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Finn, Simon

Pass The Distance

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***WAREHOUSE FIND!!! LAST COPIES AVAILABLE!!! Finally, an official reissue of this reality-challenged, 1970 British dark acid folk classic. Sounding like Tom Rapp on a horror trip, FINN sets out on a journey of nightmarish folk, which knows no appeasement. The mania shining through is greatly enhanced by the ability of multi-instumentalist DAVID TOOP to play several different songs simultaneously, seemingly without relation to the songs the other two are playing. Guitars appear in the wrong key, song structure is blissfully ignored. Four extra tracks and a lavish 20 page booklet with liner notes by Simon Finn, David Toop, Vic Keary (of Mushroom records who originally released the album) and David Tibet of Current 93

Nurse With Wound

Thunder Perfect Mind

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Remastered 2 CD reissue of this NWW classic. Remastered by Andrew Liles and featuring expanded artwork by Babs Santini in a 6 panel digipack. The second disc features very rare tracks as well a previously unreleased material from the same era !

Current 93

Dawn

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***This album consists of the original two tracks that made up the original vinyl album, “Great Black Time” and “Maldoror Er Daudur.” The CD comes with an 8-page colour booklet featuring some of the original "line-up" of the group. This release is limited to 1,000 copies come with an second CD of an ANDREW LILES remix of the entire album.

Current 93

In Menstrual Night

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***This album consists of the original two tracks that made up the original vinyl album, “Sucking up Souls and "To Feed the Moon," The CD comes with an 8-page colour booklet featuring some of the original "line-up" of the group. This release is limited to 1,000 copies come with an second CD of an ANDREW LILES remix of the entire album.

Current 93

Live At Bar Maldoror

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***This album consists of the original two tracks that made up the original vinyl album, “Alone into the Alone” and “Only Shadows of Hooks.” The CD comes with an 8-page colour booklet featuring some of the original "line-up" of the group. This release is limited to 1,000 copies come with an second CD of an ANDREW LILES remix of the entire album.

Current 93

Nature Unveiled

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***Nature Unveiled is Current 93's seminal first album. It's been returned to its original format of two tracks, and has been beautifully re-mastered by Denis Blackham. This reissue comes with a booklet with early photographs of the group members--who included David Tibet, Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), John Balance (Coil), and Little Annie--and original insert materials.

Current 93

Dogs Blood Rising

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***Dogs Blood Rising is Current 93's seminal second album. It's been returned to its original formats of five tracks, and has been beautifully re-mastered by Denis Blackham. This reissue comes with a booklet with early photographs of the group members--who included David Tibet, Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), and Steve Ignorant (Crass)--and original insert materials

Othon

Digital Angel

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The long-awaited first album from alternative music's enfant terrible is finally here. With vocal performances by Marc Almond, David Tibet, and Ernesto Tomasini, and works that defy any pre-existing musical genre, this atypical debut is the manifestation of Othon's challenging, bold, and sensitive artistic vision. The pieces are mainly, though not exclusively, for voice and piano, with the production cut to a minimum, giving the album an intimate, almost live quality. Othon's compositions--a blend of opera, punk, noise, and lyrical romanticism--are proof of a rich and distinctive musical language. The songs deal with desperate love, human bio-chipping, addiction to violence, and 2012; they form a soundtrack to either a passionate love story or a post-apocalyptic nightmare.  Three tracks feature Almond on vocals, including a cover of Aleister Crowley's "The Tango Song" (the first time this song has ever been released); one track features Tibet on vocals, covering Coil's "The Dreamer Is Still Asleep"; and four tracks feature Tomasini on vocals.  Othon's highly original compositions, intelligent songwriting, and virtuosic piano playing has enthused audiences and critics alike. With only a limited self-released CD EP in his back catalogue, he has toured several European cities and received regular airplay on European and American radio shows. His pieces have formed soundscapes for films by Bruce LaBruce and Derek Jarman and he has collaborated with musicians such as Peter Christopherson, The Elysian Quartet (who guest on the album), and Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo. Digital Angel's original artwork and photography is by Hector de...

