Amongst many others David Tibet/Current 93 has and have worked with: David Michael, Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Michael Cashmore (Nature and Organization), Bill Fay, Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), Steve Ignorant and Penny Rimbaud (Crass), Marc Almond, Fabrizio Paulumbo ((r), Larsen), Rickie Lee Jones, Peter Atanasoff, Baby Dee, Simon Finn, Andria Degens (Pantaleimon), Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey, Carter-Tutti), Nick Cave, Joolie Wood, OM (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius), William Breeze, Thomas Ligotti, Tiny Tim, John Contreras, Cam Archer, Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle, Coil), Matmos, Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate), Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade, Sorrow, Spell), Björk, Murder Mercury (Murder Mercury and the Murderous Mercurians), Asshole Asphalt, Chris Connelly, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Clodagh Simonds (Mellow Candle, Fovea Hex), Baby Dee, Andrew WK, Shirley Collins, Antony (Antony and the Johnsons), Matt Sweeney (Zwan, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash), Attila Csihar (Mayhem, Sunn O))), Tormented), Gary Smith (Bill Fay Group), Johannes Vester (Sand, Alu), Youth (Killing Joke, Brilliant), Tony Wakeford (Crisis, Sol Invictus), Andrew Liles, Paperweight Prophettt (Spermmm), Jóhann Jóhannsson, Julia Kent, William Bennett (Whitehouse), Maja Elliott, Little Annie Anxiety, William Basinski, SingleMingle (Jurden Caul Dorn), Charlemagne Palestine, Maniac (Skitliv, Mayhem), Jim Thirwell (Foetus and Variations), Geff Rushton (Stabmental, Current 93, Psychic TV), John Balance (Current 93, Psychick TV), Jhonn Balance (Coil), Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio), Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychick TV), Richard Moult, Lu Bell (Flux of Pink Indians), Douglas P. (Crisis, Death In June), Christoph Heemann (HNAS, Mirror), Joseph Budenholzer (Backworld), Roman Jugg (The Damned), Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Maniac (Mayhem, Skitliv) James Blackshaw, Clumb Danger (Woodfoot).
The group presently consists of: David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, Baby Dee, Andrew Liles, Andrew WK, Matt Sweeney, William Breeze, John Contreras, Rickie Lee Jones, Andria Degens, Keith Wood and James Blackshaw.
Influences
JESUS CHRIST, The Bible, The Gospel of Thomas, everything in COPTIC, Koiné Greek, the Jesus Prayer, the Desert Fathers, Beauty pouring out, the clouds scudding by, Sir Thomas Browne, Seahorses, Kierkegaard, Jewish mysticism, the Mother Mary and Jesus and Christ and GOD, Cats, Saint Louis Wain, Roman Catholicism, JUDAS PRIEST, John Coltrane, ROB HALFORD, Russian Orthodox Christianity, Birger Pearson,The New Creation, Walter Ewing Crum, Baby Huey, Sylvester, David Hall, BONNIE TYLER, The Monophysites, Shooting BLACK SHIPS out of the SKY with children's voices, Blessed John Bradburne, Cyndi Lauper, CS Lewis, Thomas Ligotti, The Temptations, John McLaughlin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Queen (the group), Queen (The Queen), JRR Tolkein, "RIPPER" OWENS, Kiss, John Phillips, Mike & Jan & Tamlin Magee, Roy Buchanan, organic lemons, Mark Fry who Dreams with Alice, Angel Witch, His Holiness Chi.med Rig.'dzin Lama Rinpoche, AE Housman, Bryn Haworth, CSN&Y, Joe Cocker, Edward Alexander, Amebix, Geoff Cox-Dorée, Jackson Browne, Sri Subramaniam (Murugan) and his brother Vinayagar, Alice