DURTRO NEWS

* CONCERTS * CONCERTS * CONCERTS * CONCERTS *

CURRENT NINETY THREE as DAVID TIBET and MAJA ELLIOTT play SOFT BLACK STARS; and BABY DEE: with SPECIAL GUESTS:

GOD IS LOVE: THE SILENCE: THE TWILIGHT: THE SILENCE: GOD IS LOVE:

    LAUNCH PARTY for 'LITTLE WINDOW' by BABY DEE: Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September 2001.

    JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC THEATER, 425 LAFAYETTE STREET, BETWEEN ASTOR PLACE and EAST 4TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY.

    These concerts are now SOLD OUT.

     

* NEWS * NEWS * NEWS * NEWS *


THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ERIC, COUNT STENBOCK

    A release date of 1 November has been set for this book—further details available here.

ROCK 'N' ROLL STATION—NURSE WITH WOUND ONLINE RADIO STATION

    Now broadcasting is Rock 'N' Roll Station, an online radio station featuring the music of Nurse With Wound. This has been set up by Mark Logan, and can be accessed here.

SANTOOR LENA BICYCLE

    Copies of the hand-made limited edition of 500 NURSE WITH WOUND/ARANOS album are still available at £25, though not from Durtro. Please e-mail Aranos if you wish to purchase one of these wonderful album artefacts.

THE GREAT IN THE SMALL: DURTRO ONLINE RADIO STATION

    DURTRO are Pleased as Punch to announce that, thanks to the exhaustive work of Mark Logan, a DURTRO online radio station playing musics by CURRENT NINETY THREE in its various forms is now online. Also featured are many other acts on Durtro, such as Pantaleimon, Shirley Collins, Antony and the Johnsons, Baby Dee, Tiny Tim, et al. Also to be added are songs by the favourite artists of David Tibet, Steven Stapleton and other friends from Catland.

    Users with a broadband Internet connection should use this link. A version for users of 56k modems can be accessed here. Users experiencing technical difficulties with the site, or otherwise requiring assistance should e-mail Mark Logan directly.

BRIGHT YELLOW MOON

    The standard issue of this album is available from the end of June. This is a single CD in full colour digipak; the extra PURTLE material from the 2CD set is not present. The cover differs inasmuch as it lacks the varnished text overprint present on the now deleted 2CD BRIGHT YELLOW MOON/PURTLE set. £10 plus postage and packing. A vinyl edition of the album is being prepared at the moment.

BRIGHT YELLOW MOON BOOKLET

    Some people have e-mailed us to say that the fold-out booklet written by David Tibet describing the circumstances that led to the writing of Bright Yellow Moon was missing from their copy. If you received this CD and this was the case, please e-mail us and we will send you a replacement.

    Please do not ask for a copy unless you did not receive one in your CD, as our supplies of the spare booklet are very limited, and so should be sent only to people who genuinely did not receive one.

ENGLAND'S HIDDEN REVERSE—A SECRET HISTORY OF THE ESOTERIC UNDERGROUND

    The writer and journalist David Keenan is currently at work on the first fully authorised biography of Current 93, Coil and Nurse With Wound, entitled 'England's Hidden Reverse—A Secret History Of The Esoteric Underground', to be published in 2002. He would like to hear from anyone who has had any contact or dealings with the groups over the years, or anyone with memories of performances, interesting stories, cuttings, flyers, whatever. Feel free to contact him via email.

BABY DEE: LITTLE WINDOW

    I was introduced to Baby Dee's work by my friend Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. He told me that I had to hear some work by his old and close friend Baby Dee: Antony spoke of Dee as the muse who had helped realise much of the music performed by the Johnsons. Antony sent me a couple of songs by Dee: Little Window and The Robin's Tiny Throat. I listened and was struck dumb. So I listened to it again. And again. And again and again and again. I am still listening to it as I type this, and still find it hard to put into words quite how unique and touching her work is. It was certainly amongst the most beautiful and moving work of any type I had *ever* heard. So I asked Antony to send me more and more examples of Dee's work. And it was clear to me that I had to release an album by her. My own love has always been for those musics and those words which strike one as being utterly true and absolutely personal, and Baby Dee is both of these. The hairs rise on my back and I am very honoured and very happy to be able to announce the forthcoming release in May on Durtro of one of the most exquisite albums ever made: LITTLE WINDOW by Baby Dee.

    Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!

