Label: Durtro – DURTRO 008 CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1992 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Neofolk
Tracklist
1 Imperium I 6:08 2 Imperium II 5:48 3 Imperium III 7:03 4 Imperium IV 3:17 5 Be 0:53 6 Locust 9:49 7 Or 9:23 8 Alone 7:39 9 Time Stands Still 3:25 10 Untitled 0:18
Companies etc Distributed By – World Serpent Distributed By – Danceteria Manufactured By – MPO
Credits Liner Notes – Denis Saurat
Notes CD version pressed by MPO. Another version with the CD pressed by PDO manufacturer is here.
Important notice: this release has no Barcode printed on. However, some copies distributed in France by Danceteria may have a sticker with Barcode and Distribution Code onto the back of the jewel case.
Tracks 1-8 are from the LP originally issued in 1987: Imperium. Track 9 originally released on Nurse With Wound / Current 93 split 7": Scrambled Egg Rebellion In The Smegma Dept / Time Stands Still.
Made in England.
Imperium is an album by the English group Current 93. It was made during a musical style shift between the earlier industrial sound of Current 93 and the current more neofolk inspired. It was originally released as an LP in 1987 on the Maldoror label, but in 1992 it was also released as a CD on David Tibet's Durtro label. Since then it has been reissued several times as both LP and CD on Durtro. The latest issue is from 2006, and is only for sale in Russia and CIS countries.
The lyrical content of Imperium is mainly about death, as an example they make use of Dagchen Rinpoche's teaching.
Current 93 – Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow (1989) (re-ed. 1988)
Label: Maldoror – MAL 666 CD Format: CD, Album, 1st Edition Country: UK Released: 1989 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Neofolk, Industrial, Experimental, Ambient
Tracklist
1 Dögun 4:01 2 Forever Changing - Lyrics By – Hildegard Von Bingen 9:36 3 The Ballad Of The Pale Christ 5:47 4 Christ And The Pale Queens - Lyrics By [First Section] – Hildegard Von Bingen 19:57 5 The Red Face Of God 4:01 6 The Breath And Pain Of God 9:45 7 Mighty In Sorrow 18:24
Companies etc Glass Mastered At – PDO, UK
Credits Bass – Tony Wakeford Engineer – Dik Guitar, Vocals – Rose McDowall Guitar, Vocals, Drums – Douglas P. Guitar, Zither – Steven Stapleton Lyrics By – David Tibet (tracks: 1, 3 to 7) Mixed By – Steven Stapleton Piano – Dik Vocals – David Tibet
Notes First edition without Durtro / World Serpent Distribution mentions on the booklet or back cover. The early pressings of this disc may be susceptible to "bronzing" or "disc rot".
Made in England
[Incidental info:] The release of this CD appeased many of those who were unable to get a copy of the limited edition 2xLP: Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow. It also includes the two tracks from the 12": The Red Face Of God. The track "Mighty in Sorrow" is basically the same as "Night" from the 2xLP: a looped mantra that goes on forever ad nauseam.
The CD was later reissued with some new and improved artwork included.