Cooper, John Milton, Brett Easton Ellis, Anne Boud'hours, Ten Years After, Isaac Hayes, Withfinder General, Marvin Gaye, Dante, Gnidrolog, Joni Mitchell, David Lindsay, Mani, Rickie Lee Jones, Gene Clark, David Crosby, Silmaril, Albert Ayler, David Surkamp, Pavlov's Dog, Carly Simon, Judee Sill, Face of Grace, Some Gnostic Cartoons, Argent, To Mega Therion, The New Creation, Edmund Monsiel, Silberbart, St. Paul, Clea Duvall and Reese Witherspoon, Jethro Tull, Mithtras, PinkFaceDeathFace, Henry Boxer, The Eagles, Michel Houellebecq, Count Stenbock, RH Benson, The Eagles, Blood Ceremony, Joanna Newsom, Killer Flower Coil, Ben Chasny, Budgie, King Crimson, Sunn O))), The Mob, Zounds, No Defences, Patripassianism, Cream and Eric Clapton, Public Foot the Roman, Mountain, Attila Csihar, Zoolander, Curved Air, KISS, Nick Evans the Yoga Ghost, Evelyn Waugh, Celtic Frost, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steven Stapleton, Shirley Collins, Mark Logan, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Shenoute and Shenouda, Ornette Coleman, Six Organs of Admittance, Grrr and Warrr, Michael Cashmore, Joni Mitchell, Astanga Yoga, Rush, Dr Stephen Emmel, Dr Barbara Emmel, Dr Bentley Layton, Dr Lance Eccles, Dr Heike Behlmer, Dr James Goehring, Dr Sebastian Richter, Dr. Anne Boud'hors, Dr David Frankfurter, Dr David Brakke, Hugo Lundhaug, Christ Reintges, Jenny Cromwell, Neil Young, Nikolai Obouhov, Alexander Scriabin, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Hymenæus Beta, Bill Fay, COLTRANE ALICE AND JOHN AMEN, Hamish Hendry and Anna Wise, Santana, Kirk Brandon/Theatre of Hate/Spear of Destiny, Hush Arbors, Marc Almond, the Coptic language, Alexei Stanchincky, Jobriath, Aleister Crowley, Larsen, (r), Marc Bolan & Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex, Pink Fairies, Dennis Wheatley, William Breeze, Keith Richmond, Tamil, Malaysia, Graham Bond RIP, The ETERNAL Jhonn Balance, D.R. Hooker, Plainchant, Soeur Marie Keyrouz, Hammer horror films, tortoises and turtles, Biblical Prophecy, Ivan Panin, Freddy Mercury & Queen, Pictures Of Billy, Nurse With Wound, Baby Dee, the Bee Gees, Jackson Browne, the signs in the stars, the Rapture, Aquaman, Dr Strange, Andrew WK, the Silver Surfer, the Pop Group and Mark Stewart, all organic foods, apocalypses, Martin Stone, Tibetan rNying.ma texts, slugs, trees and forests, my father and mother, moths, Batu Ferringhi, Ronnie Spector, organic pretzels, Hawkwind, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), The Nice, Wishbone Ash, Argent, Blue Öyster Cult, Montserrat Figueras, deep-sea fish, moonstones and opals and jade and lapis lazuli, Diamanda Galás, Simeon Solomon, Yes, Don Bradshaw-Leather, Om (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, as was), Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, nasi lemak, Judas Priest, hypnagoguic imagery, Patripassianism, Colour Me Rubber, Ramases and Ram & Sel and Ram & Seleka and Ram & Selket, Pascal's "Pensées", Dostoyevsky, pasta with garlic and olives, the Small Faces, Fatima, the Crack of the World, Vulvaic Song, Matrix and Matrices, Noddy and Gnoddy, fairy tales, playground chants, Russian Chant, Komitas, GladHead, Comus, Sally Vickers, Rudolf Steiner, Mary Baker Eddy, The Seven Trumpets, FaceHa!Lake, Lynn Jackson, The Trees Community, Pearls Before Swine. Trees, howling, Muldrun Leafen, SevenFace, Alan Judd's "The Devil's Own Work", Liber OZ, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Narnia Books, Aeolian Harps, Anne