[sonicl]

And may I just say, Blind Cave Salamander are not just wonderful, they're actually very wonderful. Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Marco Milanesio Larsen from Larsen, plus Julia Kent (my new favourite cellist), plus Paul Beauchamp, whose details I can't remember. Their new CD is beautiful.

The track "BCS Falls" on Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo's myspace is one of theirs, as is "Time Piece" on the Blossoming Noise myspace, AND there's an MP3 clip of another track, "The Great Mountain" here.

Thank you.

[sonicl]

Have you heard / seen the new Larsen CD/DVD, abeceda, with David Tibet and Baby Dee? It's very good.

I have come across that but I haven't heard it yet. I'm not too familiar with Larsen, but seen as you have mentioned them a few times I'll give them a shot, thanks.

[A Thousand Threads]

Originally Posted by sonicl

Have you heard / seen the new Larsen CD/DVD, abeceda, with David Tibet and Baby Dee? It's very good.

I've heard it and didn't really like it. Don't know, maybe i'm always listening to the wrong stuff but i have absolutely no idea why someone could like Larsen - boring, boring, boring.

[sonicl]

When you reach my age you'll come to appreciate the appeal of slightly less exciting music

[A Thousand Threads]

Ok, when I'm reaching your age i'll let you know.

Will you still be alive then?


edit: I like how you used "less exciting" instead of boring

[sonicl]

I'll be alive, but I probably won't be able to remember my name or where I live.

[A Thousand Threads]

I'll remember for you, i promise.
anyways

Cool that you like Julia Kent, she was one of my highlights this year. So beautiful.....

 

[_slavo_]

Beautiful woman & beautiful music.

[sonicl]

I'm seeing her play next weekend. I'm very excited about it.

19 November 2007

Dear All:
Peace and Love to You.
This is an extensive update with news of some of the many activities which will be occurring over the next twelve months.

David Tibet and Current 93: October/November 2008 and what will occur then
October/November 2008 has been chosen as the focus for several major activities from David Tibet, Current 93 and Durtro Jnana. It will be the month of David's first solo art exhibition, which will take place at a gallery in central London. It will watch over the release of Current 93's new album. And it will finally mark the long-delayed release of ‘Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods’, David's book of lyrics and notes.
Please see the information below for full details on each of these areas, as well as details of the hand-printed book, signed by David to the recipient, which is being sent out free of charge to all those who paid in advance, so long ago, for ‘Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods’. This hand-printed edition is NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE, and is ONLY available to those who have so patiently waited for, and supported, David's book, and will NOT be available for retail or wholesale orders from Durtro nor elsewhere.

ANOK PE
ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN
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ANOK PE
ADAM AT DOCETIC MOUNTAIN

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Please note that the cover image shown is a mockup.

The actual cover will differ.

Current 93: The forthcoming CD and vinyl albums from Current 93 and its subscription edition

The new album by Current 93, which will be released in October/November to coincide with David's exhibition of new artwork is to be released in CD and 12" vinyl formats.
As with ‘Black Ships Ate the Sky’, there will be a special CD Subscription Edition available to those who support this work by ordering it and paying for it in advance.
The CD edition is entitled ‘ANOK PE: ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN’. The vinyl edition is entitled ‘ANOK PE: ADAM AT DOCETIC MOUNTAIN’. The Subscription CD costs £50 plus postage and packing, and VAT where applicable.
Those ordering the Subscription Edition receive:

• <LI class=bodytext>A copy of the CD signed to them by David. <LI class=bodytext>An extra Dual Disc CD/DVD featuring extra music from the sessions not featured on the album, as well as footage filmed during the recording of the album. This will not be available elsewhere in any form. <LI class=bodytext>An enamel badge only available to those who have subscribed.
• Each purchaser is requested to submit a colour photograph of themselves. This photograph will be printed, along with the subscriber's name, in the CD booklet and as an insert in the vinyl edition with acknowledgement of their assistance and contribution. These photographs will appear along with the photographs of the band members. Please read the instructions below before ordering this Subscription Edition and submitting your photograph.

