Coil (band)

Coil is an experimental music group that has worked in several forms of music (electronic and otherwise) such as industrial, noise, ambient and dark ambient, neo-folk, spoken word, and minimalism.

Influences

Other music that has influenced and informed Coil's sound is diverse and wide-ranging:

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• Captain Beefheart
• Angus Maclise
• Can
• Brian Eno
• Flipper
• La Monte Young
• Cluster
• Lou Reed
• Arvo Pärt
• Alvin Lucier
• Nico
• Leonard Cohen
• the Birthday Party
• Morton Subotnick
• the Velvet Underground
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Tangerine Dream (early 1970s experimental work)
• Kraftwerk (early 1970s experimental work)
• Amon Düül II (aka Amon Duul II), etc.

Jhonn was always encouraging fans to trade, talk about and discover new and different forms of music, stressing the importance of variety.

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