Briggs, Black Sabbath, Peachface, the Emperor's New Clothes, MR James, the Latin Mass, Malachi Martin's books, the Groundhogs, Leafhound, constellations in all dimensions, organic (green and jasmine and breakfast) tea, Death Vessel, Schwester Benedicta Wallace OSB, Genesis, Julian of Norwich, Marc Almond, Egypt, England, Stevie Wonder, Visage, Blue Cheer, the SEA, Moon Jellyfish, ferns and lichens and moss, Venom, Marcel Pérès & Organum, The Wizard of Oz, Electric Wizard, Sebastian Horsley, Simon Finn, Curse The Purse Nurse, William Basinski, Stephen O'Malley, Tom Rapp, King Crimson, Eno, Klaus Nomi, Jobriath, Sir Thomas Urquhart, Humble Pie, Amanda M. Ros, all the CATS in the WORLD and in HEAVEN, Sandy Posey, organic shortbread biscuits, Al Stewart, Cardinal Newman, Marillion, Looney Tunes cartoons, Cripple Sound, Grendel, Polar Sodom, early Gospel/guitar evangelists, Crass, Nick Blinko and Rudimentary Peni, Cran, Sister Benedicta, Cheers For Fears, Young Frug, Peter Frampton, Starlight Vocal Band, Perry Leopold, Blind Willie Johnson, AC and Blind Mamie Forehand, Am I LambLand?, Shibboleths, My Beloved Wife Andria, The Wandering Jew, Washington Phillips, Sacred Harp singing, Led Zeppelin, massed guitar charge, Arthur Doyle, Charlie Patton, William Lawes, John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany", Gilgamesh's teleological thought-strokes, Discharge, Nabokov, St. Eustace, St. Rita, Angels and Archangels, The Cloud of Unknowing, High Tide, walnuts, DogTired DogTide, FaceTheFloodBud, FurThurLayThur, the women of Naqqada, "The Exorcist" film, Tapestry, Tod Wodicka, Claire Wigfall, Michel Faber, Sebastian Horsley, Rockey Palmer and all and AL.
Sounds Like
Black Ships Eating The Sky/Good-ol' time Armageddon Music/Lazarus Arising/Words of Romans creeping in/Torture in the Toy-box/Infernal and Eternal Rome.
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CURRENT 93 was formed in 1982 by David Tibet, the beyond-gone-beyond Jhonn Balance and Fritz Haaman, and unfortunately released the 12" single LAShtAL, shortly before the first C93 album NATURE UNVEILED which was then swiftly followed by a DOGS BLOOD RISING. Scroll down through playing at Bar Maldoror IN MENSTRUAL NIGHT, presenting SWASTIKAS FOR NODDY as the EARTH COVERS EARTH, running like Hell from CHRIST AND THE PALE QUEENS MIGHTY IN SORROW, accessing the THUNDERPERFECTMIND and seeing THE SADNESS OF THINGS and THE INMOST LIGHT ITSELF after avoiding RUINE OR SOME BLAZING STARRE whilst living in a MUSICAL PUMPKIN COTTAGE, they and he recently released the new album BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY, which features David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, Ben Chasny, Steven Stapleton, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Marc Almond, Baby Dee, Antony, Clodagh Simonds, John Contreras, Pantaleimon, William Breeze, William Basinski, Shirley Collins, and Amy Phillips. It was followed by a split-CD by Current 93 and David's heroes OM, called BLACKSHIP SHRINEBUILDER (INERRANT RAYS OF INFALLIBLE SUN). A 2CD "best of" was released by Sanctuary both in the US and in the UK/EU titled JUDAS AS BLACK MOTH. The new album by David and C93 is called ALEPH AT HALLUCINATORY MOUNTAIN and is released on May 18, 2009.
David has worked extensively with many people, perhaps most extensively of all with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, Michael Cashmore of Nature & Organisation, Joolie Wood, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and Maja Elliott.
