The Art Box

The Art Box is a six-CD box set by English avant-rock group Art Bears. It contains all Art Bears album and single releases, plus new material, including live and unreleased Art Bears tracks, and unreleased remixes and reworkings of Art Bears material by other musicians. The box set also contains a book of photographs, artwork, articles, interviews and commentary on the CD tracks, the work process, the band and their tour of Europe in 1979. The Art Bears material was recorded between 1978 and 1980, while the work by other musicians was recorded between 1998 and 2003. The box set was released in 2003. A double-CD entitled Art Bears Revisited containing Discs four and five of the box set was released in 2004.

Discs one, two and three are remastered versions (by Bob Drake) of the first three Art Bears albums, Hopes and Fears (1978), Winter Songs (1979) and The World as It Is Today (1981). Discs four and five, entitled Art Bears Revisited, contain remixed and reworked Art Bears pieces by various musicians, plus two Art Bears singles and an unreleased Art Bears track. Disc six contains more remixed and reworked Art Bears pieces by various musicians, including a 1984 cover of "The Song of Investment Capital Overseas" by Duck and Cover, plus five live Art Bears tracks, four of which were never officially released before.

Chris Watson

A former & founding member of Cabaret Voltaire and The Hafler Trio, Chris Watson is currently a sound recordist specializing in a variety of nature-related subjects. He has worked on numerous TV and radio documentaries for BBC, as well as other projects. In addition, he has also released a number of solo and collaborative CDs, generally on the Touch label, which are derived from his location recordings.



Stepping Into The Dark (1996)

1
Low Pressure Glen Cannich, Inverness-shire, Scotland
(57.21°N 04.57°W) 0810h 6 October 1994
2
Embleton Rookery Embleton, Northumberland, England
(55.30°N 01.38°W) 0600h 7 May 1983
3
The Crossroads Kiedler Forest, Northumberland, England
(55.09°N 02.27°W) 0620h 27 March 1994
4
River Mara At Dawn River Mara, Maasai Mara, Kenya
(01.25°S 35.07°E) 0615h 16 September 1994
5
River Mara At Night
6
A Passing View Los Olivitos, Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela
(10.46°N 71.02°W) 2350h 3 April 1991
7
Bosque Seco Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica
(10.49°N 85.39°W) 0540h 6 April 1995
8
Sunsets Breachacha, Island of Coll, Scotland
(56.36°N 06.37°W) 2230h 16 May 1994
9
The Blue Men Of The Minch Moray Firth, Scotland
(57.30°N 04.15°W) 1400h 30 July 1995
10
High Pressure Ravenstonedale, Cumbria, England
(54.25°N 02.24°W) 0550h 25 February 1994
11
Gahlitzerstrom Ummanz, Rügen Islands, Germany
(54.32°N 13.11°E) 1740h 5 October 1993
12
The Forest Path Meallan na Ceardaich, Glen Affric, Scotland
(57.19°N 04.52°W) 0625h 7 October 1994

Comes with a a 24-page booklet filled with photography and text.
Edited on 19 August 1995
The tracks are the atmospheres of "special places", recorded with the use of camouflaged microphones.




Outside The Circle Of Fire (1998)
1 Waiting 1:53
2 Breathing In Cold Air 0:15
3 Horse Of The Woods 5:57
4 Song 0:16
5 At Dusk 5:50
6 Winter Flags 3:51
7 Machine Noise 1:16
8 Canopy 4:55
9 Song 0:54
10 Across The Iris Beds 2:32
11 Threat 0:10
12 Cracking Viscera 3:23
13 Deep Roar 0:28
14 Unknown Forest 1:36
15 Out Of Our Sight 2:59
16 Leaf Litter 0:51
17 Souls Of Dead Children 3:26
18 Forest Fire 0:21
19 Sleeping In Warm Air 4:54
20 Rattle Of Wood 1:42
21 Moonlit Fog 3:02
22 Contacts 0:31

The booklet contains extensive notes on the locations and details of the recordings, as well as information about the recording equipment and techniques used.




Star Switch On (2002)

1 Mika Vainio - Outside The Circle Of Fire 5:06
2 Philip Jeck - Capriole 4:52
3 Hazard - Debugged 4:00
4 Chris Watson - Cassarina 2:42
5 Fennesz - Pannonique 3:11
6 AER - Goat Behaviour 5:57
7a Biosphere - Night & Dawn 5:42
7b Chris Watson - Wolves 1:18

Sleeve: "The artists were commissioned to use the wildlife recordings of Chris Watson published on Stepping Into The Dark and Outside The Circle Of Fire as source material."

