Black Ships

Black Ship Time

1 Vauvauvau 5:03

Guitar - Benja Minh
Mixed By - San Teeny
Voice - Coptic Cat

One-off use of this group name for a very limited release on Hand/Eye.
Tibet, Chasny and Stapleton appear under aliases.
The Folklore of the Moon series volume VII September 17, 2005 - Full Harvest Moon.
Limited edition of 100 copies.(Cd-r)




Ntnau Nhôtp Mprê Ahenjêu Eukêm Ouem Tpe
The title translates as 'At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky'.
Disc featuring outtakes of two tracks from the (then forthcoming) Black Ships Ate The Sky album, released for the Toronto shows. Both songs are mastered on a single index track on the CD, separated by a short pause. All text on the disc and sleeve is in Coptic.
Limited to 1000 copies.




Ntnau Nhôtp Mprê Ahenjêu Eukêm Ouem Tpe
1 At Sunset 4:09
2 Black Ships Ate The Sky 4:05

With blue card in plastic sleeve, accompanying signed and numbered book 'At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky' by David Michael.
Comes in astickered plastic bag.
From the book: "Each copy of this book is accompanied by a CD of Current 93 performing At Sunset Black Ships Ate The Sky at St. George the Martyr Anglican Church Toronto, Canada on June 3, 2005.
Current 93 at Sunset were: David Michael, Maja Elliott, William Breeze, Ben Chasny, Simon Finn, John Contreras, Joolie Wood, Baby Dee, Andria Degens, Will Oldham."
Limited to 200 copies.



Black Ships Ate The Sky Tour Single (2006)

1 Then Kill Cæsar 3:52
2 This Autisitic Imperium Is Nihil Reich 4:02
3 Vauvauvau (Black Ships In Their Harbours) 4:37

Release for the 2006 tour. No sleeve notes. All text in Coptic.
Edition of 1000 copies.
Also known as "Coptic European Tour" and as "God Is A Man Eater".
Limited to 500 copies, not to 1.000 (as stated on PREcordings'site).

A limited run of a 3 track tour CD, comprising 3 different mixes of tracks from "Black Ships Ate The Sky".





Black Ships Ate The Sky

1 Idumæa 3:22
Arranged By - Michael Cashmore
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Arranged By - Marc Almond
2 Sunset (The Death Of Thumbelina) 3:18
3 Black Ships In The Sky 3:38
4 Then Kill Cæsar 3:58
5 Idumæa 2:42
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Banjo, Tambura, Arranged By - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
6 This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich 4:03
7 The Dissolution Of 'The Boat Millions Of Years' 3:57
8 Idumæa 4:19
Cello - Ida Mercer
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Harp, Arranged By - Baby Dee (2)
9 Bind Your Tortoise Mouth 2:30
10 Idumæa 2:02
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Arranged By - Antony (3)
11 Black Ships Seen Last Year South Of Heaven 4:07
12 Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer) 3:19
Performer [9.29.82 Galaxial Compositions] - William Basinski
13 Idumæa 2:35
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Psaltery, Zither, Harmonium, Arranged By - Clodagh Simonds
14 Black Ships Were Sinking Into Idumæa 11:05
Music By [Idumæa Section] - Chris Carter (2)
Voice [Subliminal Threnodic Voice] - Amy Phillips
Voice, Music By [Idumæa Section] - Cosey Fanni Tutti
15 The Beautiful Dancing Dust 0:57
Voice, Piano, Music By - Antony (3)
16 Idumæa 3:06
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Dulcimer [Appalachian], Harmonica, Arranged By - Andria Degens
17 Vauvauvau (Black Ships In Their Harbours) 4:41
Viola - William Breeze
18 Idumæa 1:50
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Performer [9.29.82 Galaxial Compositions] - William Basinski
Vocals, Arranged By - David Tibet
19 Black Ships Ate The Sky 4:20
Guitar - David Tibet
Viola - William Breeze
Voice [Subliminal Threnodic Voice] - Amy Phillips
20 Why Cæsar Is Burning Part II 2:48
21 Idumæa 2:42
Concertina, Arranged By - Iris Bishop
Lyrics By [Text] - Charles Wesley
Voice, Arranged By - Shirley Collins

There are two versions of this release, one for the US market (purple cover) and one for the UK/European market (scarlet cover). The music is the same on both versions.

Both the North American and UK editions consist of the album in a full colour digipak as well as a 56 page colour booklet containing an introductory note on the writing of the album by David, all the lyrics, details of those who created the album, colour photographs of all the Current 93 family on the album, website details for everyone, Hallucinatory Patripassianist colour illustrations and BlackShipText on each page, and the names of all those who supported the recording, and the release, of this album by subscribing to it in advance.

Tracks 12 and 17 have titles in Coptic, and there is a lot of Coptic text on the CD, booklet and cover.



