Durtro Jnana

Releases

Pantaleimon - Heart Of The Sun

Street date: 2008-06-30

"The whole thing started when Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex) asked if she could remix 'Under The Water'. Of course, I said yes. When she came back with such remarkable music, and casually mentioned, "Oh, why don't you ask a couple of other pals to do remixes?", it gave me the idea for this album. It is very much a collaborative project. I chose friends whom I also admired as artists and who inhabit a creative space that are connected in some way and on some level to me and to each other. I gave away my 'babies' to go out to play with the likes of Andrew W.K., Stephen O'Malley, Lilium, CarterTutti, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles, The Bricoleur, Plinth, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen) and of course Fovea Hex. Even though I had an inkling that the mixes would fit together as one coherent whole, I had no idea just how much they would complement one another. There are also some previously unreleased tracks including a cover of Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 'Even If Love', which didn't quite make it on Mercy Oceans. However, this cover version has been gently manipulated and star-mangled by Susan Stenger (Band Of Susans). Another of the unreleased tracks is our first collaboration with the group Strings Of Consciousness. They wished to remix one of the songs from Mercy Oceans. I had no more songs left from the album so we created a new song just for this record. I am very happy to have them join us for the ride... "

Current 93 - Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor

Street date: 2008-05-19

Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor is a remix EP from Current 93. It includes two Matmos remixes of the tracks “Black Ships Ate The Sky” and “The Beautiful Dancing Dust”, which also features vocals from Anthony (of 'The Johnsons'), and two remixes of “Blackships Ate The Sky” by JG Thirlwell aka Foetus.

Marc Almond & Michael Cashmore - Gabriel And The Lunatic Lover

Street date: 2008-05-05

Gabriel And The Lunatic Lover is the first release from a collaboration between Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. This EP sets to music two poems by the 19th-century gay writer Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock. The 2-track CD is housed in a beautiful full-colour digipak, containing previously unpublished paintings of Marc by Russian artist Vania Soutavliov, a rare photograph of the enigmatic Count, as well as the complete texts to the poems and all credits.

Baby Dee - The Robin's Tiny Throat

Street date: 2008-03-10

21 tracks 101 mins. A double CD collecting material from the FX 'Little Window' and 'Love's Small Song' albums, plus the 'Made For Love' CD single. Utterly unique and wonderful.

Sharron Kraus - The Fox's Wedding

Street date: 2008-03-10

The Fox’s Wedding is Sharron Kraus’ fifth album, and is a wonderfully delicate installment to her catalogue, as haunting and tragic as ever.

Current 93 - Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre (LP)

Street date: 2008-02-11

The gorgeously delicate guitar of Michael Cashmore augmented by drones, bells and sound manipulations make Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre one of Current 93's most musically hypnotic albums to date, with the vocals and text of David Tibet adding a quietly controlled power and drama which is virtually unsurpassed in the canon of the band.

Little Annie + Paul Wallfisch - When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos

Street date: 2008-01-28

When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos sees the duo of Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch pouring their hearts into other people's songs, alchemically transforming songs like U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and Tina Turner's signature belter "Private Dancer" into gloriously heartbreaking torch-songs and poignant, understated ballads.

Pantaleimon - Mercy Oceans

Street date: 2007-11-05

Mercy Oceans features Baby Dee, Isobel Campbell, Keith Wood (of Hush Arbors), and John Contreras. Pantaleimon have created an album of exceptional beauty and depth. There are ten tracks in all, all songs, and all stunningly captivating.

Current 93 - Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre

Street date: 2007-09-24

The gorgeously delicate guitar of Michael Cashmore augmented by drones, bells and sound manipulations make Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre one of Current 93's most musically hypnotic albums to date, with the vocals and text of David Tibet adding a quietly controlled power and drama which is virtually unsurpassed in the canon of the band.

V/A - Wild Tigers I Have Known
V/A - Wild Tigers I Have Known

Street date: 2007-09-10

13 tracks 39 minutes. This Durtro compilation is the soundtrack to 2007's acclaimed film Wild Tigers I Have Known and inlcudes music by Pantaleimon, Current 93 and many more.

A Bad Diana - The Light's Are On But No-One's Home

Street date: 2007-09-10

The Lights Are On But No-One’s Home, the new CD released on Durtro Jnana, is the long-awaited follow-up to the 1987 album Belle De Jour. It is a collection of new songs and instrumentals in her unique style. This recording was made with the help of Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter (of Nurse With Wound) and also Matt Waldron of irr.app.(ext.).

Chris Connelly - The Episodes

Street date: 2007-05-21

Chris Connelly has also enjoyed a very unique solo career spanning over eight albums, the latest of which is this, 'The Episodes'. The album was produced by Joan of Arc's Tim Kinsella, and Town & Country's Ben Vida and is a timeless and unique masterpiece owing to the radical arrangements and an exceptional band culled from Califone, Joan of Arc, Town & Country, U.S.Maple and other Chicago Jazz & improve luminaries.

Current 93 - The Inmost Light

Street date: 2007-05-21

Originally issued in 1995-96, this set, which announced itself as being “Hallucinatory Patripassianist Song” reissues in their entirety, the mini-albums 'Where The Long Shadows Fall' and 'The Stars Are Marching Sadly Home' , as well as the full length 'All The Pretty Little Horses'. Current 93 became David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, Michael Cashmore and Joolie Wood for this album. Guest vocalists included Nick Cave, Jhonn Balance of Coil, Andria Degens of Pantaleimon and Shirley Collins.