Connelly, Chris

Forgiveness And Exile

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Forgiveness and Exile is Chris Connelly's ninth solo work, the follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed The Episodes.  The album is again produced by Tim Kinsella (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc), Ben Vida (Town and Country, Terminal 4, Bird Show), and Connelly himself, and the musicians comprise the same jazz and improvisational band that played on The Episodes. This time, however, Connelly's group is augmented by the addition of four of his oldest friends: David Miller (Fini Tribe), Shirley Manson (Garbage), David Tibet (Current 93), and actress Torri Higginson (The English Patient, Stargate Atlantis).  Apart from the opening song, "Arran," Forgiveness and Exile is basically one long piece divided into sections, an ever-changing and evolving meditation on war, displaced peoples, families shattered by corrupt governments, wrongful imprisonments, and torture. This impressionistic view is characterized through improvisation, dramatic change in dynamics, disparate imagery, ruined landscapes, and cities illustrated by Connelly's poetry.  The subject matter here is of course extremely dark, and it has not been taken in any way lightly by its author. In an attempt to move toward easing the plight of the millions of victims of torture the world over, all monies generated by Connelly for this project will go directly to the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, providing medical, mental health, emergency, and other support services to help survivors overcome trauma so that they may start new lives.

Pantaleimon

Heart Of The Sun

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"The whole thing started when Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex) asked if she could remix 'Under The Water.' Of course, I said yes. When she came back with such remarkable music, and casually mentioned, 'Oh, why don't you ask a couple of other pals to do remixes?', it gave me the idea for this album.   "It is not simply a remix album, but a collaborative project. I chose friends I admired as artists and who inhabit creative spaces that are connected in some way and on some level to me and to each other. I gave away my 'babies' to go out to play with the likes of Andrew W.K., Stephen O'Malley, Lilium, Carter Tutti, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, The Bricoleur, Plinth, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen), and, of course, Fovea Hex. Even though I had an inkling that the mixes would fit together as one coherent whole, I had no idea just how much they would complement one another.   "There are also some previously unreleased tracks including a cover of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's 'Even If Love,' which didn't quite make it on Mercy Oceans for aural reasons. However, this cover version has been gently manipulated and star-mangled by Susan Stenger (Band of Susans).   "Another of the unreleased tracks is our first collaboration with the group Strings of Consciousness. They wished to remix one of the songs from Mercy Oceans. I had no more songs left from the album so we created a new song just...

Current 93

Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor

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The limited-edition Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor dual-disc is the latest release from David Tibet's Current 93. The DVD side contains the two Current 93 videos directed by Cam Archer. "The Beautiful Dancing Dust" features vocals by Antony; "Black Ships Ate The Sky" has vocals by Tibet.  The audio side contains the four tracks from the 12-inch release, which featured two different remixes by JG Thirlwell of the track "Black Ships Ate the Sky" and the Matmos remixes of "The Beautiful Dancing Dust" and "Black Ships Ate The Sky."

Almond, Marc And Michael Cashmore

Gabriel And The Lunatic Lover

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Gabriel and the Lunatic Lover is the first in a series of collaborative releases by Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. The duo sets to music two poems by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock, the extraordinary 19th-century gay writer whose bizarre life of decadence, drug-addiction, alcoholism, and poetry--coupled with Satanic, vampiric, and Catholic obsessions--led to his early death at the age of 36 in 1895. Stenbock's final years, it is said, saw him accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he called "le petit comte" and which he believed to be his son.  This two-track CDEP features vocals from the legendary Almond, who needs no introduction, and music composed and performed by Cashmore, well-known for his extensive catalog of recordings with Current 93 and Nature and Organisation, as well as for his work as a solo artist. The CD is housed in a beautiful full-color digipak that contains previously unpublished paintings of Almond by Russian artist Vania Soutavliov, a rare photograph of the enigmatic Count, and the complete texts to both poems.  The poems themselves originally appeared in two of Stenbock's fantastically rare volumes, Myrtle, Rue, and Cypress and The Shadow of Death, both republished in Current 93's David Tibet's Durtro Press volume The Collected Poems of Count Stenbock.  This is one of the most haunting and exquisite releases from either artist, and is presented in a package that fits the beautiful melancholy of the music, the vocals, and the spirit of Count Stenbock himself.

