493E Current 93 rarities

This last mix is me wanting to pull some compilation and rarities together.  Some were on the Sing Omega compilation, the rest are from small run singles and compilations.  Don't suppose anything on here is really that rare for any rabid fan like me, still a good opportunity to have them all in one place.

00:00  Nature & Organization - Hooves (2020 remaster, self-released)

04:33  Current 93 with Sebastian Horsley - Black Ship in the Underworld (Black Ship in the Underworld)

13:57  Current 93 - Dream of the Green Goddess (Absinthe box)

17:29  Current 93 - Frolicking (Terra Serpentes)

25:10  Current 93 - Passenger "Aleph" in Name (alternative mix, self-released)

29:42  David Tibet & Peter Atanasoff - Quiet Crosses (Sing Omega)

33:02  Death in June - Ô Paradis... (Paradise Rising)

38:20  David Tibet & Youth - Conspiracy Born (Sing Omega)

45:09  Current 93 & Pantaleimon - The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods (alternate version, Brain in the wire)

50:53  Current 93 - Red Hawthorn Tree (alternate version, Wire Tapper 6)

55:07  Current 93 - Jesus wants me for a Moonbeam (Devistate to Liberate)

57:39  Current 93 - Deuteronomy XXXIII:14 (How He Loved the Moon)

59:20  Current 93 - Holy Holy Holy (For Dusa) (Absolute)

64:12  Current 93 - Anti-Christ Anti-Christian (Peyrere)

67:11  Current 93 - A Dream Of TheInmostLight (For Christoph Heemann) (Foxtrot)

75:40  Current 93 - Some Morning when the moon was blood (Myths 4 - Sinople Twilight in Catal Huyuk)

82:04  Current 93 - Westron Wynde (alternate version) (Unreleased Rarities vol II)

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493D Current 93 covers

They've only done a handful of covers, yet each one is incredible and has a unique spin on the original.  

00:00  Since Yesterday (Strawberry Switchblade)

03:52  Diana (Comus)

12:43  Tamlin (The Fairport Convention / traditional)

23:08  The Courtyard (Simon Finn)

25:53  When The May Rain Comes (Sand)

29:00  Memories (Soul Caravan)

34:49  Sad Go Round (The Groundhogs)

40:26  Summer of love (Blue Oyster Cult)

42:19  All the pretty little horses (traditional)

44:53  St Peters Keys All Bloody (Simon & Garfunkle)

47:12  Jerusalem (Simon Finn)

52:16  Time of the Last Persecution (Bill Fay)

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493C Current 93 Remixes, Remixed and Covered

This one is a wild ride, but aren't they all?  I pulled together the worthwhile remixes and covers I could find, some fan made, others officially released.  The opening track is probably as close to a David Tibet remix as will appear, its the original track with some added effects and noise so it counts.  I tried to limit the tracks pulled from the only official tribute album "The Bells Shall Sound Forever."  The tracks that sampled C93 are appropriately labeled, though shouldn't be too difficult to find that source material used in them.  The Matmos remix is on probably the only official remix EP for C93, and its all good stuff especially if you are a JG Thirwell fan.  There's a couple fan made mash-ups, however I think they work pretty well.  The one with Bomb the Bass I've had for years and remember I had some online chats with the artist that was responsible for it, sorry for the low bitrate on that one.  The massive remix box set from Andrew Liles is here with the shortest track on it, which is representative of the larger picture for those interested.  Of course I ended it with the powerful cover by Rotting Christ. 

00:00  Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (from FACT mix with some added effects)

03:13  O Paradis - Calling for Vanished Faces I

05:48  Current 93 - Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still (DJ Broken Record remix)

10:48  Future Sound of London - Tired (includes Imperium II)

17:25  Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (remixed by Matmos)

23:07  Current 93 - Idumea (slow to speak remix)

28:18  :wumpscut: - Crucified (includes Holy Holy Holy (for Dusa)

32:09  Venetian Snares - Anguish (includes (Hey Ho) the Noddy (Ho))

36:46  Current 93 vs Bomb the Bass - Calling for Vanished Faces I

38:38  In Ruin - Oh Coal Black Smith

42:28  Decadence - Ach Golgota (Es Ist Vollbracht)

