CURRENT 93

[Riven]

a mi NU najszybciej zaskoczyla z wczesnego okresu, glownie za sprawa The Mystical Body of Christ , z przecudownym loopem fragmentu z requiem Faure.

[twoja_stara_trotzky]

nową płytę kupiłem, ale nie prędko do niej dojdę - słucham ostatnio namiętnie OF RUINE OR SOME BLAZING STARRE - mam za sobą na pewno ponad 20 przesłuchań. Genialna płyta.
Zdążyłem też bardzo dobrze poznać BLACK SHIPS AT THE SKY (piękna), DOGS BLOOD RISING (wciągająca), pozostałe przesłuchałem po jednym razie. Zakrztusiłem się NATURE UNVEILED - robiłem ze cztery podejścia, ale nie dałem rady

masz źle opisane mp3

[Triceratops]

Maria ty nietrybie powinno byc Black Ships ON The Sky

[Riven]

lol, nie zauwazylem
tak to jest jak sie w konsumpcyjny sposob obcuje ze sztuka

[H-K44]

Maria ty nietrybie powinno byc Black Ships ON The Sky

Po prostu z lenistwa zamiast pisać tytuły przekopiowałem je z allegro. Nie mój błąd

Twój! Trzeba było sprawdzić w wikipedii...

[streetcleaner]

byczy letter z durtro:

Dear everyone:

Firstly, our profound thanks to all of those who came to see Current 93 at the Leipzig Wave-Gotik-Treffen. We headlined the Saturday night and played to around 7000 people, and receiving an absolutely overwhelming reception. I must say that I, and all those who were playing with me, thought this was our best concert to date. Thanks too to all those who arranged it, and to those friends of ours who came with us and were so helpful, especially Maude Swift, Andria Degens, Davide Pepe, Chris Campion, Masumi Kobayashi, Mariam Blachny and especially to our European booking agents and tour managers, Fabrizio Palumbo and Giulio Di Mauro, as well as to Corneius Brach and Thomas Goernert, the artistic directors who invited us. The concert was professionally filmed by Davide Pepe and Giulio Di Mauro with 2 cameras and recorded onto a 24-track machine; we are hoping to release an official DVD of it at some point. We had a lovely and inspiring time, and hope t o visit Leipzig again some day soon.

Below follow some observations and updates. Another update will be following next week.

David starts writing the new Current 93 album

I have now commenced work on the new C93 album as well as another album. There will be some special events occurring connected to these albums and also to mark my 50th birthday on March 5, 2010. More news later.

C93 play shows in Turin (22 September) and Rome (18 October)

Turin

C93 play Turin on 22 September, 2009, with special guest James Blackshaw. This is part of a 2-day festival; also playing on 23 September are NWW and Blind Cave Salamander, who will perform "Soliloquy for Lilith" and Larsen who perform with z'ev performing "In V. Tro". Tickets are €10 per night, as well as a reduced €15 ticket for both nights, and are now on sale at www.mitosettembremusica.it/en/.

Full details are as follows:

22 September 2009 at Il Sacro Attraverso L'ordinario, Torino, Italy
www.mutamento.org c/o MiTo www.mitosettembremusica.it

Current 93 + James Blackshaw

TICKETS: www.mitosettembremusica.it/en/biglietti/box-office.html

23 September /2009 at Il Sacro Attraverso L'ordinario, Torino, Italy
www.mutamento.org c/o MiTo www.mitosettembremusica.it

Larsen & z'ev "In V.tro" + Nurse With Wound & Blind Cave Salamander: "Soliloquy for Lilith",

TICKETS: www.mitosettembremusica.it/en/biglietti/box-office.html

Rome

C93 play Rome on 18 October, 2009 at the POST ROMANTIC EMPIRE FINAL FESTIVAL, which takes place over the days of 17 and 18 October at the Init. Club, Via Della Stazione Tuscolana 133, Rome.

Also appearing are Pantaleimon, Andrew W.K., Baby Dee, Hush Arbours, Andrew Liles, Othon Mataragas, Mouse on Mars, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, Ernesto Tomasini and many other artists. The final line-up is announced on 15 July.

The promotional flyer states:

"PRE FINAL FEST is the ultimate experience of the Post Romantic Empire, and its last manifestation. A black and pink psychic marathon that will last more than 27 hours continuously. PRE FINAL FEST is going to be a unique celebration and not just a music programme: artists and friends are invited to share the joy and the sadness of a happy ending. XXth century is not finished yet: use and abuse your emotions and join the Empire!"