Kraus, Sharron

Fox’s Wedding

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Sharron Kraus is a singer/musician/songwriter with a gift for beautiful and heartbreaking songs from a deep-seated storytelling mythology. Her music, rooted in the folk traditions of England and Appalachia, is characterized by soil-rich vocals, haunting banjo, fine acoustic guitar, and visionary word-craft. Kraus's songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters, telling tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, love and death, and her live performances are stark, compelling, and delicate. She is like the roving storyteller, bringing tales of terror, sadness and joy to a stranger's hearth on a dark and stormy night.  The Fox's Wedding, Kraus's stunning new album, offers eleven original songs and a cover of "Trice Toss These Oaken Ashes" written by Thomas Campion.   Kraus has been featured in The Wire, Dirty Linen, New Folk Sounds, Arthur Magazine, Ptolemaic Terrascope and Broken Face. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio 3 and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US. Her fanbase includes veteran folkies Shirley Collins and Archie Fisher as well as indie figureheads Michael Gira, David Tibet, and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.

Little Annie And Paul Wallfisch

When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos

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When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos is the wonderful new album from Little Annie, who returns, fresh from the success of Songs From the Coalmine Canary, with a more introspective album of cover versions. She and pianist Paul Wallfisch have recorded a batch of their favorite songs, rearranged in a duo setting.  2007 Levi ad featured the song "Strange Love" by Annie and Antony, generating a lot of interest in her catalog.  With this record, Little Annie takes her place as one of the premier torch singers around today!

Nurse With Wound

Gyllenskold, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg’s

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This early Nurse With Wound album, re-mastered and packaged in a digipak, contains all three tracks from the original vinyl version ("Several Odd Moments Prior to Lunch," "Phenomenon of Aquarium and Bearded Lady," "Dirty Fingernails"), as well as their re-workings ("Odd," "Aquarium," "Dirty Fingernails") which later appeared on the CD Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven.  The record, first released in 1983, features one of Nurse With Wound's earliest collaborations with David Tibet of Current 93. The album title is a reference to Swedish authors Vilhelm Carlheim-Gyllenskoeld, Gustaf af Geijerstam, and Viktor Rydberg.

Baby Dee

The Robin’s Tiny Throat

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Baby Dee’s deluxe, double-CD retrospective set compiles all the music from her Little Window and Love’s Small Song albums, originally available in limited numbers via World Serpent and long out-of-print. Also included are the tracks from her limited, mailorder-only EP Made For Love.  Baby Dee is a wonderfully distinctive performer, alternating between harp, accordion, and piano. Her voice harkens back to cabaret performers of old and appeals to fans of her friend Antony. Dee is also a member of Current 93 and is featured on the forthcoming Pantaleimon album.  The new Baby Dee record is scheduled for late Fall and will be released by Drag City.

Pantaleimon

Mercy Oceans

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Mercy Oceans is the long-anticipated second full-length from Andria Degens. The album follows the critically acclaimed Cloudburst EP released earlier this year, and features Baby Dee, Isobel Campbell, Keith Wood (Hush Arbors), and John Contreras.   Mercy Oceans is an album of exceptional beauty and depth. All ten tracks are stunningly captivating. The CD comes packaged in a beautiful digipak with a full-color booklet containing lyrics, along with artwork by Beth Carter and photography by Cam Archer.  “Andria Degens is based in Hastings, southern England, but the sparse clarity of her music as Pantaleimon seems to exist in its own unique, indefinable space.... Its vivid simplicity is, in its own quiet way, quite stunning.” —Tom Ridge, The Wire  “... Degens makes music which is so effortlessly gorgeous it almost defies belief. There is an icy simplicity to her compositions, a fragility or frailty maybe, and this gives them a soft, melancholy feel, which makes them almost impossible to forget. For some reason I am reminded of Jewelled Antler Collective man Steven R. Smith or possibly Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), but what Degens has done is bring a feminine touch to the masses of male-dominated free folk.” —Boomkat

