Street date: 2008-12-01

Originally issued in 1985, in an edition of 1000 copies, Dogs Blood Rising was Current 93's second full length release. Here, the audio has been significantly restored and remastered and is presented as an exact reproduction of the original as possible. In fact, this album is perhaps the finest example of the experimental side of Current 93, and a major influence on the emerging Goth and Industrial scenes of the time. Thanks to Stephen Stapleton's simpatico production and arrangements, David's early themes of Christs, crucifixions, Crowleyan madness and perversions are all here at their most violent and loud. Steve Ignorant of Crass is enlisted on vocals, and Simon & Garfunkel's take on Scarborough Fair is dragged through the mire.

Street date: 2008-12-01

The subject matter here is of course extremely dark, and it has not been taken in any way lightly by its author, and in an attempt to move towards easing the plight of the millions of innocent victims the world over, all monies generated by Chris 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 torture survivors overcome trauma so that they may start a new life. For fans of Ministry, Fini Tribe, Cabaret Voltaire, David Tibet, Little Annie, Michael Cashmore, Scott Walker, David Bowie, Nick Cave...

Street date: 2008-12-01

Featuring vocal performances by Marc Almond, David Tibet and Ernesto Tomasini and works that defy any pre-existing musical genre, Digital Angel is the manifestation of a challenging, bold and yet sensitive artistic vision. With pieces mainly, though not only, for voice and piano and with the producing cut to a minimum, Othon's album has an intimate and almost live quality. His compositions - a blend of opera, punk, noise and lyrical romanticism - form a proof of a rich and distinctive musical language. His songs, which deal with themes such as desperate love, human bio-chipping, addiction to violence and 2012, can equally form a soundtrack to a passionate love story and a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Digital Angel's original artwork and photography is by Hector de Gregorio.

Street date: 2008-12-01

CD. Originally issued in 1984, in an edition of 1000 copies, Nature Unveiled was Current 93's first ever full length release. Here, the audio has been significantly restored and remastered and is presented as an exact reproduction of the original as possible. In England's Hidden Reverse David Tibet compared the sounds on Nature Unveiled to the appearance of shadows cast by a candle's flame. The exaggerated dance of figures projected by the fire is an excellent metaphor for the reverberated moans and chants that jump and teleport throughout "Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)." Steven Stapleton' s ability in the studio helped to translate the entire record into an exaggerated and frightening play of monumental blocks of sound. The way different samples are lumped together and cut irregularly is dizzying, causing no little amount of disorientation. That image of slowly undulating figures above describes the entirety of Nature Unveiled partly because of Stapleton's talent and partly because of Tibet's monstrous and lucid vision.

Street date: 2008-10-20

LP. Originally issued in 1984, in an edition of 1000 copies, Nature Unveiled was Current 93's first ever full length release. Here, the audio has been significantly restored and remastered and is presented as an exact reproduction of the original as possible. In England's Hidden Reverse David Tibet compared the sounds on Nature Unveiled to the appearance of shadows cast by a candle's flame. The exaggerated dance of figures projected by the fire is an excellent metaphor for the reverberated moans and chants that jump and teleport throughout "Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)." Steven Stapleton' s ability in the studio helped to translate the entire record into an exaggerated and frightening play of monumental blocks of sound. The way different samples are lumped together and cut irregularly is dizzying, causing no little amount of disorientation. That image of slowly undulating figures above describes the entirety of Nature Unveiled partly because of Stapleton's talent and partly because of Tibet's monstrous and lucid vision.

Street date: 2008-10-06

Soft Black Stars was released by Current 93 in 1998 on Durtro records and was written and adapted by Michael Cashmore, David Tibet and Maja Elliott with the exception of "Judas as Black Moth", "A Gothic Love Song" and "Whilst The Night Rejoices Still", the music for which was written by Michael Cashmore. We are rereleasing this superb record alongside Nature Unveiled and Dogs Blood Rising in celebration of this pioneering band. Almost all of the songs feature only David Tibet's lyrics and artwork by David Tibet accompanied by minimalistic piano music: with the exception of "Judas as Black Moth" which is solo piano arrangement and "Chewing on Shadows" which consist of drones, piano, guitar and David Tibet's singing.

Street date: 2008-06-30

"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 very much a collaborative project. I chose friends whom I also admired as artists and who inhabit a creative space 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, CarterTutti, 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. 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 for this record. I am very happy to have them join us for the ride... "

Street date: 2008-05-19

Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor is a remix EP from Current 93. It includes two Matmos remixes of the tracks “Black Ships Ate The Sky” and “The Beautiful Dancing Dust”, which also features vocals from Anthony (of 'The Johnsons'), and two remixes of “Blackships Ate The Sky” by JG Thirlwell aka Foetus.

