BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA was written and recorded in Hastings, Heptonstall, Rome and Turin between August 2009 and Marxh 2010. The album's initial title was SING OMEGA!, taken from a sermon in Coptic by the great Egyptian monk Abbot Shenoute (AD 348-466) in which he quotes an observation by his Egyptian forefather Pachomius (AD 292-346) thus:



I translate this passage as follows:

A good and wise Father, truly pious, said in his writings [which are] in his letters, "Speak Omega, and do not allow Omega to speak you". For my part, I think it is this which he is saying - "Speak to the world, from which you will go into the presence of God, [saying] 'The love of money and the impiety which are in it [the world] are unable to force me to be impious in all things'. Do not let the world say to you - 'I have caught you and I have bound you with the love of possessions and fornication and adultery and violent actions and thefts and foulnesses and impurities and other things contrary to our nature which are numberless'".

The Coptic verb can mean both 'to speak' and 'to sing'.
However, after my overhearing, and mishearing, of a comment by Giulio Di Mauro whilst I was staying with him in Rome in September 2009, the true title of the album hit me with the force of a Storm. Giulio spoke of the Maelstrom, and I was sucked into it with great speed and violent force.
The album had been a host of storms gathering inside me for some time. The first manifestation of the storm in the outer world commenced when I took a flight from London to Turin; the woman at the airport check-in counter showed me that the computer screen said, under my name, 'Passenger Aleph in Name'. This initial stage ended during a photo session, photographed by Simo Dall Valle, of Andrew Liles and myself at which Marillion's beautiful song 'Lavender' - which I and C93 had been planning to cover at the concert which we were in Turin to play - suddenly came on the radio in the hotel foyer with piercing clarity.
The next stage commenced in Rome where C93 were to play at Giulio Di Mauro's PRE festival. I encountered four women there - two for the first time, one for the second time and one for the third time - who led me to see that this storm - my storm - was in me and around me - and was also manifesting itself in so many people around me to whom I was, or would become, close. Without these four women - the apocalypse girl Chiara Barzini, the biter of bodies Simo Dalla Valle, the deep tree Sarah Dietrich and the head below horns Ksenia Nefedova - this album would have not have been born in this form and the storm would still be inside me. Chiara, Ksenia, Sarah, Simo: I thank you deeply.
Before leaving Rome, I and some friends were in a car that was stuck in a traffic jam. We were held for fifteen minutes at the red lights opposite a fast food store called 'Alpha and Omega Kebabs'. And there I saw - like a clap and a shout and a thief in the night - the great in the small, the nodding dogs and that hidden God who plays hide and seek, laughing under neon and shiskas, terrible and aweful in the chicken on the spit and in the immolated lamb.
Current 93 as Spellers between and :
Eliot Bates, oud, erbane and daf; James Blackshaw, 12-string, slide and electric guitars, glockenspiel and voice; John Contreras, cello; Baby Dee, piano and Hammond organ; Andrew Liles, guitar, bass and electronics; Melon Liles, vocals; Alex Nielson, drums and percussion; Bea Taylor, voice; Isabel Taylor, voice; David Tibet, voice.
All we in Current 93 were over the suns and moons when Bill Fay allowed us to add the initial verse of his beautiful and unreleased song 'Breaking the Bread of Music' into the last storms of the album. God bless Bill Fay!
Recorded and mastered by Andrew Liles, apart from Alex Nielson whose contribution was recorded by John Cavanagh. Mixed by Andrew Liles and David Tibet.
Design and layout by David Tibet and Paul Jackson.
Cover by David Tibet: 'She is Naked Like the Water'. Photograph of David as Stonehenge in December 1971: Ghost or Gone or Donne. Photographs of David as Rome in Batu Gajah, 1964 or 1965 or 1966: Cyril or Olivia Bunting. Photographs of the members of C93 on this album taken by the following individuals: Eliot Bates (Ladi Dell'aira), James Blackshaw (Doerthe Winter), John Contreras (Scott Purdy), Baby Dee (Tore Hallas), Andrew Liles (Melon Liles), Melon Liles (Pandy Cat), Alex Nielson (Oliver Edwards), bea Taylor and Isabel Taylor (Becca Taylor) and David Tibet (Simo Dall Valle).
All text by David Tibet, apart from some lines in 'A Baalstorm! Ballstorm!' where I utilise extracts from letters I received from Sarah Dietrich; these quotations should be evident. All music © 2010 Current 93 and those who channel it into us and those who receive the Current. Published by Domino Music.
My love streams out to the rest of the 93 Family who appear astrally, sidereally and spiritually on this album and whose presence can be felt deeply within it in many ways: Marc Almond, Little Annie, Peter Atanasoff, Jack Barnett, William Basinski, David Bianchi, Nick Blinko, Henry Boxer, William Breeze, Ossian Brown, Vera Brozzoni, Lee Cantelon, Michael Cashmore, Unity Rose Cashmore, Ben Chasny, Paul Cheshire, Al Cisneros, Shirley Collins, Chris Connelly, The Cox-Dorée (Anna, Caro, Geoff and Seth), Kat Cormie, Daniela Corcio, Enrico Croci, Attilla Csihar, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Paul Deighton, Anke Eckhardt, Maja Elliott, Stephen Emmel, Eva and Michael Faber, Bill Fay, Giampaolo Felici, Rossella Ferrari, Simon Finn, Sven-Erik Fuzz-Kristiansen, Sasha Grey, Antony Hegarty, Uwe Henneken, Sebastian Horsley, Nidge Ince, Eri Isaka, Lynn Jackson, Paul Jackson, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Lawrence, Charlotte Libeau, Thomas Ligotti, John Marchant, Othon Matragas, Rose McDowall, Olivier Naudin, Lizzie Oswell, Fabrizio Palumbo, José Pacheco, Jim Pascoe, Lili Refrain, Keith Richmond, Steven Pittis, Roasario Rivero, Valeria Rusconi, Kristoffer Rygg, Bobbie Seagroatt, Clodagh Simmonds, Steven Stapleton, Katja Strunz, Matt Sweeney, Becca Taylor, Matt Taylor, Stefanie Thiel, Stephen Thrower, Ernesto Tomasini, Gabriele Toso, Chris Towers, Ms. Tricky Sleeves, Ayse Tuzlak, Luca Valtorta, Andrew W.K., Lauren Winton, Tod Wodicka, Joolie Wood and Kieth Wood. And to my Coptic friends and idols with profound thanks for all their help and inspiration: Mathew Almond, Diliana Atanassova, Anne Boud'hors, Heike Behlmer, David Brakke, Malcolm Choat, Jennie Cromwell, Lance Eccles, Stephen Emmel, Wolf-Peter Funk, James Goehring, Frederik Hagen, Bentley Layton, Hugo Lundhaug, Franziska Naether, Tito Orlandi, Sebastian Richter, Alin Suciu and Hany Takla.
To all of those whom I have forgotten to thank, I remember you internally ever.
Profound thanks and love to Andria Degens for her grace and kindness during a very difficult period.
Without Mark Logan's support in so many different ways, this album would never have appeared. Bless you always. I love you Mark.
Father Kosma: thank you for your prayers.
I dedicate this album to our beloved cat Baby, who went to Christ at 9am on Sunday, April 11 after a long struggle with the Stealer. I also offer up incense to Goblin in the Stars, now beyond the storms.