David paints and draws Hallucinatory Patripassianist Dream Texts, landscapes and portraits of cats, spirit guides and Saints. He founded, and still runs, Durtro Press and Ghost Story Press, which have published around 40 or so books, mainly by Thomas Ligotti and Count Stenbock, but by many other authors too. Recently released was a new anthology by Thomas Ligotti entitled "Teatro Grottesco". The next book from Durtro is "Under The Rain And Teeth Of Gods", a long-overdue collection of David's lyrics and texts. He is also working on some Coptic translations he hopes to publish in 2009. At present a majority of the C93 back catalogue is out of print, but with David's friend Mark Logan of Durtro Jnana, all this material will steadily be released in 2008/9 apart from the recordings he hates. David will also carry on with his project of bringing everything Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock wrote into print. he is also working on translation of Coptic Gnostic texts. He is in the International Cabinet of OTO and is about to finish his MA in Coptic Language, Texts and Grammar before commencing a PhD in Coptic.
He lives 2 minutes walk from the seaside in Sussex, on the English South-Eastern coast, whilst he prepares to move to his houses in Moscow and Panar.
oh, i am a master-of-disaster, disinformation should be my second name... offcause the adi-buddha quite as maitreya have nothing to do with each other nor with christ, but be it taken as poetic-illusion. by the way, saw your painting- speeches at you-tube - very nice - already saw originals of you once in the rise-berlin-gallery... i'm very looking forward to the next two cds of your actual trilogy (2010 and 2011?)- what would be the world without your visions in this time... maybe not understandable, maybe not reAL enough for the turn to come. 4499
Hi :) I was listening to "Chocolate Jesus" by Tom Waits and you popped up in my mind :D !!! Just a brief greeting from Italy, may you have fun and have a wonderful weekend!!! L-ov-E AL-ways Daniele
The new album is really amazing, a master-piece and beautiful... (a bit dangerous to all those with a thelemic-messiah-complex ;-) but again a very deep wisdom behind and knowledge about this universe. One is for sure, the second comming of Christ - as fortold Aleph to turn the wheel will stay a mystery - and even though Meitrea, the Adibuddha to come is already living, he would hide himself for the right time or even his whole life to do what's to do - maybe it won't be a person at all, but a mystery to raise a:.s a:. collective-consciousness, we're already opening... but I hope that the black ships will disapear soon like you dreamt - it seems that they are going to finish their lunch. All the best to you from HeNrik aka a BlackZero... standing at the deep shores of the BlackMotherSea, that all life had become - seeing too: the sky get eaten...beaten and destroyed.4499
Hello David!! Greetings from Argentina!!! Thank you very much for the add!!! Im sure I will get all the pretty little horses tonight, thank you again for the music, inspiration and for the add! Hernan.
The gig in Leipzig was great, bloody powerful! I was over at the stage at first, watching you guys ROCKING. Then i left the crowd, bought a beer and laid down at the concrete. There i lay and chilled for 15 mins or so, just listened. That was not very appriciated by the Agra-crew and i think they wanted my butt tossed out at first.. ^^ After that i didn't dare to lay down no more so i had to get back to the rest of the audience..
Anyhow, great show. Cheers to you and the rest of the crew!
what a wonderful idea to release the concert from Leipzig on DVD. I'm glad you liked it there :) Hope to see you somewhere in Germany again soon. Maybe you can release the DVD with an audio CD together. I already got a recording from the concert, but the quality is not that good :/
much love to :)
Alex
"Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."
Many thanks for the add. I really like the new album, and look forward to listening to it more over the coming months. Wishing you all the best from Melbourne... kindest regards Ewan
I just want you to know *how* much I'm enjoying _Aleph_. It has really brought me back into your music, and now I'm digging into the back-catalog once again. Your approach to Christianity, so infused with myth and open imagination, shows me something about it that I hadn't seen, something alive.
Congratulations on another masterpiece,
Paul
PS--> In a spare moment, I plugged your birth name into an anagram generator, and it spat out "becalm a dividing hunt." Seemed to fit somehow.
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