage and packing.

23 of the hand-painted covers can be seen on copticcat.com.

Love to you all and God is Love,

David Michael