, 1 Thessalonians V:17
David Tibet, 12 IV 2010,
Hastings

BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA was written and recorded in Hastings, Heptonstall, Rome and Turin between August 2009 and Marxh 2010. The album's initial title was SING OMEGA!, taken from a sermon in Coptic by the great Egyptian monk Abbot Shenoute (AD 348-466) in which he quotes an observation by his Egyptian forefather Pachomius (AD 292-346) thus:

I translate this passage as follows:

A good and wise Father, truly pious, said in his writings [which are] in his letters, "Speak Omega, and do not allow Omega to speak you". For my part, I think it is this which he is saying - "Speak to the world, from which you will go into the presence of God, [saying] 'The love of money and the impiety which are in it [the world] are unable to force me to be impious in all things'. Do not let the world say to you - 'I have caught you and I have bound you with the love of possessions and fornication and adultery and violent actions and thefts and foulnesses and impurities and other things contrary to our nature which are numberless'".

The Coptic verb can mean both 'to speak' and 'to sing'.
However, after my overhearing, and mishearing, of a comment by Giulio Di Mauro whilst I was staying with him in Rome in September 2009, the true title of the album hit me with the force of a Storm. Giulio spoke of the Maelstrom, and I was sucked into it with great speed and violent force.
The album had been a host of storms gathering inside me for some time. The first manifestation of the storm in the outer world commenced when I took a flight from London to Turin; the woman at the airport check-in counter showed me that the computer screen said, under my name, 'Passenger Aleph in Name'. This initial stage ended during a photo session, photographed by Simo Dall Valle, of Andrew Liles and myself at which Marillion's beautiful song 'Lavender' - which I and C93 had been planning to cover at the concert which we were in Turin to play - suddenly came on the radio in the hotel foyer with piercing clarity.
The next stage commenced in Rome where C93 were to play at Giulio Di Mauro's PRE festival. I encountered four women there - two for the first time, one for the second time and one for the third time - who led me to see that this storm - my storm - was in me and around me - and was also manifesting itself in so many people around me to whom I was, or would become, close. Without these four women - the apocalypse girl Chiara Barzini, the biter of bodies Simo Dalla Valle, the deep tree Sarah Dietrich and the head below horns Ksenia Nefedova - this album would have not have been born in this form and the storm would still be inside me. Chiara, Ksenia, Sarah, Simo: I thank you deeply.
Before leaving Rome, I and some friends were in a car that was stuck in a traffic jam. We were held for fifteen minutes at the red lights opposite a fast food store called 'Alpha and Omega Kebabs'. And there I saw - like a clap and a shout and a thief in the night - the great in the small, the nodding dogs and that hidden God who plays hide and seek, laughing under neon and shiskas, terrible and aweful in the chicken on the spit and in the immolated lamb.
Current 93 as Spellers between and :
Eliot Bates, oud, erbane and daf; James Blackshaw, 12-string, slide and electric guitars, glockenspiel and voice; John Contreras, cello; Baby Dee, piano and Hammond organ; Andrew Liles, guitar, bass and electronics; Melon Liles, vocals; Alex Nielson, drums and percussion; Bea Taylor, voice; Isabel Taylor, voice; David Tibet, voice.
