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, acoustic 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. All lyrics by David Tibet except for the afore- mentioned track and the words for 'Thunder Perfect Mind' which was taken from the text of the same name in the Nag Hammadi Codices. This album was mixed by Steven Stapleton, engineered by David Kenny and produced by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet at Topic Studios, London between September 1990 and February 1992. Cover photographs and that of Karl Blake by Ruth Bayer. Artwork by Babs Santini. Cover drawings by David Tibet.

My love and thanks to: James Low, Harry Oldfield, HÖH, Shirley Collins for her unwitting inspiration, C.R. Lama, Debbie Fowler, Yongsou, Yuko, You-Sun, Ayame, Konori, Dido, Ruby, Lilith, Nyida, Thorn, Nadia, Tony, Akiko, Cox, Little Annie, Chris Wallis, and The Bevis Frond for lending me Nick Saloman. Especial thanks to Starfish for all her help with the preparation of this release. The track 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is dedicated to my dear friends Ayame, Konori, Yongsou, You-Sun and Yuko; may they live long and happily. This is the great wheel of birth and death. Tie it up and make of it the True Love Knot. Goodbye and God bless. May all be happy. DMT, London, March 5th 1992

This album was cut by Denis at Porky's and is manufactured and distributed by Alan, Alison and David of World Serpent. My thanks, as always, to all of them.

"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.

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, acoustic 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. All lyrics by David Tibet except for the afore- mentioned track and the words for 'Thunder Perfect Mind' which was taken from the text of the same name in the Nag Hammadi Codices. This album was mixed by Steven Stapleton, engineered by David Kenny and produced by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet at Topic Studios, London between September 1990 and February 1992. Cover photographs and that of Karl Blake by Ruth Bayer. Artwork by Babs Santini. Cover drawings by David Tibet.

My love and thanks to: James Low, Harry Oldfield, HÖH, Shirley Collins for her unwitting inspiration, C.R. Lama, Debbie Fowler, Yongsou, Yuko, You-Sun, Ayame, Konori, Dido, Ruby, Lilith, Nyida, Thorn, Nadia, Tony, Akiko, Cox, Little Annie, Chris Wallis, and The Bevis Frond for lending me Nick Saloman. Especial thanks to Starfish for all her help with the preparation of this release. The track 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is dedicated to my dear friends Ayame, Konori, Yongsou, You-Sun and Yuko; may they live long and happily. This is the great wheel of birth and death. Tie it up and make of it the True Love Knot. Goodbye and God bless. May all be happy. DMT, London, March 5th 1992

This album was cut by Denis at Porky's and is manufactured and distributed by Alan, Alison and David of World Serpent. My thanks, as always, to all of them.

"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.

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, acoustic 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. All lyrics by David Tibet except for the afore- mentioned track and the words for 'Thunder Perfect Mind' which was taken from the text of the same name in the Nag Hammadi Codices. This album was mixed by Steven Stapleton, engineered by David Kenny and produced by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet at Topic Studios, London between September 1990 and February 1992. Cover photographs and that of Karl Blake by Ruth Bayer. Artwork by Babs Santini. Cover drawings by David Tibet.

My love and thanks to: James Low, Harry Oldfield, HÖH, Shirley Collins for her unwitting inspiration, C.R. Lama, Debbie Fowler, Yongsou, Yuko, You-Sun, Ayame, Konori, Dido, Ruby, Lilith, Nyida, Thorn, Nadia, Tony, Akiko, Cox, Little Annie, Chris Wallis, and The Bevis Frond for lending me Nick Saloman. Especial thanks to Starfish for all her help with the preparation of this release. The track 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is dedicated to my dear friends Ayame, Konori, Yongsou, You-Sun and Yuko; may they live long and happily. This is the great wheel of birth and death. Tie it up and make of it the True Love Knot. Goodbye and God bless. May all be happy. DMT, London, March 5th 1992

This album was cut by Denis at Porky's and is manufactured and distributed by Alan, Alison and David of World Serpent. My thanks, as always, to all of them.

"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.

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 dur 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.

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 dur 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.

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 dur 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.

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; Jhonn 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, acoustic 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 - feedback 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 as Michael Cashmore, Steven Stapleton, and David Tibet with the exception of 'When The May Rain Comes', which was written by Sand and performed on their superb 'Golem' album. All lyrics by David Tibet except for 'When The May Rain Comes', and the words for 'Thunder Perfect Mind I' which were taken from Nag Hammadi Codex VI.

Thunder Perfect Mind was mixed by Steven Stapleton, engineered by David Kenny and produced by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet at Topic Studios, London between September 1990 and February 1992. Cover photograph of David taken in Malaysia by Cyril Bunting. graphic design and lay-out redreamt by Ania Goszczyńska, with lovely help from Sweet Saint Ossian Brown. This album was originally mastered in 1992 by Denis Blackham at Porky's Mastering Services; she was remasted by the Bricoleur in 2016 and is manufactured and distributed by Cargo Records.

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

Many people have written to me saying they became fascinated by Coptic texts after hearing this album, and I myself learnt Coptic as a result of my love for the Nag Hammadi codices and apocryphal Christian literature. I am honoured that this album has, to some small degree, spread the Hidden Words, . The one who understands the meaning of these words shall not taste Death:



I would like to thank deeply those Coptologists who have become dear friends and colleagues: Diliana Atanassova, Heike Behlmer, Anna Boud'hors, Dylan Burns, Malcolm Choat, Jenny Cromwell, Elizabeth Davidson, Antonia St. Demiana, Stephen Emmel, Rene Falkenberg, Emiliano Fiori, Wolf-Peter Funk, Victor Ghica, Tilde Bak Halvgaard, Hugo Lundhaug (who also kindly checked my transcription of the text to 'Thunder Perfect Mind'), So Miyagawa, Franziska Naether, Sebastian Richter, Ariel Shisha-Halevy, Alin Suciu, Alxeandros Tsakos, Paula Jean Tutty, Anna Usacheva, and Alberto Winterberg.

I Thank You and I Love You to Ob, Polka,Ruth Bayer, Ben Chasny, Shirley Collins, Geoff Cox, Darren Crawford, Giulio Di Mauro, Costas Karoulis, Michael Lawrence, Mark Lewis, Mark Logan, José Pacheco, Davide Pepe, Steve Pittis, Lauren Winton, and Paschalis Zervas.

Michael Cashmore would like to thank: Unity Rose Cashmore, Henrik Coltan Dören, Stefanie Thiel, and Maya Zeiter.

"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, Poetical and Historical Inventions, 1809.

Tie this world up and make of it the True Love Knot. Goodbye and God Bless. David Tibet, Hastings, September 22, 2017.