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Durtro News: 19 December 2007

Posted by Kenn on 19 December 2007

Dear All:

a Happy Christmas and New Year to you whatever you believe or don’t believe.

David Tibet curates Sunday 20 April at Netherlands Roadburn festival

These bands have now been confirmed for the day that Tibet is curating at Roadburn on 20 April 2008: Æthenor, Baby Dee, Current 93, Om; more names are to be added. Tickets are now on sale on and cost €32.50 (approximately £23).

‘Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre’ Current 93 vinyl now in stock

We now have in stock copies of the new vinyl edition of OF RUINE OR SOME BLAZING STARRE. 1000 copies have been made. Full colour sleeve in stickered polythene bag with 8 page full colour booklet. Black vinyl. £13 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.

Count Stenbock ‘Faust’ book and CD

We have been told by the printers that we will be receiving the FAUST book on 20 December, and we will post them out the same day. The CD is already in stock and has today been added to the shop, but we will not be posting copies of the CD until 20 December, in order that copies of the book reach their purchasers at the same time as the CD does.

For those who would like to order the book/CD, please note that the special pre-publication price offer has now come to an end, and that the book/CD now cost £40 plus postage and packing (there is no VAT on books). CD only: £11 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.

Current 93 ‘Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor’ 12” EP

We are expecting to receive this on 20 December. Copies will be posted as soon as we receive them.

Sharron Kraus ‘The Fox’s Wedding’ new CD album on Durtro Jnana

We are delighted to announce a new release on Durtro Jnana by the wonderful Sharron Kraus. Sharron has a gift for bringing us beautiful and heartbreaking songs from a deep-seated tradition of storytelling and mythology and this album is no exception. All songs are original bar one.

Sharron Kraus is a singer/musician/songwriter who creates music rooted in the folk traditions of England and Appalachia. Her work is characterised by soil-rich vocals, haunting banjo, fine acoustic guitar and visionary wordcraft. Her songs are populated by a carnival array of fatally charismatic characters, telling tales of enslavement, perversion, incest, obsession, love and death. Sharron’s live performances are stark, compelling and delicate. As with her music, her performance continues the tradition of the balladeer.

She has been featured in Folk Sounds, Arthur Magazine, Ptolemaic Terrascope and Broken Face. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio 3 and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US. Her fanbase includes veteran folk artists Shirley Collins and Archie Fisher as well as Michael Gira, David Tibet and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. The official release date is 10 March 2008, but it will be available from Durtro and Jnana from 18 December. £11 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.

Tracklisting: Brigid • Green Man • In the Middle of Summer • July Skies • Harvest Moon • Would I • The Prophet • Thrice Toss These Oaken Ashes (written by Thomas Campion) • Robin is Dead • Ruthless and Alone • Made My Home • Magpie Child

www.sharronkraus.com


www.myspace.com/sharronkraus

Little Annie and Paul Wallfisch ‘When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos’ new CD album on Durtro Jnana

The wonderful new album from Little Annie, who returns, fresh from the success of ‘Songs From the Coalmine Canary’, with a more introspective album of cover versions. She and pianist Paul Wallfisch have recorded a batch of their favourite songs, rearranged in a duo setting. With this record, Little Annie’s status as one of the premier torch singers singing today is made! This album is now in stock.

Tracklisting: It Was a Very Good Year • Song for You • Private Dancer • One for my Baby and One More for the Road • If You Go Away • Victim • Yesterday When I Was Young • The Summer Knows • I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For • All I Want for Christmas

£11 plus postage and packing and VAT where applicable.

A Jandek selection from David Tibet’s record collection goes up on eBay

I have put 17 Jandek records from my collection on eBay. Those interested can click on the seller link here, or enter the search phrase David Tibet collection. The auction lasts for a week and will be followed by other items on a regular basis.

‘Not Alone’ benefit CD monies donated to Médicins Sans Frontières’ HIV+/AIDS campaign

The total we have donated to MSF/Doctors Without Borders from sales of the Durtro Jnana various artists ‘Not Alone’ benefit CD has now reached Canadian $34,000 (approximately UK£16,432, US$33,600, €22.885). Our profound thanks to all of those—artists and buyers—who have helped in raising this amount of money for MSF/DWB’s work with HIV+ and AIDS in West Africa.