46:38  Sagittarius - Anti-Christ and Bar Codes

48:48  :Of the Wand & the Moon: - Benediction/Malediction

51:57  Vequinox - Earth Covers Earth

56:17  Death In June - Rule Again (Tibet mix)

59:55  Current 93 & Andrew Liles - St. Peter's Keys All Bloody (remix)

65:56  Der Feuerkreiner - Soft Black Stars

70:00  Column of Heaven - The Darkly Splendid World

71:25  The Well of Sadness - Dogun 

75:58  irr. app. (ext.) - Dead Side of the Moon

86:37  Rotting Christ - Lucifer over London

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493B Current 93 Manifestations

Mr. Tibet has a knack for showing up in some unexpected places.  Other times, he shows up exactly where you'd expect.  All of these tracks feature him as a guest, either on vocals, backing vocals, or some instrument like the bone flute.  

00:00  Psychic TV - Medmenham

00:51  Matmos - Messages From The Unseen World

08:06  Reinier Van Houdt – Midnight Rorschach

10:54  Shawn Pinchbeck & David Tibet - Extracts from the Faerie Queen

16:58  Human Greed - Dalkeith Night

23:00  The Post Romantic Empire Ensemble - Love Will Tear Us Apart (edit)

25:28  These New Puritans - Into the Fire

29:05  Six Organs of Admittance - The Manifestation (II.3)

31:48  Trappist Afterland – Give Thanks and Lament

35:57  Nature and Organisation - Bloodstreamruns

40:35  Backworld - The Lamb and the Lion

44:33  Death In June - Jerusalem the Black

47:20  Lisa Knapp - Staines Morris

51:18  Magik Lantern Cycle - Cities of the Red Night

57:12  Momick - Five

62:39  Othon - The Dreamer Is Still Asleep

69:29  Grave Pleasures - Atomic Christ

74:04  Death in June - This Is Paradise II

78:29  23 Skidoo - Banishing

83:06  Sigh - The Red Funeral

89:43  Skitliv - Towards The Shores Of Loss / Vulture Face Kain

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For your further research and potential listening pleasure, here is a list of tracks I do have but chose to omit:

Lee "Scratch" Perry – Baby Sucker (I'd say this is a questionable appearance, and not a great LSP song)

The Bevis Frond - Right On Hippie Dream (Way too long for a mix)

Mark Stewart - Nothing is Sacred? (can't really tell if he's on this or not)

Nurse With Wound (A LOT! He's on the majority of the first decade or two worth of records)

Coil (Nearly every albums thanks or is dedicated to David, but he has no appearances)

Thomas Ligotti (long narrative tracks with minimal vocals)

These are the tracks I don't currently have:

Aethenor - Faking gold and murder

Ardecore - La Povera Cecilia?

Whitehouse - Thank your lucky stars

The Hafler Trio – One Dozen Ecomomical Stories By Peter Greenaway

Costin Chioreanu - Chapter IV - Soundtrack For "Outside The Great Circle" Art Movie 2013

Larsen And Friends – ABECEDA

Mombus - & Bacillus Orchestra - Amber Cat

X-TG - Desertshores

The Volares - The Night We Taught Ourselves To Sing (Asleep in Egypt & Elegy for Tiny Tim)

493A Current 93 by any other name

If you were to ask me who is my most collected musical artist, it would be a close tie between Muslimgauze, Legendary Pink Dots and Current 93.  Here I've assembled some fanboy stuff over five themed mixes in my attempt to show the breadth and depth of their work, supplementing my previous mixes.

This first round is collecting tracks from each of David Michael Tibet Bunting's many projects.  These are all full aliases or collaborations and not just guest appearances.  Starting with my absolute favorite version of my favorite track from him, "The Dead Side of the Moon."  This is under his name with the main guy behind Nurse with Wound, David Tibet & Steven Stapleton.  They recorded this particular album twice, once as Musical Pumpkin Cottage and again as Musicalische Kurbs Hutte; giving each artist the space to wield their had as conductor. Then released several outtakes and alternate versions on Dead Memory and The Threat on Memory.  Zu93 is exactly that, the wonderful enigmatic group Zu paired up with Current 93, making some very interesting songs with a theme through the album.  Hypnopazuzu is Martin Glover aka Youth, with David Tibet.  The had done an unreleased collaboration (included in a subsequent mix here), and finally got together in 2016 to put this wonderful slab of vinyl together.  Nodding God is a project with Andrew Liles, David Tibet and an unnamed third member who could or could not real.  Still a great and bizarre album with lyrics only in Assyrian and Babylonian.  The next track is from the C93 album "Island" which is a collaboration with Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, and this particular track features backing vocals from that former Sugarcube, Bjork.  

