The Jehovahcoat Demos

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The Jehovahcoat Demos
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Compilation album by
Julian Cope
ReleasedMarch 2011 [1]
Recorded1993
Genre
Length65:45
Label Head Heritage
Producer Julian Cope
Julian Cope chronology
The Unruly Imagination
(2009)		The Jehovahcoat Demos
(2011)		 Psychedelic Revolution
(2012)

The Jehovahcoat Demos is an album by Julian Cope, released in 2011. It is technically Cope's twenty-sixth solo album, and the mostly instrumental album contains 15 previously unreleased tracks, written and recorded by Cope throughout 1993 in direct response to having been dropped by Island Records in October 1992. [2]

Julian Cope English musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator

Julian David Cope is an English musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator. Originally coming to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes, he has followed a solo career since 1983 and worked on musical side projects such as Queen Elizabeth, Brain Donor and Black Sheep.

Island Records British international record label of Jamaican origin; imprint of Island Records Ltd.

Island Records is a record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island in particular having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.

Contents

The album derives its title from Cope collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Donald Ross Skinner, who, throughout the post-Island Records period, constantly referred to wearing his imaginary 'Jehovahcoat'. This being - according to Skinner - the ultimate Julian Cope promo item. [3]

Donald Skinner is a guitarist, songwriter and producer primarily known for his work with Julian Cope. Skinner is commonly known by the name Donald Ross Skinner with the addition of the middle name of Ross attributed to him by Cope after Glenn Ross Campbell, the pedal steel player from The Misunderstood. He is currently a guitarist for Love Amongst Ruin and DC Fontana.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Julian Cope, except where noted.

Phase one
No.TitleLength
1."Boskawen-Un"4:42
2."Hanging Out With Emma Jane When Emma Jane's a Junkie"0:43
3."Sunhoney"2:58
4."Know Alternatives"2:15
5."Preternatural Sitcom"3:17
6."Wrath of Can't"2:54
7."Theme From 'Jehovahcoat'"2:41
Phase two
No.TitleLength
8."Time and Space"5:14
9."Tyrebagger"12:49
10."Headshopping"1:55
11."El Sqwubbsy's Machu Picchu Revelation"1:40
Phase three
No.TitleLength
12."Baby, My Mind Stood Up"3:33
13."Riding on the Crest of a Slump"8:54
14."Albany"8:41
15."Julian the Apostate" (Richard Sanderson)3:35
Note

In music, transcription can mean notating a piece or a sound which was previously unnotated, as, for example, an improvised jazz solo. When a musician is tasked with creating sheet music from a recording and they write down the notes that make up the piece in music notation, it is said that they created a musical transcription of that recording. Transcription may also mean rewriting a piece of music, either solo or ensemble, for another instrument or other instruments than which it was originally intended. The Beethoven Symphonies by Franz Liszt are a good example. Transcription in this sense is sometimes called arrangement, although strictly speaking transcriptions are faithful adaptations, whereas arrangements change significant aspects of the original piece.

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Thighpaulsandra British musician

Thighpaulsandra is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. He began his career working with Julian Cope in the late 1980s, becoming a member of Cope's touring band. A collaboration with Cope in 1993 followed, as the experimental duo Queen Elizabeth. In 1997, former Cope guitarist Mike Mooney invited Thighpaulsandra to fill in for the departing Kate Radley on a Spiritualized tour, where he remained until early 2008. In 1998 he also became a member of the experimental band Coil. He has subsequently released several solo albums. He currently performs and records as part of URUK with Massimo Pupillo and UUUU, a band also featuring Valentina Magaletti and Graham Lewis and Matthew Simms both of Wire.

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References

  1. ↑ "Julian Cope presents Head Heritage/March Drudion". Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Julian Cope – The Jehovahcoat Demos". Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Julian Cope – The Jehovahcoat Demos". Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Head To Head | Richard Sanderson". Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Bandcamp | Richard Sanderson | Richard Sanderson Songs - 1978 - 2010". Bandcamp.com. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | Unsung | Postpunksampler 2". Headheritage.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
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