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RELEASED SEPTEMBER 10

At last a UK/European release for the expanded CD edition of one of C93's most enduring albums.

Previously the expanded edition of this CD was released on Durtro's USA label, DurtroUSA, but now we have a UK edition on Durtro Jnana for the UK and Europe. The details are as follows:

This is a 6 panelled full colour digipak release of one of Current 93's most haunting, personal and enduring albums. This album was originally released on Durtro in 1998. It was recorded live in a small cottage in Ireland with David Tibet on vocals, Maja Elliott on piano and Petr Vastl on ghost violin; Michael Cashmore and Steven Stapleton were also present as and in the group, and it was mixed in Germany by Christoph Heemann.

This expanded reissue contains the entire album as originally released on CD, as well as the alternate mix of 'Chewing On Shadows' that was used on the double vinyl LP edition, as well as a previously unreleased acoustic version of the same track. It features six colour paintings by David Tibet.

Tracklisting: Judas As Black Moth * Larkspur And Lazarus * A Gothic Love Song (For N.) * Mockingbird * Soft Black Stars * It Is Time, Only Time * AntiChrist And Barcodes * The Signs In The Stars * Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still * Moonlight, And Other Dreams, And Other Fields * Judas As Black Moth II * Chewing On Shadows PLUS Chewing On Shadows (vinyl version) * Chewing On Shadows (unreleased acoustic version)

NATURE UNVEILED 12" VINYL LP RE-ISSUE

& DOGS BLOOD RISING 12" VINYL LP RE-ISSUE

BOTH RELEASED OCTOBER 1 - Click the images to preorder and get a download version immediately for free

These are beautiful 180g black vinyl facsimiles of Current 93's first two albums, NATURE UNVEILED and DOGS BLOOD RISING, both recorded in 1984.

NATURE UNVEILED comes with a facsimile of the original insert, as well as a red/black facsimile of the NO HIDING FROM THE BLACKBIRD promotional poster, which was printed in a very limited amount when the album was originally released. NATURE UNVEILED also contains a facsimile of the original C93/Nurse With Wound 7" , THERE'S NO HIDING FROM THE BLACKBIRD/THE BURIAL OF THE SARDINE, that came with the first 1000 copies of the album.

DOGS BLOOD RISING comes with a facsimile of the original insert, as well as a facsimile of the REAPING TIME HAS COME promotional poster, which was printed in a very limited amount when the album was originally released.

NEW DIGITAL DOWNLOAD RELEASES FOR 8th SEPTEMBER 2008

Calling For Vanished Faces

This collection represents some of my favourite pieces by CurrentNinetyThree in the fifteen years since we were formed. I hope it may give some idea as to how our sound has evolved since 1984, though the themes in the work have remained the same for me since the beginning: apocalypse in the great and the small - the human and the universal; our loss of humanity and innocence; the centrality of Christ as the great mystery and the great question that must be answered; love, silence, sleep, and where dreams go to when they die. The line-up of the group has shifted constantly; however I wish to thank above all Steven Stapleton and Michael Cashmore, as none of this would truly exist without them.

On CD I, track 1 is from Dogs Blood Rising; track 2 is from Nature Unveiled; tracks 3 and 4 are from Imperium; tracks 5 and 7 are from Swastikas For Noddy; track 6 is from the single of the same name; track 8 is a previously unreleased track from the Thunder Perfect Mind sessions; track 9 is from Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow; track 10 is from Earth Covers Earth; track 11 is from Island; track 12, 13 and 14 are from Thunder Perfect Mind; track 15 is from All The Pretty Little Horses: TheInMostLight.

On CD II, track 1 is an excerpt from the EP The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home; tracks 2 and 4 are from the EP Lucifer Over London; track 3 is from the Tamlin single; track 5 is from the album by Michael Cashmore's Nature And Organisation, Beauty Reaps The Blood Of Solitude; tracks 6, 7 and 14 are from Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre; tracks 8, 9 10 and 15 are from All The Pretty Little Horses: TheInmostLight; track 11 is from Soft Black Stars; track 12 is from the album by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet, Musical Pumpkin Cottage; track 13 is from the album by Nurse With Wound, Homotopy To Marie.

The Great in the Small

Following a near-death experience undergone by David Tibet, like a drowning man he heard all the music he had ever released as C93 being played simultaneously. After recovering, he and Steven Stapleton went into the studio and obsessively placed on tape everything C93 had recorded up to that point--from "LAShTAL" up to "Faust", including alternate mixes and compilation contributions, and then remixed it, to give an aural equivalent of what David heard.

How He Loved the Moon (Moonsongs for Johnn Balance)

After the death of David's close friend, Jhonn Balance, he and Steven Stapleton worked on a requiem album to the memory of Jhonn, reworking and remixing Current 93's 1985 album "In Menstrual Night". It was one of Balance's favourite C93 albums, and we felt it was a fitting farewell for him, master as he was of Moon Music.

Tantric rNying.ma CHANT OF TIBET

An early Durtro release of solo Tibetan Chant by the rNyingma Lama 'Chi.Med Rig.'Dzin Lama, Rinpoche.

Track Listing

1. Invocation of Yum Chenmo
2. Request For Blessing From Dorje Pagmo
3. Offering Of The Body, Kandro Gajan, By Jigme Lingpa
4. Verses On Cause And Effect
5. Dedication Of Merit
6. Reminder About Impermanence, Mitag Gyudkul, By Rigdzin Godem
7. Prayer To Guru Rinpoche
8. Visualization Of A Wrathful Form Of Guru Rinpoche, Dorje Dragpo Tsal Dag Kye
9. Prayer To Guru Rinpoche, Tsigdun Soldeb
10. Invocation Of The Deities, Chandran
11. Receiving Blessing, Chinbeb
12. Prayer To Yidams And Dharma Protectors, Chodpai Trinpung By Nuden Dorje
13. Dedication Of Merit

The Venerable 'Chi.Med Rig.'Dzin Lama, Rinpoche: Chimed Rigzin Rinpoche is the fourth incarnation of Nuden Dorje Drophan Lingpa Drolo Tsal, who was a great Terton or revealer of treasures. These are not wordly treasures but are spiritual texts and objects hidden in the eighth century by Padma Sambhava, the great Yogi who introduced Tantric Buddhism to Tibet.

Having received a full education in all aspects of Tibetan Buddhism he left his monastery, Khordong Gompa, at the age of eighteen, to fulfill the instructions of his root guru Tulku Tsorlo. Rinpoche went to India where he spent three and a half years in retreat at Tso Pema. He later taught for many years at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal.

Throughout his stay in India he continued his spiritual practice of daily meditation, ritual worship on the appropriate days and teaching whoever showed interest.

Chimed Rigdzin Rinpoche is a Tantric non-celibate Lama as is common in the Nyingma tradition to which he belongs. He is familiar with the problems of work and relationships which are so troublesome in modern times and is skilled in teaching Buddhist methods for dealing with them. he has worked with many western scholars and has translated many volumes of the ritual texts of his Byangter and Khordong lineages. In 1985, at the age of 64, he returned to Tibet after an absence of forty six years. He found his monastery in ruins after the Cultural Revolution. Though there was much interest from the local people in reviving the spiritual traditions of the area there are no texts for them to study. And so Rinpoche has set about reprinting all the lineage texts.