THE GREAT IN THE SMALL: HOW: WHY: LOVE: LAND: DIE: 'BYE: (LAZARUS AMEN):

    During my illness I had a dream where I was told that I must put together all my recordings onto one album. Then I was shown in my dream to my ears all the recordings I had made as Current93 and with Steven Stapleton running together together, piling on top on top. I was told that I must so summarize my life as in what I had done before before I died dead. And this is what I heard: so the Great was in the Small: THE GREAT IN THE SMALL. And I could as in my dream I was told hear everything all I had done at one once and saw myself drowning and heard my life flash in front of me. Everything!

 

* NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES * NEW RELEASES *

BOOKS

    SOFT BLACK STARS by DAVID TIBET

    The SOFT BLACK STARS book is now SOLD OUT.

    ERIC, COUNT STENBOCK: LA MAZURKA DES REVENANTS

    The first-ever printing of Count Stenbock's highly decadent supernatural play. Slipping between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this is an important addition to the Stenbock canon. Submitted by Count Stenbock to The Yellow Book, the noted decadent London magazine which was notable for its contributions by Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley; the story was rejected by the magazine's editor shortly before Stenbock's death from alcohol and opium addiction in 1896. This edition is limited to 130 copies, of which 100 are for sale. Blocked crest to front cover; the full colour frontispiece reproduces the front-page of the original typescript to the play, with Stenbock's bold signature across it. Hand-printed by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press for Durtro. Edited, and with a brief Afterword by David Tibet, all copies numbered and signed by Tibet. In a similar format to the earlier hand printed Durtro editions. £35 including postage and packing worldwide. We are now taking orders; August release date.

    THOMAS LIGOTTI: THIS DEGENERATE LITTLE TOWN

    The second instalment of the I HAVE A SPECIAL PLAN FOR THIS WORLD series. A series of nihilist visionary prose poems by the greatest contemporary master of the disturbing tale. This text forms the basis for the forthcoming paramusical statement of the same title by Current Ninety Three which is to be released in late 2001 in CD and vinyl formats. 160 numbered copies, of which 130 are for sale. All copies are signed by Thomas Ligotti, and come with a CD, also limited to 160 copies, of Thomas Ligotti reading the text of THIS DEGENERATE LITTLE TOWN. Full colour frontispiece by David Tibet; signed by the artist. In a similar format to the earlier hand-printed Durtro editions. £40 including postage and packing worldwide. August release date.

    This item is now sold out on reservations. If you have already sent your order and payment your copy is guaranteed.

COMPACT DISCS

    CURRENT 93: IMPERIUM

    Digipak CD. DURTRO08CD. David Tibet and Denis Blackham have digitally remastered Imperium, one of the most popular and powerful of Current 93's earlier albums. After being unavailable for 6 months Imperium now appears in a gatefold digipak with newly restored artwork taken from the original vinyl edition on Maldoror. A TIME TO SOW, A TIME TO REAP. Price: £10 plus postage and packing.

    A vinyl edition of this album will also be released in the next six to eight weeks. The price is to be announced.

    BABY DEE: LITTLE WINDOW

    Baby Dee is the newest artist to release an album through Durtro. LITTLE WINDOW is one of the most moving and beautiful albums David Tibet has *ever* heard, and he wholeheartedly recommends this stunning CD to anyone and everyone who has any interest in the work of Current Ninety Three and Antony and the Johnsons. Baby Dee is also working with Current93 on new material, and she will be playing with Current Ninety Three at their forthcoming shows in 2002. Track listing: Hymn To Anne; Little Window; The Robin's Tiny Throat; Calvary; A Weakness For Roses; The Price Of A Sparrow; What About My Father; Waiting. Available now.
    £10 plus postage and packing

    CURRENT NINETY THREE: CATS DRUNK ON COPPER

    We are now able to offer this full-colour digipak CD which was released to commemorate the London C93 shows in April. The CD consists of the C93 show at London's Union Chapel in 1997.
    £8 plus postage and packing.

    CURRENT NINETY THREE with AIOFE GIBSON: WHO IS THE SUFFERER?

    This item has now totally SOLD OUT.

    CURRENT NINETY THREE/NURSE WITH WOUND: BRIGHT YELLOW MOON & PURTLE

    The first joint album by Current Ninety Three and Nurse With Wound. New material recorded by David Tibet, Steven Stapleton and Michael Cashmore. The lyrics were written by David Tibet during his recovery from intensive surgery in a London hospital last August, and the album scores his seeings there, and the Psychopomp he saw left by the Angel of Death, whilst the helicopters stuttered down the long corridors. The limited edition is now SOLD OUT—see News section above.
    £15 including postage and packing worldwide.

