CURRENT 93 Baalstorm Sing Omega LP COPTIC CAT 2010 UK orig+insert+blue PsychicTV
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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"BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA"
2010 LP COPTIC CAT RECORDS NIFE 010V MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING LIMITED EDITION BLUE VINYL IN SHRINK SINGLE COVER + FOLDOUT INSERT
NOTES: Track positions are indicated in coptic script. Track B3 is entitled "The Nudes Liftshields For War" on the center labels.
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LABEL: COPTIC CAT - B&W w/ARTWORK CROSS(A) & BROWNISH/ORANGE(B) LABEL- WHITE TEXT
Catalog on cover: NIFE 010V Catalog on labels: none
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): NIFE 10V COVERED WITH SILENCE BA02388-01 A1 MK Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): NIFE 10V AND COVERED WITH STARS BA02388-01 B1 MK
On labels: (Side B only) Tracklist On back cover: Tracklist
tracklisting Side A: I DREAMT I WAS AEON - WITH FLOWERS N THE GARDEN OF FIRES DECEMBER 1971 - BAALSTORM! BAALSTORM! Side B: PASSENGER ALEPH IN NAME - TANKS OF FLIES THE NUDE LIFTSHIELDS FOR WAR - NIGHT! DEATH! STORM! OMEGA! I DANCE NARCOLEPTIC
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Released no more than a year after 2009's fretful Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, Baalstorm, Sing Omega is the other side of Current 93, if such a purposeful pendulum could ever be placed on such a pedestal. Opening with the near-spoken word overture of "Baalstorm! Baalstorm!," the album is near orchestral in intent if not delivery, soundscapes and shapes that switch and whisper through David Tibet's customarily blasted heath of private myth and vision. Lonely and lyrical, moody and magic, it hisses and howls with Tibet's expected abstract energy -- the voices of spectral children, the invocations of Biblical apocalypse, and Louis Wain-ian kittens -- yet it does so with a far more harmonic ear than his recent albums. There are no tunes here, just themes and images that replace them so thoroughly that you scarcely notice their absence -- until those moments ("I Dreamt I Was Æon," "The Nudes Lift Shields for War") when they do creep into view, and paint the sparsity of their surroundings in even darker shadows. It is an album that screams, cries, mystifies, and flies; the discordant funeral march that pounds beneath "Night! Death! Storm! Omega!" contrasts itself cruelly with the pretty tinkle of "Passenger Aleph in Name," while the melancholy cello that is the album's most pronounced instrument opens the door to all manner of imaginings. Just like the best Current 93 is meant to do...(AllMusic)
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