All we in Current 93 were over the suns and moons when Bill Fay allowed us to add the initial verse of his beautiful and unreleased song 'Breaking the Bread of Music' into the last storms of the album. God bless Bill Fay!
Recorded and mastered by Andrew Liles, apart from Alex Nielson whose contribution was recorded by John Cavanagh. Mixed by Andrew Liles and David Tibet.
Design and layout by David Tibet and Paul Jackson.
Cover by David Tibet: 'She is Naked Like the Water'. Photograph of David as Stonehenge in December 1971: Ghost or Gone or Donne. Photographs of David as Rome in Batu Gajah, 1964 or 1965 or 1966: Cyril or Olivia Bunting. Photographs of the members of C93 on this album taken by the following individuals: Eliot Bates (Ladi Dell'aira), James Blackshaw (Doerthe Winter), John Contreras (Scott Purdy), Baby Dee (Tore Hallas), Andrew Liles (Melon Liles), Melon Liles (Pandy Cat), Alex Nielson (Oliver Edwards), bea Taylor and Isabel Taylor (Becca Taylor) and David Tibet (Simo Dall Valle).
All text by David Tibet, apart from some lines in 'A Baalstorm! Ballstorm!' where I utilise extracts from letters I received from Sarah Dietrich; these quotations should be evident. All music © 2010 Current 93 and those who channel it into us and those who receive the Current. Published by Domino Music.
My love streams out to the rest of the 93 Family who appear astrally, sidereally and spiritually on this album and whose presence can be felt deeply within it in many ways: Marc Almond, Little Annie, Peter Atanasoff, Jack Barnett, William Basinski, David Bianchi, Nick Blinko, Henry Boxer, William Breeze, Ossian Brown, Vera Brozzoni, Lee Cantelon, Michael Cashmore, Unity Rose Cashmore, Ben Chasny, Paul Cheshire, Al Cisneros, Shirley Collins, Chris Connelly, The Cox-Dorée (Anna, Caro, Geoff and Seth), Kat Cormie, Daniela Corcio, Enrico Croci, Attilla Csihar, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Paul Deighton, Anke Eckhardt, Maja Elliott, Stephen Emmel, Eva and Michael Faber, Bill Fay, Giampaolo Felici, Rossella Ferrari, Simon Finn, Sven-Erik Fuzz-Kristiansen, Sasha Grey, Antony Hegarty, Uwe Henneken, Sebastian Horsley, Nidge Ince, Eri Isaka, Lynn Jackson, Paul Jackson, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Lawrence, Charlotte Libeau, Thomas Ligotti, John Marchant, Othon Matragas, Rose McDowall, Olivier Naudin, Lizzie Oswell, Fabrizio Palumbo, José Pacheco, Jim Pascoe, Lili Refrain, Keith Richmond, Steven Pittis, Roasario Rivero, Valeria Rusconi, Kristoffer Rygg, Bobbie Seagroatt, Clodagh Simmonds, Steven Stapleton, Katja Strunz, Matt Sweeney, Becca Taylor, Matt Taylor, Stefanie Thiel, Stephen Thrower, Ernesto Tomasini, Gabriele Toso, Chris Towers, Ms. Tricky Sleeves, Ayse Tuzlak, Luca Valtorta, Andrew W.K., Lauren Winton, Tod Wodicka, Joolie Wood and Kieth Wood. And to my Coptic friends and idols with profound thanks for all their help and inspiration: Mathew Almond, Diliana Atanassova, Anne Boud'hors, Heike Behlmer, David Brakke, Malcolm Choat, Jennie Cromwell, Lance Eccles, Stephen Emmel, Wolf-Peter Funk, James Goehring, Frederik Hagen, Bentley Layton, Hugo Lundhaug, Franziska Naether, Tito Orlandi, Sebastian Richter, Alin Suciu and Hany Takla.
To all of those whom I have forgotten to thank, I remember you internally ever.
Profound thanks and love to Andria Degens for her grace and kindness during a very difficult period.
Without Mark Logan's support in so many different ways, this album would never have appeared. Bless you always. I love you Mark.
Father Kosma: thank you for your prayers.
I dedicate this album to our beloved cat Baby, who went to Christ at 9am on Sunday, April 11 after a long struggle with the Stealer. I also offer up incense to Goblin in the Stars, now beyond the storms.

