Zos Kia / Coil - Silence and Secrecy *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 3rd April 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Zos Kia's music is an essential insight and archival piece into the early work
of the industrial scene and particularly of Coil in their formative stages
Their recordings are even darker and more industrial-rooted than much of the Coil
material that followed. The music is primal, brutal and reveals the interests that
surrounded Coil/ Zos Kia and the early years of Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth
(TOPY) / Psychic TV...
John Gosling was an original member of Zos Kia (as Joan D'Arc), alongside John
Balance (Coil) and Min. This trio, together with Peter Christopherson (TG, Coil) and
other guests, recorded and performed in the early 1980s under the names Zos Kia /
Coil, including the "Performance Action" (involving blood and flesh cutting) at the Air
Gallery in London in August 1983 and a performance at the Berlin Atonal festival in
December 1983. The latter comprised one side of the Transparent cassette issued by
the now defunct Austrian label Nekrophile in 1984, which became the first released
recordings of both Coil and Zos Kia.It was reissued years later by Coil (Threshold
House/ Eskaton) and included the Coil manifesto ' The Price of Existence Is Eternal
Warfare', originally written by John Balance in 1983, in which numerous references
that inspired their future work can already be found. The name' Zos Kia' had been
taken from the magickal system of occult artist Austin Osman Spare although John
Gosling never really seemed too occult-fixated, AOS was a great source of inspiration
for Coil's members.
In 1984, Balance and Christopherson left to concentrate on Coil full-time. All material
released under the Zos Kia name alone was primarily the work of John Gosling. After
retiring the Zos Kia name, Gosling went on to record with Sugardog, Psychic TV and
work solo as Sugar J and Mekon. Debuting in 1994 with "Phatty's Lunchbox", Gosling
pioneered the blueprint for the dance music popularized years later by the Prodigy and
Chemical Brothers: breakbeat trip- hop invested with a lot of energy and old- school
attitude.

Tracks: Violation / Be Like Me / ThankYou / Sicktone / How To Destroy Angels(ZosKia
remix) / BaptismOf Fire / Silence &Secrecy / On Balance / SleazySaid / Black
Action12" Mix / 'Smile'

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