Current 93

durtro jnana
cover: D2112

Black Ships Ate The Sky CD Durto Jnana

  1. Idumea (Vocals: Marc Almond)
  2. Sunset (The Death Of Thumbelia)
  3. Black Ships in The Sky
  4. Then Kill Caesar
  5. Idumea (Vocals: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
  6. This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich
  7. The Dissolution Of The Boat "Millions of Years"
  8. Idumea (Vocals: Baby Dee)
  9. Bind Your Tortoise Mouth
  10. Idumea (Vocals: Antony)
  11. Black Ships Seen Last Year South Of Heaven
  12. Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)
  13. Idumea (Vocals: Clodagh Simonds)
  14. Black Ships Were Sinking / Idumea (Vocals: Cosey Fanni Tutti)
  15. The Beautiful Dancing Dust (Vocals: Antony)
  16. Idumea (Vocals: Pantaleimon)
  17. VAUVAUVAU (BLACK SHIPS IN THEIR HARBOUR)
  18. IDUMEA (Vocals: DAVID TIBET)
  19. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY
  20. WHY CAESAR IS BURNING PART II
  21. IDUMEA (Vocals: SHIRLEY COLLINS)

BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is the new 76-minute masterwork from Current 93, this time with the line-Up of David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance), Steven Stapleton, John Contreras with William Basinski, William Breeze and Amy Phillips. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is the long-awaited studio follow-up to 2000's Sleep Has His House. It has taken David Tibet four years to complete, and features some very special guests including Marc Almond, Antony, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Shirley Collins, Baby Dee and others. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is Current 93's most powerful and challenging recording, and looks set to be the most important Current 93 release to date.

David Tibet describes this new album as being "the closest I have come to picturing what I hope, and feel, and love, and fear", it's impossible not to agree, it's a really immense record. This is the beginning of a new period of activity by Tibet and Current 93, which also sees the release of Not Alone, a 5CD benefit album for Doctors Without Borders / Medcins Sans Frontres (co-curated by Tibet and Durtro Jnana's manager Mark Logan), a spilt 10"/CD release by Current 93 and Om entitled Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun /Blackship Shrinebuilder, a volume of Tibet's collected lyrics, and new releases by Current 93 and other artists on his Durtro Jnana Label.