, 1 Thessalonians V:17
David Tibet, 12 IV 2010,
Hastings

BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA was written and recorded in Hastings, Heptonstall, Rome and Turin between August 2009 and Marxh 2010. The album's initial title was SING OMEGA!, taken from a sermon in Coptic by the great Egyptian monk Abbot Shenoute (AD 348-466) in which he quotes an observation by his Egyptian forefather Pachomius (AD 292-346) thus:

I translate this passage as follows:

A good and wise Father, truly pious, said in his writings [which are] in his letters, "Speak Omega, and do not allow Omega to speak you". For my part, I think it is this which he is saying - "Speak to the world, from which you will go into the presence of God, [saying] 'The love of money and the impiety which are in it [the world] are unable to force me to be impious in all things'. Do not let the world say to you - 'I have caught you and I have bound you with the love of possessions and fornication and adultery and violent actions and thefts and foulnesses and impurities and other things contrary to our nature which are numberless'".

The Coptic verb can mean both 'to speak' and 'to sing'.
However, after my overhearing, and mishearing, of a comment by Giulio Di Mauro whilst I was staying with him in Rome in September 2009, the true title of the album hit me with the force of a Storm. Giulio spoke of the Maelstrom, and I was sucked into it with great speed and violent force.
The album had been a host of storms gathering inside me for some time. The first manifestation of the storm in the outer world commenced when I took a flight from London to Turin; the woman at the airport check-in counter showed me that the computer screen said, under my name, 'Passenger Aleph in Name'. This initial stage ended during a photo session, photographed by Simo Dall Valle, of Andrew Liles and myself at which Marillion's beautiful song 'Lavender' - which I and C93 had been planning to cover at the concert which we were in Turin to play - suddenly came on the radio in the hotel foyer with piercing clarity.
The next stage commenced in Rome where C93 were to play at Giulio Di Mauro's PRE festival. I encountered four women there - two for the first time, one for the second time and one for the third time - who led me to see that this storm - my storm - was in me and around me - and was also manifesting itself in so many people around me to whom I was, or would become, close. Without these four women - the apocalypse girl Chiara Barzini, the biter of bodies Simo Dalla Valle, the deep tree Sarah Dietrich and the head below horns Ksenia Nefedova - this album would have not have been born in this form and the storm would still be inside me. Chiara, Ksenia, Sarah, Simo: I thank you deeply.
Before leaving Rome, I and some friends were in a car that was stuck in a traffic jam. We were held for fifteen minutes at the red lights opposite a fast food store called 'Alpha and Omega Kebabs'. And there I saw - like a clap and a shout and a thief in the night - the great in the small, the nodding dogs and that hidden God who plays hide and seek, laughing under neon and shiskas, terrible and aweful in the chicken on the spit and in the immolated lamb.
Current 93 as Spellers between and :
Eliot Bates, oud, erbane and daf; James Blackshaw, 12-string, slide and electric guitars, glockenspiel and voice; John Contreras, cello; Baby Dee, piano and Hammond organ; Andrew Liles, guitar, bass and electronics; Melon Liles, vocals; Alex Nielson, drums and percussion; Bea Taylor, voice; Isabel Taylor, voice; David Tibet, voice.