Abtan, Freida

Subtle Movements

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Freida Abtan loves sound. Her music falls somewhere in between musique concrète and more modern noise and experimental audio. Concentrating on the visceral and inspired by dreams, she has created visual shows for and played with Nurse with Wound, and also as presented her own sound and visual work at festivals across Canada.  Subtle Movements was completed over four years from the sidelines of Abtan’s other projects and during her schooling in Montreal. It’s a collection of her favorite pieces, combining her love of electro-acoustic music with her love of found melody. Two of the songs that appear on the album are collaborations with Steven Stapleton of Nurse with Wound, recorded in Colin Potter’s studio in Preston, England, when Abtan traveled there to play a show as part of Scribble Seven in March 2006 alongside Stapleton, Potter, Andrew Liles, Matt Waldron, Joolie Wood, and Maja Elliott.

Current 93

Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre

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Originally released in 1994, Current 93’s masterpiece Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre followed the classic Thunder Perfect Mind album and marked another leap forward for the band. Michael Cashmore’s gorgeously delicate guitar, augmented by drones, bells, and sound manipulations, help to make this one of C93’s most musically hypnotic albums, with David Tibet’s vocals and text adding a quietly controlled power and drama virtually unsurpassed in the Current 93 canon.  This reissue has been completely remastered and features newly designed artwork in a full-color digipack with a 20-page booklet.

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Songs From Cam Archer’s Film €

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Durtro/Jnana is honored and excited to announce the release of the soundtrack Songs From Cam Archer’s Film “Wild Tigers I Have Known.” Andria Degens and Cam Archer have produced the album. The CD features songs and music selected by Archer, along with original sketches and photo stills from the film. Cam is a celebrated indie film director most noted for his 2004 film: American Fame Pt. 1: Drowning River Phoenix.  The 13-track collection features unreleased songs from Djuna Bel, Pantaleimon, Anders &Woods, and Emily Jane White, along with previously released material by Six Organs of Admittance and Current 93, and songs specifically composed for the film by the filmmaker’s brother Nate Archer.

Connelly, Chris

Episodes

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***Durtro Jnana are pleased to announce the release of the new CD by Chris ConnellyThe Episodes. A native Scotsman, former member of Ministry and The Revolting Cocks and founding member of Fini Tribe, Connelly has collaborated with Cabaret Voltaire, Killing Joke, Robert Fripp and Jah Wobble, among many others. After fronting some of the era’s most popular and influential Industrial acts, he embarked on a very unique solo career in the early ‘90s. His music, drawing on orch-pop, glam, and classic singer-songwriter influences, has been compared to the likes of David Bowie, Scott Walker, and Robert Wyatt. The Episodes, ConnellyÕs eighth full-length solo work, was produced by Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella and Town & Country’s Ben Vida. The album is timeless and unique with radical arrangements and a crack band culled from Califone, Joan of Arc, Town & Country, US Maple and other Chicago jazz and improv luminaries.

Current 93

Inmost Light

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Durtro Jnana is proud to re-release of one of Current 93's most ambitious and enduring projects: the Inmost Light trilogy.   Originally issued in 1995 as "Hallucinatory Patripassianist Song," this set includes in their entirety the mini-albums Where The Long Shadows Fall, The Stars Are Marching Sadly Home, and the full-length All The Pretty Little Horses. The band at the time of these recordings included David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, Michael Cashmore and Joolie Wood with guests Nick Cave, Jhonn Balance (Coil), Andria Degens (Pantaleimon) and Shirley Collins contributing vocals.  This series was inspired by visionary painter Louis Wain and author Thomas Ligotti (to whom a track is dedicated), nursery sing-songs and Christian heresies, most notably Patripassianism. In Current 93's hands, the traditional lullaby of the album title sparks an explosive torrent of bittersweet childhood memories and apocalyptic prophecies. The musical setting for Tibet's narrative is exquisite -- kaleidoscopic compositions featuring 12-string guitar, piano, string arrangements, flutes, bells, massed drones, children's voices and ecstatic recitations. Together, the three movements make Inmost Light a powerful and extremely moving listening experience.  The three discs have been newly remastered and are housed in a deluxe eight-panel digipack with a twenty-four-page full-color booklet of photos of the group as children, a complete set of lyrics and liner notes.  