Street date: 2008-05-05

Gabriel And The Lunatic Lover is the first release from a collaboration between Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. This EP sets to music two poems by the 19th-century gay writer Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock. The 2-track CD is housed in a beautiful full-colour digipak, containing previously unpublished paintings of Marc by Russian artist Vania Soutavliov, a rare photograph of the enigmatic Count, as well as the complete texts to the poems and all credits.

Street date: 2008-03-10

This double disc release collects material from the Little Window and Love's Small Song CDs plus the Made For Love CD single. Little Window is Baby Dee's debut released in 2000, here she creates something so incredibly sincere and delicate, yet remarkably fearless and undeniably classy. Baby Dee holds this album together entirely with solo piano and voice save for the two instrumentals that bookend the album, where she trades the piano for an accordion and bird calls, over which pours her obsession with nature. Love's Small Song is Baby Dee's follow-up to Little Window. Like its predecessor, the 11-song cycle of love, loss, anger, and forgiveness is built around the former circus performer's deceptively simple piano work and tin pan alley vocals. This time around, her work is accented by harp and accordion. There is still something unmistakably, gnawingly creepy about the pain and sadness that seems an inseparable part of Baby Dee's transgender vocals, even when she sings relatively joyful songs like "Morning Fire". The Robin's Tiny Throat reveals how utterly unique and wonderful Baby Dee's voice is in contemporary music.

Street date: 2008-03-10

The Fox's Wedding is Sharron Kraus' fifth album, and is a wonderfully delicate installment to her catalogue, as haunting and tragic as ever. Kraus has a gift for bringing us affecting, utterly beautiful and heartbreaking songs from a deep-seated tradition of storytelling and mythology. Populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters, she tells tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, love and death.

Street date: 2008-02-11

The gorgeously delicate guitar of Michael Cashmore augmented by drones, bells and sound manipulations make Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre one of Current 93's most musically hypnotic albums to date, with the vocals and text of David Tibet adding a quietly controlled power and drama which is virtually unsurpassed in the canon of the band.

Street date: 2008-01-28

When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos sees the duo of Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch pouring their hearts into other people's songs, alchemically transforming songs like U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and Tina Turner's signature belter "Private Dancer" into gloriously heartbreaking torch-songs and poignant, understated ballads.

Street date: 2007-11-05

Mercy Oceans features Baby Dee, Isobel Campbell, Keith Wood (of Hush Arbors), and John Contreras. Pantaleimon have created an album of exceptional beauty and depth. There are ten tracks in all, all songs, and all stunningly captivating.

Street date: 2007-09-24

The gorgeously delicate guitar of Michael Cashmore augmented by drones, bells and sound manipulations make Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre one of Current 93's most musically hypnotic albums to date, with the vocals and text of David Tibet adding a quietly controlled power and drama which is virtually unsurpassed in the canon of the band.

Street date: 2007-09-10

13 tracks 39 minutes. This Durtro compilation is the soundtrack to 2007's acclaimed film Wild Tigers I Have Known and inlcudes music by Pantaleimon, Current 93 and many more.

Street date: 2007-09-10

The Lights Are On But No-One’s Home, the new CD released on Durtro Jnana, is the long-awaited follow-up to the 1987 album Belle De Jour. It is a collection of new songs and instrumentals in her unique style. This recording was made with the help of Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter (of Nurse With Wound) and also Matt Waldron of irr.app.(ext.).

Street date: 2007-05-21

Chris Connelly has also enjoyed a very unique solo career spanning over eight albums, the latest of which is this, 'The Episodes'. The album was produced by Joan of Arc's Tim Kinsella, and Town & Country's Ben Vida and is a timeless and unique masterpiece owing to the radical arrangements and an exceptional band culled from Califone, Joan of Arc, Town & Country, U.S.Maple and other Chicago Jazz & improve luminaries.

Street date: 2007-05-21

Originally issued in 1995-96, this set, which announced itself as being “Hallucinatory Patripassianist Song” reissues in their entirety, the mini-albums 'Where The Long Shadows Fall' and 'The Stars Are Marching Sadly Home' , as well as the full length 'All The Pretty Little Horses'. Current 93 became David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, Michael Cashmore and Joolie Wood for this album. Guest vocalists included Nick Cave, Jhonn Balance of Coil, Andria Degens of Pantaleimon and Shirley Collins.

