Current 93 - Christ & The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow

	£		126
	$		167

Current 93 with the Black And Red Menstrual Show

Christ and the pale queens mighty in sorrow

1988 Maldoror MAL 666

Original 1st pressing (1 of only 93) with matt textured sleeve & two inserts.

As one of only 93 made, this is truly one of the rarest Industrial Experimental or Neo Folk LP's in the world (obviously the exact description and genre depends on your individual viewpoint).

This could very well be your ONLY opportunity to get an original and complete set in this stunning condition.

Copies of this have previously sold for £500

Please note I will add additional pictures shortly.

Uniquely known as a three sided LP!! (actually it consists of two LP's, one of which is one sided with an etching by Steven Stapleton)

Track Listing:-

I:   Dogun, Forever Changing, The Ballad Of The Pale Christ.

II:  Christ And The Pale Queens, Mighty In Their Sorrow

III: Night.

Iv:  Astral Paddington

Matrix Numbers & Run-Out Etchings:-

Side 1:- MAL 666A-1 etched 'Steve doesen't believe in them' and  'Porky Prime Cut'

Side 2:- MAL 666B-1 etched 'Maldoror Is Finally Dead'

Side 3:- MAL-666-93.A1

Side 4:- Etching by Steven Stapleton

Condition:-

VINYL

Side 1:- Mint-  Stunning with a couple of the faintest marks.

Side 2:- Mint-  Stunning with a couple of the faintest marks.

Side 3:- Mint-  Stunning with a couple of the faintest marks.

Side 4:- Etching by Steven Stapleton - Mint

INSERTS

Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow insert.

This is in Excellent+ condition. There is some ultra light creasing if you look in the right light at the right angle.

United Dairies Male Order Insert

This is in at near excellent condition with some minor visible creasing.

COVER

Original 1st pressing with matt textured sleeve. This is at least Excellent condition with some minor ageing/wear and there is a faded red ink stamp on the bottom right of the rear sleeve. This appears to be original and an intended rubber stamping of the cover. This was probably done at the pressing factory to prove it as genuine. however I can't work out exactly what it says, but i do believe it says simply "made in England".

Pressed in UK in a limited edition of 93 copies.

Yes, that's right, only 93 copies were made of this double lp set. With most copies going to band members, their associates and family, and music industry personnel and the few that were left over being sold by mail order. In short this original set with it's inserts is one of the rarest record sets in the world. Most of the original copies are already in private collections, destined never to come onto the open market again. So this may be your only chance to obtain this hideously rare set which comes complete with two inserts.

Some background info on the band and the LP:-

Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow is an album by the English group Current 93. Like Imperium it was made during a musical style shift between the earlier industrial sound of Current 93 and the current more neofolk inspired. It was originally released as an LP in 1988 on the Maldoror label, but was reissued as CD in 1989 and 1994.


Current 93 are an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet (née David Michael Bunting, renamed 'Tibet' by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group).

Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton (of Nurse With Wound) has appeared on nearly every Current 93 release. Michael Cashmore has also been a constant contributor since Thunder Perfect Mind. Douglas P. of Death In June has played on well over a dozen Current 93 releases, and Steve Ignorant of Crass (using the name Stephen Intelligent), Boyd Rice, runologist Freya Aswynn, Nick Cave, Björk, Andrew W.K., Will Oldham, Ben Chasny, Rose McDowall, Tiny Tim, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus, Marc Almond, John Balance of Coil and Ian Read of Fire + Ice have also lent their talents over the years. Tibet is fond of the works of American writer Thomas Ligotti, and invited him to collaborate with Current 93.

Current 93 have released some twenty albums, and many singles, as well as having been a guest on many of the above listed artists' records, and others' such as Nature and Organisation and The Hafler Trio.

Much of Current 93's early work was similar to late 1970s and early 1980s industrial music: abrasive tape loops, droning synthesizer noises and Tibet's distorted, excoriating vocals. This early work became influential with the goth scene. Later works found Tibet mostly casting off such trappings in favor of a more organic sound, labeled by some as "apocalyptic folk" music, occasionally featuring his sinister nursery rhyme-influenced singing and primarily acoustic folk-styled music.

Tibet's lyrics have been fairly consistent, regardless of delivery: The earlier recordings reflect his preoccupation with death, Christ, mysticism, Aleister Crowley (Tibet borrowed the term "93 Current" from Crowley - the 93 Current being the current of Thelema or Agape), Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, runes, The Wicker Man, and a variety of occult notions. The later to present-day period of Current 93's recordings increasingly reflect Tibet's interest in Christian mysticism. Tibet has stated that he now identifies as a Christian.

Literary influences include Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, The Bible, The Poetic Eddas, Francis Parker Yockey's Imperium, Hildegard von Bingen, John Dee, Heptarchia Mystica, The Thunder, Perfect Mind, William Blake, Louis Wain, writer Thomas Ligotti, occult British author Arthur Machen (originator of the title "The Inmost Light"), M.R. James's various ghost stories, The Cloud of Unknowing, Count Eric Stenbock, and Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker.

Musical influences include religious chants, traditional folk music, The Tam Lin ballad, The Incredible String Band, Sand, Comus, Blue Öyster Cult, Love, Shirley Collins, and the Parsi composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

Some of the lyrics to Christ and the Pale Queens:

I am without origin and from whom every beginning comes forth
I am the ancient of days to declare that i am a day by myself
Alone I am the day that does not shine by the sun rather by me
That the sun is ignited I am the reason that it is
Not made perceptible by anyone else
Rather I am the one
I own every being that lives, draws breath, and soothes to gaze at my
countenance
I have created mirrors in which I consider myself without end
Through wonders of my originality i have prepared for myself these mirrors
So they may revend and maintain song of praise
For I have a voice like a thunderbolt by which i keep in motion the entire
universe
In the living sounds of all creation and this I have done who am the ancient of
days
By my word which was and is without beginning i calls all the mighty lights to
emerge
And in this light countless sparks which are angels
But when the angels came to awareness withint their light
They forgot me and wanted to be as i am
Therefore the vengeance of my punitive zeal rejected in thunderclaps those
beings
Which had presumed to contradict me
For there is only one God and no other but me

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