I Am Black Ship

1 Eaten Sky (Instumental Introduction) 0:54
2 Idumæa 2:59
3 Black Ships In The Sky (Alternative Version) 3:37
4 The Dissolution Of 'The Boat Millions Of Years' 3:53
5 South Of Heaven (Instrumental Edit) 3:04
6 "Prototypes" Outtake 0:41
7 This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich (Alternative Version) 3:57
8 5 Hypnagogue 5 (Alternative Version) 7:59
9 "Pale Sky" Outtake 0:53
10 Black Ship Skips To Armageddon 4:31
11 I Am Black Ship 1:48
12 Idumæa 1:32

This disc was available only to advance subscribers to the Black Ships Ate The Sky CD and comprises unreleased tracks, outtakes and alternative versions of songs from that album.
Packaged in a black clamshell sealed by a black sticker with "I Am Black Ship" written in Coptic. Also comes with a triangular enamel badge featuring the same text.
No notes or titles accompany this disc. The titles below are semi-official, having been given on the Current 93 mailing-list.



Black Ships Eat The Sky

David Tibet remarked as follows on the Durtro website at the time of this release:
"This is an absolutely alternative version of the 'Black Ships Ate The Sky' album.
All the tracks sung by me on this album are radically different mixes/versions of the tracks from the previously released standard version.
The versions of 'Idumea' tend to be the same, although Marc Almond's version [i.e. track 1] uses a totally different vocal take.
The 'alternative version' does sound very different indeed. Steven Stapleton and I worked on it for as long as we worked on the construction of the 'standard' version to make it a conceptual whole, not merely a collection of different mixes. This version was considered for being the 'proper' release of 'Black Ships Ate The Sky', which is to say that Steven, Colin [Potter] and I could not decide which was the most powerful and moving version. After we finished the Black Ships sessions we had 126 different mixes of 29 different songs, not including bridging sections.
Its order, and track titles, are the same as on the 'standard' version, with the exception of the track 'Why Cæsar Is Burning': on the standard '…Ate The Sky' edition we use Part 2 of the song, and on '…Eat The Sky' we use Part 1.
It is NOT the same as the 'I Am Black Ship' CD which was given to advance subscribers ONLY for 'Black Ships Ate The Sky', with the promise it would not be released in any other form, nor does it use any of the versions available on the above-mentioned 12 track CD, 'I Am Black Ship'.
All the printed text on this album is in Coptic, and the sleeve design is totally different to 'Black Ships Ate The Sky'."

Current 93 / OM

Inerrant Rays Of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)

1 Current 93 - Inerrant Infallible (Black Ships At Nineveh Or Edom) 8:51
Bagpipes - Catriona MacAffer
Mixed By - Steven Stapleton
Recorded By, Engineer, Mixed By - Colin Potter
Vocals, Guitar [Electric], Bass [Electric], Written By, Mixed By - David Tibet
2 OM - Rays Of The Sun / To The Shrinebuilder 8:06

CD version of the two tracks by Current 93 and Om that made up the 'Inerrant Rays of Ineffable Sun' 10" vinyl EP on Neurot Records. This is the UK/European edition and there is also a North American edition of the CD. The artwork differs slightly on each version. The UK edition has Current 93 first, then Om. The versions of the track by Current 93 differ quite radically on both versions, although the Om track is identical.
The Current 93 track is dedicated "To the memory of Howard Logan (1935-2006). Rest in the Love of God."
The OM track is dedicated "To Lucille (1913-2002)".
Comes with lyric booklet.

Current 93 With Sebastian Horsley

Black Ship In The Underworld
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1 Black Ship In The Underworld 9:30

Limited edition of 333 copies available from the Durtro or Andrew Liles websites

"This CD is released on the occasion of the publication of Sebastian Horsley's autobiography "Dandy In The Underworld" (Spectre, UK & Harper Perennial, USA) and his retrospective art exhibition "Hookers, Dealers, Tailors" at Spectrum Fine Art, 77 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 6RE

Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor

MP4:
DVD-01 Black Ships Ate The Sky (JG Thirlwell Remix) 5:40
DVD-02 The Beautiful Dancing Dust (Matmos Remix) 4:11
Vocals - Antony
MP3:
CD-01 Black Ships Ate The Sky I 5:38
Remix - JG Thirlwell*
CD-02 Black Ships Ate The Sky II 3:56
Remix - JG Thirlwell*
CD-03 Black Ships Ate The Sky 6:05
Remix - Matmos
CD-04 The Beautiful Dancing Dust 5:38
Remix - Matmos
Vocals - Antony

DVD-01 The Beautiful Dancing Dust (Matmos Remix)avi

DVD-02 Black Ships Ate The Sky (JG Thirlwell Remix)avi

This DVD/CD DualDisc contains the two videos for the C93 tracks ‘The Beautiful Dancing Dust’ (vocals by Antony) and ‘Black Ships Ate The Sky’ (vocals by Tibet) as well as the 4 tracks from the 12" release, which featured 2 remixes by JG Thirlwell of the track ‘Black Ships Ate the Sky’ and two Matmos remixes, of ‘The Beautiful Dancing Dust’ and ‘Black Ships Ate The Sky’.

Brian Turner Interviews Tibet (WFMU)