PLEASE READ: NOTES FOR SUBMITTING PHOTOGRAPHS:

To ensure that all photographs submitted are of sufficiently high quality to print with good results, we ask that you adhere to the following guidelines. We have tried to keep these as simple and as easy to follow as possible. If you have any questions regarding them, please email info@durtro.com before ordering. We want to ensure that you look your absolute best in the booklet!
Please send either:
a colour digital photo (JPEG) of at least 600 x 800 resolution
or
a colour scan (JPEG, TIFF, PICT. Not BMP or GIF!) of photographic prints (at a resolution of at least 300 dpi, to a maximum file size of 3 MB)
All photos to be PORTRAIT rather than LANDSCAPE, that is to say, they should be TALLER than they are WIDE.
Please name your file with your real name, ie the name under which you ordered this Subscription Edition CD. Examples: David Tibet.jpg, Steven Stapleton.tif etc
Please email it to info@durtro.com with ANOK PE SUBSCRIPTION EDITION: PHOTO ATTACHED as the subject line. Please quote your Paypal order number (you can copy and paste it from your order confirmation email) in your email.
When you place your order, please fill in the text entry field on the Durtro shop page if you would like a name other than the name under which you are ordering to be printed in the CD booklet/vinyl insert, ie if you are ordering the subscription edition as a gift for someone, or would prefer to use a nickname instead of your real name.
Nearer the time of release, we will make available on durtro.com a list of subscribers' names so that you can confirm that we have your name spelled/capitalised properly.

‘Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods’: the endless journey of David Tibet's eternally delayed lyric book
I am very grateful for everyone's patience at the endless delays with this book. All of you have been so supportive; I have received only 10 requests for refunds, and all of those were courteous and friendly—and supportive too! I owe you all a great deal for your kindness.
As I desire that this volume is officially published at the same time as my art exhibition opens and the new C93 album is released, I have decided that all of those who have paid for, and thus supported this project by ordering in advance, either Edition I or Edition II of the volume will receive, with no charge whatsoever for the book or for airmail postage, a hand-printed book of 4 new works by myself. Each copy will be signed and numbered by me, and inscribed to the recipient if he or she wishes. This book will not be available for purchase from Durtro at any time ever.
I am hoping this small gesture from me will pay you all back in some small way for your immense support with this project—and, indeed, in all that I and we have done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Needless to say, on publication the book will be posted to you all immediately along with the free CD that comes free to those who pre-ordered the book.
Anyone who does not wish to wait till this CONFIRMED publication date of October/November 2008, please get in touch and we will refund your payment IMMEDIATELY.
More details will be released of the free Subscribers' edition as soon as we have them in stock. I have been told by the printer that it will arrive at Durtro in mid-January/early February 2008. We will then make an announcement on Durtro explaining how people who have pre-ordered ‘Under the Rain and Teeth of Gods’ can contact us with details of their personal dedications, should they wish one.

David Tibet: his first solo art exhibition to open in London in October/November 2008
I have been approached by the director of a new art gallery in central London to hold my first solo exhibition of new artwork and installations, and their accompanying voices, in October/November 2008.
There will be a substantial catalogue of the artwork on show published at the same time, as well as other items connected to the exhibition, which will last for between 4 and 6 weeks.

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And now on to events leading up to October/November 2008:

David Tibet curates a one day special event at the Roadburn festival in the Netherlands on 20 April 2008
I am proud and delighted to confirm that I have been invited by the wonderful Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands to curate a special day long event on 20 April 2008. Tickets should be going on sale on 1 December, 2007, and cost €32.50 (approximately £23) for the day which I am curating.
Current 93 will be performing as well as some special guests that I have invited to accompany us. I can confirm that the majestic OM will be appearing, and that I am presently discussing the appearance of three or so more of my favourite artists.
Roadburn is perhaps the pre-eminent festival of doom, stoner, psychedelacidic and othercoloured metal, and I am very touched and happy to have been invited by Walter to bring some of those artists whom I love to a festival whose work I have long admired, and which has featured so many bands in the past of whom I am a fan.
More details will be posted on Durtro, and will also be found on the official Roadburn website:www.roadburn.com/frames.html

