CURRENT93

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Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed 'Tibet' by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group)

Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton (of Nurse with Wound) has appeared on nearly every Current 93 release. Cashmore has also been a constant contributor since Thunder Perfect Mind. 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 Aswynn [1], Nick Cave, Björk, Andrew W.K., Will Oldham, Ben Chasny, Rose McDowall,[2] Tiny Tim, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus, Marc Almond, John Balance of Coil and Ian Read of Fire + Ice have also lent their talents over the years. Tibet is fond of the works of American writer Thomas Ligotti, and invited him to collaborate with Current 93. Current 93 have released some twenty albums, and many singles, as well as having been a guest on many of the above listed artists' records, and others' such as Nature and Organisation and The Hafler Trio. 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, excoriating vocals. This early work became influential with the goth scene. Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as "apocalyptic folk" music, occasionally featuring his sinister nursery rhyme-influenced singing and primarily acoustic folk-styled music. 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 [2] being the current of Thelema or Agape), Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, runes, swastikas, 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. Tibet has stated that he now identifies as a Christian. influences include Lautreamont's Les Chants de 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, writer Thomas Ligotti, occult British author Arthur Machen (originator of the title "The Inmost Light"), M.R. James's various ghost stories, The Cloud of Unknowing, Count Eric Stenbock, and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.[4] Musical influences include religious chants, traditional folk music, The Tam Lin ballad, The Incredible String Band, Sand, Comus, Blue Öyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Love, Shirley Collins, some progressive bands such as Yes, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and the British composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji.
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DISCOGRAPHY

Year	Title	Format and special notes
1983	Mi-Mort	cassette split with Nurse With Wound
1984	LAShTAL	12"
1984	Nature Unveiled	LP (reissued on CD,1992)
1984	No Hiding from the Blackbird	7" split w/ Nurse With Wound
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, 2001)
1987	Crowleymass (with HÖH)	12"/CDS (reissued in 1997)
1988	Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow	2xLP (reissued on CD, 1994)
1988	The Red Face of God	12" (reissued on CD with above, 1994)
1988	Swastikas for Noddy	LP (reissued on CD as Swastikas for Goddy, 1993)
1988	Faith's Favourites	12" split with Nurse With Wound
1988	Earth Covers Earth	LP (reissued on CD, 1992) (limited LP reissue, 2005)
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 1992
1990	1888	split EP with Death In June
1990	Horse	LP, part of a box set/split with Sol Invictus and Nurse With Wound (reissued on CD as Horsey with extra/reworked tracks, 1997)
1991	Island (with HÖH)	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
1993	Hitler as Kalki	CD
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 (Beforetheinmostlight)	12"/CDS
1996	All The Pretty Little Horses: The Inmost Light	LP/CD
1996	The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)	12"/CDS
1996	Untitled, a.k.a. Seven Seals	CD-EP 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, (reissued on CD in 2005)
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	12"/CD, Thomas Ligotti prose poem 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	2x12"/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 containing remixes of tracks from In Menstrual Night
2003	Calling For Vanished Faces/Virgin Mary	7" split with Antony and the Johnsons; UK PanDurtro 008
2003	Live at St. Olave's	CD EP split with Antony and the Johnsons; UK PanDurtro 007
2004	Halo	CD
2004	SixSixSix: SickSickSick	CD compilation of Tamlin, Lucifer over London, Misery Farm, and two pieces from Looney Runes
2005	How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon	2xCD (Live at St. George The Martyr Anglican Church, Toronto, June 18–19, 2004)
2005	ⲛⲧⲛⲁⲩ ⲛϩⲱⲧⲡ ⲙⲡⲣⲏ ⲁϩⲉⲛⲉϫⲏⲩ ⲉⲩⲕⲏⲙ ⲟⲩⲉⲙ ⲧⲡⲉ	CDS (promo for Black Ships Ate the Sky; the Coptic title reads "At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky")
2005	Judas as Black Moth (Hallucinatory Patripassianist Song)	2xCD "best of"/introduction to C93's works
2005	How He Loved The Moon (Moonsongs For Jhonn Balance)	2xCD/2xLP (ltd. 1200)/2xLP+7" (ltd. 200), a remixed version of In Menstrual Night
2005	Hypnagogue/Hypnagogue II	CD
2006	Black Ships Ate the Sky	CD / 2xLP
2006	Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)	Split 10" with Om
2006	Black Ships Eat the Sky	CD - Alternate mixes
2007	The Inmost Light	3xCD/2xLP reissue of Where The Long Shadows Fall, All the Pretty Little Horses, and The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home
2007	Birdsong in The Empire	Live CD (ltd. 1200) Recorded in Toronto, Canada, 2005
2008	Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor	Blue 12" single/DualDisc, remixes by JG Thirlwell and Matmos
2008	Birth Canal Blues	CD EP April 2008
2009	Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain	CD/LP
2010	Baalstorm, Sing Omega (December 1971)	CD/LP
2010	Haunted Waves, Moving Graves	Limited-edition CD (999 copies) and 12" picture disc (666 copies). Both editions have different track listings.
2011	HoneySuckle Æons	To be released 24 March 2011

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