| Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under an Unquiet Skull | ||||
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| Released | 1998 | |||
| Genre | Experimental, ambient, drone | |||
| Length | 16:42 | |||
| Label | Eskaton | |||
| Producer | Coil | |||
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Spring Equinox: Moon's Milk or Under an Unquiet Skull is part one of the four part Seasons collective created by Coil.
A first edition, released on spring equinox 1998, consisted of a limited 7" of 1000 copies on milky white vinyl and 55 copies on yellow vinyl and a CD-EP, which was deleted on summer solstice, when the second part was released. On the summer solstice of 2001 a second edition of the CD-EP was released, limited to 400 copies.
All four Solstice/Equinox releases have been compiled in a two-CD set entitled Moons Milk (In Four Phases) . This CD will again be re-released on Moon's Milk In Six Phases.
Track 1 consists of mainly organ, whereas track 2 seems to use the same organ exactly with some added viola played by William Breeze.
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Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers is part three of the four part Seasons collective created by Coil.
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Spring equinox or vernal equinox or variations may refer to:
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