Pre-Order Release: The Howler + a NiN Day This Weekend

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A NEW RELEASE FOR PRE-ORDER

The Howler: An English Breakfast

The Howler: An English Breakfast is a slow, treacherous dub with a booming bass and unidentified sonic attacks flitting about. Over the top of this is the daunting Genesis P-Orridge, reciting a tale of a debauched castle’s breakfast. The voice of Genesis is enough to cause hallucinations. An absolutely necessary disc.” — Lex Marburger, Lollipop Magazine

In 1997, Gen was unable to come out on their third Pigface tour, but instead made films introducing all of the bands as Eva Braun Hitler, in drag and lederhosen (which reside at the Museum). The spoken word part of The Howler was recorded at the Mattress Factory / Invisible studios at 2024 S Wabash (where Swans, Pigface, Murder Inc, DVOA, Lab Report and Killing Joke had worked). I picked Gen up at Chicago Midway Airport, back when it was basically the size of a 7-11 and you could just drive up to it on the street and see passengers and luggage through the windows. They had forgotten the words, so they were faxed to the invisible office from X Thee Underlying – Gens office in Brooklyn. 

We enlarged the words (on the same xerox we made the Test Dept backdrops). Gen read them, then we threw the coffee-stained pages in the trash and left back to the airport. Jim, my drum tech at the time, fished them out, held on to them for 20+ years, and gifted them back to me a few years ago when I started the museum.

Genesis and I certainly had a difficult relationship in the end, but creativity was at its core. They made me a member of Psychic TV for a minute, (we were trying to go to Russia for some reason) and they were a huge part of the clarification of the mesmerizing, improvisational phase of Pigface, with tape machines and cassettes changing each song before during and after it existed.

This pre-order, limited edition, signed and numbered, blue vinyl release of only 330 copies is hand screened with different colors on each unique sleeve, and comes with a free download of a recently discovered, very different 43-minute mix. The package also comes with 3D glasses which may or may not work depending on the colors used, and an 8-page booklet reproduction of the original fax. 

Please allow 8-10 weeks for delivery. 

 

The Howler: An English Breakfast 

Bass [Bass From] – Mick Harris

Drums, Loops, Tape [Tape Delays] – Martin Atkins

Vocals – Genesis P-Orridge

Whistle [Space Whistle] – Resident Phase Shifter

Written-By – P-Orridge*, Atkins*

[Engineered By] – Adam Yoffe,

Re mastered by Tom Whittaker

 

 

NiN Day This Weekend!

Don’t forget we have a NiN Day this Saturday, March 22!

On this NiN Day at PPIM you can:

  • Watch the Year Zero documentary, and look at one of the very limited ammo cases with contents

  • Sit behind Martin’s drum kit from Head Like A Hole (and Ministry, Kiling Jike and Pigface) for an insta photo op

  • Listen to some of the earliest NiN demos (given to Martin by Trent at a party after playing saxophone with Martin’s post-punk outfit Brian Brain!)

  • Examine an amazing, magical array of items from such bands as Killing Joke, Einsturzendeneubauten, Ministry, Pigface, Skinny Puppy, Genesis P Orridge, Public Image Limited, KMFDM, Pig, Chris Connelly, Wax Trax ! Records, and much much more!