Current 93 - Emblems: The Menstrual Years

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Great Black Time
1-01	–Current 93	Great Black Time I (Excerpt)	3:02
1-02	–Current 93	Falling Back In Fields Of Rape (Excerpt) Featuring – Iggi, Nicholas Rogers, Steve Ignorant	5:00
1-03	–Current 93	Only Shadows Of Hooks (Excerpt) Featuring – Nicholas Rogers	6:43
1-04	–Current 93	Ach Golgotha: The Mystical Body Of Christ In Chorazaim (excerpt) Featuring – John Murphy, The Youth*Vocals – Annie Anxiety*	8:11
1-05	–Current 93	Sucking Up Souls (Excerpt) Featuring – Bee, Diana Rogerson, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson	6:22
1-06	–Current 93	The Breath And The Pain Of God	9:19
1-07	–Current 93	Imperium I	6:07
1-08	–Current 93	Imperium II	5:47
1-09	–Current 93	Diana	7:55
1-10	–Current 93	The Ballad Of The Pale Christ	5:42
1-11	–Current 93	Great Black Time II (Excerpt)	3:22
1-12	–Current 93	Great Black Time III (Excerpt)	2:52
1-13	–Current 93	Happy Birthday Pigface Christus Featuring – Bee	5:57
Mighty In Sorrow
2-01	–Current 93	The Stair Song	0:35
2-02	–Current 93	Suzanne: She And I In Darkness We Lay And Lie Harp – James Malindaine-Lafayette	4:25
2-03	–Current 93	Maldoror Is Ded Ded Ded Ded	12:11
2-04	–Nature And Organisation	Hooves Vocals – David Tibet	4:24
2-05	–Current 93	Oh Coal Black Smith	4:44
2-06	–Current 93	The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness	2:36
2-07	–Current 93	Broken Birds Fly Featuring – Magick Lantern CycleMixed By – Magick Lantern Cycle	8:47
2-08	–Current 93	Earth Covers Earth	4:19
2-09	–Current 93	They Return To Their Earth Guitar – Nick SalomanHarp – James Malindaine-Lafayette	6:18
2-10	–Current 93	Silence As Christine	2:24
2-11	–Current 93	Anyway, People Die Featuring – Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, The Venerable 'Chi.Med Rig.'Dzin Lama, RinpocheMixed By – Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson	7:03
2-12	–Current 93	The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon	3:09
2-13	–Current 93	Our Lady Of Horses	6:35
2-14	–Current 93	In Sadness Sang	4:05
2-15	–Current 93	The Sadness Of Things (Excerpt)	1:16

Credits

• Co-producer – Steven Stapleton
• Featuring – Douglas Pearce (tracks: 1.01, 1.06, 1.10 to 1.13, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14), James Mannox (tracks: 2.02, 2.03, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14), John Balance (tracks: 1.01, 1.05, 1.11, 1.12, 2.03), Joolie Wood (tracks: 2.02, 2.03, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.15), Michael Cashmore (tracks: 2.02, 2.03, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14), Rose McDowall (tracks: 1.01, 1.05, 1.06, 1.10 to 1.13, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 2.08 to 2.10, 2.12 to 2.14), Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1.01 to 1.06, 1.10 to 1.13, 2.02, 2.03, 2.05, 2.09, 2.10, 2.12 to 2.15), Ruby Wallis* (tracks: 1.02, 1.05, 2.08), Tony Wakeford (tracks: 1.06, 1.10, 2.05, 2.06, 2.08)
• Mixed By – David Tibet (tracks: 1.01, 1.07, 1.08, 1.11, 1.12, 2.01, 2.06, 2.07), Douglas Pearce (tracks: 1.01, 1.07, 1.08, 1.11, 1.12, 2.01, 2.06), Steven Stapleton (tracks: 1.02-1.06, 1.09, 1.10, 1.13, 2.02 to 2.05, 2.08 to 2.10, 2.12 to 2.15)
• Producer – David Tibet

Notes

Compilation made by David Tibet and Steven Stapleton of what they consider the best of the work of Current 93 between 1982 and 1992: Truly these were the menstrual years.

Disc I: Great Black Time

Tracks 1 and 11 are taken from the CD version of Dawn (DT, SS, DP, RM, JB); track 2 from Dogs Blood Rising (DT, SS, RW, NR, SI, I);track 3 from Live At Bar Maldoror (DT, SS, NR); track 4 from Nature Unveiled (DT, SS, M, Y, AA); track 5 from In Menstrual Night (DT, SS, DR, JB, RW, RM, HÖH, B, JB); track 6 from The Red Face Of God (DT, SS, RM, Dp, TW); track 7 and 8 from Imperium (DT); track 9 from Horsey; track 10 from Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow (DT, SS, DP, RM, TW); track 12 from the vinyl version of Dawn (DT, SS, RM, DP, JB) and track 13 from the single of the same name (DT, SS, DP, RM, B).

Disc II: Mighty In Sorrow

Track 1 is taken from Swastikas For Noddy (DT); tracks 2,3,9,10,13 and 14 are unreleased songs or unused mixes from Thunder Perfect Mind (DT, DP, RM, SS, MC, JW, JM; NS plays guitar on 9; JML plays harp on 2 and 9; JB sings on 3); track 4 is an unreleased single by Michael Cashmore's Nature And Organisation with vocals by myself (MC, DT); track 5 is taken from Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God (DT, DP, SS, TW, RM); track 6 is from the Death In June and Current 93 split LP, 1888 (DT, DP, RM, TW); track 7 was previously released as a free 7" single with Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine, and was recorded by myself with Magick Lantern Cycle during the recording of Horsey; track 8 is from Earth Covers Earth (RW, TW, RM); track 11 is from Island by Current 93/HÖH (DT, HÖH, CRL); track 12 is from Thunder Perfect Mind (see above for line-up); track 15 is from the album by Steven Stapleton and myself, The Sadness Of Things (SS, DT, JW).

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
DURTRO 016CD	Current 93	Emblems: The Menstrual Years ‎(2xCD, Comp)	Durtro	DURTRO 016CD	UK	1993

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