All we in Current 93 were over the suns and moons when Bill Fay allowed us to add the initial verse of his beautiful and unreleased song 'Breaking the Bread of Music' into the last storms of the album. God bless Bill Fay!
Recorded and mastered by Andrew Liles, apart from Alex Nielson whose contribution was recorded by John Cavanagh. Mixed by Andrew Liles and David Tibet.
Design and layout by David Tibet and Paul Jackson.
Cover by David Tibet: 'She is Naked Like the Water'. Photograph of David as Stonehenge in December 1971: Ghost or Gone or Donne. Photographs of David as Rome in Batu Gajah, 1964 or 1965 or 1966: Cyril or Olivia Bunting. Photographs of the members of C93 on this album taken by the following individuals: Eliot Bates (Ladi Dell'aira), James Blackshaw (Doerthe Winter), John Contreras (Scott Purdy), Baby Dee (Tore Hallas), Andrew Liles (Melon Liles), Melon Liles (Pandy Cat), Alex Nielson (Oliver Edwards), bea Taylor and Isabel Taylor (Becca Taylor) and David Tibet (Simo Dall Valle).
All text by David Tibet, apart from some lines in 'A Baalstorm! Ballstorm!' where I utilise extracts from letters I received from Sarah Dietrich; these quotations should be evident. All music © 2010 Current 93 and those who channel it into us and those who receive the Current. Published by Domino Music.
My love streams out to the rest of the 93 Family who appear astrally, sidereally and spiritually on this album and whose presence can be felt deeply within it in many ways: Marc Almond, Little Annie, Peter Atanasoff, Jack Barnett, William Basinski, David Bianchi, Nick Blinko, Henry Boxer, William Breeze, Ossian Brown, Vera Brozzoni, Lee Cantelon, Michael Cashmore, Unity Rose Cashmore, Ben Chasny, Paul Cheshire, Al Cisneros, Shirley Collins, Chris Connelly, The Cox-Dorée (Anna, Caro, Geoff and Seth), Kat Cormie, Daniela Corcio, Enrico Croci, Attilla Csihar, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Paul Deighton, Anke Eckhardt, Maja Elliott, Stephen Emmel, Eva and Michael Faber, Bill Fay, Giampaolo Felici, Rossella Ferrari, Simon Finn, Sven-Erik Fuzz-Kristiansen, Sasha Grey, Antony Hegarty, Uwe Henneken, Sebastian Horsley, Nidge Ince, Eri Isaka, Lynn Jackson, Paul Jackson, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Lawrence, Charlotte Libeau, Thomas Ligotti, John Marchant, Othon Matragas, Rose McDowall, Olivier Naudin, Lizzie Oswell, Fabrizio Palumbo, José Pacheco, Jim Pascoe, Lili Refrain, Keith Richmond, Steven Pittis, Roasario Rivero, Valeria Rusconi, Kristoffer Rygg, Bobbie Seagroatt, Clodagh Simmonds, Steven Stapleton, Katja Strunz, Matt Sweeney, Becca Taylor, Matt Taylor, Stefanie Thiel, Stephen Thrower, Ernesto Tomasini, Gabriele Toso, Chris Towers, Ms. Tricky Sleeves, Ayse Tuzlak, Luca Valtorta, Andrew W.K., Lauren Winton, Tod Wodicka, Joolie Wood and Kieth Wood. And to my Coptic friends and idols with profound thanks for all their help and inspiration: Mathew Almond, Diliana Atanassova, Anne Boud'hors, Heike Behlmer, David Brakke, Malcolm Choat, Jennie Cromwell, Lance Eccles, Stephen Emmel, Wolf-Peter Funk, James Goehring, Frederik Hagen, Bentley Layton, Hugo Lundhaug, Franziska Naether, Tito Orlandi, Sebastian Richter, Alin Suciu and Hany Takla.
To all of those whom I have forgotten to thank, I remember you internally ever.
Profound thanks and love to Andria Degens for her grace and kindness during a very difficult period.
Without Mark Logan's support in so many different ways, this album would never have appeared. Bless you always. I love you Mark.
Father Kosma: thank you for your prayers.
I dedicate this album to our beloved cat Baby, who went to Christ at 9am on Sunday, April 11 after a long struggle with the Stealer. I also offer up incense to Goblin in the Stars, now beyond the storms.

