Sweden's White Stains will come to mind of many thanks to the debut album, recorded together with Psychic TV "Live At Stockholm". However, the history of this band and its metamorphoses goes back much further. Founded by Carl Abrahamsson, from the beginning it served as a tool for proclaiming manifestos inspired by the works of, among others, Aleister Crowley (White Stains is the title of one of the most important texts of the British magician) and other proponents of free thought.

While the issues they raised were invariably focused around the subject of occultism and secret knowledge, in the musical layer the band underwent many metamorphoses: from occult / Goth rock through ambient to experimental electronics. As their style crystallized, Carl Abrahamsson and Thomas Tibert renamed White Stains to Cotton Ferox.

This disc is a collection of all the short publications that preceded their debut, recorded in the years 1987-1989 and released at the same time on 7" and 12" EP only (mostly through TOPY Scandinavia), and subsequently unavailable on any other format since.

Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digipak, with sleeve notes by Carl Abrahamsson - a great introduction to listening to the material, pointing to the context in which the compositions were created.