COIL's "Journey to Avebury" [Remastered]

Here's my upgraded quality fan remaster containing the commissioned COIL Soundtrack.
Fan-created under Fair Use principle (Fair Dealing in the UK) for non-commercial educational/study and historical purposes, complementing a much longer essay by myself in October 2018 about COIL's commissioned soundtrack for this short film.

Please do buy the fantastic dvd of Derek Jarman films on the "The Last of England" release from Second Sight Films:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-England...
Also available from HMV.

Soundtrack by COIL (circa 1995). Directed by Derek Jarman (1971).

This soundtracked version has never been commercially available, so I do not believe this truly conflicts with any current commercial Jarman release. However, this unauthorised fan edition of mine won't be on my Youtube channel permanently (just up for a review period under the Fair Dealing principle before I'll pull it).

The main Avebury project that UK band COIL finished in their lifetime was their lively, bubbling electronic soundtrack for the re-release of frequent collaborator Derek Jarman's 1971 Super 8 film of his own journeys around the stones titled "A Journey to Avebury". After previous projects of his that heavily involved COIL, including "The Angelic Conversation" (1987) and "Blue" (1993), Jarman's film producer approached Jhonn and Peter for a soundtrack to the director's 10-minute short film posthumous re-release for the festival circuit (this COIL version showing at least once, during a 1990s Brighton Festival). This soundtrack, given the same title as the film but without the beginning "A", was completed by the band in London around 1995 (roughly about the time of the "Worship The Glitch" sessions).

I do believe that COIL fans should spend some time with the band's soundtracked Jarman's Avebury film if they have not yet done so. However, in all fairness, there has only ever been near-unwatchable compressed copies of the 10-minute version widely available online for streaming, with truly horrid quality and stuttering movement (240-360pixel/128kbps, and one jagged PAL-to-NTSC conversion too). So I thought It'd be interesting to go back to best available sources and aim to do a full, respectable fan remaster of the short film featuring the very best sound and video available to me and make my version available for Jarman/COIL fans (both old and new fans alike) along with my extensive essay (originally published on the COIL Facebook Group, October 8th 2018).

Enjoy,

Phil Barrington
Barrington Arts / Live COIL Archive