Track 7: Chris Watson's "Wolves" begins 30 seconds after the end of Biosphere's "Night & Dawn".


Night Time Is The Right Time
BBC Radio 4 Programme 2002





Beginning inside the mother’s womb, with the very first sounds we hear, this series is an evocative, absorbing and often surprising journey through a world of rhythms, noise and silence, in search of a small slice of tranquillity.

Tuesdays 11.00-11.30am 8 & 15 July 2003
BBC Radio 4




Weather Report (2003)
The weather has created and shaped all our habitats. Clearly it also has a profound and dynamic effect upon our lives and that of other animals. The three locations featured here all have moods and characters which are made tangible by the elements, and these periodic events are represented within by a form of time compression.


1 Ol-Olool-O (18:06)
A fourteen hour drama in Kenya's Masai Mara from 0500h - 1900h on Thursday 17th October 2002.

2 The Lapaich (18:06)
The music of a Scottish highland glen through autumn and into winter during the four months of September to December.

3 Vatnajökull (18:00)
The 10,000 year climatic journey of ice formed deep within this Icelandic glacier and its lingering flow into the Norwegian Sea.


K.K. Null _ Chris Watson _ Z'EV

Number One (2005)

1 Invocation - Kami, (The Celestial) Jupiter Sight Wood East Spring Dawn 8:20
dawn in acacia woodland. Rapid light and temperature changes.

2 Introduction - Man, (The Warrior) Mars Speech Fire South Summer Morning 9:44
vultures down on an animal carcass in the short grass plains. The intense activity of a feeding battle resolving into the song of a single sooty chat - the fire of midday.

3 Development - Woman, (The Balance) Saturn Taste Earth Center Late Summer Noon 12:03
elephant herd led by a powerful matriarch, grazing on the edge of a marsh… Gazelles and zebra swish through the long grass… Contact rumbles from the herd females.

4 Climax - Madness, (The Trickster / Fool) Venus Smell Metal Autumn Dusk / Sunset 9:40
the on-coming storm; wind rush and the deep smell of change. Low infrasonic thrum. Disorientation and confusion.

5 Conclusion - Demon, (The Super-Natural) Mercury Hearing Water North Winter Twilight 8:28
the amphibian chorus, enveloping yet impossible to locate. Rhythmic dusk and rapid darkness.

Traditional Noh correspondences for their 5 part cycle of plays.

Kazuyuki Kishino: electronics & electro-percussion produced January 2004.
Chris Watson: location sounds recorded in East Africa.
Z'ev: 25 binary-acoustic files produced January 2004.
Edits, assembling and mixes produced 20-24 March 2004.



The Galapagos Islands - An Audio Diary (2005)

"Recorded in April 2005 on The Galapagos Islands, 1000km off the west coast of Ecuador... During March this year Chris Watson was out in the Galapagos Islands recording for a forthcoming tv film series. In particular Chris made a series of recordings throughout the unique and highly specialised Galapagos habitats; from the mist shrouded Miconia zone at the higher altitudes of Santa Cruz down to the dense cactus and thorn scrub bordering the coast on smaller uninhabited islands. This trip was also the first opportunity for Chris to try out location surround sound recording both on land and then underwater, exploring the sonic potential below the surface of the Pacific Ocean with a four channel hydrophone array."



Holystone (2006)

Holystone Forest, Northumberland, England
Saturday 4th March 2006
Chris Watson & Jana Winderen with Mike Harding

More Info



Alec Finlay And Chris Watson

Siren (2006)

1 Siren 14:28

A field recording on 22 August 2005 of a sung performance of Tim Buckley's Song To The Siren, in a North Sea harbour. Edition of 1000 copies in oversized card wallet, with 9 page foldout booklet featuring texts by Finlay, Powell and Watson.
Poetic composition by Alec Finlay, from written correspondence by Chris Watson, Alex Finlay, Maria Jardardottir and Clive Powell, and transcribed interviews of video footage by Ben Ponton.
siren is published in the Bookscapes series by Platform Projects / Morning Star in association with Amino.

Chris Watson ¬ BJ Nilsen

Storm (2006)

1 Chris Watson - No Man's Land 15:51
Recorded during the months of October & November from 2000 to 2005 on the North East coast of England and Scotland.

