Cyclobe
The Visitors album cover
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genre(s)	Experimental
Years active	1999 – present
Members
Stephen Thrower Ossian Brown

Cyclobe (1999-present) are a music duo based in London, formed by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown (aka Simon Norris). They make hallucinatory electronic soundscapes by mixing sampled and heavily synthesized sounds with acoustic arrangements for strings and woodwind. Their approach draws upon diverse forms, including acousmatic, drone music, dark ambient, noise and sound collage. Thrower is also a film journalist and author of Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci. Ossian Brown worked with Coil from 1999 until the band’s cessation on the death of John Balance in 2004. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Stephen Thrower (December 9, 1963 Ashton-Under-Lyme, Manchester, UK) is an English musician and author. ... Stephen Thrower (December 9, 1963 Ashton-Under-Lyme, Manchester, UK) is an English musician and author. ... Look up Acousmatic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term acousmatic dates back to Pythagoras, who would lecture to students from behind a screen so that visual information would not distract them from his speech. ... Drone music, also known as drone-based music, drone ambient or ambient drone, dronescape or dronology, and sometimes simply as drone, is a musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tones-clusters – called drones. ... Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ... For the Irish mythological figure, see Naoise. ... Sound collage is the production of songs, musical compositions, or recordings using portions, or samples, of previously made recordings. ... Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his lover Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy.[1] The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by... John Balance (first name also spelled Jhon and Jhonn; born Geff Rushton/Geoffrey Laurence Burton; February 16, 1962 – November 13, 2004). ...

Background

Thrower and Brown met in the early 1990s through their mutual association with Coil. Thrower left Coil in 1993 (having worked on the albums Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Love's Secret Domain) and went on to form the experimental trio Identical, with Gavin Mitchell and Orlando. All three members of Identical now work as The Amal Gamal Ensemble, alongside other musicians including David Knight and Karl Blake of The Shock Headed Peters. Balance and Christopherson during Scatology era Scatology shirt, an official Coil product Scatology was the second album produced by Coil. ... Horse Rotorvator was the second LP released by the British avant-garde group Coil. ... Loves Secret Domain was released in 1991 by Coil. ... Karl Blake (born: December 5, 1956; Reading, Berkshire, England) is a vocalist, bassist, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work with The Lemon Kittens, Danielle Dax, Shock Headed Peters, Sol Invictus and Current 93. ...

Music

The first Cyclobe album, Luminous Darkness (1999), veered between hard-edged electronic music, Musique concrète, Industrial, and acoustic interludes for piano, strings and woodwind. They were joined on several tracks by Calina De La Mare (violin) and Niall Webb (bass clarinet). Next came The Visitors (2001), again featuring De La Mare (violin), alongside Sarah Willson (cello) and Coil’s Thighpaulsandra (production). Although still assaultive at times, The Visitors developed a warmer, expansive sound, with lush atmospherics and harmonic complexity. A third album followed in the form of a collaboration with Nurse With Wound, called Paraparaparallelogrammatica (2004). Cyclobe took their ‘remix’ of a 40 minute Nurse With Wound composition to the extreme, mostly obliterating the original. With contributions from David Tibet of Current 93, and Coil members/collaborators Thighpaulsandra and Cliff Stapleton, the result was complex electroacoustic psychedelia, completely individual but very much in sympathy with Nurse With Wound's methods. Cyclobe also recorded new title music for the film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (dir: George Barry, 1977) – a surreal, independently shot horror movie, illegally bootlegged on video in the early 1980s but theatrically unreleased at the time – which made its official debut on DVD in 2004. // Much like electroacoustic music, Musique concrète (French; literally, concrete music), has been subject to conflicting perceptions about its character. ... Thighpaulsandra (born Tim Lewis to retired opera singer Dorothy Lewis) is a Welsh experimental musician. ... Nurse With Wound (NWW) is a British music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. ... David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March 1960) is a British apocalyptic folk musician and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only constant member. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Discography

Albums

• Luminous Darkness (CD) (1999)
• The Vistors (CD) (2001)
• Paraparaparallelogrammatica (CD, vinyl) (2004)

Singles

• Pathfinder/Remember, Archangels Protect Us... (vinyl) (2003)

Compilation tracks

Not Alone is a compilation album of 5 CDs, released in February 2006. ...

External links

• Cyclobe website
• Cyclobe Brainwashed website
• Threshold House/Coil website
• Coil Brainwashed website