Current 93: concerts in Europe and England in April 2008
C93 are presently arranging a series of concerts in Europe and England for April 2008. We hope to be playing two nights in London, Berlin and Moscow, as well as shows in Latvia or Poland, Scandinavia and perhaps a Francophone country. More details when the dates are confirmed.

Black Ships Ate the Sky: remixes by Matmos & JG Thirlwell/videos by Cam Archer

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The 12", with 2 Matmos remixes and 2 JG Thirlwell remixes, will be issued later this year in a very limited edition of 1000 blue vinyl copies in full colour sleeve with full colour labels. The 12" costs £7.50 plus postage and packing and VAT (where applicable) and has now been added to the shop. We hope to receive our copies before Christmas.
A Dual Disc CD/DVD edition, containing the same tracks, as well as 2 videos made by Cam Archer, will be released in January 2008. The CD will be added to the shop later.
The tracks on the vinyl are:

• <LI class=bodytext>Black Ships Ate the Sky I (long version) remixed by JG Thirlwell <LI class=bodytext>Black Ships Ate the Sky II (short version) remixed by JG Thirlwell <LI class=bodytext>Black Ships Ate the Sky remixed by Matmos
• The Beautiful Dancing Dust (featuring Antony on vocals) remixed by Matmos

The same tracks feature on the CD, with the following videos by Cam Archer on the accompanying DVD:

• <LI class=bodytext>Black Ships Ate the Sky I (short version) remixed by JG Thirlwell
• The Beautiful Dancing Dust, featuring Antony on vocals, remixed by Matmos

David Tibet and Current 93 to collaborate with Skitliv and their singer Maniac, formerly of Mayhem

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The below is taken from the press release by Skitliv's manager, Patricia Thomas. I was introduced to Maniac recently by Attila Csihar of Mayhem and Sunn O))), and we have become great friends. C93 as myself and Andrew Liles were asked by Maniac if we could create a collage-mix of C93 material as the introductory music to their live shows, and if we would also create a brief collage introduction to their forthcoming mini-CD, as mentioned below. We were delighted to and honoured to do so. I really admire Maniac and I love Skitliv's work.

Skitliv play London's Camden Underworld on 13 December, so I hope to see many of you who are reading this update at their show. www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk

MANIAC ANNOUNCES SKITLIV LIMITED EDITION MCD RELEASE TO COINCIDE WITH TOUR

SKITLIV front man and creator Maniac announced today that the band will self-release a two-track MCD in time to coincide with their upcoming tour with SHINING and HELLSAW. Titled ‘Kristiansen and Kvarforth Swim in the Sea of Equilibrium… Waiting’, the MCD will contain two tracks: a completely revised version of ‘Slow Pain Coming’ and a new song ‘Sad Eyes of the Goddess’, which was co-written with Niklas Kvarforth; together with an introduction which was specially recorded for SKITLIV by CURRENT 93. It will be strictly limited to 393 hand-numbered copies and will be sold exclusively on the tour and through the band's MySpace page. Tracks from the band, and a video to ‘Virescit Volnere Virtus’, can be found on their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/skitliv777.
Maniac commented on how the collaboration with CURRENT 93 came about: "I had been a fan of the band for many, many years, and David Tibet is one of the musicians I most admire. During a holiday in the UK I was finally able to meet up with him face to face, and when I asked him if he would consider allowing us to use something from CURRENT 93 as an intro to our stage show, he actually volunteered to prepare a couple of intros for SKITLIV. One that we will use for the recording and one for live performances. Hopefully this will be the first of a number of collaborations."