Microphones: Sennheiser 2 x MKH 110's binaural pair, MKH 60/30 M&S rig, DPA 2 x 4060's spaced omnis. Recorders: Nagra IV-S, Nagra PII and Sound Devices 744T. Edited and mixed in Boston, July 2006.

2 BJ Nilsen & Chris Watson - SIGWX 18:50
Mixed in Boston and Stockholm, June & July 2006.

3 BJ Nilsen - Austrvegr 15:28
Edited and mixed in Stockholm, 2006.

During December 2000 several significant storm fronts developed across the North Sea and Scandinavia.

Benny remarked to me that he had recorded some of these on the Baltic coast and proposed a collaborative CD project based around our mutual interests in the rhythms and music created when the elements combine over land and out to sea.

We spent the next few years gathering recordings on our respective coastlines and islands during the very active weather windows during the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. This was focused around our following one particular cyclonic system, which veers over Snipe Point on Lindisfarne to the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth, and finally descends upon Öland and Gotland where Benny listened in with a favourite pair of Sennheiser omnidirectional microphones.
Chris Watson, Newcastle upon Tyne, August 2006 (Cover text)



Cima Verde (2008)

1 Soffi Di Vento 1:34
2 Cima Verde 3:27
3 Bucaneve 10:57
4 Aguane 6:48
5 Scanuppia 9:05
6 Le Crone 10:34
7 Valle Dei Venti 9:05




Pestival
7:30 pm 6th September 2009

Chris Watson curates... Cross Pollination - An Evening of Experimental Insect Music

01 intro by Chris Watson (04:20)
02 Bee Symphony (21:39)
Mike Harding: bee recordings
Chris Watson: bee recordings/editing & composition of recordings
Marcus Davidson: vocal composition
03 Philip Jeck (41:08)
04 intro by Atau Tanaka (11:32)
05 Maria Jardardottir (19:23)
Chris Watson: recordings of Japanese bell crickets/processing & composition of recordings

total 98:02

Part 1

Part 2


TouchRadio

Album Reviews

Pantaleimon

PANTALEIMON (pan-ta-lay-mon) is the pseudonym of Andria Degens (dee-jens). The use of the name Pantaleimon was inspired by Lyra’s dæmon portrayed in the ‘Northern Lights’ trilogy by Philip Pullman.
Andria Degens was born on the 8th November in Caterham, Surrey, England and is descended from Dutch and Irish ancestry. Whilst in her early twenties, she took what she thought would be a brief trip around the globe, but it ended up lasting two and half years. During that long journey she experienced a series of epiphanies opening up another world to her . That world was the inspiration behind the music of Pantaleimon.
In the early nineties, Andria made little guest appearances with the band Wire (live at the Clapham Grand), Dirty Three (Andria appears on ‘Horse Stories’), and she has also contributed to the projects of Current 93 (‘Black Ships Ate The Sky’), Susan Stenger’s (Band of Susans) ‘Soundtrack For An Exhibition’, Irr. App. (Ext.), Nurse With Wound and Marc Pilley’s Hobotalk. Pantaleimon have also contributed music to Cam Archer’s film ‘Wild Tigers I Have Known’.




Trees Hold Time (1999)

1 Bowing And Parting (8:32)
2 Insignificant Dance (4:27)
3 Trees Hold Time (4:34)
4 Wasps Changing Gear As They Make Their Way Uphill (2:20)
5 Sitting On The Mountain Of Suan Mok (4:31)
Lyrics By - Eden Ahbez
6 Crater Full Of Goldfish (5:21)
7 Thomas's House In Quiet Contemplation (14:25)



Composed By, Arranged By, Dulcimer [Bowed], Bouzouki, Percussion [Singing Bowl], Vocals, Artwork By - Andria Degens

Recorded in Aachen, Germany between March and August of 1999.




Change My World (2003)

1 Change My World (6:18)
2 Change My World Instrumental (7:22)
3 Bowing & Parting (Live) (8:08)
4 Trees Hold Time (Live) (4:28)
5 Nature's Child Sitting On The Mountain Of Suan Monk (Live) (5:42)
Written By [Lyrics] - Eden Ahbez

Tracks 3-5 recorded live at the Bloomsbury Theatre in April 2001.


Cloudburst


1 Cloudburst 4:51
2 Crystalline Rain 5:27
3 Ascension Of The Sun 2:36
4 Numinosum 8:06

Recorded between October - December 2005 at Diving Bell Lounge.

