Current 93 - Crush, Kill, Destroy?

I'm in doubt about the new one (Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain). It sounds so 'harsh', in comparison to his last albums. I can't get used to the distorted sound, would've much more preferred a 'Pretty Horses' or 'Thunder Perfect Mind' sound. On the other hand it is intruiging. I just haven't found a mood yet to appreciate it. It's lacks eerieness, to my liking.

i re-listened to imperium for the first time in a while because of the revive - man there's some tasty-weird stuff on there. it's like miserabilist cosmic music.

"as real as rainbows" isn't harsh at all, gerard, and might be an entry point

but i hear what you're saying. stuff like "invocation of almost" is way up there among their heaviest songs

Just blasting Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain. Really is heavy.

I feel it's taking me a long time to get to know this album well. So I've been in this 'like it, but don't really love it' limbo for the past few weeks, but I'm beginning to come round to it.

yeah one of the highlights of the year for me, its intensity was not something I was expecting from DT at this point in his life.

Anyone got the new album yet? "Baalstorm, Sing Omega": http://copticcat.greedbag.com/buy/baalstorm-sing-omega/

It's being presented as the final piece of a trilogy that begun with "Black Ships...". I'm only a few songs in, but it sounds lighter, less dense than the preceding "Aleph.." (not difficult, that), with strings, piano and light percussion -- sometimes a little eastern in touch.

I've given it a couple of listens and it hasn't grabbed me yet, I am more interested in the pic disc LP that came out at the same time which apparently has two sidelong pieces. That tends to be the kind of C93 stuff I prefer.

also waiting waiting waiting for the VOD box set, but there really isn't THAT much new stuff on it.

Yes, that picture disc looks interesting. It's also available in CD format -- which is not half as interesting, I realise but maybe more easily available.

oh, and the VOD set is now available, I think. Or you probably mean you've ordered it and are awaiting delivery

Those two album length pieces (both 35 minutes each) are kinda boring, actually. It's mainly cello and violin music against a background of waves at the beach.

Actually, you just sold me with that description.

Despite not being impressed with the samples I heard I bought the 2-track cello/violin/waves CD (longer version(s) on the CD), along with Baalstorm, anyway, & I actually like it a lot more than I expected.

I received the 2-track disc before I received Baalstorm. It didn't impress me. But as it is claimed to be a meditation piece based on the melodies of Baalstorm, I hoped that getting to know Baalstorm would improve my listening experience, that it would click afterwards. That has yet to happen...

Luckily I like Baalstorm a lot, though that took a while too and it is a bit C93 by numbers.

all the pretty little horses is hitting the spot right about now. vocal-wise, i'm still more of a ka-spel kinda guy. maybe its the lisp.

Phew -- you want Current 93 you got it. ALL up on Bandcamp, it seems.

https://current931.bandcamp.com/

I think some stuff's missing there

never could dig their stuff as much as that of their peer group (NWW, Coil, et al)

Seems to have (intentionally?) left out the earliest stuff like Dogs Blood Rising.

xp yeah swastikas for noddy eg, the 1st thing I looked for. And the split with OM, the 2nd thing I looked for! I owned both at some point.

I'm seeing these guys next month, the same day I see Beckett's Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby :-D

Why won't they playyyyyy heeeere

in the US? because when you book a tour the clubs ask "what did they make last time they played here and how big a room did they sell out." Current 93 would most likely only be able to bank on door deals over here

i keep assuming this thread title is a variation on fuck/marry/kill

def remember tibet saying he didn't like touring because he didn't like to be away from his cats for too long

They also have very specific and inflexible requirements for their engagements and there are a large number of musicians involved, I mean I get it, but ever since they announced then deleted a show at santos party house a few years ago I have lived in hope.

Too bad he took down his old Twitter photo showing him sitting in his garden with a hat on, he essentially looked like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who.

yeah don't they insist on the promoters flying all the current band members in individually from wherever they live?

Yes

Also lolol Ned otm

yeah don't they insist on the promoters flying all the current band members in individually from wherever they live?

this is perfectly standard practice, every promoter in the world has to do this where band members live in different cities/countries

there are like 20 of C93 though & they all live in different countries

except tibet lives in the same town as james blackshaw iirc. shirley collins too!

you can prove anything with facts

def remember tibet saying he didn't like touring because he didn't like to be away from his cats for too long

Which for me would probably be the sole endearing aspect of Mr. Tibet.

this is perfectly standard practice, every promoter in the world has to do this where band members live in different cities/countries

only if the band has enough draw to cover the costs. it isn't really standard practice for promoters to buy plane tickets. promoters make offers to artists through booking agents who relay the offer to the artist and offer their opinion on a) whether it's a good offer and b) whether they feel like the promoter will offer more to cover travel costs. if an artist had four sidemen flying from four different countries to NY and all those costs needed to be covered in addition to a guarantee he'd need to be able to fill a pretty big room for it to be worth the promoter's while.

Just seems kind of depressing that not a single booker in New York can put together a Current 93 show that won't lost money? Hopefully a museum or foundation will step up and make it happen.

I saw them play at a synagogue in NYC in the late 90s... It's got to be possible to do something similar again. Place was packed.

England's Hidden Reverse is finally being re-published, for the benefit of those who believe that David Keenan "refuses" to put it out in paperback:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1907222170

lol, thanks for the heads up, about fucking time

Someone who loves me please buy me that for my birthday, kthx.

it's really good except for when Keenan tells us which records he thinks are the best ones

(I finally read a pdf, but will buy this for sure)

England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
Nov 20, 2014
by David Keenan
Currently unavailable

sell all you have, give it to the kittens

PDF all you have, email it to the kittens

So, EHR may finally be reappearing:

http://strangeattractor.co.uk/further/englands-hidden-reverse/

I just got a note from a courier that Mark Pilkington has sent me a package - can't think what it would be if not the hardback of the reprint.

tt has been getting me into this lot

it's incredible music. lucifer over london stopped my life for 8 minutes

Most important new obsession of my entire 30s, in hindsight

That's interesting, for me too. In my 20s I dipped into the waters a couple of times but didn't get much out of it but the whole Coil-NWW-DIJ-C93 axis fully clicked with me in my mid-30s.

partial to the Rotting Christ cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOCKBLN21Y

I'm in my 30s now and I've never really connected with that branch though I've always been deeply into related stuff. My time might be soon...