Label: L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords – LAY CD 20 Format: CD, Album Country: Belgium Released: 1988 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Experimental, Neofolk
Tracklist
1 Benediction - Lead Vocals – Ian Read 1:59 2 Blessing - Lead Vocals – Freya Aswynn 1:48 3 North 0:41 4 Black Sun Bloody Moon 0:55 5 Oh Coal Black Smith - Lyrics By – Traditional; Music By – Tibet 93, Douglas P. 5:29 6 Panzer Rune - Vocals [Co-lead] – Freya Aswynn 5:46 7 Black Flowers Please - Vocals [Co-lead] – Rose McDowall 3:53 8 The Final Church - Vocals [Co-lead] – John Balance 5:14 9 The Summer Of Love 1:54 10 (Hey Ho) The Goddy (Oh) - Lead Vocals – Rose McDowall; Vocals [Co-lead] – Freya Aswynn 1:42 11 Beausoleil 8:33 12 Scarlet Woman 0:59 13 The Stair Song 0:26 14 Angel - Lead Vocals – Douglas P. 1:29 15 Since Yesterday - Keyboards – Gary Carey; Written-By – Jill Bryson, Rose McDowall 4:03 16 Valediction - Lead Vocals – Ian Read 1:01 17 Malediction 2:06
Companies etc Glass Mastered At – MPO
Credits Arranged By – Current 93 Cello, Harmonium – Steven Stapleton Cover – Babs Santini Guitar [Stick] – John Balance Guitar, Backing Vocals – Rose McDowall Guitar, Drums – Douglas P. Harpsichord – HÖH Producer – Tibet 93, Douglas P. Vocals – Tibet 93 Vocals [Spoken] – Boyd Rice Written-By – Current 93 (tracks: 1 to 14, 16, 17)
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 012CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1992 Genre: Electronic Style: Abstract, Experimental, Neofolk
Tracklist
Earth Covers Earth
1 The Dilly Song - Lyrics By – Traditional 1:41 2 Hourglass For Diana - Lyrics By – John Hall 6:43 3 Earth Covers Earth - Lyrics By – Blaise Pascale, Henry King 4:23 4 Rome For Douglas P. - Guitar [Stick] – Douglas P. 3:57 5 Time Tryeth Truth 4:26 6 Hourglass For Rosy Abelisk - Lyrics By – John Hall 3:12 7 The Dilly Song - Lyrics By – Traditional 1:08
Four Songs From Japan
8 At The Blue Gates Of Death 6:16 9 She Is Dead And All Fall Down - Lyrics By – Thomas Chatterton 5:13 10 God Has Three Faces Wood Has No Name 2:56 11 The Blue Gates Of Death (Before And Beyond Them) 8:35
The Dreammoves Of The Sleeping King
12 The Dreammoves Of The Sleeping King: I. He Falls Into Fields Of Sleep II. The Dreamer Dreams A Dream 19:40 - Performer [All] – David Kenny, David Michael Tibet, Steven Stapleton Vocals [Laughter] – Douglas P. Vocals [Screaming] – Steve Ignorant Vocals [Whispers] – Boyd Rice Vocals [Whispers], Guitar [Stick] – John Balance
Companies etc Distributed By – World Serpent Made By – PDO, UK
Credits Accordion – Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1 to 7) Bass – Tony Wakeford (tracks: 8 to 11) Bass [Ssab Sdrawkcab] – Douglas P. (tracks: 8 to 11) Bells [Jingle] – Douglas P. (tracks: 8 to 11) Flute – Lu (tracks: 1 to 7) Guitar – Douglas P. (tracks: 8 to 11), Rose McDowall (tracks: 1 to 11), Tony Wakeford (tracks: 1 to 11) Lyrics By – David Tibet (tracks: 3 to 5, 8, 10 to 12) Mastered By – Denis Other [All Spirit & Smiles] – John Balance (tracks: 1 to 7) Other [Unpleasant Smiles & Amorality In The Corner] – Boyd Rice (tracks: 8 to 11) Photography By – Joolie Wood, Ruth Bayer Piano – Dik (tracks: 1 to 7) Recorded By [Suggestive Assistance], Mixed By [Suggestive Assistance] – Steven Stapleton (tracks: 12) Recorded By, Mixed By – David Kenny (tracks: 12), Tibet, Douglas P. (tracks: 8 to 11), Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1 to 7) Sitar – Chris Wallis (tracks: 1 to 7) Typography [Typesetting] – Starfish Violin – Maria Enzell (tracks: 1 to 7) Vocals – David Michael Tibet (tracks: 1 to 11), Rose McDowall (tracks: 1 to 11) Vocals [Horse Whispering] – Ian Read (tracks: 1 to 7)
Notes Tracks 1-6 originally released on LP in 1988 by United Dairies (UD 029) and 1989 by Supernatural Organisation (SUR LP 4). Track 7 is an alternate version of Track 1. Tracks 9-10 were originally released on a Shock 7" (Shock SX 003) and reissued with the addition of track 11 on the sampler "The Portable Altamont" (Shock SX 012). Along with track 8, these 4 songs, recorded in Tokyo, were to have been on a Japanese Current 93 album; the album was never finished. Track 12 was recorded in 1985 as part of the "Killy Kill Killy" piece that was released on the "Nightmare Culture" mini-LP.
Earth Covers Earth was originally dedicated to You-Sun; so it is still. I again thank Tony Wakeford for allowing me to adapt his song "Fields" into "Earth Covers Earth".
Included is a 16-page booklet with lyrics and photographs.