Cashmore, Michael

The Snow Abides

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Durtro Jnana is delighted to release The Snow Abides, a new solo mini-album from longtime Current 93 guitarist and contributor Michael Cashmore. Comprised of five thematically linked songs, the album was written and performed by Cashmore with song texts composed by David Tibet (Current 93) and vocals contributed by Antony (Antony And The Johnsons).  Cashmore has enjoyed a long and successful partnership with Tibet and his compositions have appeared on some of Current 93's most acclaimed albums including classics like Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All the Pretty Little Horses and Black Ships Ate the Sky.   Presented in an elegant, full-color digipak, The Snow Abides is Cashmore's most accomplished and poignant work to date, solo or otherwise. 

Pantaleimon

Cloudburst

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Pantaleimon (pronounced "Pan-ta-lay-mon") is the adopted moniker of vocalist and composer Andria Degens. Sometimes collaborating with friends, though often alone, she creates beautifully haunting and meditative music.  Cloudburst, her first recording as Pantaleimon since 2002's Change My World, features four tracks of hypnotic vocal passages that together form a long conceptual piece, which, Degens says, "... is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime ... the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven and Earth." Initially packaged with a limited, hand-printed edition of Degens's poetry and drawings, Cloudburst is now available as a proper CD release. None of the material on the EP will appear on the upcoming Pantaleimon full-length, due later this year. Degens has been creating her own music since 1992 and her debut, the vinyl-only Trees Hold Time, is still highly sought after. She has recorded and performed with artists such as Wire, Dirty Three, Current 93, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Matt Sweeney, Antony And The Johnsons, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), 16 Horsepower, Baby Dee, John Contreras and James William Hindle. More recently Degens has contributed music to Cam Archer's film Wild Tigers I Have Known, Susan Stenger's (Band of Susans) Soundtrack for an Exhibition, and to projects by Irr. App. (Ext.) and Nurse With Wound.  

Current 93 / Om

Inerrant Rays Of Infallible Sun (blackship Shrinebuilder)

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***A massive split EP between trancendent heavyweights CURRENT 93 and OM (AL CISNEROS and CHRIS HAKIUS of SLEEP). Features exclusive mixes of C93’s “Inerrant Infallible” and Om’s “Rays of the Sun/To The Shrinebuilder.”

Cashmore, Michael

Sleep England

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Sleep England is the first solo release from guitarist Michael Cashmore, who has worked extensively with Current 93 and released albums with his own project Nature And Organisation.  Over the last fifteen years he's written a majority of the music on some of Current 93's most acclaimed albums including classics like Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All the Pretty Little Horses and the recently released Black Ships Ate the Sky. Coupled with the lyrical stylings of David Tibet, Cashmore has established the group's reputation for producing some of the most challenging, profound and influential works in contemporary music. Cashmore has also recorded with Antony (Antony and the Johnsons), Nick Cave, Marc Almond and many others.  Incorporating only electric and bass guitars, Sleep England consists of twelve new and previously-unreleased tracks that together form a singular and very personal work. This album is essential for followers of Current 93 and Nature and Organisation and will also appeal to fans of Jack Rose, John Fahey and Bert Jansch.

Current 93

Black Ships Ate The Sky

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Black Ships Ate The Sky, Current 93’s long awaited new studio album, is a 76-minute opus exploring David Tibet’s vision of the apocalypse as wrought by the ominous Black Ships. For his latest studio enterprise, Tibet assembled perhaps the band’s strongest line-up ever. Longtime C93 collaborator Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) is joined by guitarist Michael Cashmore, cellist John Contreras, ambient sound composer William Basinski, William Breeze (Coil), Seattle artist Amy Phillips and newest member Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance).  The album also features contributions from an impressive array of vocal talent: Marc Almond (Soft Cell), Antony (Antony And The Johnsons), Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billie, British folk legend Shirley Collins, Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle), and Durtro labelmates Baby Dee and Pantaleimon.

