Track Listing 1. Beginning, A 2. Descent of Long Satan and Babylon, The 3. Sadness Song, A 4. Song For Douglas After He's Dead, A 5. In the Heart of the Wood and What I Found There 6. Mary Waits in Silence 7. Silence Song, A 8. Lament For My Suzanne, A 9. Riverdeadbank 10. All the Stars Are Dead Now 11. Rosy Star Tears From Heaven 12. When the May Rain Comes 13. Thunder Perfect Mind I 14. Thunder Perfect Mind II 15. Hitler as Kalki (Sdm) 16. Sad Sadness Song, A
| Details | | Producer: | David Tibet, Steven Stapleton | | Distributor: | Revolver USA Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Package includes THUNDER PERFECT MIND (1992) plus outtakes. 1992's THUNDER PERFECT MIND sees Current 93 leader David Tibet turning toward a self-styled strain of pagan-Christian gnosticism (the title is from a Gnostic poem), and a fascination with the folk traditions of the British Isles. Every armchair theologist must have her exegesis, and THUNDER PERFECT MIND is the fundamental volume of Current 93's curious catechism. Tibet dissects imagery from Judeo-Christian, occult, Druid, and Eastern dogma, framed by a fragile skein of 12-string guitars, hand drums, harp, strings, and woodwinds. His distinctively intoned song-poems are a complex framework for C93's Byzantine iconography. Rose McDowall's wraithlike backing vocals, the presence of Death In June's dour Douglas P., and such apocalyptic pronouncements as "Rosy Star Tears from Heaven," "All the Stars are Dead Now," and "Hitler as Kalki (SDM)," raise the requisite goosebumps. THUNDER PERFECT MIND is singular, magical, and magnificent. It's where The Incredible String Band's bucolic whimsy meets forgotten apocryphal lore and the insinuating sonic sorcery of David Tibet's co-conspirator, Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton.
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