A brief biography of Maniac, once again by his manager, follows:

One of the original members of Mayhem, the group that encapsulated the early black metal scene with its suicides, murders, and onstage bloodletting, Maniac has always been one of the genre's most recognisable figures.
But Maniac has always been much more than just a figurehead. His appetite for books is prodigious, his musical tastes are eclectic, his lyrics are deep, and, to many, as unfathomable as the man himself. He has never cared about staying within the rigid confines that define black metal, but has experimented both within Mayhem, and with other projects, often to the bewilderment of fans who refuse to accept that their icon could be anything other than their perception of what a black metal musician should be.
After his departure from Mayhem, Maniac took time out to decide what he really wanted to do both with his life and musically. The result of his deliberations is SKITLIV, a band that at last gave him the chance to express his thoughts and feelings, not just lyrically, but musically as well. Originally defined by a friend as doom black metal, SKTILIV has developed far beyond that; and, with the addition of SHINING's controversial frontman Niklas Kvarforth on guitar, Maniac is finally able to use his voice and lyrics to their best effect, within the slower, more sombre sound that the two musicians are able to produce together.

David Tibet invited to collaborate with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on his forthcoming ‘Repentance’ album by his producer Andrew WK

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I have been invited to contribute lyrics and vocals to a track on the forthcoming Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry album, ‘Repentance’, by my dear friend and beloved collaborator, and the album's producer, the inexhaustible Andrew W.K.. What more can I say except how honoured and dumbstruck I am. It doesn't get any better than this. Or any odder. www.myspace.com/leescratchperry

David Tibet to appear in vocalic form on the forthcoming Chris Connelly album
David has recorded spoken vocals for the forthcoming album by Chris Connelly, whose previous album, ‘The Episodes’, was released on Durtro. Also appearing on the album are Shirley Manson of Garbage, actress Torri Higginson and David Miller of Finitribe. Titled ‘Forgiveness & Exile’, it is to be released in 2008. www.chrisconnelly.com and www.myspace.com/christopherconnelly

David Tibet contributes vocals and texts to the new Æthenor album
David Tibet sings and contributes lyrics on the forthcoming Æthenor album; other guests are Krisstoffer Rygg (Ulver) and long time Æthenor collaborator Alexander Tucker.
Tentatively titled ‘Faking Gold and Murder’ from a line in the text, Æthenor is the project of Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley: www.myspace.com/stephenomalley, Vincent de Roguin (Shora): www.myspace.com/shoraband and Daniel O'Sullivan: www.myspace.com/danielohsullivan. A musician/composer/arranger with a classical background in piano and guitar, Daniel O'Sullivan has become known for subverting these mediums with his avant-rock bands, Guapo (Neurot Recordings) and Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses (Web of Mimicry/Rise Above Records).

David Tibet contributes texts to the new album by Eyvind Kang/Jessika Kenney/Randall Dunn/Attila Csihar
David has contributed lyrics to the forthcoming album created by these artists.
Attila Csihar is the vocalist in Mayhem and Sunn O))). Randall Dunn is a musician and producer from Seattle, Washington; a longtime collaborator of SUNN O))), he has also produced and made music with the Sun City Girls, Earth, Altar, and more www.myspace.com/randalldunn
Jessika Kenney is a vocalist and composer living in the Pacific Northwest whose singing emerges out of a wide range of experiences, particularly in Central Javanese sindhenan while living in Indonesia, and in Classical Persian music through collaboration with her teacher Ostad Hossein 'Omoumi (master of ney and vocal repertoire). She is exploring the possibility of the translation of essential meaning through singing, which honours language as sound and as a spiritual resource. Eyvind Kan: www.myspace.com/eyvindkang1 is a renowned contemporary composer and musician.