If you are interested in buying this 75 artist, 5 CD set, please go to www.jnanarecords.com. Click on the ‘Not Alone’ link on that site for more information and a complete artist/tracklisting, and click on the ‘Shop’ link on that site to purchase.

Pantaleimon’s ‘Mercy Oceans’ album receives 10/10 on Foxy Digitalis

There is a beautiful 10 out of 10 review of Pantaleimon’s ‘Mercy Oceans’ by Charles Franklin on the Foxy Digitalis website.

New releases on NWW member Colin Potter’s ICR label

Far Black Furlong: ‘Far Black Furlong’

‘Far Black Furlong’ is a rapturous, symphonic work in six movements. The music describes tides—from the summer breeze through barley, to the shimmering stretch of a vast ocean extending to the shifting birth pangs of stars. Much of the music was recorded at outdoor locations—such as the barley fields of the Clun forest—and is performed on acoustic instruments.

FBF is baroque oboeist Mark Baigent, composer Richard Moult, dulcimer player John Letcher, the Canadian flautist Amanda Votta, Shropshire poet Bryony Lees, guitarist Ian Tengwall and Andy Cotterill on electronics.

Far Black Furlong: ‘Haidd’

There is a special edition (150 copies) of ‘Far Black Furlong’ which comes with an additional CDR, ‘Haidd’—a beautiful 34 minute remix/reworking of their previous album.

Colin Potter: The Sights of the Drowned Fable

This is a recording of a performance at the Resonator festival, held at the University of Central Lancashire in July 2007. A 43 minute long journey through many structures.

www.icrdistribution.com

Skitliv cover Current 93’s ‘Good Morning, Great Moloch’

A beautiful and sinister version of this song by C93, from their ‘Sleep Has His House’ album, has been covered by Skitliv, the group fronted by ex-Mayhem singer Maniac. It can be listened to on David Tibet’s MySpace page.

Maja Elliot and Marc Henri Lamande live in Paris Thursday 27 December

Maja Elliott appears in performance with Marc Henri Lamande on 27 December. Details are in French (PDF, 368k). For further information contact Vultures Musick at vulturesmusick at free dot fr or visit their MySpace page.

My favourite albums and books at the moment

I was recently sent a copy of the new album by Ulver, ‘The Shadows of the Sun’. I have to say this is one of the most mesmerising records I have heard for many years, a monumental, and monumentally sad, epic. It is the first album I have ever heard by them. I played it eight times in two days, and then on the train to London—and then on the train back from London. REALLY remarkable.

www.jester-records.com/ulver


www.myspace.com/ulver1

Then the next day KatieJane Garside, of Queen Adreena and Daisy Chainsaw, sent me ‘The Ventriloquist’, the new album by her project Ruby Throat. This is absolutely and beautifully hypnotic—for me her most thrilling and touching work to date, in a career which has produced already many works of great power and beauty. It is limited to 500 copies so it may be already sold out.

www.katiejanegarside.com


www.rubythroat.co.uk

Six Organs of Admittance’s new album ‘Shelter from the Ash’ is as stunning and unpredictable and gorgeous as I expected it would be. Ben Chasny is a genius. What else can I say?

I also recently finished reading Michel Faber’s ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ which is, quite simply, one of he most enthralling books I have ever read. I couldn’t put it down. No matter how good anyone tells you this book is (including myself)—it is even better than they are telling you. And, long though the book is, I wished it could just have kept on for much longer. I then read a novella by him, ‘The Courage Consor’, which was masterful and haunting.

Coptically, I am currently reading the Coptic edition of the Nag Hammadi text, ‘The Gospel of the Egyptians’, also known as ‘The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit’, which can be found, excellently edited by Alexander Böhlig and Frederik Wisse, in Volume 2 of the 5-volume Brill edition of ‘The Coptic Gnostic Library’, as well as in an English translation in Bentley Layton’s superlative ‘The Gnostic Scriptures’ (Doubleday).

Love and peace to you all,

David+++

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