THE THRESHOLD HOUSEBOYS CHOIR - Form Grows Rampant (Half-Speed Mastered) - 2LP - Audiophile Vinyl

LABEL: Musique Pour La Danse

CAT NO: MPD034

BARCODE: 5414165122333

Tracklisting:

A1. Part One: A Time Of Happening
A2. Part Two: Intimations Of Spring

B. Part Three: So Young It Knows No Maturing

C. Part Four: So Free It Knows No End

D. Part Five: As Doors Open Into Space

THE THRESHOLD HOUSEBOYS CHOIR
– Form Grows Rampant

2LP – Heavyweight Half-Speed Mastered Black Vinyl
(Housed in a Gatefold Sleeve.)

The Threshold HouseBoys Choir was a project by Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson. Operating out of Bangkok, Thailand, the Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founding member started this audio and visual endeavour following Coil’s end.

Despite the name, it was a solo project which relied heavily on computer generated vocals. The name was derived from a play on words, combining the terms houseboy, house of boys, boys’ choir, and Threshold House, which was Coil’s own label. Form Grows Rampant is the soundtrack of a film shot by Christopherson (a video capture at the GinJae Vegetarian Festival in the south of Thailand) and his first major musical project since the tragic death of John Balance and the subsequent demise of Coil.

The music is a suite of lengthy dense atmospherics that combine shuddering electronics with sampled vocals, eerie digitalia, buried melodies and sinister undercurrents hinting at a gleaming heart of darkness, with a joyful melodic progression that sounds positively triumphant towards the end of the disc. It’s both Coil-esque and quite different, and undoubtedly is the worthy successor of the legendary group that Christopherson created with his partner John Balance.

First released in small quantities in 2007 as a CD/DVD set, this is the first time it is released on vinyl and CD. This reissue has been mastered from original files by Sidney Claire Meyer at former Deutsche Grammophon studios Emil Berliner in Berlin, using the half speed mastering process, and pressed on heavy vinyl.