Current 93 - Emblems: The Menstrual Years

Label:
Catalog#:
DURTRO 016CD
Format:
2 x CD, Compilation
Country:
UK
Released:
1993
Genre:
Electronic, Rock
Style:
Folk Rock, Modern Classical, Industrial, Experimental

Tracklist

  Great Black Time
1-01 Current 93  -  Great Black Time I (Excerpt) 3:02
1-02 Current 93  -  Falling Back In Fields Of Rape (Excerpt) 5:00
    Featuring - Iggi , Nicholas Rogers , Steve Ignorant
1-03 Current 93  -  Only Shadows Of Hooks (Excerpt) 6:43
    Featuring - Nicholas Rogers
1-04 Current 93  -  Ach Golgotha: The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (excerpt) 8:11
    Featuring - John Murphy , Youth, The*
  Vocals - Annie Anxiety*
1-05 Current 93  -  Sucking Up Souls (Excerpt) 6:22
    Featuring - Bee , Diana Rogerson , Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
1-06 Current 93  -  The Breath And The Pain Of God 9:19
1-07 Current 93  -  Imperium I 6:07
1-08 Current 93  -  Imperium II 5:47
1-09 Current 93  -  Diana 7:55
1-10 Current 93  -  The Ballad Of The Pale Christ 5:42
1-11 Current 93  -  Great Black Time II (Excerpt) 3:22
1-12 Current 93  -  Great Black Time III (Excerpt) 2:52
1-13 Current 93  -  Happy Birthday Pigface Christus 5:57
    Featuring - Bee
  Mighty In Sorrow
2-01 Current 93  -  The Stair Song 0:35
2-02 Current 93  -  Suzanne: She And I In Darkness We Lay And Lie 4:25
    Harp - James Malindaine-Lafayette
2-03 Current 93  -  Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded 12:11
2-04 Nature And Organisation  -  Hooves 4:24
    Vocals - David Tibet
2-05 Current 93  -  Oh Coal Black Smith 4:44
2-06 Current 93  -  The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness 2:36
2-07 Current 93  -  Broken Birds Fly 8:47
    Featuring - Magick Lantern Cycle
  Mixed By - Magick Lantern Cycle
2-08 Current 93  -  Earth Covers Earth 4:19
2-09 Current 93  -  They Return To Their Earth 6:18
    Guitar - Nick Saloman
  Harp - James Malindaine-Lafayette
2-10 Current 93  -  Silence As Christine 2:24
2-11 Current 93  -  Anyway, People Die 7:03
    Featuring - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson , Venerable 'Chi.Med Rig.'Dzin Lama, Rinpoche, The
  Mixed By - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
2-12 Current 93  -  The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon 3:09
2-13 Current 93  -  Our Lady Of Horses 6:35
2-14 Current 93  -  In Sadness Sang 4:05
2-15 Current 93  -  The Sadness Of Things (Excerpt) 1:16

Credits

Co-producer - Steven Stapleton
Featuring - Douglas Pearce (tracks: 1.01, 1.06, 1.10 to 1.13, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14) , James Mannox (tracks: 2.02, 2.03, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14) , John Balance (tracks: 1.01, 1.05, 1.11, 1.12, 2.03) , Joolie Wood (tracks: 2.02, 2.03, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.15) , Michael Cashmore (tracks: 2.02, 2.03, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14) , Rose McDowall (tracks: 1.01, 1.05, 1.06, 1.10 to 1.13, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 2.08 to 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14) , Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1.01 to 1.06, 1.10 to 1.13, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.15) , Ruby Wallis* (tracks: 1.02, 1.05, 2.08) , Tony Wakeford (tracks: 1.06, 1.10, 2.05, 2.06, 2.08)
Mixed By - David Tibet (tracks: 1.01, 1.07, 1.08, 1.11, 1.12, 2.01, 2.06, 2.07) , Douglas Pearce (tracks: 1.01, 1.07, 1.08, 1.11, 1.12, 2.01, 2.06) , Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1.02-1.06, 1.09, 1.10, 1.13, 2.02 to 2.05, 2.08 to 2.10, 2.12 to 2.15)
Producer - David Tibet

Notes

Compilation made by David Tibet and Steven Stapleton of what they consider the best of the work of Current 93 between 1982 and 1992: Truly these were the menstrual years.

(c) Durtro Music 1993, (p) Ourobouros Music, World Serpent Distribution

Disc I: Great Black Time

Tracks 1 and 11 are taken from the CD version of Dawn (DT, SS, DP, RM, JB); track 2 from Dogs Blood Rising (DT, SS, RW, NR, SI, I);track 3 from Live At Bar Maldoror (DT, SS, NR); track 4 from Nature Unveiled (DT, SS, M, Y, AA); track 5 from In Menstrual Night (DT, SS, DR, JB, RW, RM, HÖH, B, JB); track 6 from The Red Face Of God (DT, SS, RM, Dp, TW); track 7 and 8 from Imperium (DT); track 9 from Horsey; track 10 from Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow (DT, SS, DP, RM, TW); track 12 from the vinyl version of Dawn (DT, SS, RM, DP, JB) and track 13 from the single of the same name (DT, SS, DP, RM, B).

Disc II: Mighty In Sorrow

Track 1 is taken from Swastikas For Noddy (DT); tracks 2,3,9,10,13 and 14 are unreleased songs or unused mixes from Thunder Perfect Mind (DT, DP, RM, SS, MC, JW, JM; NS plays guitar on 9; JML plays harp on 2 and 9; JB sings on 3); track 4 is an unreleased single by Michael Cashmore's Nature And Organisation with vocals by myself (MC, DT); track 5 is taken from Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God (DT, DP, SS, TW, RM); track 6 is from the Death In June and Current 93 split LP, 1888 (DT, DP, RM, TW); track 7 was previously released as a free 7" single with Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine, and was recorded by myself with Magick Lantern Cycle during the recording of Horsey; track 8 is from Earth Covers Earth (RW, TW, RM); track 11 is from Island by Current 93/HÖH (DT, HÖH, CRL); track 12 is from Thunder Perfect Mind (see above for line-up); track 15 is from the album by Steven Stapleton and myself, The Sadness Of Things (SS, DT, JW).


This is another release that was manufactured by the infamous PDO Company [UK], hence this CD is prone to disc rot.

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