CURRENT NINETY THREE Soft Black Stars 2LP DURTRO 1998 orig PSYCHIC TV-CURRENT 93
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CURRENT NINETY THREE
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
"SOFT BLACK STAR"1998 2LP DURTRO RECORDS DURTRO 042
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
CLEAR VINYL + SINGLE SIDED LP
SINGLE COVER + INSERT
NOTES: Pressed on clear vinyl limited to 2000 copies. Included is a 2-sided 12" square sized info-sheet. There is no track list on the record. Side D is blank. Recorded at the studios of Petr Vastl, Eire and Christoph Heemann, Germany between 1997 and 1998. Mastered at Country Masters.
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Barcode: 5 021958 542010
LABEL: DURTRO - MULTICOLOUR ARTWORK LABELS WITHOUT TEXT
Catalog on cover: DURTRO 042
Catalog on labels: none
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): DURTRO 042 A-1-1- l
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): DURTRO 042 B-1-1- l
Matrix / Runout (Side C, Stamped): DURTRO 042 C-1-1- l
Matrix / Runout (Side D): none
On labels: none
On back cover: Made in England
World Serpent Distribution
tracklisting
Side A: UNTITLED - LARKSPUR AND LAZARUS - A GOTHIC LOVE SONG - MOCKINGBIRD - SOFT BLACK STARS
Side B: IT IS TIME, ONLY TIME - ANTI-CHRIST AND BARCODES
THE SIGNS IN THE STARS - WHILST THE NIGHT REJOICES PROFOUND AND STILL
MOONLIGHT, OR OTHER DREAMS, OR OTHER FIELDS - JUDAS AS BLACK MOTH
Side C: CHEWING ON SHADOWS
Side D: none
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RECORDS EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
The stripped-back Current 93 recorded this super minimal folk-inspired elegy live at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, April 6 and 7, 2001. Some Soft Black Stars Seen Over London consists of seven tracks composed of little more than David Tibet's spare and pained vocal, Maja Elliott's piano, and splashes of guitar from Michael Cashmore. The mood summons the spirit of the British folk revival's sadder moments in recalling Shirley Collins, Bert Jansch, and the like. The standout track, "The Signs in the Stars," is given two versions, and "A Gothic Love Song" is sufficient evidence that Tibet and company are not entirely humorless. "Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still" alone makes the album worth owning, although the sound can be a little melodramatic at times...(AllMusic)
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