, 1 Thessalonians V:17
David Tibet, 12 IV 2010,
Hastings

BAALSTORM, SING OMEGA was written and recorded in Hastings, Heptonstall, Rome and Turin between August 2009 and Marxh 2010. The album's initial title was SING OMEGA!, taken from a sermon in Coptic by the great Egyptian monk Abbot Shenoute (AD 348-466) in which he quotes an observation by his Egyptian forefather Pachomius (AD 292-346) thus:



I translate this passage as follows:

A good and wise Father, truly pious, said in his writings [which are] in his letters, "Speak Omega, and do not allow Omega to speak you". For my part, I think it is this which he is saying - "Speak to the world, from which you will go into the presence of God, [saying] 'The love of money and the impiety which are in it [the world] are unable to force me to be impious in all things'. Do not let the world say to you - 'I have caught you and I have bound you with the love of possessions and fornication and adultery and violent actions and thefts and foulnesses and impurities and other things contrary to our nature which are numberless'".

The Coptic verb can mean both 'to speak' and 'to sing'.
However, after my overhearing, and mishearing, of a comment by Giulio Di Mauro whilst I was staying with him in Rome in September 2009, the true title of the album hit me with the force of a Storm. Giulio spoke of the Maelstrom, and I was sucked into it with great speed and violent force.
The album had been a host of storms gathering inside me for some time. The first manifestation of the storm in the outer world commenced when I took a flight from London to Turin; the woman at the airport check-in counter showed me that the computer screen said, under my name, 'Passenger Aleph in Name'. This initial stage ended during a photo session, photographed by Simo Dall Valle, of Andrew Liles and myself at which Marillion's beautiful song 'Lavender' - which I and C93 had been planning to cover at the concert which we were in Turin to play - suddenly came on the radio in the hotel foyer with piercing clarity.
The next stage commenced in Rome where C93 were to play at Giulio Di Mauro's PRE festival. I encountered four women there - two for the first time, one for the second time and one for the third time - who led me to see that this storm - my storm - was in me and around me - and was also manifesting itself in so many people around me to whom I was, or would become, close. Without these four women - the apocalypse girl Chiara Barzini, the biter of bodies Simo Dalla Valle, the deep tree Sarah Dietrich and the head below horns Ksenia Nefedova - this album would have not have been born in this form and the storm would still be inside me. Chiara, Ksenia, Sarah, Simo: I thank you deeply.
Before leaving Rome, I and some friends were in a car that was stuck in a traffic jam. We were held for fifteen minutes at the red lights opposite a fast food store called 'Alpha and Omega Kebabs'. And there I saw - like a clap and a shout and a thief in the night - the great in the small, the nodding dogs and that hidden God who plays hide and seek, laughing under neon and shiskas, terrible and aweful in the chicken on the spit and in the immolated lamb.
Current 93 as Spellers between and :
Eliot Bates, oud, erbane and daf; James Blackshaw, 12-string, slide and electric guitars, glockenspiel and voice; John Contreras, cello; Baby Dee, piano and Hammond organ; Andrew Liles, guitar, bass and electronics; Melon Liles, vocals; Alex Nielson, drums and percussion; Bea Taylor, voice; Isabel Taylor, voice; David Tibet, voice.
All we in Current 93 were over the suns and moons when Bill Fay allowed us to add the initial verse of his beautiful and unreleased song 'Breaking the Bread of Music' into the last storms of the album. God bless Bill Fay!