Current 93 – Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God (1989)
Label: United Dairies – UD 033 CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1989 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Experimental, Neofolk
Tracklist
1 He Is Everywhere Nowhere 2:55 2 Northforth 0:38 3 Hail 2:40 4 The Return Of The Final Church 5:06 5 Snow 1:59 6 Oh Thou Coal Black Smith 4:44 7 From Boyd's Bunker 0:33 8 Ending Ending 0:59 9 The Summer Past 2:06 10 The Sickstair Song 0:35 11 Toytown Awakes 0:30 12 Dark Wood Too Awakes 1:27 13 After Tomorrow 4:03 14 Hey Ho The Nodding God Comes! 1:42 15 Looney Runes 6:17 16 The Ballad Of Bobby Sunshine 7:58 17 The Use Of Compassion Explained 2:13
Companies etc Made By – PDO, UK Engineered At – IC Studio
Credits Accordion – Cyril Bunting Cover – Rosy Abelisk Engineer – Colin Potter Guitar [Stick Guitar], Vocals – John Balance Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, Voice [Laughing] – Tony Wakeford Guitar, Drums, Vocals – Douglas P. Guitar, Vocals – Rose McDowall Instruments [Hookah, Bong] – Steven Stapleton Instruments [Obeah And Wanga] – HÖH Mixed By – Steven Stapleton Vocals – Boyd Rice, Freya Aswynn, Ian Read Vocals, Drums – David Tibet
Notes Original 1989 release. Tracklist and durations are not listed. Copyrights and World Serpent distribution are not printed. No Barcode. The disc may be afflicted with "CD bronzing" and may become unplayable over time. Made in the UK
Engineered at ICR Studios, Tollerton, York.
"This is a remixed, re-structured, and re-recorded version of Swastikas For Noddy, thus the before and after Iceland colours are now complete.
As Swastikas was dedicated to Diana and Steven's first child, Lilith, this is dedicated to their second. A long and joyful life to Nyida, sun and moon. "Then he stayed at Driche cave, manifesting sickness." from The Life of Milarepa.
Love to: Gunna Sigga, Asi, Runa, Anna, James Low, Harry Oldfield, Aki Okaushi, Akiko Hada, Konori and Ayame Suzuki. And also to my parents for putting up with, feeding and driving Steven, Tony and myself whilst recording this at ICR Studios with Colin Potter, to whom also due our thanks.
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 004CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1990 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Neofolk
Tracklist
1 Panzer Ruin (In The Hands Of Gillespie) - Vocals [Galdrar] – Freya Aswynn 6:13 2 That's All, Folks - Vocals [Galdrar] – Freya Aswynn 5:43 3 Invocation 2:10 4 The Summer Of Love - Written-By [Uncredited] – Blue Öyster Cult 1:53 5 Happy Birthday 3:40 6 Black Flowers Please 3:34 7 Oh Coal Black Smith 3:24 8 Farewell; The Birds Have Stopped Singing 2:24
Companies etc Distributed By – People Who Can't Distribution Made By – PDO, UK Recorded At – IC Studio Recorded At – Shinjuku Loft Designed At – Hex Design
Credits Design – 'J' Engineer – Colin Potter Featuring [Joined By] – Ian Read (tracks: 3 to 8) Mixed By, Producer – Steven Stapleton Performer [Current 93 Were Not] – David Tibet, Douglas P., Rose McDowall, Steven Stapleton, Tony Wakeford
Notes Recorded at ICR Sudios, Tollerton, York. Design at Hex Design. Made in England
Tracks 1, 2 were recorded in the studio. Tracks 3 to 8 are subtitled "(Live in Tokyo, 1988 - joined by Ian Read)", taken from a live performance at Shinjuku Loft, Tokyo, Japan on 20/21 December 1988. Track 4 is not listed and was originally performed by Blue Öyster Cult.
[Incidential info:] This CD was released at the same time as the LP, and is identical to it. It too does not list "Summer of Love" as being on the disc, but it is included. This CD was reissued in 1993 with a slight change in the back cover artwork to indicate it was distributed by World Serpent rather than PWC as originally indicated here.
Early pressings of this CD may be susceptible to disc rot.
