Honeysuckle ¿¿ons

by Current 93

Overview

Following on from three of the most visceral albums in his recent catalog, Black Ships Ate the Sky, Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, and Baalstorm, Sing Omega, David Tibet turns in a collection that is everything that its predecessors weren't, in sonic terms at least. The overwhelming mood of those preceding sets, after all, was the collaboration-drenched scaling of volcanoes of sound and volume. Here, the theremin is the most pronounced instrument, the voice the most cogent tool, and though Tibet's imagery remains as powerful as ever, without the emphasis that he normally calls upon sonics to deliver Honeysuckle AEons feels more like a solo spoken word album, its soul being a succession of scarcely accompanied vocal passages, almost poetic, almost spoken word -- and almost too much to take in one sitting. Of course there are highlights, both of vision and of delivery: "Lily," with its undertones of droning cataclysm; "Honeysuckle," riding a jaunty, almost fairground-like pattern; and "Planet," which is as pretty as it is brief. But with three tracks clocking in at under two minutes, and all but two cut short before five minutes, too much of this quiet, contemplative album feels as though Tibet is simply marking time, another of those pauses that he delivers between his greater works. ~ Dave Thompson

Product Details

Release Date:	04/12/2011
Label:	Coptic Cat
UPC:	0061297270064

Tracks

1. Kingdom
2. Moon
3. Persimmon
4. Cuckoo
5. Jasmine
6. Lily
7. Pomegranate
8. Honeysuckle
9. Sunflower
10. Planet
11. Queendom

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Current 93   Primary Artist
Andrew Liles   Electronics
Baby Dee   Organ,Piano,Vocals
David Tibet   Vocals
Armen Ra   Theremin
Eliot Bates   Oud,Bendir
Lisa Pizzighella   Kalimba

Technical Credits

Andrew Liles   Producer,Group Member,Mixing,Composer
Baby Dee   Composer,Group Member
Current 93   Composer
Luca Comino   Photography
David Tibet   Design,Mixing,Artwork,Composer,Producer,Group Member
Armen Ra   Composer,Group Member
Paul Jackson   Design
Tim Palen   Photography
Eliot Bates   Composer,Group Member
Lauren Winton   Photography
Ladi Dell'aira   Photography
Christina De Vos   Photography
Giulio Di Mauro   Photography
Lisa Pizzighella   Composer,Group Member