Durtro / Jnana
2004
Halo
About This Album
The cover apes the Moody Blues album Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by artist Phil Travers, though this one was done by Jennifer MacGuire. And in their own way, Current 93 are seekers in the same way as the old Moodies, but are far more interesting and mercurial. Though they are most certainly not a pop group in the old-school sense of the word, in a perfect world they would be regarded as one. The music David Tibet and his ever-evolving tribe of minstrels has been making since the late '80s is accessible, beautiful, melodic, and texturally sophisticated -- especially in the studio. The lyrics are perhaps tough and over the top intellectually -- and in fact they can be scary as hell -- but so what? "Timothy," by the Buoys, was a paean to cannibalism and a hit in 1971, and "Leader of the Pack" did much the same thing in the early '60s. OK. OK. Too much. Halo is a live offering from October of 2003, recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at South Bank in London. There are 16 cuts as they were performed, and the show lasted just over an hour. Tibet was joined by Joolie Wood playing her recorder, violin, and whistle; John Contreras played cello; Michael Cashmore joined Joe Budenholzer and Tibet on guitar and also played bass; Maja Elliot and Graham Jeffery alternated on pianos; and Karl Blake and Finn Sands joined Tibet on vocals in various places.
Track List (try tracks 1,4,7,9 and 10)

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