The Cupboard Under The Stars is a unique tribute to the visionary artist John Balance (1962–2004), best known as co-founder of the experimental music group Coil. Compiled by longtime admirer Claus Laufenburg, this cloth-bound volume gathers excerpts from Balance’s private notebooks – revealing lyrical sketches, visual experiments, raw poetry, surreal concepts, and annotations from his personal cosmos. Designed with elegance and reverence, the book invites readers into a fragile and luminous inner world that shaped one of the most enigmatic figures in post-industrial music and occult aesthetics.
John Balance (Geoffrey Laurence Burton, 1962–2004) was a British experimental musician, poet, and occult thinker. Best known as a founding member of Coil, he was a central figure in the development of esoteric post-industrial culture.