Current 93 - Hypnagogue
Current 93 - Hypnagogue

Street date: 2007-05-07

2 tracks 50 minutes. Originally released as a limited EP, this re-release adds a newly recorded version featuring an orchestral arrangement by Michael Masley. Beautiful & unique

Bill Fay - Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow

Street date: 2007-04-23

'Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow' continues Fay's tradition of writing thoughtful, life-affirming songs that, as this record proves, benefit from extended studio sessions and input from three equally committed musicians - guitarist Gary Smith, electric and bowed bass-player Rauf Galip, and drummer Bill Stratton - also known as the improvising trio The Acme Quartet. With the renewed interest in Bill Fay's past work following the reissue of his first two albums 'Bill Fay' and 'Time Of The Last Persecution', and the recently-made-available pre-Decca demos 'From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock', it's surprising to discover that twenty new songs have remained unreleased for over two decades.

Simon Finn - Magic Moments

Street date: 2007-04-23

This is the first collection of new material from legendary psych-folk giant Simon Finn since the release of his seminal album 'Pass The Distance'. 'Pass The Distance' is considered the precursor for all the psych-folk that has been proliferating the airwaves over the past few years. All those brilliant Six Organs of Admittance and Fursaxa records you love owe a lot to this record.

Current 93 - Halo
Current 93 - Halo

Street date: 2007-04-23

16 tracks 67 minutes. The first of a comprehensive reissue series of the Durtro and United Dairies catalogue. Halo was XR recorded at the band's 2003 sell-out Queen Elizabeth Hall gig

Little Annie - Songs From The Coal Mine Canary

Street date: 2007-04-09

'Songs From the Coalmine Canary' is the fabulous new full length from Little Annie. She has recorded extensively with vanguard figures of late twentieth century music such as rock musician Kid Congo Powers, DJ Paul Oakenfold, dub stalwart Adrian Sherwood, punk/experimental band Crass , noisy krautrock surrealists Nurse With Wound and experimental/electronica band Coil - an entity that had its origins in the first industrial rock band Throbbing Gristle.

Current 93 - Six Six Six : Sick Sick Sick

Street date: 2007-03-23

8 tracks 57 mins. Another reissue from Durtro making available some long-deleted sought-after Current 93 material.

Pantaleimon - Cloudburst

Street date: 2007-02-26

Andria Degens speaks here about 'Cloudburst': "The whole piece is symbolic of the journey every human being makes in a lifetime or lifetimes. The track 'Cloudburst' symbolises the clouding of the mind, the going round and round, the sleeping state, the darkness, but with an instinctual feeling that something is to change. Then as 'Crystalline Rain' falls, the cloud formations begin to disperse and clarity, space, wakefulness become apparent. 'Ascension of the Sun' is enlightenment, the top of the mountain, the sunrise. 'Numinosum' is the transformation, transfiguration, the state of being, the space between heaven and earth.”

Michael Cashmore - The Snow Abides

Street date: 2007-02-12

This will be of particular interest to 'Antony & The Johnsons' fans, as this is Antony's first new material since 2005's Mercury award-winning 'I Am A Bird Now' which catapulted him into the hearts and minds of the mainstream. 'The Snow Abides' is also Michael’s most accomplished and poignant work to date, solo or otherwise and is presented in a full colour delux digipak.

Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky

Street date: 2005-05-29

BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY (CD) is the new 76-minute masterwork from Current 93, this time with the line-Up of David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance), Steven Stapleton, John Contreras with William Basinski, William Breeze and Amy Phillips. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is the long-awaited studio follow-up to 2000's Sleep Has His House. It has taken David Tibet four years to complete, and features some very special guests including Marc Almond, Antony, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Shirley Collins, Baby Dee and others. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is Current 93's most powerful and challenging recording, and looks set to be the most important Current 93 release to date.

Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky

Street date: 2005-05-29

BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY (LP) is the new 76-minute masterwork from Current 93, this time with the line-Up of David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance), Steven Stapleton, John Contreras with William Basinski, William Breeze and Amy Phillips. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is the long-awaited studio follow-up to 2000's Sleep Has His House. It has taken David Tibet four years to complete, and features some very special guests including Marc Almond, Antony, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Shirley Collins, Baby Dee and others. BLACK SHIPS ATE THE SKY is Current 93's most powerful and challenging recording, and looks set to be the most important Current 93 release to date.

Current 93 OM - Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun

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Current 93 were founded by David Tibet and the late Jhonn Balance of Coil in 1982. Over the last 24 years they have pursued their own unique hallucinatory patripassianist vision through numerous records, books, concerts and paintings. David Tibet lives with his wife and his cats and he loves them; his hobbies are Coptic and Koine Greek and the works of Count Stenbock and Louis Wain. Jhonn Balance lives in Heaven. God is love.

OM is a two member band featuring Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, both founding members of legendary doom pioneers Sleep. The duo sonically engage through transportive bass cycles, groove laden drumming, and cryptic vocal-mantra recitations. This track was recorded in October 2005 and the song was engineered by Billy Anderson

Michael Cashmore - Sleep England

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Sleep England is Michael Cashmore's first solo release. He has worked extensively with Current 93 has also released albums with his own project Nature and Organisation. During the last fifteen years, Michael has written the majority of music for some of Current 93’s most acclaimed albums including Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All The Pretty Little Horses and also the recently released Black Ships Ate The Sky. It has been Michael’s music, coupled with the lyrical style of David Tibet, that has helped establish Current 93’s international reputation for producing some of the most challenging, profound and influencial works in contemporary music.

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