Count Stenbock/Current 93: Faust
And long last this book is underway, with all technical problems solved. We have been informed we will be receiving copies before Christmas.
We were also told by the technical department that the head- and tail-bands that were listed as being part of the book's specifications were technically possible but would be æsthetically displeasing due to the gilt page-edging and the size of the book so we have cancelled that feature of the book; our apologies for this minor adjustment. Thank to all of you for your patience.
Once the book is in stock, all pre-ordered copies will be sent out. The book/CD set will then be re-added to the Durtro shop page, as well as the CD which will also be available separately for purchase from the Durtro and Jnana shops.
222 copies have been printed of this volume, of which around 160 have been pre-sold, leaving around 40 or so copies for sale at the moment of writing.

Flemish/Dutch reviews of NWW, Baby Dee, Julia Kent & ‘Wild Tigers I Have Known’ soundtrack CD on Dark Entries
These reviews are listed under October 2007: www.darkentries.be/index.php?nav=cds

Beautiful and mysterious records by Tommy Roundtree and Arian Sample
I was recently sent two records from an address in Chicago, in plain brown sleeves with the artist's name stamped using a rubber stamp, one by Tommy Roundtree called ‘Jungle Blood’ and the other by Arian Sample which appears to be untitled. There was no letter with the package and no return address.
I was especially curious by the use of the word ‘Arian’, which refers to the teachings of the great Egyptian Christian thinker Arius (AD c.250/256–336)—now regarded as heretical by mainstream Christian thought—and the huge ChristologicaI debate he initiated on whether Christ was eternally co-existent with the Father, summed up in the phrase “There was a time when He was not”. This is an element of Christian theology which has always particularly fascinated me: the relation of the Father and the Son, and how it bears on the Crucifixion: what exactly was the nature of the Christ Who died on the Cross? This relates directly to Patripassianism.
Anyway, I digress. Both records are very haunting and moving, reminding me of Simon Finn's ‘Pass the Distance’ and a couple of other beautiful and obscure albums which usually get lazily classified as ‘loner folk’. I haven't been able to find anything out about them at all from the internet or from record collectors. But thank you to whoever sent them. I was touched and intrigued.

What I have loved and am loving recently

• <LI class=bodytext>Michel Faber: The Scarlet Petal and the White <LI class=bodytext>The Gospel of Judas Critical Coptic text edition: Kasser/Wurst/Meyer/Gaudard <LI class=bodytext>Culture: Two Sevens Clash <LI class=bodytext>The Eagles: The Long Road out of Eden <LI class=bodytext>Andrew WK: Party Till You Puke; Close Calls with Brick Walls <LI class=bodytext>Price Far-I: Under Heavy Mannners <LI class=bodytext>Om: Pilgrimage <LI class=bodytext>Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry with Andrew W.K.: The Pum-Pum Song <LI class=bodytext>Amy Winehouse: Back in Black <LI class=bodytext>Jim Steinman: Bad for Good
• Beowulf: the new film directed by Robert Zemeckis

www.durtro.com

19 December 2007
Dear All:
a Happy Christmas and New Year to you whatever you believe or don't believe.

David Tibet curates Sunday 20 April at Netherlands Roadburn festival
These bands have now been confirmed for the day that Tibet is curating at Roadburn on 20 April 2008: Æthenor, Baby Dee, Current 93, Om; more names are to be added. Tickets are now on sale on and cost €32.50 (approximately £23). www.roadburn.com/frames.html

‘Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre’ Current 93 vinyl now in stock
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We now have in stock copies of the new vinyl edition of OF RUINE OR SOME BLAZING STARRE. 1000 copies have been made. Full colour sleeve in stickered polythene bag with 8 page full colour booklet. Black vinyl. £13 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable. Durtro shop

Count Stenbock ‘Faust’ book and CD
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We have been told by the printers that we will be receiving the FAUST book on 20 December, and we will post them out the same day. The CD is already in stock and has today been added to the shop, but we will not be posting copies of the CD until 20 December, in order that copies of the book reach their purchasers at the same time as the CD does.
For those who would like to order the book/CD, please note that the special pre-publication price offer has now come to an end, and that the book/CD now cost £40 plus postage and packing (there is no VAT on books). CD only: £11 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.

