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CURRENT 93

With a glut of industrial-pop hybrids on the market in the 1980s and '90s, several bands stayed true to the experimental nature of early industrial music. The Psychic TV axis alone spawned many creative artists, including Current 93's David Tibet, who blends Gothic chanting and haunting atmospherics with industrial noisescapes courtesy of tape loops and synthesizers. Though Tibet doesn't quite have bandmates, he frequently works with a core of collaborators including ex-Psychic TV compatriot John Balance (more famous for his work with Peter Christopherson in Coil); Fritz Haaman, formerly of 23 Skidoo (like PTV an offshoot of the most influential of the early industrial acts, Throbbing Gristle); Steven Stapleton of Nurse with Wound fame
"BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY" 2006   2LP     DURTRO JNANA RECORDS      LP 2112    MADE IN EU for UK/EUROPEAN MARKET    ORIGINAL PRESSING LIMITED EDITION VINYL GATEFOLD COVER w/STICKER on PLASTIC BAG + BOOK NOTES: Edition of 1000 copies. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with a 16-page colour booklet. Pressed on heavyweight black vinyl.
Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 6 21617 44441 6
LABEL: DURTRO JNANA - BLUE ARTWORK LABEL - WHITE TEXT Catalog on cover: LP 2112 Catalog on labels: none Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): 67751E1/B eleppetum salmatum shamê ikula Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): 67751E2/B gishma2gib an shárva mu un gu7 gu7esh Matrix / Runout (Side C, Stamped & Etched): 67751E3/B ahenejEu eukEm ouem tpe Matrix / Runout (Side D, Stamped & Etched): 67751E4/B ploia melana ton ouranon ePagen
On labels: Title & Artist On back cover: Tracklist Made in EU  Manufactured and distributed by Souther Records..........net
tracklisting Side A: IDUMAEA - SUNSET (THE DEATH OF TUMBELINA) BLACK SHIPS IN THE SKY THEN KILL CAESAR - IDUMAEA - THIS AUTISTIC IMPERIUM IS NIHIL REICH Side B: THE DISSOLUTION OF 'THE BOAT MILLIONS OF YEARS' - IDUMAEA BIND YOUR TORTOISE MOUTH - IDUMAEA BLACK SHIPS SEEN LAST YEAR SOUTH OF HEAVEN - ABBA AMMA (BABYLON DESTROYER) Side C: IDUMAEA - BLACK SHIPS WERE SINKING INTO IDUMAEA THE BEAUTIFUL DANCING DUST - IDUMAEA Side D: VAU VAU VAU (BLACK SHIPS  IN THEIR HARBOURS) - IDUMAEA BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY - WHY CAESAR IS BURNING PART II - IDUMAEA
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For anyone who has followed Current 93 even casually (most who do are obsessive), Black Ships Ate the Sky is a whole new thing on the one hand, and the culmination of what began in earnest on 1992's Thunder Perfect Mind on the other. Thunder Perfect Mind -- a companion album to Nurse with Wound's release of the same name -- set out wholesale to create intuitive and even gentle melodies for the density of David Tibet's cosmic thought. It did so beautifully and, for the time, very cohesively. Tibet and his ever evolving cast of players have built on this theme ever since, with varying degrees of success. It seems to come off best in the band's rare live performances -- check out Halo, issued in 2004, as only one example. Black Ships Ate the Sky is a song cycle. Its centerpiece is the shape note hymn "Idumea" (written by Charles Wesley in 1763), which was also used in the soundtrack of the film Cold Mountain. Idumea is in the country of Seir, inhabited by Edomites, the descendants of Esau; its story is rooted in Genesis and is picked up in Isaiah, where God pronounces great judgment on the "land of Idumea." The track is sung eight times by as many singers. It is central to Tibet's theme of Black Ships Ate the Sky, where judgment, redemption, and a the aftereffects of apocalypse are already here, have been here, and are yet to come...(AllMusic)