The first 105 copies of this CD were accompanied by a hand-printed book, "Peeling Oranges Into Flowers."



Mercy Oceans (2007)

1 Under The Water
Backing Vocals - Keith Wood
Harp - Baby Dee
Vocals, Bouzouki, Harmonica [Harmonica Drone] - Andria Degens
2 We Love
Cello - Isobel Campbell
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer] - Andria Degens
3 The Sun Came Out
Guitar - Keith Wood
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer] - Andria Degens
4 High Star
Backing Vocals, Cello, Piano, Glockenspiel - Isobel Campbell
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer] - Andria Degens
5 All The Birds
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer] - Andria Degens
6 Born Into You
Cello - John Contreras
Guitar - Keith Wood
Harp - Baby Dee (2)
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer], Tambura [Tamboura], Other [Chanting Drones] - Andria Degens
7 At Dawn
Guitar - Keith Wood
Guitar [Guitar Harmonics] - Jerome Alexandre
Vocals, Other [Octave Mandola] - Andria Degens
8 Raw Heart
Harp - Baby Dee (2)
Vocals, Other [Octave Mandola] - Andria Degens
9 I Am
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer], Tambura [Tamboura], Other [Chanting Drones], Other [Drones] - Andria Degens
10 Storm And Thunder
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar - Keith Wood
Vocals, Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer] - Andria Degens

Recorded at the Water Tower; Preston, Lancashire, in April and August 2006 and at the Diving bell, Glasgow in December 2005.
Copies were available before the official release date from the Durtro website and at the Pantaleimon gig at the London Luminaire, October 26th 2007



Heart Of The Sun (2008)

1 At Dawn (Vogel) 4:15
Producer, Remix, Keyboards [Additional] - Andrew W.K*
2 The Sun Came Out (Dawn Porous) 5:13
Remix [Re-structured By] - Colin Potter
3 Under The Water (Iridescence) 3:47
Arranged By, Remix - Fovea Hex
Bells, Celesta, Glass, Voice, Sounds [All Additional Recordings] - Clodagh Simonds
Violin [Additional Recording] - Cora Venus Lunny
Voice [Additional Recording] - Laura Sheeran
4 All The Brids (Melting Canvas) 3:47
Producer, Remix, Instruments [Additional Instrumentation] - Andrew Liles
5 Today For Shore 2:10
Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer] - Andria Degens
Mixed By - Pantaleimon
6 Storm And Thunder (Toxoplasmosis) 2:25
Arranged By, Remix - Bricoleur, The
7 Bourne (Somnialescent) 5:15
Producer, Remix, Sounds [Additional Recordings] - Stephen O'Malley
8 Even If Love (Eclipse) 6:22
Bells, Drone, Celesta, Drums, Electric Bass, Arranged By, Mixed By - Susan Stenger
Vocals - Andria Degens
9 Pure Raw Heart (Cloisters) 3:15
Arranged By, Remix - Plinth
Sounds [Additional Recordings] - Michael Tanner
10 Heart Of The Sun (Shimmering) 7:16
Guitar, Keyboards - Hervé Vincenti
Harp [Electric] - Raphaelle Rinaudo
Sounds [Laptop] - Philippe Petit
Vocals - Andria Degens
11 We Love (Pink Light) 3:12
Backing Vocals [Additional] - Isobel Campbell
Engineer - Marco Milanesio
Producer, Remix - Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
12 High Star (Celestial Voices) 3:31
Instruments [Additional Instrumentation] - Chris Carter (2) , Cosey Fanni Tutti
Producer, Remix - Carter Tutti
13 I Am (Silver Dust) 5:29
Arranged By, Remix - Lilium
Piano, Electric Guitar, Bass [Bowed] - Pascal Humbert
14 Another Day Tomorrow 3:16
Dulcimer [Appalachian Dulcimer], Drone - Andria Degens

"Heart of the Sun" is a collection of remixes and re-imaginings of Pantaleimon's album "Mercy Oceans", except for tracks 5, 8, 10 and 14, which are previously unreleased.