Current 93 ‘Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor’ 12" EP
We are expecting to receive this on 20 December. Copies will be posted as soon as we receive them.

Sharron Kraus ‘The Fox’s Wedding’ new CD album on Durtro Jnana
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We are delighted to announce a new release on Durtro Jnana by the wonderful Sharron Kraus. Sharron has a gift for bringing us beautiful and heartbreaking songs from a deep-seated tradition of storytelling and mythology and this album is no exception. All songs are original bar one.
Sharron Kraus is a singer/musician/songwriter who creates music rooted in the folk traditions of England and Appalachia. Her work is characterised by soil-rich vocals, haunting banjo, fine acoustic guitar and visionary wordcraft. Her songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters, telling tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, love and death. Sharron's live performances are stark, compelling and delicate. As with her music, her performance continues the tradition of the balladeer.
She has been featured in 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 folk artists Shirley Collins and Archie Fisher as well as Michael Gira, David Tibet and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. The official release date is 10 March 2008, but it will be available from Durtro and Jnana from 18 December. £11 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.
Tracklisting: Brigid • Green Man • In the Middle of Summer • July Skies • Harvest Moon • Would I • The Prophet • Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes (written by Thomas Campion) • Robin is Dead • Ruthless and Alone • Made My Home • Magpie Child
www.sharronkraus.com
www.myspace.com/sharronkraus
Listen to excerpts of some songs: Brigid • Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes • Made my Home
Purchase from the Durtro shop

Little Annie and Paul Wallfisch ‘When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos’ new CD album on Durtro Jnana
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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 favourite songs, rearranged in a duo setting. With this record, Little Annie's status as one of the premier torch singers singing today is made! This album is now in stock.
Tracklisting: It Was a Very Good Year • Song for You • Private Dancer • One for my Baby and One More for the Road • If You Go Away • Victim • Yesterday When I Was Young • The Summer Knows • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For • All I Want for Christmas
£11 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.
Listen to excerpts of some songs: Private Dancer • If You Go Away • I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Purchase from the Durtro shop

A Jandek selection from David Tibet’s record collection goes up on eBay
I have put 17 Jandek records from my collection on eBay. Those interested can click on the seller link here, or enter the search phrase DAVID TIBET COLLECTION. The auction lasts for a week and will be followed by other items on a regular basis.

‘Not Alone’ benefit CD monies donated to Médicins Sans Frontières’ HIV+/AIDS campaign
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The total we have donated to MSF/Doctors Without Borders from sales of the Durtro Jnana various artists ‘Not Alone’ benefit CD has now reached Canadian $34,000 (approximately UK£16,432, US$33,600, €22.885). Our profound thanks to all of those—artists and buyers—who have helped in raising this amount of money for MSF/DWB's work with HIV+ and AIDS in West Africa.
If you are interested in buying this 75 artist, 5 CD set, please go to www.jnanarecords.com. Click on the ‘Not Alone’ link on that site for more information and a complete artist/tracklisting, and click on the ‘Shop’ link on that site to purchase.

Pantaleimon’s ‘Mercy Oceans’ album receives 10/10 on Foxy Digitalis
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There is a beautiful 10 out of 10 review of Pantaleimon's ‘Mercy Oceans’ by Charles Franklin on the Foxy Digitalis website. It can be found here.

New releases on NWW member Colin Potter’s ICR label
Far Black Furlong: ‘Far Black Furlong’
'Far Black Furlong' is a rapturous, symphonic work in six movements. The music describes tides—from the summer breeze through barley, to the shimmering stretch of a vast ocean extending to the shifting birth pangs of stars. Much of the music was recorded at outdoor locations—such as the barley fields of the Clun forest—and is performed on acoustic instruments.
FBF is baroque oboeist Mark Baigent, composer Richard Moult, dulcimer player John Letcher, the Canadian flautist Amanda Votta, Shropshire poet Bryony Lees, guitarist Ian Tengwall and Andy Cotterill on electronics.
Far Black Furlong: ‘Haidd’
There is a special edition (150 copies) of ‘Far Black Furlong’ which comes with an additional CDR, ‘Haidd’—a beautiful 34 minute remix/reworking of their previous album.