Street date: 2007-05-07

Hypnagogue was originally released as a limited EP in 2003 and has been out of print since. This re-release, which comes in a full-colour digipack with booklet, includes the original and adds a newly recorded version of the piece. The original recording featured David Tibet reading from the book of the same name with musical accompaniment by Maja Elliott on piano. 300 copies of the Hypnagogue book were printed, with all copies numbered and signed by the author. The written work was started in Tallinn, Estonia on September 6, 2001, and finished in Penang, Malaysia on December 31, 2002. The new version of Hypnagogue features a sublime orchestral arrangement by Michael Masley - known for the distinctive "bowhammer" technique that he himself originated. He's a master of the cymbalom, a modern orchestral (Hungarian) version of the hammered dulcimer, an instrument that made its debut in Persia as the santour around 2500 years ago.

Street date: 2007-04-23

'Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow' continues Fay's tradition of writing thoughtful, life-affirming songs that, as this record proves, benefit from extended studio sessions and input from three equally committed musicians - guitarist Gary Smith, electric and bowed bass-player Rauf Galip, and drummer Bill Stratton - also known as the improvising trio The Acme Quartet. With the renewed interest in Bill Fay's past work following the reissue of his first two albums 'Bill Fay' and 'Time Of The Last Persecution', and the 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.

Street date: 2007-04-23

This is the first collection of new material from legendary psych-folk giant Simon Finn since the release of his seminal album 'Pass The Distance'. 'Pass The Distance' is considered the precursor for all the psych-folk that has been proliferating the airwaves over the past few years. All those brilliant Six Organs of Admittance and Fursaxa records you love owe a lot to this record.

Street date: 2007-04-23

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 performed by the expanded line-up of Current 93, featuring 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, and Finn Sands - voice. Recorded at their sold-out concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's South Bank Center on 9th October, 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.

Street date: 2007-04-09

'Songs From the Coalmine Canary' is the fabulous new full length from Little Annie. She has recorded extensively with vanguard figures of late twentieth century music such as rock musician Kid Congo Powers, DJ Paul Oakenfold, dub stalwart Adrian Sherwood, punk/experimental band Crass , noisy krautrock surrealists Nurse With Wound and experimental/electronica band Coil - an entity that had its origins in the first industrial rock band Throbbing Gristle.

Street date: 2007-03-23

Six Six Six : Sick Sick Sick includes 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. On the track "Lucifer Over London", Tibet collaborated with Nick Salomon of The Bevis Frond, an often overlooked cult British brand responsible for a number of psych-rock masterpieces like Triptych and New River Head. Here Salomon contributes psych guitar, aping the famous riff from Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," spinning it out into a hypnotic, cyclical refrain, as Tibet unfolds one of his more chilling visions of an impending Apocalypse.

Street date: 2007-02-26

Andria Degens speaks here about 'Cloudburst': "The whole piece is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime or lifetimes. The track 'Cloudburst' symbolises the clouding of the mind, the going round and round, the sleeping state, the darkness, but with an instinctual feeling that something is to change. Then as 'Crystalline Rain' falls, the cloud formations begin to disperse and clarity, space, wakefulness become apparent. 'Ascension of the Sun' is enlightenment, the top of the mountain, the sunrise. 'Numinosum' is the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven and earth.”

Street date: 2007-02-12

This will be of particular interest to 'Antony & The Johnsons' fans, as this is Antony's first new material since 2005's Mercury award-winning 'I Am A Bird Now' which catapulted him into the hearts and minds of the mainstream. 'The Snow Abides' is also Michael’s most accomplished and poignant work to date, solo or otherwise and is presented in a full colour delux digipak.

Street date: 2005-05-29

BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY (CD) 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.

Street date: 2005-05-29

BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY (LP) 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.

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Current 93 were founded by David Tibet and the late Jhonn Balance of Coil in 1982. Over the last 24 years they have pursued their own unique hallucinatory patripassianist vision through numerous records, books, concerts and paintings. David Tibet lives with his wife and his cats and he loves them; his hobbies are Coptic and Koine Greek and the works of Count Stenbock and Louis Wain. Jhonn Balance lives in Heaven. God is love.

OM is a two member band featuring Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, both founding members of legendary doom pioneers Sleep. The duo sonically engage through transportive bass cycles, groove laden drumming, and cryptic vocal-mantra recitations. This track was recorded in October 2005 and the song was engineered by Billy Anderson

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Sleep England is Michael Cashmore's first solo release. He has worked extensively with Current 93 has also released albums with his own project Nature and Organisation. During the last fifteen years, Michael has written the majority of music for some of Current 93’s most acclaimed albums including Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All The Pretty Little Horses and also the recently released Black Ships Ate The Sky. It has been Michael’s music, coupled with the lyrical style of David Tibet, that has helped establish Current 93’s international reputation for producing some of the most challenging, profound and influencial works in contemporary music.