Little Annie

Songs From The Coalmine Canary

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Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, multi-media artist and post-modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career.  ‘Songs From the Coalmine Canary’ is the fabulous new full length featuring 10 new songs. Annie is assisted by Antony (of the Johnsons) and Joe Budenholzer (Backworld/Small Creatures), both who co-wrote many of the songs with Annie. Also featured are Paul Wallfisch, Todd Cohen, Paul Geluso, and Maxim Moston.

Current 93

Sleep Has His House

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Sleep Has His House, originally released in 2000, has become one of Current 93’s most enduring releases. The album features David Tibet on harmonium and vocals, as well as Michael Cashmore on guitar. The mood is sombre and contemplative, culminating in the epic title track which was inspired by the death of Tibet’s father.

V/a

Not Alone

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Featured artists: Vashti Bunyan, William Basinski, Bill Fay, Simon Finn, Six Organs of Admittance, Angels of Light, Antony, Baby Dee, Ghost, The Hafler Trio, Pearls Before Swine, Jarboe, Devendra Banhart, Pantaleimon, Faun Fables, Nurse With Wound, Sundial, Current 93, irr. app. (ext.), Thighpaulsandra, srmeixner, Little Annie Anxiety, Jim O’Rourke, Lynn Jackson, Small Creatures, Michael Yonkers, Mirror, Jad Fair, Linda Perhacs, Edward Ka-Spel, Teenage Fanclub, Richard Buckner, Mary 5E, Anomoanon, L, Isobel Campbell, Allen Ginsberg, David Surkamp, Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Almond, Damon and Naomi, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Unveiled, James William Hindle, Rose McDowall, John Maslen, Larsen, Mr Durt, Shannon Lyon, John Contreras, Brett Smiley, Cyclobe, Blue Eyed Black, Stephanie Volkmar, Howie B, Bevis Frond, Thurston Moore, Shockheaded Peters, John Terrill, Max Richter, Colin Potter, AUBE, Keiji Haino, Jeremy Reed, The Hollowings, Tom Recchion, Fursaxa, Amy Curl, Joolie Wood, Genesis P-Orridge, Suishou no Fune, Coil, Eric Lanzillotta, Scott Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Ghostigital, Charlemagne Palestine, and Matmos.

Current 93

Coptic

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CURRENT 93, "AT SUNSET BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY" This unassuming CDEP ( total 7 minutes ; 1 track divided into 2 parts ) was made available at the recent Toronto shows. The packaging contains no information other than arcane Coptic Greek text printed in gold on a black background: "PSHOUO NMEHPSAITSHOMTE: NTNAU NHïTP MPRæ AHENJæU EUKæM OUEM TPE." This is the brand new Current 93 single, taken from the forthcoming studio album Black Ships Ate the Sky.

Current 93

Hypnagogue

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***Hypnagogue was originally released as a limited EP in 2003 and has been out of print since. This new release, which comes in a full colour digipack with booklet, includes the original and adds a newly recorded version of the piece. The original featured David Tibet reading from the book of the same name with musical accompaniment by Maja Elliott on piano. The new version features a sublime orchestral arrangement by Michael Masley.

Current 93

How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon

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***In June of 2004, Current 93 performed three sold-out shows in Toronto, Canada. This double-CD set presents two of these nights in their entirety. As this was their first ever performance in Canada, each night was radically different and featured many rarely performed songs from across the C93 catalog. For this event, the band was comprised of David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, John Contreras and Graham Jeffrey.