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 011 CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1992 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Experimental, Neofolk
Tracklist
1 A Beginning - Voice – Shirley Collins 0:44 2 The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon 3:01 3 A Sadness Song - Vocals – Rose McDowall 4:14 4 A Song For Douglas After He's Dead - Guitar (Harmonic) – David Kenny; Harp – James Malindaine-Lafayette; Vocals – Rose McDowall 4:58 5 In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There 2:51 6 Mary Waits In Silence 2:56 7 A Silence Song - Cello – Sarah Bradshaw 5:28 8 A Lament For My Suzanne - Guitar (Harmonic) – David Kenny; Harp – James Malindaine-Lafayette; Vocals – Rose McDowall 4:20 9 Riverdeadbank - Vocals – Renate Birulf 3:47 10 All The Stars Are Dead Now - Backing Vocals – John Balance, Renate Birulf 9:07 11 Rosy Star Tears From Heaven - Vocals – John Balance, Rose McDowall 3:06 12 When The May Rain Comes - Bass – David Kenny; Vocals – Rose McDowall 3:23 13 Thunder Perfect Mind I 5:06 14 Thunder Perfect Mind II 2:21 15 Hitler As Kalki (SDM) - Bass – Karl Blake; Dulcimer (Electric), Acoustic Guitar, Guitar – Nick Saloman; Guitar (Feedback) – David Kenny; Harp – James Malindaine-Lafayette; Vocals – Rose McDowall 16:28 16 A Sad Sadness Song 7:00
Companies etc Distributed By – World Serpent Manufactured By – World Serpent Made By – PDO, UK Mastered At – Porky's Mastering
Credits Artwork – Babs Santini Bells – Edward Ka-Spel Engineer – David Kenny Guitar – Michael Cashmore Guitar, Percussion (Hand) – Douglas P. Guitar, Vocals, Other (Corrugations, Smokes) – Steven Stapleton Illustration (Cover Drawings) – David Tibet Lyrics By – David Tibet (tracks: 1 to 11, 15, 16) Mastered By (Cut By) – Denis, George Mixed By – Steven Stapleton Other (Quote) – William Blake Percussion – James Mannox Photography By (Cover) – Ruth Bayer Producer – David Tibet, Steven Stapleton Violin, Whistle (Tin), Clarinet, Recorder – Joolie Wood Vocals – David Michael Tibet Written-By – Current 93 (tracks: 1 to 11, 13 to 16), Vester (tracks: 12), Papenberg (tracks: 12)
Notes This is the sister album to Nurse With Wound's Thunder Perfect Mind. "All music written by Current 93, except ´When The May Rain Comes´, which was written by Sand and performed on their superb ´Golem´ album." Incidential info: Although Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots is mentioned in the credits, he didn't actually perform on this album! This album was cut at Porky's. Made in England World Serpent Distribution.
Current 93 – Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre (1994)
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 018 CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1994 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Folk Rock, Experimental
Tracklist
1 A Voice From Catland 0:15 - Read By – Phoebe Cheshire - Text By [Spoken Words] – Louis Wain 2 Steven And I In The Field Of Stars 2:53 3 The Teeth Of The Winds Of The Sea 7:13 4 Moonlight, You Will Say 5:16 - Bass – Starspace 5 Into The Bloody Hole I Go 0:58 6 The Darkly Splendid World 0:48 7 The Cloud Of Unknowing 7:20 8 Let Us Go To The Rose 5:14 - Lyrics By – Pierre de Ronsard - Read By – Phoebe Cheshire - Text By [Spoken Words] – Louis Wain 9 All The World Makes Great Blood 3:52 10 The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World 4:14 11 Into The Menstrual Night I Go 1:11 12 Dormition And Dominion 6:17 13 So: This Empire Is Nothing 1:05 14 This Shining Shining World 2:45
Companies etc Distributed By – World Serpent Made By – PDO, UK Mastered At – Porky's Mastering
Credits Artwork – Andrew King, Charles Sims Engineer – David Kenny Guitar [s], Bass, Drums, Glockenspiel, Sounds – Michael Cashmore Guitar [s], Effects [Drones], Arranged By [Bric-a-Brac Arrangements], Mixed By – Steven Stapleton Lyrics By – David Tibet (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 14) Mastered By [Cut] – Denis, George Photography By – Ruth Bayer Producer – Current 93 Vocals – Phoebe Cheshire (tracks: 4, 6, 11, 12) Vocals, Sounds – David Tibet
Notes 'Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre' was written between April 1991 and September 1993 and should be regarded as one piece. Made in England.
