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Biography
Infobox musical artist| name = Current 93| image = Current931 crop.jpg| caption = Current 93 in 2007| origin = United Kingdom|Britain | genre = Apocalyptic folk , experimental music , dark ambient , neofolk , Post-industrial music|post-industrial | label = Coptic Cat Durtro United Dairies (record label)|United Dairies Jnana L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords Beta-lactam Ring Records | years_active = 1982& nbsp;– present| current_members = David Tibet Steven Stapleton Michael Cashmore | past_members = Douglas P. Rose McDowall Christoph Heemann | background = group_or_band Current 93 is an eclectic United Kingdom|British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk music|folk -based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37055-interview-current-93 Pitchfork Feature: Interview: Current 93 by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed 'Tibet' by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group).
Background
Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton (of Nurse with Wound ) has appeared on nearly every Current 93 release.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p16769|pure_url=yes allmusic ((( Current 93 > Biography ))) Michael Cashmore has also been a constant contributor since Thunder Perfect Mind (Current 93 album)|Thunder Perfect Mind . Douglas P. of Death In June has played on well over a dozen Current 93 releases, and Steve Ignorant of Crass (using the name Stephen Intelligent ), Boyd Rice , runes|runologist Freya Aswynn http://www.aswynn.co.uk/, Nick Cave , Björk , Andrew W.K. , Will Oldham , Ben Chasny , Rose McDowall , Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim , Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus (band)|Sol Invictus , Marc Almond , John Balance of Coil (band)|Coil , Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons , Baby Dee and Ian Read (musician)|Ian Read of Fire and Ice (band)|Fire + Ice have also lent their talents over the years. Tibet is fond of the works of American writer Thomas Ligotti , and invited him to collaborate with Current 93.
Current 93 have released some twenty albums, and many singles, as well as having been a guest on many of the above listed artists' records, and others' such as Nature and Organisation and The Hafler Trio .
Much of Current 93's early work was similar to late 1970s and early 1980s industrial music : abrasive tape loop s, droning synthesizer noises and Tibet's distorted, excoriating vocals. This early work became influential with the goth subculture|goth scene. Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as " apocalyptic folk " music, occasionally featuring his sinister nursery rhyme -influenced singing and primarily acoustic folk music|folk -styled music.
Tibet's lyrics have been fairly consistent, regardless of delivery: The earlier recordings reflect his preoccupation with death , Christ , mysticism , Aleister Crowley (Tibet borrowed the term "93 Current" from Crowley - the http://www.93current.de/ 93 Current being the current of Thelema or Agape ), Tibetan Buddhism , Gnosticism , runes , swastika s, Noddy (character)|Noddy , The Wicker Man (1973 film)|The Wicker Man , and a variety of occult notions. The later to present-day period of Current 93's recordings increasingly reflect Tibet's interest in Christian mysticism . Tibet has stated that he identifies as a Christian.cite web|url= http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6426-current-93/ |title=Pitchfork: Interviews: Current 93 |publisher=Pitchforkmedia.com |date=2006-09-11 |accessdate=2011-12-22
Literary influences include Lautreamont 's Les Chants de Maldoror , the Bible , The Poetic Edda s , Hildegard von Bingen , John Dee (mathematician)|John Dee , Heptarchia Mystica , The Thunder, Perfect Mind , William Blake , Louis Wain , writer Thomas Ligotti , occult British author Arthur Machen (originator of the title "The Inmost Light"), M.R. James 's various ghost story|ghost stories , The Cloud of Unknowing , Count Eric Stenbock , and Russell Hoban 's Riddley Walker .cite web|url= http://www.graphesthesia.com/rw/titles.html |title=Riddley Walker - Related Works |publisher=Graphesthesia.com |date= |accessdate=2010-04-18
Musical influences include religious chants, traditional folk music , The Tam Lin ballad, The Incredible String Band , Sand , Comus (band)|Comus , Blue Öyster Cult , Black Sabbath , Love (band)|Love , Shirley Collins , some progressive bands such as Yes (band)|Yes , King Crimson , Emerson, Lake & Palmer , and the British composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji .
David Keenan 's book ''England's Hidden Reverse - A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground'' (SAF Publishing 2003) extensively covers Tibet's musical evolution along with that of Coil, Stephen Stapleton, and others.
Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)
Om
2006
Black Ships Ate the Sky#Black Ships Eat the Sky>Black Ships Eat the Sky
CD - Alternate mixes
2007
The Inmost Light
Shadows Fall (Beforetheinmostlight)>Where The Long Shadows Fall , All the Pretty Little Horses , and The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)
1995 Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim - Songs of an Impotent Troubadour CD
1997 The Aryan Aquarians - Meet Their Waterloo LP/CD
See also
93 (Thelema)
Thelema
References
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External links
http://www.copticcat.com/ Coptic Cat homepage Official Coptic Cat homepage
http://www.durtro.com/ Durtro Records homepage Official Durtro and Current 93 homepage
http://www.brainwashed.com/c93 Official archive, extensive discography, live information archive, related literary sources.
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=713& Itemid=38 David Tibet - C93 interview extensive interview with David Tibet from the Judas Kiss site, conducted in 2006
http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php? story=20060517124431117 Black Ships Ate The Sky
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=844& Itemid=30 Birdsong in the Empire From the Judas Kiss website
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=916& Itemid=30 Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=917& Itemid=30 ‘Sleep has His House’ 3-CD (mail order edition) from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1129& Itemid=30 Nature Unveiled 2-CD re-issue edition from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1130& Itemid=30 Dogs Blood Rising 2-CD re-issue edition from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1175& Itemid=30 Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor CD/DVD from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1184& Itemid=30 Birth Canal Blues CD from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1366& Itemid=30 3D ANOKPE CURRENT 93 'BIRTH CANAL BLUES' LIVE CD from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1475& Itemid=30 Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain CD from the Judas kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1732& Itemid=30 Baalstorm, Sing Omega CD/LP from the Judas kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1733& Itemid=30 Haunted Waves, Moving Graves’ CD/12” from the Judas Kiss
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php? option=com_content& task=view& id=1734& Itemid=30 Larsen and Friends, featuring David Tibet – ‘Abeceda’ LP from the Judas Kiss
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