Regarding tickets:

1. The price of the tickets will be increased monthly. They will cost €35 until 20 June, then €45 until 20 July, then €60 until 20 September and finally €65 until 5 October.
2. Tickets availability on presale is limited to 500.
3. Tickets bought in advance will allow one to enjoy the whole PRE FINAL FEST programme.
4. If 500 tickets are sold out on presale there will be no tickets at the door. If it is not sold out there will be tickets for single parts of the fest (Saturday night, Sunday morning, Sunday night).


For online presale please contact: prefinalfest@gmail.com. Tickets can be bought with Paypal or Postepay (debit card). For those who need other ways of payment please contact PRE at: giulio@postromantic.com or call +39 3280388313. Presale in Rome can be found at: TRANSMISSION record store, Via dei Salentini 27, Roma.

For more details, go to www.postromantic.com, www.initroma.com and www.myspace.com/deadlounge

The test pressing edition of ‘Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain’ with signed print

I expect to get the prints on the 20 June. I will commence sending out the test pressings themselves this week.

Vinyl edition of ‘Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain’

Unfortunately there were problems with the posters of subscribers' images for the vinyl; these have consequently been reprinted and we have received samples which have been approved. We now expect to get the vinyl in mid-July and will add it to the shop when they arrive.

Reviews of ‘Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain’

Metal Ireland • The Big Takeover

Metal Hammer:

Having carved out one of the most enlightening, richly detailed journeys ever to emerge from the British underground for the past 25 years, Current 93 appeared to reach a pinnacle with 2006's Black Ships Ate the Sky. A work of sublime, still beauty, its tapestry of visions cast a scintillating, apocalyptic glow with the finest of tools. Following David Tibet's collaborations with OM and Skitliv, this equally mystical and mesmerising follow-up has taken on a more explicitly dark tone. A doom and drone-tinged twilight pilgrimage, it's shot through with Tibet's wide-eyed, reedy rasp, whose stricken narratives are a shamanic, symbol-laden ascent into boundless acres of imagination and revelation. (8) Jonathan Selzer

The Wire:

In the three years since the release of Black Ships Ate the Sky, David Tibet has overseen the unlikely transformation from a studio-bound project into a barnstorming live outfit. While still not exactly a group—the lineup depends on who is available from his loyal entourage of devotees and colourful fellow travellers—C93 has developed a cohesive musical identity and a surging energy that one assumes stem from the imperatives and attractions of live performance. As a singer and performer, Tibet has discovered new reserves of intensity and, occasionally, a kind of derangement that previously tended to lurk only in the crevices of his music.

Aleph reflects these developments, taking its cure less from the acoustic music that has comprised the bulk of his work and drawing heavily on the drone Metal of Sunn 0))), Earth and, especially, OM. That's not to say that it's Tibet's metal album—though in places it comes close. It's more that Metal is the latest in a long line of enthusiasms (literary, spiritual and musical) that he's often employed to alchemise a new direction in his work. It's the way that he's able to soak up the influence and transform it that makes Aleph such a bracing and hypnotic release. Its opening track ‘Invocation of Almost’ is immensely powerful, built around a looping organ figure that lights the way—just—through a blackened landscape of power chords, fuzz bass, keening spirals of feedback and lurching drums. For my money, it's the best C93 piece since 1996's 'The Frolic'. That the remainder of the album, with its switchback lurch es between grinding guitar attack and becalmed pools of acoustic ambience, never quite manages to scale the same heights is testament to the first track's power rather than a criticism of what follows, which is uniformly convincing, fierce and frequently exquisite.

Tibet's epic text flows more freely over the music than his more Spartan recent work has allowed, a unique hybrid of personal mysticism, esoteric learning and dream imagery, complete with paradoxes, absurdities and nonsequiturs that add a crucial humanising element. In the end, it's his urgent recitation that captivates—more than ever here he sounds like his late friend and sometime collaborator John Balance of Coil, raving, raging, howling at the moon one moment and laughing at it the next. And now that it's become clear that these really are the End Times, Tibet's eschatological pronouncements have never seemed timelier.

Keith Moliné

CDs, vinyl and books can no longer be signed by David Tibet

Unless it specifically states in the news/update or in the store that an item is signed by David, it is no longer possible for him to sign items. This is because all of our stock is now held at a location in central London and sent out from there. We don't have access to the store.

’Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods‘: yet another update on my lyric book

I have to submit my analytical edition and translation of the Sahidic Coptic text, "The Enthronement of Michael", on 20 June. This will be the final part of my MA in Coptic Studies, before I start my PhD in 2010.

As soon as I have finished my MA, I will then concentrate, as mentioned in a recent update, on finishing this book. I will almost definitely be changing the title. I have decided against going to India to finish the book, but will stay in England working on it. Thanks once again to all of you who have pre-ordered and pre-paid for this volume; I am touched and humbled by your tolerance and patience for all the delays. Thank you.

Nick Blinko: ‘The Haunted Head’

I went to lunch last week with Nick and Henry Boxer, our mutual friend and Nick's agent. We have made some final decisions about our publication of Nick's strange and dreamlike novel, and we will be putting this book up on Durtro very soon for advance orders.

However, before we post a definitive statement about the volume, I just wanted to write a brief description of the book. The hard-back edition will be a limited edition, with blocked covers and spine, pictorial end-papers with Nick's work on them, and a book-ribbon. The novel itself is 200 pages long. Each copy will come with a 1-track CD featuring a newly-recorded and previously unreleased Rudimentary Peni song.

Nick wrote out the book twice, in his obsessively beautiful handwriting. One of these copies was written in an A4 pad, and the other version over approximately 350 one-sided white postcards measuring 3 1/2" × 5 1/2" (90 × 147mm). Three random examples are shown. Each copy of the book comes with one of these original postcards with text from the novel. This of course means that the book is limited to the number of manuscript cards. Once the cards are finished, the edition is ended.

Nick Blinko: The Haunted Head postcard Nick Blinko: The Haunted Head postcard Nick Blinko: The Haunted Head postcard

At the same time, we will be adding a collection of identically-sized postcards of Nick's artwork onto the Durtro shop, at various prices which will depend on the size and complexity of the image on the postcard.

Nick Blinko's text drawings have been included in several museum shows and touring exhibitions in the UK and France, whilst others are housed in the permanent collections of the following museums: The Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne and the Outsider Collection & Archive, London.

Fuller details very soon.

David Tibet appears as vocalist on the new Nurse With Wound album, ‘The Surveillance Lounge’

Nurse With Wound: The Surveillance Lounge

I am delighted and honoured to be one of the vocalists (credited with "voices, big muff and hawtrey") on the exceptional new NWW album, "The Surveillance Lounge". There is also a special edition, "The Memory Surface Box" containing 3 CDs in a plastic case. This album is out now on Dirter Records and available from them at www.dirter.co.uk.

Below follows the press blurb from Dirter:

We are delighted to announce the release of the brand new Nurse With Wound CD, this is a worldwide exclusive to United Dirter.

NURSE WITH WOUND - "THE SURVEILLANCE LOUNGE - THE MEMORY SURFACE EDITION" BOX

"The Memory Surface" is a 3xCD set in polypropylene box featuring the new Nurse With Wound album "The Surveillance Lounge" plus 2 extra CDs. The content on the two extra discs are in part studio out-takes, historical documents, the sequential evolution of an album and a primitive version of "The Surveillance Lounge".

In 2007 NWW were invited, by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation via In Famous, to perform a live soundtrack at La Cite de la Musique in Paris to the 1992 Murnau film, "Der brennende Acker". The new sounds that were generated and musical parts recorded for the film became rudimentary building blocks for "The Surveillance Lounge".

Nurse With Wound never fail to surprise and just when you maybe thought you could second guess how this might sound, they completely shift the direction. In contrast to the last release "Huffin' Rag Blues", this release focuses on the darker side of Nurse With Wound. Whilst keeping a fresh contemporary feel, it nods towards some of the older, more sinister material. Current 93's David Tibet is featured on the disc along with the mainstays of Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles.
The CD comes housed in a beautiful special 6 panel digipak with a spot varnish.


Nurse With Wound reissues on United Jnana and Andrew Liles/Diana Rogerson releases on Dirter now available

Nurse With Wound: Spiral Insana

Now available from Jnana Records is the new reissue of the Nurse With Wound CD, ‘Spiral Insana’. US $ 14.99 plus postage and packing.

The tracklisting is identical to the 1997 World Serpent issue. This reissue is in a 4-panel digipak which restores the original vinyl artwork.

United Jnana are pleased to announce the next installment in our ongoing Nurse With Wound reissue series, 'Alice the Goon'.

Nurse With Wound: Alice the Goon

Originally released in a limited vinyl edition in 1995, it was expanded for its CD debut in 2000. This version replicates the 2000 reissue with a 4 panel digipak.