Colin Potter: The Sights of the Drowned Fable
This is a recording of a performance at the Resonator festival, held at the University of Central Lancashire in July 2007. A 43 minute long journey through many structures.
www.icrdistribution.com

Skitliv cover Current 93’s ‘Good Morning, Great Moloch’
A beautiful and sinister version of this song by C93, from their ‘Sleep Has His House’ album, has been covered by Skitliv, the group fronted by ex-Mayhem singer Maniac. It can be listened to on David Tibet's MySpace at www.myspace.com/davidtibet

Maja Elliot and Marc Henri Lamande live in Paris Thursday 27 December
Maja Elliott appears in performance with Marc Henri Lamande on 27 December. Details here are in French (PDF, 368k). For further information contact Vultures Musick at vulturesmusick@free.fr or visit their MySpace at www.myspace.com/vulturesmusic

My favourite albums and books at the moment
I was recently sent a copy of the new album by Ulver, ‘The Shadows of the Sun’. I have to say this is one of the most mesmerising records I have heard for many years, a monumental, and monumentally sad, epic. It is the first album I have ever heard by them. I played it eight times in two days, and then on the train to London—and then on the train back from London. REALLY remarkable.
www.jester-records.com/ulver
www.myspace.com/ulver1
Then the next day KatieJane Garside, of Queen Adreena and Daisy Chainsaw, sent me ‘The Ventriloquist’, the new album by her project Ruby Throat. This is absolutely and beautifully hypnotic—for me her most thrilling and touching work to date, in a career which has produced already many works of great power and beauty. It is limited to 500 copies so it may be already sold out.
www.katiejanegarside.com
www.rubythroat.co.uk
Six Organs of Admittance's new album ‘Shelter from the Ash’ is as stunning and unpredictable and gorgeous as I expected it would be. Ben Chasny is a genius. What else can I say?
I also recently finished reading Michel Faber's ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ which is, quite simply, one of he most enthralling books I have ever read. I couldn't put it down. No matter how good anyone tells you this book is (including myself)—it is even better than they are telling you. And, long though the book is, I wished it could just have kept on for much longer. I then read a novella by him, ‘The Courage Consor’, which was masterful and haunting.
Coptically, I am currently reading the Coptic edition of the Nag Hammadi text, ‘The Gospel of the Egyptians’, also known as ‘The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit’, which can be found, excellently edited by Alexander Böhlig and Frederik Wisse, in Volume 2 of the 5-volume Brill edition of ‘The Coptic Gnostic Library’, as well as in an English translation in Bentley Layton's superlative ‘The Gnostic Scriptures’ (Doubleday).
Love and peace to you all,
David+++

25 January 2008
Current 93: April 2008 European shows with Æthenor, Baby Dee, Rickie Lee Jones, Om and Skitliv
Current 93 are delighted to announce a small series of European shows in a build-up to the release of their new album ‘Anok Pe: Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain’. Also appearing with Current 93 will be some of the artists I love the most, and whose presence on our short outing honours me greatly. The second night of the shows in Moscow and Berlin—those of 12 and 14 April, respectively, will feature Current 93 performing material from their early Birth-Canal Blues albums, NATURE UNVEILED and DOGS BLOOD RISING.
Note: please contact the individual venues for ticket sales

Wed 9 Apr: Energy of Sound, Wroclaw, Poland with Rickie Lee Jones
Fri 11 Apr: Ikra, Moscow, Russia with Rickie Lee Jones
Sat 12 Apr: Ikra, Moscow, Russia with Baby Dee
Sun 13 Apr: Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany with Rickie Lee Jones
Mon 14 Apr: Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany with Skitliv
Thu 17 Apr: Le Printemps de Bourges, Bourges with Baby Dee and Rickie Lee Jones
Sun 20 Apr: Roadburn festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands with Æthenor, Baby Dee, Om and Rickie Lee Jones
Mon 21 Apr: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK with special guest vocalist Marc Almond. With Baby Dee and Om

Æthenor • Marc Almond • Baby Dee •Rickie Lee Jones • Om • Skitliv

Michael Cashmore to guest with Marc Almond and Current 93 at London QEH show 21 April 2008
I am very delighted to announce that Michael Cashmore will be appearing at the Current 93/Baby Dee/Om show at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on April 21 to play with our special guest vocalist Marc Almond.

