Esoteric underground Britain

They were called the destroyers of civilization and accused of all mortal sins. They really knew a lot about sin and redeeming. This book about people who turned the ideas of society about creativity, mysticism and an extreme lifestyle - about the British experimenters who set up experiments on themselves and on listeners. Coil, Throbing Gristle, Current 93, Nurse with Wound-the history of music at the turn of the century is unthinkable without these groups, their traces are visible everywhere: from underground to pop culture.
“Esoteric underground of Britain” is also a genealogy of the rich tradition of English eccentric and visionary art: the great mystic William Blake, the artists Luis Wayne, Charles Sims and Ostin Osman Spacer, and many others are found on the pages of the book. Explicit seekers. It can be read as a saga about desperate creators, sorcerers and madmen who mixed the boundaries of the real and imaginary. In the fate of her heroes, incredible ambitions, opposition of everyday life, magic, pursued by the authorities, the quire move, struggle with themselves and the search for light in the midst of pitch darkness were intertwined.
This edition of the famous book of the Scottish journalist and prose writer David Kinan was made according to the expanded author in 2016 to the text