Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind

Label:

Durtro

Catalog#:

DURTRO 069CD

Format:

2 x CD, Album, Digipak

Country:

Released:

Nov 2003

Genre:

Electronic, Rock

Style:

Experimental, Neofolk

Tracklist

	Thunder Perfect Mind
1-1	A Beginning	0:44
	Voice - Shirley Collins
1-2	The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon	3:00
1-3	A Sadness Song	4:14
1-4	A Song For Douglas After He's Dead	4:58
	Guitar [Harmonic] - David Kenny Harp - James Malindaine-Lafayette Vocals - John Balance
1-5	In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There	2:50
1-6	Mary Waits In Silence	2:56
1-7	A Silence Song	5:27
	Cello - Sarah Bradshaw
1-8	A Lament For My Suzanne	4:20
	Guitar [Harmonic] - David Kenny Harp - James Malindaine-Lafayette Vocals - John Balance
1-9	Riverdeadbank	3:46
	Lead Vocals - Renate Birulf
1-10	All The Stars Are Dead Now	9:06
	Backing Vocals - Renate Birulf
1-11	Rosy Star Tears From Heaven	3:05
	Vocals - John Balance
1-12	When The May Rain Comes	3:24
	Bass - David Kenny Vocals - John Balance Written-By - Sand (2)
1-13	Thunder Perfect Mind I	5:05
1-14	Thunder Perfect Mind II	2:21
1-15	Hitler As Kalki (SDM)	16:28
	Bass - Karl Blake Dulcimer [Electric] - Nick Saloman Guitar [Feedback] - David Kenny Harp - James Malindaine-Lafayette
1-16	A Sad Sadness Song	4:40
1-17	An Ending	2:21
	The Thunder: Perfect Mind
2-1	Suzanne: She And I In Darkness We Lay And Lie	4:26
2-2	Red House	0:28
2-3	Our Lady Of Horsies	6:34
2-4	Anyway, People Die	1:46
2-5	Silence As Christine	2:24
2-6	Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded	12:10
2-7	They Return To Their Earth	6:18
2-8	In Sadness Sang	4:19
	Lead Vocals - Rose McDowall
2-9	'Khor Ba'i Nyes Dmigs	1:28
2-10	Lament For Her	3:59
2-11	A Song For Douglas After He's Dead	6:14
2-12	They Return To Their Earth (For My Christ Thorn)	6:52
2-13	A Song For Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth)	5:43

Credits

Artwork By [Cat Drawing] - Louis Wain
Artwork By [Colour Paintings] - David Tibet
Bells - Edward Ka-Spel (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8)
Engineer - David Kenny (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8)
Guitar - Michael Cashmore
Guitar, Percussion [Hand] - Douglas P.* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8)
Guitar, Vocals, Other [Corrugations, Smokes] - Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8)
Harp - James Malindaine-Lafayette (tracks: 2-9 to 2-13)
Lyrics By - David Tibet (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 1-15 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-13)
Mixed By - Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8)
Percussion - James Mannox
Performer - Current 93
Photography - Ruth Bayer
Producer - David Tibet (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8) , Michael Cashmore (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8) , Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1-1 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-8)
Violin, Whistle [Tin], Clarinet, Recorder - Joolie Wood
Vocals - David Michael Tibet* , Rose McDowall (tracks: 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-11, 1-12, 1-15)
Written-By - Current 93 (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11, 1-13 to 1-17, 2-1 to 2-13)

Notes

Expanded reissue of the 1992 original.
Three-panel digipak with 28-page booklet.
Limited edition, discontinued when distributors World Serpent went bankrupt.

CD 1 recorded at Topic Studios, North London, between September 1990 and February 1992.

CD 2 tracks 1-8 are tracks recorded during the original Thunder Perfect Mind sessions but left off the original album for lack of time or because they were an alternative mix that did not fit. All of these tracks subsequently appeared on the Emblems and Calling For Vanished Faces compilations, with the exception of 'Red House'.

CD 2 tracks 9-13 were recorded live at La Lune des Pirates in Amiens, France on the 15th December 1990 and were previously released as the album As The World Disappears…