Thunder Perfect Mind

by Current 93

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Aaoka Ai This album haunts. Current 93 may be the most woefully under-known band in history. Dark folk from the input of many great artists and Tibet's poetic and lyrical wizardry made for a special moment in recording history. The music herein is beautiful. Favorite track: All The Stars Are Dead Now.

James Campbell Sombre, beautiful and fragile. Favorite track: All The Stars Are Dead Now.

Levrikon The first flat-out masterpiece in the C93 canon. Thunder Perfect Mind excises all of the awkward, unnecessary, and problematic aspects of Swastikas for Noddy and what is left is a shining gem of an album. Four sides of absolutely stunning, achingly gorgeous gothic folk, all tied together with a David Tibet who sounds confident and at home in his musical surroundings. Totally essential. Favorite track: In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There.

Devin Hill This is an album for someone looking for something otherworldly. Almost everything about this album is perfect. The atmosphere is as creepy and melancholic as it's always has been. looking forward to a new album from the band.

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The World you can't leave behind Missiles cut space. Favorite track: A Silence Song.

birdofclay I just love what you guys bring and always have, blessed to follow and know this band. Favorite track: All The Stars Are Dead Now.

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	1.	A Beginning 00:44
	2.	The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon 03:00
	3.	A Sadness Song 04:14
	4.	A Song For Douglas After He's Dead 04:58
	5.	In The Heart Of The Wood And What I Found There 02:50
	6.	Mary Waits In Silence 02:56
	7.	A Silence Song 05:27
	8.	A Lament For My Suzanne 04:20
	9.	Riverdeadbank 03:46
	10.	All The Stars Are Dead Now 09:06
	11.	Rosy Star Tears From Heaven 03:05
	12.	When The May Rain Comes 03:24
	13.	Thunder Perfect Mind I 05:05
	14.	Thunder Perfect Mind II 02:21
	15.	Hitler As Kalki (SDM) 16:28
	16.	A Sad Sadness Song 04:40
	17.	An Ending 02:21
	18.	Suzanne: She And I In Darkness We Lay And Lie 04:26
	19.	Red House 00:28
	20.	Our Lady Of Horsies 06:34
	21.	Anyway, People Die 01:46
	22.	Silence As Christine 02:24
	23.	Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded 12:10
	24.	They Return To Their Earth 06:18
	25.	In Sadness Sang 04:19
	26.	'Khor Ba'I Nyes Dmigs 01:28
	27.	Lament For Her 03:59
	28.	A Song For Douglas After He's Dead 06:14
	29.	They Return To Their Earth (For My Christ Thorn) 06:52
	30.	A Song For Douglas After He's Dead (Rebirth) 05:43

credits

released January 16, 2014

Personnel:

David Tibet
Steven Stapleton
James Mannox
Douglas P.
Joolie Wood
Michael Cashmore
John Balance
Rose McDowall
James Malindaine-Lafayette
Nick Saloman
Sarah Bradshaw
Renate Birulf
David Kenny
Edward Ka-Spel
Shirley Collins

Sleeve Notes:

Out-takes from the Thunder Perfect Mind sessions, except * recorded live in Amiens, 15 XII 1990

This is the sister album to Nurse With Wound's album of the same name

Thunder Perfect Mind:
Current 93: David Michael Tibet - vocals; Steven Stapleton - guitars, corrugations, vocals, smokes; James Mannox - percussion; Douglas P. - guitars, hand percussions; Joolie Wood - violin, tin whistle, clarinet, recorder; Michael Cashmore - guitars; John Balance - vocals on 'Rosy Star Tears From Heaven' and backing vocals on 'All The Stars Are Dead Now'; Rose McDowall - vocals on 'Hitler As Kalki', 'A Sadness Song', 'Rosy Star Tears From Heaven', A Song For Douglas After He's Dead', 'When The May Rain Comes' and 'A Lament For My Suzanne'; James Malindaine-Lafayette - harp on 'A Lament For My Suzanne', 'A Song For Douglas After He's Dead' and 'Hitler as Kalki'; Nick Saloman - electric dulcimer, acousitc and electric guitar on 'Hitler As Kalki'; Sarah Bradshaw - cello on 'Silence Song'; Karl Blake - bass on 'Hitler As Kalki'; Renate Birulf - vocals on 'Riverdeadbank' and backing vocals on 'All The Stars Are Dead Now'; David Kenny - feefback guitar on 'Hitler As Kalki, harmonic guitar on 'A Lament For My Suzanne' and 'A Song For Douglas After He's Dead', bass on 'When The May Rain Comes'; Edward Ka-Spel - bells; Shirley Collins - voice on 'A Beginning'.

All music written by Current 93 except 'When The May Rain Comes', which was written by Sand and performed on their superb Golem album, later reissued by United Durtro as Ultrasonic Seraphim.

All lyrics by David Tibet except for the afore- mentioned track and the words for 'Thunder Perfect Mind' the words for which are taken from the text The Thunder: Perfect Mind in the Nag Hammadi Codices. This album was mixed by Steven Stapleton, engineered by David Kenny and produced by Steven Stapleton, David Tibet and Michael Cashmore at Topic Studios, London between September 1990 and February 1992. Cover photograph of David Tibet and Karl Blake by Ruth Bayer. Colour paintings by David Tibet. Cat Drawing by Louis Wain. Statue of Kalki supplied through the kindness of Simon Norris.

The Thunder: Perfect Mind:
Tracks 1 to 8 were recorded during the Thunder Perfect Mind sessions but were left off the original album due to lack of time or because they were an alternative mix that we felt did not fit. All these tracks subsequently appeared on the Emblems and Calling For Vanished Faces compilations, with the exception of 'Red House'. The personnel on these songs is as for the studio album; Rose McDowall is the lead vocal on 'In Sadness Sang'.

Tracks 9 to 13 were recorded at a live show at La Lune des Pirates in Amiens, France on 15 December 1990, and were previously released on the album As The World Disappears... This was the first time that songs from Thunder Perfect Mind were played live. The line-up was David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, Joolie Wood, James Malindaine-Lafayette, and James Mannox.

All songs � David Tibet / Current 93 1991/1992/2003. Copyright control.

Love and thanks to all those who helped with this album. This album is dedicated to Shirley Collins. Especial thanks to Michael Cashmore, Steven Stapleton, Andria Tibette, and Paul Jackson. This album was mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering.

This is the great wheel of birth and death. Tie it up and make of it the True Love Knot. May all be happy. God is Love. David Tibet, August 21, 2003.

"The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres."
William Blake, from A Descriptive Catalogue Of Pictures..., 1809.

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Current 93 Hastings, UK

David Michael Tibet is the founder of the Hallucinatory Patripassianist rock group Current 93 as well as the new sphere, MYRNINEREST.

Born in Malaysia in 1960, David has created a unique, highly influential and extraordinarily powerful body of work – spanning music, painting, poetry and translation. ... more

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