Current 93

Sixsixsix: Sicksicksick

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*** This beautiful full-color digipak CD reissue makes available some long-deleted and sought-after Current 93 material. It includes the two studio tracks from the Looney Runes EP, all three tracks from the Lucifer Over London EP and the two tracks from the very limited Tamlin EP. As an extra, the music-hall cover of “Misery Farm” (originally released in a tiny edition of just over 600 for some shows in New York) is appended to the end of the CD. All the original releases are long out of print. This release comes in full color gatefold digipak with new artwork incorporating much of the original artwork. Full lyrics and notes by David Tibet are included in the comprehensive 16-page booklet.

Current 93

Thunder Perfect Mind

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*** Durtro Jnana is delighted to make available again one of C93’s most popular and enduring albums, Thunder Perfect Mind. The cover and booklet include the original artwork, which is somewhat amended with a new and contemporary photograph of David Late Tibet’s face on the digifile cover; a Louis Wain cat on the cover of the booklet different from the Louis Wain cat which replaced Tibet’s face on the previous second edition; photos newly reproduced from the original negatives; new Kalki artwork; and the texts to all the tracks in a full-color 28-page booklet. Disc one consists of the studio album itself. All tracks have been remastered from the original tapes. Disc two contains all the studio out-takes from the TPM sessions, previously available as tracks on the Emblems and Calling for Vanished Faces compilations, as well as one previously unreleased, though very short, a capella piece that was left off the TPM studio album, “Red House” After a 10-second silence, live versions of songs from TPM that were previously available on the As the World Disappears? live CD (which is now deleted) are added. Once again, all tracks have been remastered from the original tapes.  

Finn, Simon

Magic Moments

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*** The first collection of new material from legendary psych folk giant Simon Finn since the release of his seminal album Pass the Distance. Recorded in a more personal and stripped down style and featuring Joolie Wood from Current 93 on violin!

Bill Fay Group

Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow

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***With the renewed interest in Bill Fay's past work, the reissue of his first two albums, Bill Fay and Time Of The Last Persecution, and recently made-available pre-Decca demos (From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock), it's surprising to discover that twenty new songs have remained unreleased for over two decades.  Fay has been portrayed as a mysterious figure who somehow created two brilliant albums and then vanished. But as Fay himself has said, "It wasn't me who left the music, it was the music business that left me." With no contract or record company support, he continued to write, rehearse and play occasional shows, which is how he met, in 1977, guitarist Gary Smith, electric and bowed bass-player, Rauf Galip, and drummer Bill Stratton, also known as improvising trio The Acme Quartet. A mutual interest in and respect for each other's work led to the decision to collaborate as The Bill Fay Group. Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow continues Fay's tradition of writing thoughtful, life-affirming songs that, this time, benefit from extended studio sessions and input from three equally committed musicians. This CD does not consist of demos, out-takes or "alternative" versions of previously recorded songs. It was planned and recorded as Fay's follow- up to Time Of The Last Persecution. It is The Bill Fay Group's third, previously unreleased, album, recorded between 1978 and 1981.

Current 93

Halo

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***The first of a comprehensive reissue series of the Durtro and United Dairies catalogue, concentrating almost exclusively on the work of the legendary English bands Current 93 and Nurse With Wound, Halo is a live album featuring the entire set performed by the expanded line-up of Current 93 (David Tibet, vocals; Michael Cashmore, guitar and bass; Maja Elliott, piano; Joe Budenholzer, guitar; Graham Jeffery, piano; Joolie Wood, violin, whistle and recorder; John Contreras, cello; Karl Blake, voice; Finn Sands: voice) at their sold-out concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank center on October 9, 2003; it is David Tibet's personal favorite of all the live Current 93 albums.  This 67-minute-long album is packaged in a beautiful full-color gatefold digipak. It was originally released by World Serpent in an edition of 1,000 copies which sold out immediately. This the album's second pressing, making it one of the rarer of the recent Current 93 albums.  • First of comprehensive reissue series from Durtro (Current 93) and United Dairies (Nurse With Wound) • First-time pressing in North America, with domestic pricing • David Tibet’s favorite of the Current 93 live albums • Current 93 have devoted following the world over • Current 93 and Nurse With Wound performing in San Francisco and other North American cities early 2005

Finn, Simon

Silent City Creep

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***Limited edition (500) five-song EP.