Tracks: (I Don't Want to Have) Easy Listening Nightmares (9:28) • Prelude to Alice the Goon (12:51) • Untitled (7:24)

Now available from Jnana Records. US $ 14.99 plus postage and packing.

Diana Rogerson & Andrew Liles: No Birds Do Sing

The first album from Diana Rogerson and Andrew Liles, "No Birds Do Sing", is now available from Dirter at www.dirter.co.uk.

The press blurb from Dirter reads:

Everyone's belle de jour Diana Rogerson and Andrew Liles got together to create what we regard as one of the most considered and well conceived albums Liles has been part of. 'No Birds do Sing' can only be described as a hallucinogenic voyage of disconcerting mysticism and cosmic pandemonium and is a recording he's very proud of.


Nick Blinko artwork exhibited at ‘Entartete Kunts’ exhibition in Portland, Oregon, USA

Dennis Dread's third annual underground art exhibition, ENTARTETE KUNTS, returns to Portland, Oregon this month from June 4—June 30, 2009. The official Artist Reception takes place on Friday June 19th at The Life Gallery in downtown Portland, Oregon. Doors open at 7pm with local beer on tap and musical accompaniment into the Witching Hour. ENTARTETE KUNTS explores the intersection of imagery/sound and celebrates the incendiary art of metal and punk without a trace of irony. "Entartete Kunts" is a bastardization of the German term “degenerate art” and a snide reference to the 1937 Nazi purging of all art deemed objectionable by "Der Führer". An unfortunate pun but strangely appropriate for this gathering of unrepentant iconoclasts who stand boldly outside in every way. Entartete Kunts is in fact a very special exhibition that assemb les some of the most devoted artists from around the world for a rare glimpse into a thriving and still largely renegade culture:

* Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni)
* Arik Roper (High On Fire, Sleep)
* Rob Miller (Amebix)
* S. Clay Wilson (Zap, The Accused)
* Away (Voivod)
* Necrolord (Dissection, Emperor)
* Lino Reca (Villains, Hemlock)
* E. Danielsson (Watain)
* Chanel Adair (Lebenden Toten)
* and many more!


Thanks to you all for your support and kindness, as ever.

David+++

[Scaarph]

całkiem ciekawa historia z tym aleph... mocno odstaje ta płyta od przeciętnych tworów muzycznych. tak jakby... tak naprawdę bliżej jej do książki lub filmu, niż do przeciętnego albumu. bo koncept konceptem, ale słuchając tej płyty ma się wrażenie że jakoś miejsce jej jest na papierze a nie winylu czy innym aluminium. przy czym żadna to wada, wręcz przeciwnie. imć dawid tybet ulepił coś, co nie pozwala na rzucenie tego w kąt, z każdą sekundą coraz bardziej działając na wyobraźnię odbiorcy, i coraz bardziej podsycając jego ciekawość finału. przyznam, sztuka to nielicha, a wiem to po sobie
muzycznie również, im bardziej ku końcowi, tym większy ta płyta charakter objawia. wszystko ma tu swoje miejsce, wszystkim rządzi jakaś diabla logika, zupełnie nie ma uczucia przypadkowości. nawet wokal tibeta wcale nie przeszkadza swoją czasem przecież nie do zniesienia manierą, której zresztą na tym krążku jakby mniej. aaa, co ja będę pisał, słuchać, bo to dobre jest!
to mówiłem ja, jarząbek.

ps. chciałem napisać o tej płycie trochę więcej, ale niestety musiałem skrócić bo szczać mi się chce kurewsko i jeszcze muszę do monopola pędzić

[kampeki]

Aleph jest zajebista, ani trochę nie rozumiem narzekań Drone'a. Trzyma poziom Black ships...mimo, że to zupełnie inny album.

[Nerwowy]

Trzyma poziom Black ships...mimo, że to zupełnie inny album.

Nie trzyma. Bardzo dobry krążek, ale nie jest to dzieło tak kompletne i bezbłędne jak album z 2006 roku.

[Wódz 10]

Trzyma poziom Black ships...mimo, że to zupełnie inny album.

Nie trzyma. Bardzo dobry krążek, ale nie jest to dzieło tak kompletne i bezbłędne jak album z 2006 roku.