Next up are The Aryan Aquarians, which by the reviews as the result of several drunken evenings, and has that kind of feeling to the music.  Certainly not my favorite of his projects though it has its moments.  Next up and from a similar period are The Nodding Folk, which was a one off project that released this two track single and an accompanying comic book.  The artists include personnel such as Savage Pencil, the musicians are all members of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, its worth seeking out, and here is a link to the comic.  Myrninerest is David Tibet with James Blackshaw as a tribute/homage to Jhonn Balance from Coil.  The album was released in multiple versions all by different producers/mixers.  I've only heard the copy I own and can't comment on any differences.  Black Ships is one of many aliases David used in this era surrounding his "Black Ships Ate the Sky" album (which I was a supporter and am listed in the thanks in the liner notes).  This particular track was from an early single with an alternate mix from his upcoming album under the C93 name.  Anok Pe is credited a couple times on other albums, "Birth Canal Blues" is the only EP under their name as the artist.  Its essentially Current 93 during the Hallucinatory Mountian era.  Lastly is Dogs Blood Order, which is where it all started in 1983.  David only released one album under this name, and that wasn't issued until 1997.  Its his early noisy tape collage style that can really unsettle a room.

00:00 Stapleton/Tibet - The Dead Side of the Moon

21:51 Zu93 - Confirm the Mirror Emperor

26:26 Hypnopazuzu - Magog at the MayPole

29:57 Nodding God - Calcination Totem Station

34:52 C93 & HÖH - Falling

38:51 The Aryan Aquarians - My Secret Gardener

42:30 The Nodding Folk - Children of the Nodapoc Gather Round

45:49 Myrninerest - Fangbell, Twilight

48:10 Black Ships - Vauvauvau

52:59 Anok Pe - Suddenly The Living are Dying

55:41 Dogs Blood Order - Maldoror Ceases to Exist (Live at the Equinox Event)

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I did include all 5 of these mixes into one spotify playlist, because there aren't enough of each mix to have its own 

486 One-Off Collaborations A

This is kind of a grey area as it relates to my previous "supergroups" post.  This time I tried to focus on more side projects and one album collaborations between some artists.  There are certainly some loose interpretations of this theme here, still a great selection across these three mixes.

This first one is focused on dark ambient, industrial, and neofolk music.

Mix 1:

00:00  Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Regard Extreme - Jetzt Aber Tagts

03:22  Zu93 (Zu & Current 93) - Confirm the Mirror Emperor

07:55  Nurse With Wound & Larsen - Rock, Baby, Rock

12:53  Hypnopazuzu (Youth & Current 93) - Sweet Sodom SingSongs

17:42  Melvins & Lustmord - Toadi Acceleratio

20:20  Scorpion Wind (Death In June & Boyd Rice) - In Vino Veritas

24:39  Nurse With Wound & Aranos - Mary Jane

30:49  Lustmord & Metal Beast - Open Towers Emerge (Version)

35:12  Les Joyaux De La Princesse & Freya Aswynn - Wolf Rune 1

41:07  Hank & Slim (Rapoon & Nocturnal Emissions) - Suitcase on the Highway

44:29  Wolf Pact (Boyd Rice, Death in June & Der Blutharsch) - Murder Bag

48:53  Nurse With Wound & Faust - Lass Mich

61:53  Tony Conrad & Faust - The Death of the Composer was in 1962

65:02  Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Exploding Head Movie

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300d Current 93 mix 4 the rest

Fourth and final (for now) mix covering this amazing artist.  This mix is more varied, and therefore probably more representative of their work as a whole.  

00:00  Invocation

02:12  Time Tryeth Truth

06:34  A Sadness Song

10:39  All The World Makes Great Blood

14:28  Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound and Still

18:13  How The Great Satanic Glory Faded

24:28  With Flowers In The Garden of Fires

28:28  Oh Boy Harpsichord

31:25  Cuckoo

35:28  Immortal Bird

41:59  Jerusalem the Black (Death In June)

44:50  To You (Nature & Organisation)

47:28  UrShadow

52:03  Rule Again (Tibet Mix) (Death In June)

55:42  The Song of Solomon and How She Sang It To Me

58:09  Time Of The Last Persecution (Bill Fay)

61:44  Long Satan and Babylon

65:00  Then Kill Caesar

68:49  Six Or 3 Suns

73:51  Vauvauvau (Black Ships)

78:42  Daedalus Falling (Death In June)

83:33  Skull of My Father

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300c Current 93 mix 3 ambient

The third mix is more mellow, but not without its frightening moments.  