Tall Trees (2008)

1 The Warming
2 Dance Of The Honey Bees
3 Sing Night Swallow
4 Tall Trees

Accordion, Dulcitone, Harmonium - Nick Palmer
Vibraphone, Dulcitone, Harmonium, Guitar - Michael Tanner
Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Handclaps - Andria Degens
Mastered By - Andrew Liles

All songs by Andria Degens © 2008
Except 1 : Michael Tanner
and 4 : Degens/Tanner (lyrics of unknown origin)




Live In Barcelona

1. Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw - Amamos (Live in Barcelona)4m 0s
2. Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw - El Sol Sali (Live in Barcelona)3m 23s
3. Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw - Corazon Crudo (Live in Barcelona)3m 21s
4. Pantaleimon - Canto de la Golondrina Nocturna (Live in Barcelona)3m 59s
5. Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw - Arboles Altos (Live in Barcelona)3m 36s
6. Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw - En El Amanecer (Live in Barcelona)6m 33s
7. Pantaleimon feat. James Blackshaw - Soy (Live in Barcelona)5m 28s

This 7 track album was recorded by Xabi at the La Apolo in Barcelona on the 23rd November 2008.
Line up for this show was:
Andria Degens -Vocals, Appalachian dulcimer, Mandola, and Shruti boxes.
James Blackshaw - 12 string and 6 string guitar, and E-bow.
Front cover artwork by Alonso Urbanos based upon the original photography of Yolanda Reeves.

Black Ships

Black Ship Time

1 Vauvauvau 5:03

Guitar - Benja Minh
Mixed By - San Teeny
Voice - Coptic Cat

One-off use of this group name for a very limited release on Hand/Eye.
Tibet, Chasny and Stapleton appear under aliases.
The Folklore of the Moon series volume VII September 17, 2005 - Full Harvest Moon.
Limited edition of 100 copies.(Cd-r)




Ntnau Nhôtp Mprê Ahenjêu Eukêm Ouem Tpe
The title translates as 'At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky'.
Disc featuring outtakes of two tracks from the (then forthcoming) Black Ships Ate The Sky album, released for the Toronto shows. Both songs are mastered on a single index track on the CD, separated by a short pause. All text on the disc and sleeve is in Coptic.
Limited to 1000 copies.




Ntnau Nhôtp Mprê Ahenjêu Eukêm Ouem Tpe
1 At Sunset 4:09
2 Black Ships Ate The Sky 4:05

With blue card in plastic sleeve, accompanying signed and numbered book 'At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky' by David Michael.
Comes in astickered plastic bag.
From the book: "Each copy of this book is accompanied by a CD of Current 93 performing At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church Toronto, Canada on June 3, 2005.
Current 93 at Sunset were: David Michael, Maja Elliott, William Breeze, Ben Chasny, Simon Finn, John Contreras, Joolie Wood, Baby Dee, Andria Degens, Will Oldham."
Limited to 200 copies.



Black Ships Ate The Sky Tour Single (2006)

1 Then Kill Cæsar 3:52
2 This Autisitic Imperium Is Nihil Reich 4:02
3 Vauvauvau (Black Ships In Their Harbours) 4:37

Release for the 2006 tour. No sleeve notes. All text in Coptic.
Edition of 1000 copies.
Also known as "Coptic European Tour" and as "God Is A Man Eater".
Limited to 500 copies, not to 1.000 (as stated on PREcordings'site).

A limited run of a 3 track tour CD, comprising 3 different mixes of tracks from "Black Ships Ate The Sky".





Black Ships Ate The Sky

1 Idumæa 3:22
Arranged By - Michael Cashmore
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Arranged By - Marc Almond
2 Sunset (The Death Of Thumbelina) 3:18
3 Black Ships In The Sky 3:38
4 Then Kill Cæsar 3:58
5 Idumæa 2:42
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Banjo, Tambura, Arranged By - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
6 This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich 4:03
7 The Dissolution Of 'The Boat Millions Of Years' 3:57
8 Idumæa 4:19
Cello - Ida Mercer
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Harp, Arranged By - Baby Dee (2)
9 Bind Your Tortoise Mouth 2:30
10 Idumæa 2:02
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Arranged By - Antony (3)
11 Black Ships Seen Last Year South Of Heaven 4:07
12 Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer) 3:19
Performer [9.29.82 Galaxial Compositions] - William Basinski
13 Idumæa 2:35
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Psaltery, Zither, Harmonium, Arranged By - Clodagh Simonds
14 Black Ships Were Sinking Into Idumæa 11:05
Music By [Idumæa Section] - Chris Carter (2)
Voice [Subliminal Threnodic Voice] - Amy Phillips
Voice, Music By [Idumæa Section] - Cosey Fanni Tutti
15 The Beautiful Dancing Dust 0:57
Voice, Piano, Music By - Antony (3)
16 Idumæa 3:06
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Dulcimer [Appalachian], Harmonica, Arranged By - Andria Degens
17 Vauvauvau (Black Ships In Their Harbours) 4:41
Viola - William Breeze
18 Idumæa 1:50
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Performer [9.29.82 Galaxial Compositions] - William Basinski
Vocals, Arranged By - David Tibet
19 Black Ships Ate The Sky 4:20
Guitar - David Tibet
Viola - William Breeze
Voice [Subliminal Threnodic Voice] - Amy Phillips
20 Why Cæsar Is Burning Part II 2:48
21 Idumæa 2:42
Concertina, Arranged By - Iris Bishop
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Arranged By - Shirley Collins

