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United Kingdom (1982 – present)

Current 93 is a British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed ‘Tibet’ by Genesis P-Orridge) in United Kingdom.

Much of Current 93’s early work was similar to late 1970s and early 1980s industrial music: abrasive tape loops, droning synthesizer noises and Tibet’s distorted, ranting vocals. Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as “apocalyptic folk”, occasionally featuring his sinister nursery rhyme-influenced singing and primarily acoustic folk-styled music. Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) has appeared on nearly every Current 93 release and Michael Cashmore is another frequent collaborator.

Current 93 have released some twenty albums and many singles.

Tibet’s lyrics have been fairly consistent, regardless of delivery: The earlier recordings reflect his preoccupation with death, Christ, mysticism, Aleister Crowley, Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, Weltschmerz, nihilism, Noddy, 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.

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neofolk, apocalyptic folk, experimental, industrial, dark ambient
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1	All the Pretty Little Horses full track	331
2	Calling for Vanished Faces I	265
3	A Sadness Song	251
4	Calling for Vanished Faces II	246
5	Mary Waits in Silence	199
6	The Inmost Night	196
7	The Long Shadow Falls	190
8	The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon	185
9	A Beginning	183
10	The Frolic	176
11	The Inmost Light	170
12	The Carnival Is Dead and Gone	167
13	In the Heart of the Wood and What I Found There	166
13	All the Pretty Little Horsies	166
15	Invocation of Almost	158

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YoungHate wrote:
1 hour ago

boohoo. the old pics were better.

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Nikopol_XP wrote:
yesterday evening

something that represents c93 as it is nowadays.. thelema days have long gone :)

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Tilaton wrote:
yesterday evening

People split up, and it's not really our business. Nikopol, I was wondering, what pic you'd like to have in the front here?

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bmezine wrote:
yesterday afternoon

perfect pic.

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Nikopol_XP wrote:
yesterday afternoon

nah, nobody knows.. and david won't talk about it.:P

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AnUub1s wrote:
yesterday morning

fuck douglas reminded me: why did douglas and david split up? heard crazy made-up (i think) shit about it, like because david/douglas sold out, some nazi/satanic/christian conspiraci, anyone got an serious opinion about this?

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Nikopol_XP wrote:
Monday evening

la lalaaa! begone and fuck douglas, mr. uhaftmuzik :D

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concubar wrote:
Monday evening

the red hawthorn tree appears at my window

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uhaftmuzik wrote:
Monday evening

Horrible? Hah. Try looking in a mirror. . .

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Tilaton wrote:
Monday evening

And because we do the horrible so well.

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StDionysus wrote:
Monday morning

because those were good times

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Nikopol_XP wrote:
Monday morning

why are these horrible, old pics on top in recent times? :/

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Enframed wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Thanks for excellent music.

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Bleach00 wrote:
Friday afternoon

i went down to the forest to gather fine flowers, but the forest could yield me no roses

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StDionysus wrote:
Thursday morning

do you not know how to use the internet?

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FootToFace wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

if anyone has Faust I would appreciate if you could pass be a d/l link

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StDionysus wrote:
7 days ago

there's a death in june song featuring Tibet with that line. rule again, I believe .

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Tilaton wrote:
7 days ago

Damn, this is just the question I should be able to answer, but I really don't know. TeenageCreep seems to be aeons more civilized than me.

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TeenageCreep wrote:
7 days ago

Salve, does anyone know if there's another C93 song, besides "The Blue Gates Of Death (Before And Beyond Them)", that features Crowley's line "Love is the Law"?

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Tilaton wrote:
7 days ago

Har har, very funny.

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