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 030CD Format: CD, Album, Gold writing on spine Country: UK Released: 1996 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Experimental, Neofolk
Tracklist
I The Long Shadow Falls 2:15 II All The Pretty Little Horsies - Arranged By – Current 93; Lyrics By, Music By – Traditional 2:35 III Calling For Vanished Faces I 1:50 IV The Inmost Night 2:16 V This Carnival Is Dead And Gone 3:11 VI The Bloodbells Chime 2:58 VII Calling For Vanished Faces II 4:10 VIII The Frolic 8:11 IX The Inmost Light 1:45 X Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil - Lyrics By [Mediæval English Poem, Central Text] – Traditional; Vocals – Geoff Cox-Dorée, Salamah Binti Isa, Timothy D'Arch Smith 8:22 XI The Inmost Light Itself 9:29 XII All The Pretty Little Horses - Arranged By – Current 93; Lyrics By, Music By – Traditional; Vocals – Nick Cave 2:34 XIII Patripassian - Vocals – Nick Cave; Voice – Thomas Ligotti 5:50
Companies etc Manufactured By – PDO, UK Distributed By – World Serpent Mastered At – Porky's Mastering
Credits Engineer [Assistant] – Scott Howland, Sie Engineer, Guitar, Bass – David Kenny Lyrics By, Music By – David Tibet (tracks: I, III to XI, XIII) Mastered By – Denis Music By – Current 93 (tracks: I, III to XI, XIII) Painting [Frontcover] – Geoff Cox-Dorée Producer, Guitar, Bass, Glockenspiel, Piano – Michael Cashmore Producer, Mixed By, Strings, Drone, Percussion – Steven Stapleton Producer, Vocals, Drone, Strings, Bells – David Tibet Steel Guitar – David Rowlands Violin, Whistle, Piano – Joolie Wood Vocals – John Balance (tracks: I, X, XI), Lilith (tracks: V, VII to IX)
Notes This album is the second part of The Inmost Light trilogy. A sticker on the album sleeve proclaims it to be "Hallucinatory Patripassianist Song". Thomas Ligotti is reading from his short story "Les Fleurs" at the end of the last track.
Two versions were issued in 1996 both in jewel case: one with Silver writing on spine and the other with Gold.
Mastered at Porky's. Comes with 16-page booklet. World Serpent Distribution.
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 042LCD Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: UK Released: 1998 Genre: Rock Style: Neofolk
Tracklist
1 Untitled Instrumental 2:38 2 Larkspur And Lazarus 5:58 3 A Gothic Love Song 4:01 4 Mockingbird 3:58 5 Soft Black Stars 3:01 6 It Is Time, Only Time 5:01 7 Anti-Christ And Barcodes 2:19 8 The Signs In The Stars 3:37 9 Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still 4:18 10 Moonlight, Or Other Dreams, Or Other Fields 2:01 11 Judas As Black Moth 6:10 12 Chewing On Shadows 9:42
Companies etc Distributed By – World Serpent Manufactured By – PMDC, UK
Credits Artwork – David Tibet Guitar, Piano [Second] – Michael Cashmore Lyrics By – David Tibet Mixed By – Christoph Heemann Music By, Adapted By [Adaptions] – Michael Cashmore Performer [Swirl] – Christoph Heemann, Steven Stapleton Piano – Maja Elliott Producer – Andria Degens, Christoph Heemann, David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, Steven Stapleton Violin, Viola, Mandolin, Flute – Petr Vastl Vocals – David Tibet Vocals, Whistling – Andria Degens Written-By [Album Title] – Thomas Ligotti
Notes Six panel Digipack limited to 5000 copies. Track 12 appears in a different form than on the vinyl release.
Recorded at the studios of Petr Vastl (Éire) and Christoph Heemann (Germany) between 1997 and 1998.
Thank You, and Love, to: Yukie Gogo, Thomas Ligotti, Geoff and Carolyn Cox-Dorée, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Kat McKain, Rose McDowall, Alexander Karinsky, Martin Stone, Paul Deighton, Juliette Cole, Diana Rogerson, Louise Buxton, Brain Longstreth, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Kevin Spencer, Lynn Hoggatt, Andreas and Christiane Martin, Denis Blackham at Country Masters for mastering skills, and Alison, David and Alan, who as World Serpent, manufactured and distributed this album.