Marc Almond with Michael Cashmore: ‘Gabriel and the Lunatic Lover’ CD EP
Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore have just finished a 2 track CD EP, ‘Gabriel and the Lunatic Lover’, setting two poems by Count Stenbock to music. This will be first available to purchase at the Current 93 and Friends show in London on 21 April mentioned above. The CD is presented in a full colour digipak with spectacular colour paintings of Marc on the cover, with a full colour booklet with the text to both poems and credits.

Now online: official MySpace site for Current 93
Current 93 now have an official site on MySpace: myspace.com/current93

Subscriptions for Current 93 Anokpe ‘Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain’
We wish to give a big thank you to those who have already supported the recording of ‘ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN’. We have had quite a number of enquiries, so we wish to clarify that this subscription edition is for the album on CD only and not for the album on vinyl. The vinyl edition will be released some time after the release of the album on CD, just as with ‘Black Ships Ate the Sky’.

‘Nature Unveiled’ and ‘Dogs Blood Rising’ remastered with bonus CD containing Andrew Liles’ remixes of the entire albums

The next two reissues from Durtro Jnana will be the seminal two first albums by C93, NATURE UNVEILED and DOGS BLOOD RISING. The first 1000 copies of the CDs will come with a bonus CD consisting of Andrew Liles’ radical and beautiful remixes of each album. We hope to add these to the Durtro and Jnana shops in late February. They will also be available from Andrew Liles at www.andrewliles.com.

Nurse With Wound: Two Shaves and a Shine remix project CD

This title will shortly be available to order from Jnana Records. It will NOT be available from Durtro.

Steven Stapleton writes:

A couple of years ago David Tibet and I were moochin’ around the Virgin record store in Glasgow. David was patiently waiting for me as at that time I was feverishly into female MCs and I wanted to study the sleeves of all the CDs in the shop’s hip-hop section. “You’re on this,” he said, tapping me on the shoulder with a dance compilation in his hand, and sure enough, there it was: Nurse With Wound: Two Shaves and a Shine—remixed. So, somewhat surprised by this discovery I purchased a copy and promptly got in touch with the label who led me on a merry song and dance for over six months until I gave up, neither sending any copies or paying any royalties.


The one thing they did give me was the idea of remixing ‘Two Shaves’, so when I was considering the extra material for the upcoming reissue of ‘An Awkward Pause’ (which had been out of print since the collapse of World Serpent Distribution several years back), the concept of supplying the essential ingredients of drums/bass/guitar and giving everybody a chance to fuck with the track and make their own versions really appealed to me. ‘El Duderino’ Mark Logan of Jnana then came up with the stroke of genius: a remix competition, open to everybody; first prize the original artwork from the front cover of this album.

For three months, on my car stereo, I listened to over a hundred versions. I listened to them anonymously, not knowing who the remixers were, judging them on their own quirks and musical merits. It was so difficult to choose the versions that appear on this compilation as all entries were intriguing and full of cranky invention. Eventually I honed it down to these gems. Taken as a whole it’s quite an intense ride, especially as all the tracks are crossfaded into one mightly mother of a jam—enjoy!
Steven Stapleton, Cooloorta, November 07

love and thanks to you all, Anok Pe David Tibet+++

[sonicl]

I'd read in one place that Marc Almond was going to be appearing at the London show, but thought that whoever wrote it was misinformed. This is very exciting news!