There are two versions of this release, one for the US market (purple cover) and one for the UK/European market (scarlet cover). The music is the same on both versions.

Both the North American and UK editions consist of the album in a full colour digipak as well as a 56 page colour booklet containing an introductory note on the writing of the album by David, all the lyrics, details of those who created the album, colour photographs of all the Current 93 family on the album, website details for everyone, Hallucinatory Patripassianist colour illustrations and BlackShipText on each page, and the names of all those who supported the recording, and the release, of this album by subscribing to it in advance.

Tracks 12 and 17 have titles in Coptic, and there is a lot of Coptic text on the CD, booklet and cover.



I Am Black Ship

1 Eaten Sky (Instumental Introduction) 0:54
2 Idumæa 2:59
3 Black Ships In The Sky (Alternative Version) 3:37
4 The Dissolution Of 'The Boat Millions Of Years' 3:53
5 South Of Heaven (Instrumental Edit) 3:04
6 "Prototypes" Outtake 0:41
7 This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich (Alternative Version) 3:57
8 5 Hypnagogue 5 (Alternative Version) 7:59
9 "Pale Sky" Outtake 0:53
10 Black Ship Skips To Armageddon 4:31
11 I Am Black Ship 1:48
12 Idumæa 1:32

This disc was available only to advance subscribers to the Black Ships Ate The Sky CD and comprises unreleased tracks, outtakes and alternative versions of songs from that album.
Packaged in a black clamshell sealed by a black sticker with "I Am Black Ship" written in Coptic. Also comes with a triangular enamel badge featuring the same text.
No notes or titles accompany this disc. The titles below are semi-official, having been given on the Current 93 mailing-list.



Black Ships Eat The Sky

David Tibet remarked as follows on the Durtro website at the time of this release:
"This is an absolutely alternative version of the 'Black Ships Ate The Sky' album.
All the tracks sung by me on this album are radically different mixes/versions of the tracks from the previously released standard version.
The versions of 'Idumea' tend to be the same, although Marc Almond's version [i.e. track 1] uses a totally different vocal take.
The 'alternative version' does sound very different indeed. Steven Stapleton and I worked on it for as long as we worked on the construction of the 'standard' version to make it a conceptual whole, not merely a collection of different mixes. This version was considered for being the 'proper' release of 'Black Ships Ate The Sky', which is to say that Steven, Colin [Potter] and I could not decide which was the most powerful and moving version. After we finished the Black Ships sessions we had 126 different mixes of 29 different songs, not including bridging sections.
Its order, and track titles, are the same as on the 'standard' version, with the exception of the track 'Why Cæsar Is Burning': on the standard '…Ate The Sky' edition we use Part 2 of the song, and on '…Eat The Sky' we use Part 1.
It is NOT the same as the 'I Am Black Ship' CD which was given to advance subscribers ONLY for 'Black Ships Ate The Sky', with the promise it would not be released in any other form, nor does it use any of the versions available on the above-mentioned 12 track CD, 'I Am Black Ship'.
All the printed text on this album is in Coptic, and the sleeve design is totally different to 'Black Ships Ate The Sky'."

