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CURRENT 93, "AT SUNSET BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

This unassuming CDEP was made available at the recent Toronto shows,but the people working the merchandise table were mysteriouslytight-lipped about its contents. The packaging contains no informationother than arcane Coptic Greek text printed in gold on a blackbackground: "PSHOUO NMEHPSAITSHOMTE: NTNAU NH�TP MPR� AHENJ�U EUK�MOUEM TPE."

NURSE WITH WOUND, "ECHO POEME: SEQUENCE NO. 2"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

Echo Poeme: Sequence No. 2 is quite a surprise, even for anartist like Steven Stapleton, who has spent the past 25 yearsconfounding expectations. It is the second part of a series begun witha limited, Vienna show-only CD-R entitled The Little Dipper Minus Two: Echo Poeme Sequence No. 1.

CURRENT 93, "HOW I DEVOURED APOCALYPSE BALLOON"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

Currrent 93 live albums have always been a bit of a tricky proposition.There have been at least a dozen or so live albums released throughoutCurrent 93's long career, and they range from almost completelyunlistenable (Loony Runes and Hitler as Kalki), to pleasant but unremarkable (Halo and Live at St. Olave's Church).

SIMON FINN, "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

Perhaps as a little addendum to his full-length, Simon Finnsimultaneously released this five-song CDEP, for sale at the recentToronto shows. It's very much in the same vein as Magic Moments,just Finn and his guitar, more musings about the frustrations attendantto love, human communication, sadness and joy, longing for life anddeath.

BABY DEE, "MADE FOR LOVE"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

This three-track CDEP follows closely on the tails of Baby Dee's recent A Book of Songs for Anne-Marie, which was her first full-length since the double-disc masterpiece Love's Small Song.

JOHN CONTRERAS/ROSE MCDOWALL/NURSE WITH WOUND, "AFRAID 1 & 2/GEOMETRIC HORSEHAIR CAVALCADE"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Jonathan Dean

Music

This CDEP contains three tracks, all featuring the skillful playing ofJohn Contreras, the handsome young cellist and recent Current 93 andCyclobe collaborator. The first and third tracks on the disc areadaptations of Nico's beautiful song "Afraid" (from her classic 1970album Desertshore,one of several collaborations with John Cale), with the singular RoseMcDowall lending her sweet, lilting vocals to the song.

SIMON FINN, "MAGIC MOMENTS"

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Administrator

Music

Magic Moments is the new album from Simon Finn. If someone wereto have asked me six years ago, when I first heard Simon Finn'slegendary 1970 album Pass the Distance, to assess the chancesthat such a thing would ever come to pass, I'd have rated theprobability a big fat zero. Simon Finn was one of the many late-60spsychedelic folk and progressive artists that released one obscurealbum and then seemingly disappeared into the aethyr, never to be heardfrom again.

The Body Lovers/The Body Haters

Sunday, 12 June 2005

Administrator

Music

Michael Gira's work under the Body Lovers and Body Haters names hasbeen reissued as a double CD with a few changes. Gone are the albums'original titles and the artwork from the original Body Haters releaseis absent. In their place is an extra ten minutes of music on the BodyHaters disc.

The Hafler Trio, "Exactly As I Do"

Saturday, 11 June 2005

Staff

Music

This is the second album in a series of three in which McKenziecollaborates with Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós. The double CD comes inthe same style of package as the other Hafler Trio voice series, eachrelease consists of music made entirely from the voice of oneindividual (Blixa Bargeld and David Tibet being the othercollaborations).