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Current 93Current 93 is a British music group founded in 1982 by David Tibet. Much of Current 93's early work was similar to late 1970s and early 1980s industrial music: abrasive tape loops, droning synthesizer noises and Tibet's distorted, ranting vocals. Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as "apocalyptic folk" music, featuring his sinister nursery rhyme-influenced singing and primarily accoustic folk-styled music. Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Stephen Stapleton (who has appeared on nearly every Current 93 release, from the first cassette in 1983 to present) of Nurse With Wound and Michael Cashmore are consistent collaborators. Writer Thomas Ligotti, Douglas P. of Death in June has played on well over a dozen Current 93 releases, and, Steve Ignorant of Crass (using the name Stephen Intelligent), Boyd Rice, runologist Freya Aeswynn http://www.aswynn.co.uk/, Nick Cave, Rose McDowall http://www.rosemcdowall.com/, Tiny Tim, and Ian Read of Fire and Ice have also lent their talents over the years. Current 93 have released some twenty albums, and many singles. Tibet's lyrics have been fairly consistent, regardless of delivery: The earlier recordings reflect his preoccupation with death, Christ, mysticism, Aleister Crowley (Tibet borrowed the term "93 Current" from Crowley - the 93 Current http://www.93current.de/ being the current of Thelema or Agape), Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, runes (particularly the swastika), Noddy, The Wicker Man, and a variety of occult notions. The later to present-day period of Current 93's recordings increasingly reflect Tibet's interest in Christian mysticism. Literary influences include Lautreamont's Maldoror, The Bible, The Poetic Eddas, Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, Hildegard von Bingen, John Dee, Heptarchia Mystica, The Thunder Perfect Mind, William Blake, Louis Wain, James Joyce (esp. Finnegan's Wake), Thomas Ligotti, M.R. James's various ghost stories, The Cloud of Unknowing, Count Eric Stenbock Musical influences include religious chants, traditional folk music, The Tam Lin ballad, The Incredible String Band, Sand, Comus, Blue yster Cult, Love, Shirley Collins, and Kaikhosru Shapuji Sorabji (Spanish/Sicilian/Parsi composer, 1892-1988) Discography | Year | Title | Format and special notes | | 1983 | Mi-Mort cassette | Split with Nurse With Wound | | 1984 | LAShTAL | 12" | | 1984 | No Hiding From The Blackbird | 7" split w/ Nurse With Wound | | 1984 | Nature Unveiled | LP (reissued on CD,1992) | | 1984 | Dogs Blood Rising | LP (reissued on CD, 1988 and 1995) | | 1985 | Live at Bar Maldoror | LP (reissued on CD 1990 and 1994) | | 1985 | Nightmare Culture | EP split with Sickness of Snakes (Coil/Boyd Rice) | | 1986 | In Menstrual Night | LP (reissued on CD, 1994) | | 1986 | NL Centrum-Amsterdam | live cassette split w/ Nurse With Wound | | 1987 | Happy Birthday | 12" | | 1987 | Dawn | LP (reissued on CD, 1994) | | 1987 | Imperium | LP (reissued on CD, 1992, 2001) | | 1987 | Crowleymass (with HH) | 12"/CDS (reissued in 1997) | | 1988 | Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow | 2XLP (reissued on CD, 19891994) | | 1988 | Swastikas For Noddy | LP (reissued on CD as Swastikas For Goddy, 1988,1993) | | 1988 | Faith's Favourites | 12" | | 1988 | Earth Covers Earth | LP (reissued on CD, 1992) | | 1989 | Rome/Hourglass for Diana/Fields of Rape | 7" (live) | | 1989 | She is Dead and All Fall Down | limited edition 7" | | 1989 | Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God | CD | | 1990 | Looney Runes | LP, CD 1990, 1992 | | 1990 | 1888 | EP split with Death in June | | 1990 | Horse | reissued as Horsey,1987 with extra/reworked tracks. | | 1991 | Island (with HH) | LP/CD | | 1991 | As the World Disappears (live) | CD | | 1992 | Thunder Perfect Mind | 2XLP/CD (reissued,1994) | | 1992 | Current 93/Death In June/Sol Invictus (live) | Recorded in Frankfurt, Germany, 1991. Originally a bootleg called Day of Dawn, officially reissued on CD. | | 1993 | Emblems: The Menstrual Years | LP, issued as 2XCD retrospective | | 1994 | Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre | LP/CD | | 1994 | Lucifer Over London | EP/CD | | 1994 | The Fire of the Mind | CD | | 1994 | Tamlin | 12"/CDS | | 1995 | Where the Long Shadows Fall | 12"/CDS | | 1996 | All The Pretty Little Horses | LP/CD | | 1996 | The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home | 12"/CDS | | 1996 | Untitled | CD with Tiny Tim, Nurse with Wound and Nature and Organization | | 1997 | In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Land | limited CD, accompanied Thomas Ligotti book of same name | | 1998 | Soft Black Stars | LP/CD | | 1999 | Calling For Vanished Faces | 2XCD retrospective | | 1999 | An Introduction To Suffering | Current 93/Michael Cashmore/Christoph Heemann LP/CD | | 1999 | Misery Farm | CDS | | 1999 | All Dolled Up Like Christ | 2X Live CD | | 2000 | I Have A Special Plan For This World | EP/CD Thomas Ligotti short story read by Tibet, treated by Current 93 | | 2000 | Sleep Has His House | LP/CD | | 2000 | Faust | LP/CD | | 2001 | The Great In The Small | LP/CD | | 2001 | Cats Drunk On Copper | CD (Live at the Union Chapel, London, May 3 1997) | | 2001 | Bright Yellow Moon | 2X 12"/CD Current 93/Nurse with Wound | | 2001 | Purtle | CD Split w/ Nurse with Wound | | 2001 | This Degenerate Little Town | CD with Thomas Ligotti | | 2002 | The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion | 12"/CD | | 2002 | Music for the Horse Hospital | 2XCD Current 93/Nurse with Wound | | 2003 | A Little Menstrual Night Music | CD | | 2004 | Halo | CD | | 2004 | 666-SickSickSick | CD | Current 93 Presents releases External links Current 93 Current 93 Current 93 Current 93
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