Current 93 / OM

Inerrant Rays Of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)

1 Current 93 - Inerrant Infallible (Black Ships At Nineveh Or Edom) 8:51
Bagpipes - Catriona MacAffer
Mixed By - Steven Stapleton
Recorded By, Engineer, Mixed By - Colin Potter
Vocals, Guitar [Electric], Bass [Electric], Written By, Mixed By - David Tibet
2 OM - Rays Of The Sun / To The Shrinebuilder 8:06

CD version of the two tracks by Current 93 and Om that made up the 'Inerrant Rays of Ineffable Sun' 10" vinyl EP on Neurot Records. This is the UK/European edition and there is also a North American edition of the CD. The artwork differs slightly on each version. The UK edition has Current 93 first, then Om. The versions of the track by Current 93 differ quite radically on both versions, although the Om track is identical.
The Current 93 track is dedicated "To the memory of Howard Logan (1935-2006). Rest in the Love of God."
The OM track is dedicated "To Lucille (1913-2002)".
Comes with lyric booklet.

Current 93 With Sebastian Horsley

Black Ship In The Underworld
flac

1 Black Ship In The Underworld 9:30

Limited edition of 333 copies available from the Durtro or Andrew Liles websites

"This CD is released on the occasion of the publication of Sebastian Horsley's autobiography "Dandy In The Underworld" (Spectre, UK & Harper Perennial, USA) and his retrospective art exhibition "Hookers, Dealers, Tailors" at Spectrum Fine Art, 77 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 6RE

Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor

MP4:
DVD-01 Black Ships Ate The Sky (JG Thirlwell Remix) 5:40
DVD-02 The Beautiful Dancing Dust (Matmos Remix) 4:11
Vocals - Antony
MP3:
CD-01 Black Ships Ate The Sky I 5:38
Remix - JG Thirlwell*
CD-02 Black Ships Ate The Sky II 3:56
Remix - JG Thirlwell*
CD-03 Black Ships Ate The Sky 6:05
Remix - Matmos
CD-04 The Beautiful Dancing Dust 5:38
Remix - Matmos
Vocals - Antony

DVD-01 The Beautiful Dancing Dust (Matmos Remix)avi

DVD-02 Black Ships Ate The Sky (JG Thirlwell Remix)avi

This DVD/CD DualDisc contains the two videos for the C93 tracks ‘The Beautiful Dancing Dust’ (vocals by Antony) and ‘Black Ships Ate The Sky’ (vocals by Tibet) as well as the 4 tracks from the 12" release, which featured 2 remixes by JG Thirlwell of the track ‘Black Ships Ate the Sky’ and two Matmos remixes, of ‘The Beautiful Dancing Dust’ and ‘Black Ships Ate The Sky’.

Brian Turner Interviews Tibet (WFMU)

An Awkward Pause

An Awkward Pause
A1 Two Shaves And A Shine
(Concerto For Bouzouki And 3 Piece Rock Group In 93 Six Second Segments) (9:54)
A2 Lunar Cement Sidewalk (10:42)
B The Penis Fruit Loop (21:28)


A Shoe Fly Debris Situation
C Untitled (22:32)
D Untitled (23:29)



Extras
2-1 Mummer's Little Weeper (Kinky Whim Demo) (5:38)
2-2 Intravenous (Unrefined Component No.1) (5:28)
2-3 Disposition One (5:39)
2-4 Intravenous (Unrefined Component No.2) (5:07)
2-5 Disposition Two (4:46)
2-6 Penis Fuit Loop (Bald And Beardless Version) (7:56)
2-7 Intravenous (Plump Aerospheric Mix) (8:46)
2-8 Disposition Three (5:00)
2-9 Intravenous (Unrefined Component No.3) (6:17)
2-10 Two Shaves And A Shine (Original Archaic Demo) (1:53)
2-11 Two Shaves And A Shine (Ingredients) (1:52)
2-12 Two Shaves And A Shine (Bastard Disco Version) (4:45)
2-13 Mummer's Little Weeper (Mud Ooze Sloth Mix) (5:27)

Track 2-11 is a number of samples from "Two Shaves And A Shine" with which to make your own track.

1999 - Limited edition of 500 copies on clear grey vinyl.
1999 - Double LP test pressing of both "An Awkward Pause" and the bonus album "A Shoe Fly Debris Situation". Housed in a signed and hand labeled sleeve.
1999 - CD on UD
2006 - 2CD on Durtro-Jnana



Two Shaves And A Shine Remix Project (2008)

1
The Stomach Aches (1:19)

Remix - Stomach Aches, The
2
James Hill (2:28)

Remix - James Hill
3
BB³ (4:55)

Remix - BB³
4
Anemone In Toto (4:38)

Remix - Anemone In Toto
5
Wildchurch (4:43)

Remix - Wildchurch
6
Balog (4:48)