No niestety.
Ale tymczasem wersja subskrybencka zdaje się być nieco ciekawsza. Ale o tym przy okazji

[Czesław]

Także że tak. Przesłuchałem dwa polecone przez was albumy mianowicie Island i Lucifier Over London. Ten pierwszy to kiła straszna, jestem naprawdę zdziwiony że to w ogóle doleciało do końca, coś jak mdły ambient z lirykami, to już chyba lepiej audiobooków posłuchać. Lucifer natomiast jest dużo ciekawszy, chociaż nadal żadnego kultu nie uświadczyłem, od ciekawe tło, żeby się oderwać raz na jakiś czas od tego, co się słucha na codzień, jedno przesłuchanie i nie trzeba do tego wracać, jednak, cholera, stwierdzenie Wodza że wszystko inne jest identyczne jak Island, już na podstawie pierwszego pacjenta stwierdzam że jest bzdurą aż buczy. No, to który następny wziąć na widelec ?

[Riven]

cholera, stwierdzenie Wodza że wszystko inne jest identyczne jak Island,

lol jesli cos takiego napisal to .. panie dziesiec niedzwiedzi, o co chodzi?
tak swoja droga Island tez za bardzo do mnie nie trafia, malo jej sluchalem ale w sumie nie wiem czy to nie najslabsza rzecz Tibeta jaka poznalem do tej pory. wykonanie In a foreign town... jest tam wybitnie hujowe

Czesiek, sprawdz sobie Horsey. tytulowy utwor jest calkiem metalowy ;d brzmienie jest obskurne whuj, totalne podziemie.

[Wódz 10]

cholera, stwierdzenie Wodza że wszystko inne jest identyczne jak Island,

lol jesli cos takiego napisal to .. panie dziesiec niedzwiedzi, o co chodzi?
tak swoja droga Island tez za bardzo do mnie nie trafia, malo jej sluchalem ale w sumie nie wiem czy to nie najslabsza rzecz Tibeta jaka poznalem do tej pory. wykonanie In a foreign town... jest tam wybitnie hujowe

Island oczywiście świetna, szczególnie Fields Of Rape

Czesław, weź Ty się za mroczne, okrutne, rytualne pierwsze płyty. Jak mniemam późniejsze folkowe rzeczy Ci nie wejdą - ale może spróbuj się z Thunder Perfect Mind - jak ta neofolkowa stylistyka Ci nie podpasuje to szanse Twoje lecą na łeb na szyję jeśli chodzi o C93. Island to chyba jedyna taka płyta w katalogu, nigdy później ani wcześniej takowej nie było

[Riven]

no bieda, zwlaszcza na tle wersji z Nada to juz koszmar.

[Wódz 10]

no bieda, zwlaszcza na tle wersji z Nada to juz koszmar.

Co to, to nie.
Trzyma się to wszystko kupy. Nagrane gdzieśtam na Islandii, zimne, syntetyczne, może trochę za bardzo newage'owe momentami, ale daje radę
Osobiście wolę Island niż na przykład Swastikas For Noddy, która to momentami drażni mnie niespójnością, czy też Earth Covers Earth (to samo co na Swastikas tylko jeszcze posunięte dalej).

[Czesław]

Dobra tam, pierdole wasze rady bo i tak nie wiem o co chodzi, będę se powoli raz na jakiś czas słuchał jakieś materiału, ale żeby pamiętać który był a który nie, to krótkie notki będę zostawiał w tym temacie. Szkoda że nie każdy zespół ma równie przejrzystą stronę jak na metal-archives, to zaraz było by wiadomo o co chodzi.

[Riven]

rateyourmusic.com jest bardzo przejrzyste. wpisz tam sobie current 93 i masz wszystko na tacy. chociaz biorac pod uwage ilosc stuffu jaki wydali to niewiele da . w sumie bierz co chcesz, ja nie mam pojecia jak zareagujesz na taki folk, tym bardziej nie chce polecac starszych rzeczy. moze zaskoczyc, juz pare osob niespodziewanie zlapalo haczyk mimo, ze zupelnie w innych klimatach siedza

[twoja_stara_trotzky]

LOL! Pesten napisał mu, że warto zbierać C93, gość odczekał 2 miesiące dla niepoznaki, i się nagle głupio pyta AHAHAHAHA!!

[Czesław]

Gestapo z ciebie Trocky takie jak z kozi dupy trąba

[Wódz 10]

LOL! Pesten napisał mu, że warto zbierać C93, gość odczekał 2 miesiące dla niepoznaki, i się nagle głupio pyta AHAHAHAHA!!

Udało Ci się Troc położyć łapy na tych brakująych płytach C93 o które ostatnio Pestena pytałeś?
Masz już ze setkę płyt C93?