00:00  Idumaea (feat Shirley Collins)

02:38  A Gothic Love Song

07:58  A Silence Song, Silent (Michael Cashmore)

13:10  Butterfly Drops (feat Nurse With Wound)

14:42  Idumaea (feat Bonnie Prince Billy)

17:23  The Signs in the Stars

20:35  The Birds are Sweetly Singing

24:20  Track 09 (Invocation of Almost)

32:40  Calling For Vanished Faces II

36:32  Lament for Her

40:28  Good Morning, Great Moloch

44:05  Idumaea (feat Clodagh Simonds)

46:40  The Dream of a Shadow of Smoke

51:48  Merry-Go-Round and Around

55:20  Suzanne: She and I In Darkness We Lay And Lie

59:38  St. Peter's Keys All Bloody

61:56  The Beautiful Dancing Dust (feat Antony)

62:40  The Breath and Pain of God

71:30  A Day in Dogland  

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300b Current 93 mix 2 favorites

Second mix, more of my overall favorite songs from Current 93.  I also collected many of the rare prints from Durtro press, which is also how I came across my favorite author, Thomas Ligotti.  It is astonishing to see the list of all the guest musicians that have graced Current 93 with their presence.  Everyone from Bjork to Andrew WK, John Zorn to Shirley Collins, amazing cast of merry minstrels.

00:00  The Dilly Song

01:20  The Ballad of The Pale Christ

07:01  The Courtyard (Simon Finn)

09:46  Black Flowers Please

13:23  Summer of Love (Blue Oyster Cult)

15:06  The Blue Gates of Death (Before & Beyond Them)

23:32  Benediction

25:19  The Frolic

33:27  The Invisible Church

39:56  The Great, Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World

44:02  Bloodstreamruns (Nature and Organization)

48:38  Happy Birthday Spooky Moonbeam

55:22  Niemandswasser

58:35  Red Hawthorn Tree

62:58  The Magical Bird in the Magical Woods

68:38  All The Pretty Little Horses (feat Nick Cave)

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300a Current 93 mix 1 favorites

Easily one of my most collected artists, and certainly an acquired taste for anyone that I hang out with.  My interest was piqued from Brainwashed.com, and I eagerly bought Emblems: The Menstrual Years and Calling For Vanished Faces from World Serpent (before they went bust).  Those two compilations covered so much ground, I couldn't wait to buy more.  I recall around 1999, I won a lot of records of eBay, and it included original pressings of Earth Covers Earth, Imperium, In Menstrual Night, Swastikas for Noddy, and The Venerable 'Chi.Med Rig.'Dzin Lama, Rinpoche.  Since then I've made every effort to buy everything I could on vinyl.  I even was part of the crowdfunding for Black Ships Eat The Sky and got a nod in the credits for that.  

00:00  Untitled (Imperium)

00:14  In The Heart of the Wood and What I Found There

02:57  Hourglass (For Diana)

09:34  The Signs and The Sighs of Emptiness

12:07  Angel (feat Douglas Pierce)

13:28  The Death of The Corn (A True Love Knot For Ajn)

19:27  Hooves

23:49  This Carnival Is Dead and Gone

26:52  Calling for Vanished Faces 1

28:37  They Return To Their Earth

34:53  Sunset

38:08  Mockingbird

42:03  Passenger Aleph in Name

46:34  The BloodBells Chime

49:31  A Song For Douglas After He's Dead

54:18  When The May Rain Comes (unreleased version)

57:21  Jerusalem (Simon Finn)

62:27  Tamlin (Fairpoint Convention)

 

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257b - England's Hidden Reverse Focus

What a wonderful book this is, full of anecdotes and disgusting stories of the early days of industrial music surrounding the adventures of Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound.  Also telling the intertwined stories of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, United Dairies record label, and all the friends and relations surrounding this cast of unique characters.   This book does come with an excellent compilation of tracks, and I decided to supplement this with era specific music which was referenced or detailed in the book.  Well worth the read if anyone has even a passing interest in these artists or the scene.

