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The Courtauld Talks
Live album by
Killing Joke
Released1989
Recorded19 September 1987
Venue The Courtauld Institute, London
Genre
Label Invisible
Killing Joke chronology
Outside the Gate
(1988) 		The Courtauld Talks
(1989) 		Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

The Courtauld Talks is a live album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, released in 1989 by Invisible Records. It is different from the group's other releases in that it is essentially a spoken-word album. [1]

Content

On 19 September 1987, frontman Jaz Coleman delivered a lecture at London's Courtauld Institute, outlining the thinking behind the band's then-unreleased Outside the Gate album, expounding on its origins in gematria and the occult. Fellow Killing Joke member Geordie Walker (on acoustic guitar) and Outside the Gate session musician Jeff Scantlebury (on percussion) provided a minimal, repetitive musical backing. [1] The venue itself was an apt place for the lecture as it specialised in arts and conservation. [2]

Release

A recording of the lecture was released as The Courtauld Talks, a double vinyl LP on Killing Joke drummer Martin Atkins' Invisible Records in 1989. A CD version was released in July 1997. [1]

Track listing

  1. "The Courtauld Talks" – 66:22

Personnel

Killing Joke
Additional personnel
  • Jeff Scantlebury – percussion
Technical
  • Martin Rex - live sound & recording engineer
  • Phil Le Gonidec - crew

References

  1. ^ a b c d Schulte, Tom. "The Courtald Talks – Killing Joke | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  2. ^ Hämäläinen, Jyrki "Spider" (2020). Killing Joke: Are You Receiving?, p. 124. Milton Keynes: New Haven Publishing. ISBN  978-1912587407.


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