Recorded and mastered by Andrew Liles, apart from Alex Nielson whose contribution was recorded by John Cavanagh. Mixed by Andrew Liles and David Tibet.
Design and layout by David Tibet and Paul Jackson.
Cover by David Tibet: 'She is Naked Like the Water'. Photograph of David as Stonehenge in December 1971: Ghost or Gone or Donne. Photographs of David as Rome in Batu Gajah, 1964 or 1965 or 1966: Cyril or Olivia Bunting. Photographs of the members of C93 on this album taken by the following individuals: Eliot Bates (Ladi Dell'aira), James Blackshaw (Doerthe Winter), John Contreras (Scott Purdy), Baby Dee (Tore Hallas), Andrew Liles (Melon Liles), Melon Liles (Pandy Cat), Alex Nielson (Oliver Edwards), bea Taylor and Isabel Taylor (Becca Taylor) and David Tibet (Simo Dall Valle).
All text by David Tibet, apart from some lines in 'A Baalstorm! Ballstorm!' where I utilise extracts from letters I received from Sarah Dietrich; these quotations should be evident. All music © 2010 Current 93 and those who channel it into us and those who receive the Current. Published by Domino Music.
My love streams out to the rest of the 93 Family who appear astrally, sidereally and spiritually on this album and whose presence can be felt deeply within it in many ways: Marc Almond, Little Annie, Peter Atanasoff, Jack Barnett, William Basinski, David Bianchi, Nick Blinko, Henry Boxer, William Breeze, Ossian Brown, Vera Brozzoni, Lee Cantelon, Michael Cashmore, Unity Rose Cashmore, Ben Chasny, Paul Cheshire, Al Cisneros, Shirley Collins, Chris Connelly, The Cox-Dorée (Anna, Caro, Geoff and Seth), Kat Cormie, Daniela Corcio, Enrico Croci, Attilla Csihar, Timothy d'Arch Smith, Paul Deighton, Anke Eckhardt, Maja Elliott, Stephen Emmel, Eva and Michael Faber, Bill Fay, Giampaolo Felici, Rossella Ferrari, Simon Finn, Sven-Erik Fuzz-Kristiansen, Sasha Grey, Antony Hegarty, Uwe Henneken, Sebastian Horsley, Nidge Ince, Eri Isaka, Lynn Jackson, Paul Jackson, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Lawrence, Charlotte Libeau, Thomas Ligotti, John Marchant, Othon Matragas, Rose McDowall, Olivier Naudin, Lizzie Oswell, Fabrizio Palumbo, José Pacheco, Jim Pascoe, Lili Refrain, Keith Richmond, Steven Pittis, Roasario Rivero, Valeria Rusconi, Kristoffer Rygg, Bobbie Seagroatt, Clodagh Simmonds, Steven Stapleton, Katja Strunz, Matt Sweeney, Becca Taylor, Matt Taylor, Stefanie Thiel, Stephen Thrower, Ernesto Tomasini, Gabriele Toso, Chris Towers, Ms. Tricky Sleeves, Ayse Tuzlak, Luca Valtorta, Andrew W.K., Lauren Winton, Tod Wodicka, Joolie Wood and Kieth Wood. And to my Coptic friends and idols with profound thanks for all their help and inspiration: Mathew Almond, Diliana Atanassova, Anne Boud'hors, Heike Behlmer, David Brakke, Malcolm Choat, Jennie Cromwell, Lance Eccles, Stephen Emmel, Wolf-Peter Funk, James Goehring, Frederik Hagen, Bentley Layton, Hugo Lundhaug, Franziska Naether, Tito Orlandi, Sebastian Richter, Alin Suciu and Hany Takla.
To all of those whom I have forgotten to thank, I remember you internally ever.
Profound thanks and love to Andria Degens for her grace and kindness during a very difficult period.
Without Mark Logan's support in so many different ways, this album would never have appeared. Bless you always. I love you Mark.
Father Kosma: thank you for your prayers.
I dedicate this album to our beloved cat Baby, who went to Christ at 9am on Sunday, April 11 after a long struggle with the Stealer. I also offer up incense to Goblin in the Stars, now beyond the storms.

, 1 Thessalonians V:17
David Tibet, 12 IV 2010,
Hastings