[kj] KJ announce formal release of previous Pledge projects:

Neil Perry 65snoopy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 12:06:06 EST 2014


My CD arrived (in Norway) on Monday...


On 26 February 2014 15:20, Arvid Mork <kj_mork at hotmail.com> wrote:


> Hi !

>

> Just like to ask : Have everyone that pledge the Killing Joke In DUB got

> their cds ?

>

> I'm still waiting ! :/

>

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> From: kjlist at live.com

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:42:33 -0600

> Subject: [kj] KJ announce formal release of previous Pledge projects:

>

>

> http://www.theskinny.co.uk/latest/news/307254-killing_joke_announce_in_dub_plus_new_live_album_book

>

> *This just means that you will be able to purchase "In Dub," "Down By The

> River" and, ostensibly, "In Cythera" from Amazon and other non-Pledge

> outlets as of March 24ish.*

> Killing Joke announce 'In Dub' plus new live album, and book of essays

> from Jaz Coleman

> Published 25 February 2014

> Seminal post-punk band Killing Joke <http://www.killingjoke.com/> have

> today announced a release that looks back at the dub versions of their

> singles, including a wealth of new mixes and rare versions of seminal

> Killing Joke tracks. Their new album, Killing Joke - *In Dub,* compiled

> by superproducer and founding member Youth, will be released on 24 March,

> alongside a new double live album from the band, a new symphony produced by

> front-man Jaz Coleman called *The Island*, and a new book of essays and

> reflections from Coleman entitled *Letters From Cytheria*.

> Youth spoke about his role in compiling the new album, explaining: "I

> first discovered dub in 1976, along with many other kinds of music it

> became the soundtrack to my late teenage years and consistent through the

> rest of my life. We were surrounded by dub in Ladbroke Grove in the late

> 1970's... This is the first time a collection of Killing Joke's dub mixes has

> been released as an album, spread over 3 CDs over four hours of dub

> annihilation... it has been an epic voyage. Compiling the best of the legacy

> and distilling all new dub plates into a definitive collection was never

> going to be easy. This album has taken over a year to lovingly put together

> and of all of the many productions and mixes I have been fortunate enough

> to have been involved with, this one, I'm sure, will be one of those that

> tells the story best and the one that makes me feel extremely proud to be a

> part of the phenomena that is Killing Joke." The album will be available as

> a 3 CD set, or as a digital download.

> Coleman's *The Island* is a new suite composed in 1997 by Coleman to

> celebrate gaining his New Zealand citizenship - it will be released as a

> companion to his new book of essays, *Letters To Cytheria*, covering a

> fertile period in 2007-2008 when Coleman was compiling "a detailed account

> of his hidden history and involvement with Hermetics, Earth Sciences and

> the Rosicrucian tradition." The essays cover "the principles of self

> education, symbolism, quantum mechanics, numerology," and Coleman's

> "ongoing obsession with the image of a hidden island at the ends of the

> earth."

> Also due for release on 24 March is live album *Down by the River*,

> recorded in 2011 at the Royal Festival Hall, which will be available as a

> double CD with a DVD of extras. The band's Geordie Walker describes *Down

> by the River *as "'the definitive KJ Live album." Pre-orders for all the

> new Killing Joke releases are available through the usual outlets.

>

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