OH YOU GUYS Lucifer Over London yes yes yes
It begins with a sampled "Paranoid" riff and trundles through "six six six it makes us a sick" and the bells, the bells, and it disappears with a chime bar and a soft guitar and it is something that you need to have.
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
the last track on that is seriously great great great
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that's a good one. I think Jnana actually has this in print right now on the Sixsixsix/Sicksicksick CD (which is a singles collection). Pretty sure Bevis Frond dude does guitar on this as well.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
the matmos remix of "the beautiful dancing dust" = swoon!
― stirmonster, Friday, 25 January 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Never my favorites, but hats off to'em anyway.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:11 (sixteen years ago) link
tell me more about this remix
― baaderonixx, Friday, 25 January 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago) link
HELLO DAVID KEENAN I AM STILL WAITING FOR YOUR BOOK
― sleeve, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"They Return to Their Earth" is one of the most amazingly lovely songs I've ever heard.
― novaheat, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought something from Tibet's Durto distribution once, and get regular email updates from the man. I'm not a C93 fan, but they're always highly entertaining reading. He's playing in Europe soon with avant-metal dudes Om, Aethenor and . . Rickie Lee Jones.
― Soukesian, Saturday, 26 January 2008 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, so, uh, Rickie Lee Jones...
As many of you will have seen, Rickie Lee Jones has been unable to appear at the C93 shows. Both I and Rickie Lee want to point out this happened due to bad luck and unforeseen problems. We remain good friends and, although sadly this time the energy was against us, we are both determined to reschedule our working together as soon as we can.
I haven't really kept up on this band lately but I would love to hear whatever they do together.
― sleeve, Saturday, 12 April 2008 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
??????????
― baaderonixx, Saturday, 12 April 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I just found and picked up Imperium and Earth Covers Earth -- a quick Allmusic search says these are late '80s recordings. Any good?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
imperium is great! one of their better pre-thunder perfect mind releases. ECE i don't remember as well, i think it's alright though.
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
new album is pretty cool
― ۞_۞ (ciderpress), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Imperium is awesome but also their bleakest. Quite hard to sit through i find
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I really want the new album to be great.
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 07:08 (fifteen years ago) link
the new stuff they played in london last year sounded very nice. what an amazing night that was...david tibet, andrew w.k., baby dee, matt sweeney, antony, marc almond, alex nielsen, andrew lilles and some crazy italian soprano guy singing too. bill fay was there but sadly didn't sing anything, slightly irritating considering he gave into Wilco's demands and sang a song at one of their shows a year or so before. anyway, looking forward to the new one too.
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 07:52 (fifteen years ago) link
For those who've ordered C93 stuff online -- what's the difference between ordering the same albums (say, Dogs Blood Rising or The Inmost Light) from the Durtro store or the Jnana store??? Anything?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
what's the new album?
― a somnambulist in an ambulance (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm in doubt about the new one (Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain). It sounds so 'harsh', in comparison to his last albums. I can't get used to the distorted sound, would've much more preferred a 'Pretty Horses' or 'Thunder Perfect Mind' sound. On the other hand it is intruiging. I just haven't found a mood yet to appreciate it. It's lacks eerieness, to my liking.
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i re-listened to imperium for the first time in a while because of the revive - man there's some tasty-weird stuff on there. it's like miserabilist cosmic music.
― GÖTT DAT SCHING (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"as real as rainbows" isn't harsh at all, gerard, and might be an entry point
― kamerad, Saturday, 2 May 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
but i hear what you're saying. stuff like "invocation of almost" is way up there among their heaviest songs
― kamerad, Saturday, 2 May 2009 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Just blasting Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain. Really is heavy.
I feel it's taking me a long time to get to know this album well. So I've been in this 'like it, but don't really love it' limbo for the past few weeks, but I'm beginning to come round to it.
― Duke, Saturday, 25 July 2009 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah one of the highlights of the year for me, its intensity was not something I was expecting from DT at this point in his life.
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 July 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone got the new album yet? "Baalstorm, Sing Omega": http://copticcat.greedbag.com/buy/baalstorm-sing-omega/
It's being presented as the final piece of a trilogy that begun with "Black Ships...". I'm only a few songs in, but it sounds lighter, less dense than the preceding "Aleph.." (not difficult, that), with strings, piano and light percussion -- sometimes a little eastern in touch.
― Duke, Saturday, 10 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I've given it a couple of listens and it hasn't grabbed me yet, I am more interested in the pic disc LP that came out at the same time which apparently has two sidelong pieces. That tends to be the kind of C93 stuff I prefer.
also waiting waiting waiting for the VOD box set, but there really isn't THAT much new stuff on it.
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, that picture disc looks interesting. It's also available in CD format -- which is not half as interesting, I realise but maybe more easily available.
― Duke, Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, and the VOD set is now available, I think. Or you probably mean you've ordered it and are awaiting delivery
― Duke, Saturday, 10 July 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Those two album length pieces (both 35 minutes each) are kinda boring, actually. It's mainly cello and violin music against a background of waves at the beach.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Saturday, 10 July 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Actually, you just sold me with that description.
― Florian Wimpissinger, an Austrian urologist (Abbott), Saturday, 10 July 2010 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Despite not being impressed with the samples I heard I bought the 2-track cello/violin/waves CD (longer version(s) on the CD), along with Baalstorm, anyway, & I actually like it a lot more than I expected.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Monday, 12 July 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I received the 2-track disc before I received Baalstorm. It didn't impress me. But as it is claimed to be a meditation piece based on the melodies of Baalstorm, I hoped that getting to know Baalstorm would improve my listening experience, that it would click afterwards. That has yet to happen...
Luckily I like Baalstorm a lot, though that took a while too and it is a bit C93 by numbers.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Monday, 12 July 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
all the pretty little horses is hitting the spot right about now. vocal-wise, i'm still more of a ka-spel kinda guy. maybe its the lisp.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 December 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Phew -- you want Current 93 you got it. ALL up on Bandcamp, it seems.
https://current931.bandcamp.com/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 January 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
I think some stuff's missing there
never could dig their stuff as much as that of their peer group (NWW, Coil, et al)
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:44 (ten years ago) link
Seems to have (intentionally?) left out the earliest stuff like Dogs Blood Rising.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
xp yeah swastikas for noddy eg, the 1st thing I looked for. And the split with OM, the 2nd thing I looked for! I owned both at some point.
I'm seeing these guys next month, the same day I see Beckett's Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby :-D
― beef in the new era (wins), Friday, 17 January 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
Why won't they playyyyyy heeeere
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
in the US? because when you book a tour the clubs ask "what did they make last time they played here and how big a room did they sell out." Current 93 would most likely only be able to bank on door deals over here
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
i keep assuming this thread title is a variation on fuck/marry/kill
― crüt, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
def remember tibet saying he didn't like touring because he didn't like to be away from his cats for too long
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
They also have very specific and inflexible requirements for their engagements and there are a large number of musicians involved, I mean I get it, but ever since they announced then deleted a show at santos party house a few years ago I have lived in hope.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
Too bad he took down his old Twitter photo showing him sitting in his garden with a hat on, he essentially looked like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah don't they insist on the promoters flying all the current band members in individually from wherever they live?
― beef in the new era (wins), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
Yes
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
Also lolol Ned otm
this is perfectly standard practice, every promoter in the world has to do this where band members live in different cities/countries
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
there are like 20 of C93 though & they all live in different countries
― beef in the new era (wins), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
except tibet lives in the same town as james blackshaw iirc. shirley collins too!
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Friday, 17 January 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link