    CURRENT 93: THE GREAT IN THE SMALL
    The complete studio recordings of Current 93, and those of David Tibet and Steven Stapleton, on one CD. Special care has been taken to add variant mixes and other material that have appeared on compilations. In full colour digipak, with artwork by David Tibet, Steven Stapleton and Babs Santini. Now available.
    £7.50 plus postage and packing (1 CD).

    NURSE WITH WOUND: AUTOMATING Volume 1
    Comprising all the tracks from the United Dairies LP release of the same name, plus an extra 10 minute piece, 'Automating (Again)', which appeared on the Born Out of Dreams compilation in 1984. Digipak CD with original and new artwork by Steven Stapleton and Matt Waldron. Now available.
    £10 plus postage and packing (1 CD).

    NURSE WITH WOUND: FUNERAL MUSIC FOR PEREZ PRADO
    All the music from the deleted NWW EP's Yagga Blues & Soresucker, with the addition of the previously unreleased full version of Funeral Music For Perez Prado.Full track listing: Yagga Blues, Yagga Blues (instrumental), Funeral Music For Perez Prado (full version), I Am The Poison, Journey Through Cheese. Mixed by Steven Stapleton and remastered by Denis Blackham with cover artwork by Babs Santini. Release comes in a full-colour digipak.
    £10 plus postage and packing

    NURSE WITH WOUND: THUNDER PERFECT MIND
    The sister release of CURRENT 93's album of the same name, was originally released in the winter of 1991. This new version, in a specially produced full colour digipak, consists of the 2 classic 30 minute recordings that made up the original album: COLD, an intense industrial mindfuck on overload, and, in COLDER STILL the band at their most psychedelic and spaced-out. Also exclusive to this new release is the previously unreleased MISS TICKER, a seven minute psychotic remix of COLD featuring David Tibet and Colin Potter.With newly redone cover art and new artwork by Steven Stapleton. Now available. £10 plus postage.

    XHOL: MOTHERFUCKERS LIVE
    The second instalment in the occasional UNITED DURTRO series in which Steven Stapleton and David Tibet release material by their Kraut Rock heroes. This 3 CD set comprises previously unavailable live material by one of the most innovative German bands of all time, XHOL. Disc 1: Freedom Opera (Live 1968); Disc 2: Live at Frankfurt WDR 1969; Disc 3: Three track mini CD with Nurse With Wound, Christoph Heemann and Current 93 covering their favourite tracks by XHOL. Artwork by Steven Stapleton. Available June 2001.
    £14 plus postage and packing (3 CDs)

*FORTHCOMING * FORTHCOMING * FORTHCOMING * FORTHCOMING*
We are not quite ready to receive orders for the items below,
but we wished to inform you of these imminent releases.

RECORDS
    CURRENT NINETY THREE: HYPNAGOGUE--A Hymn To The Hypnagoguic Christ
    A paramusical meditation on the recent manifestations of THE HYPNAGOGUIC CHRIST to David Tibet. With hand-printed booklet containing Tibet's hymns to THE HYPNAGOGUIC CHRIST; signed and numbered full colour art print on art card; 220 gram vinyl record. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Available late Autumn 2001.
ART PRINTS
    SOFT BLACK STARS
    A3 high quality reproduction of the front cover image from SOFT BLACK STARS. Limited to 130 copies, signed and numbered by David Tibet, of which 100 will be for sale. Available July 2001. Further artwork by Tibet, Stapleton and Andria Degens/Pantaleimon will be available this year.
BOOKS

    THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ERIC, COUNT STENBOCK
    We can at last announce a publication date for this title: November 1, 2001, and are now accepting orders for this item.

    This deluxe edition contains the complete published poems of the most decadent and fascinating of all the fin de siècle poets The volumes collected here for the first time are: LOVE, SLEEP & DREAMS; MYRTLE, RUE AND CYPRESS; and THE SHADOW OF DEATH.

    The texts are edited by David Tibet, who has also contributed an Introduction discussing the rarity of the original editions of the books, and an appendix with comprehensive notes to the poems; translations of those non-English texts used in the poems are also to be found in the Appendix. A bibliography of primary and secondary sources is also printed.

    David Tibet has been working on this book for three years, and is delighted that its publication is imminent. This continues his project of making available all of Stenbock's published and unpublished writings. 208 pages; hardback cloth-bound book, with pictorial colour blocked cover; all page edges gilt; head- and tail-bands; ribbon marker; sepia frontispiece showing a rare photograph of Count Stenbock. Limited to 400 copies. Published by Durtro Press.

    Cost, including postage and packing, is £40 worldwide.

     

 

 

 

 

 

 


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