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Buyer Rating: 83.3% positive (7 ratings)

Current 93 - Live At The Teatro Iberico, Lisbon, Portugal - 24-Oct-08 11:38 AM
This is maybe the most esquisite capture of c93 concert one could dream of. 40 minutes of delicate piano and overwhelming singing, soft and tender as the birds at twilight.
Sounds like a concert in front of ghosts. "The theatre is closed / and there is no applause." Imagine you were there, sitting in a corner like a small kitten, keeping quiet and silent... As if the slightest move would make those wild musicians run away from the stage. A second voice can soon be heard, almost unnoticeable, very far... Astonishing at the first listen ! But do not move yet, there are a few songs left to be heard... After those soft black pearls of huge beauty there is a weak version of A Sadness Song, too low paced perhaps, or sung with too much emphasis... Obviously we've heard this song so many times in so many different and beautiful ways... And Cashmore's guitar palying is far too different from Majah Elliott's piano. Same thing for the next track, until the piano rises back, bringing an incredible and inexplicable brightness in the song. Again, the disc gives a deep emotional impact. "All this world makes great blood", indeed.
The band closes the concert with an old hit, here revisited by the new crew. A droning guitar on repetitive piano chords, and Tibet who sings, alone.

William Basinski - Disintegration Loop 1.1 - 17-Sep-08 01:32 AM
"The original video was not great quality to begin with, so it is what it is. What's kind of interesting from a point of view of someone in New York City that day is the way the camera, which was set inadverdently on auto-focus, begins to lose focus as the light goes away… as we all did that horrible day."
William Basinski, answering by email to some questions regarding his work (especially the "Disintegration Loop" movie)

Donation - Nouveau Chemin De Guerre - 11-Sep-08 04:36 AM
Look what the wind blew in: fresh air, a cool breeze, something new yet very familiar. Where have we landed? Bert Jansch's guitars, Veronique Sanson's voice, Luc Ferrari's soundscapes... Sounds like home. The house of a music lover who puts his love and knowledge in his music. Puts his life too. Joys and pains. Souvenirs. Makes us feel amongst friends. Known and unknown. A torn picture on the wall. Signs. Whispers. Wind. This is music. This is love. This is donation.

Current 93 - Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor - 24-Feb-08 01:42 PM
Once again and as usual, the veryvoice of verygod nan-tea-tree is back with an absolutely unexpectable sound which may scare to death those waiting for their famous neo-folk... It's dancefloor time now folks! After their first and only intrusion into this world (remember Crowleymass...) they're back with four hilarious yet very groovy tunes (I cannot help laughing out loud whilst thinking of people shaking their bodies on the lines "who will deliver me from myself"!). Nevertheless as a joke just could not be a good point enough to publish something new, the sound had to be there too. And it is indeed! The two sides attempt to build their own particular atmosphere, starting with the very energic (and very similar) mixes of Thirlwell, Matmos slowing it down to a rather dreamy ending.
I only wish I had discovered this instead of home in a club or a party, where it would have been a complete hallucinatory - if not patripassianist - experience!