Remix - Balog
7
(dell.tree) (4:53)

Remix - (dell.tree)
8
Pepe Wismeer (4:33)

Remix - Pepe Wismeer
9
Xambuca And The Alcatraz Barbershop Quartet (5:12)

Remix - Xambuca And The Alcatraz Barbershop Quartet
10
Vivian Girls (2:40)

Remix - Vivian Girls
11
Forms Of Things Unknown (4:29)

Remix - Forms Of Things Unknown
12
Horst Jankowski's 21st Century Swingers (4:50)

Remix - Horst Jankowski's 21st Century Swingers
13
Lithopedion (5:01)

Remix - Lithopedion
14
Crab Fisher (5:11)

Remix - Crab Fisher
15
Nelson Ford Templeton (3:10)

Remix - Nelson Ford Templeton

The album tracks are named after those who did the respective remix of "Two Shaves And A Shine"

A couple of years ago David Tibet and I were moochin’ around the Virgin record store in Glasgow. David was patiently waiting for me as at that time I was feverishly into female MCs and I wanted to study the sleeves of all the CDs in the shop’s hip-hop section. “You’re on this,” he said, tapping me on the shoulder with a dance compilation in his hand, and sure enough, there it was: Nurse With Wound: Two Shaves and a Shine—remixed. So, somewhat surprised by this discovery I purchased a copy and promptly got in touch with the label who led me on a merry song and dance for over six months until I gave up, neither sending any copies or paying any royalties. The one thing they did give me was the idea of remixing ‘Two Shaves’, so when I was considering the extra material for the upcoming reissue of ‘An Awkward Pause’ (which had been out of print since the collapse of World Serpent Distribution several years back), the concept of supplying the essential ingredients of drums/bass/guitar and giving everybody a chance to fuck with the track and make their own versions really appealed to me. ‘El Duderino’ Mark Logan of Jnana then came up with the stroke of genius: a remix competition, open to everybody; first prize the original artwork from the front cover of this album. For three months, on my car stereo, I listened to over a hundred versions. I listened to them anonymously, not knowing who the remixers were, judging them on their own quirks and musical merits. It was so difficult to choose the versions that appear on this compilation as all entries were intriguing and full of cranky invention. Eventually I honed it down to these gems. Taken as a whole it’s quite an intense ride, especially as all the tracks are crossfaded into one mighty mother of a jam—enjoy! Steven Stapleton, Cooloorta, November 07

Tactile

John Everall has worked as Tactile, Spacemarker, Multicide, Mesh and was the label boss of Sentrax Recordings (now defunct).


Bipolar Explorer (2005)



Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental
Credits: Performer, Recorded By - John Everall
Notes: Recorded at Crawling Eye Studios 1999



Borderlands (1999)


1 Grief (8:21)
Vocals - John Balance
2 Rotation (7:17)
3 On The Borders Of The Silences... (9:02)
4 Teratogenic (7:00)
5 Do The Dead Stars Make The Green Sun Their Grave? (6:08)
6 Expulsion (9:21)
7 Perichoresis (8:32)

500 copies: 131 "special edition" which includes an original ink drawing by Teresa Mills and 369 standard editions with insert but no drawing.




Inscape (1996)


1 Incubation (7:49)
2 Caged Light (13:22)
3 Panoleptic (10:59)
4 Probe (7:51)
5 131 (5:57)
6 Envoi (1:53)


Recurrence & Intervention (1996)


1
Intervention 1 - Tactile Vs. Coil (5:32)
Remix - Coil
2
Intervention 2 - Tactile Vs. Ø (7:57)
Remix - Ø
3
Intervention 3 - Tactile Vs. Zoviet France (6:01)
Remix - Zoviet France
4
Intervention 4 - Tactile Vs. Scorn (5:54)
Remix - Scorn
5
Intervention 5 - Tactile Vs. James Plotkin (8:59)
Remix - James Plotkin
6
Intervention 6 - Tactile Vs. Solaris (9:29)
Remix - Solaris (3)
7
Intervention 7 - Tactile Vs. Scalpel (8:17)
Remix - Scalpel
8
Intervention 8 - Tactile Vs. Eyeless In Gaza (6:06)
Remix - Eyeless In Gaza
9
Intervention 9 - Tactile Vs. Blood From The Soul (7:17)
Remix - Blood From The Soul

All tracks are reconstructions that use the first Tactile Inscape CD.