00:00  Coil - At The Heart Of It All

04:51  Psychic TV - Medmenham

05:38  Lemon Kittens - Motet

08:36  Lustmord - Invocation of Shiva

12:31  23 Skidoo - Banishing

17:08  Throbbing Gristle - Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think

24:43  Coil - The First Five Minutes After Violent Death

27:16  Sol Invictus - Black Easter

31:38  Nurse With Wound - A Precise History Of Industrial Music

32:19  Sixth Comm & Freya Aswynn - Ragnarok

36:04  Tiny Tim with Nurse With Wound - Just What Do You Mean By Antichrist

43:16  Coil - Dark River

49:38  Sol Invictus - Fields

53:31  Current 93 - A Song For Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth)

58:47  Coil - Ostia (Death of Pasolini)

65:05  Psychic TV - The Orchids

67:58  Current 93 - Hooves

72:18  Coil - Who By Fire (Leonard Cohen)

74:46  Current 93 - The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon

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Episode 93 - Threes and Nines

This is my favorite genre; occult, dark, almost sinister in its charming beauty.  I have spent so many years compiling and seeking out this style of music.  Its a longer mix for good reason, I just couldn't cut anything from this playlist.

00:00 Agalloch - Sowilo Rune

00:40 Current 93 - A Beginning

01:22 Magpiety - The Rolling of the Stones

03:23 Bitchin Bonnie Billy - Pretty Saro (Shirley Collins)

07:31 Current 93 featuring Shirley Collins - All The Pretty Horses

10:04 Spell - Rosemary's Baby (Lullaby Part 1)

12:32 Nature and Organization - Wicker Man Song

17:04 The Horses of the Gods - John Barleycorn

20:49 Moongazing Hare - Fall Apart (Death in June)

24:21 Current 93 - At Sunset

28:15 Of the Wand and the Moon - In A Robe of Fire (New Version)

32:07 Rosa Mundi - The Snow Man

34:55 Buffy Sainte-Marie - God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot

39:31 Trees - track 2

41:30 John Contreras and Rose McDowall - Afraid (Nico)

44:27 Current 93 featuring Shirley Collins - Idumaea

47:00 Richard M & Robert B. Sherman - Hushabye Mountain

48:42 In Gowan Ring - Dandelion Wine

50:45 Agalloch - Summerisle Reprise

51:31 Current 93 - North

52:05 Changes - Summer

54:44 Nick Castro - Sun Song

58:46 Nature and Organization - Bloodstreamruns

63:20 Current 93 - Hourglass (for Diana)

70:00 Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud - Untitled 7

70:11 Current 93 - Benediction

72:04 Current 93 - The Dilly Song

72:57 The Kings Singers - The Oak and The Ash

75:58 Sol Invictus - Raven Chorus

76:34 Of the Wand and the Moon - Hail Hail Hail

79:20 Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud - untitled 16

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Episode 40 - Apocalyptic Folk

For the genre, this mix is pretty standard fare and not too many surprises.  I dove head first into this genre over 25 years ago, thanks to World Serpent distribution.  The interconnectedness of most of the groups in this list made for a lot of research and listening opportunities.  

00:00 Foresta Di Ferro - Fronte San Vittore (A Tutte Le Anime Criminali)

03:51 Varunna - Millenni

07:57 Forseti - Sturmgeweiht

11:37 :Of the Wand and the Moon: - Winter Veil

14:47 Death In June - Runes and Men

17:10 Sol Invictus - Song of the Flower (edit)

21:53 In Gowan Ring - The Rolling of the Stones

27:44 Current 93 - Sunset

34:04 Sol Invictus - Cupid & Death

35:14 Changes - Waiting for the Fall

37:35 Cult of Youth - Path of Total Freedom

38:42 Death In June - Fall Apart (Rose Mix)

40:44 Foresta Di Ferro - Cafe Flesh

43:52 In Gowan Ring - Dandelion Wine

45:56 Six Organs of Admittance - Hum a Silent Prayer

48:22 Marissa Nadler - Solitude (Black Sabbath)

52:56 Current 93 - Passenger Aleph in Name

57:29 O Paradis - Calling for Vanished Faces I (Current 93)

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