Current 93, Halo

Posted by Kenn on 17 July 2007
Durtro / Jnana, 2004

Current 93: Halo

  1. Halo
  2. Alone
  3. Mary Waits in Silence
  4. Calling for Vanished Faces II
  5. Signs in the Stars
  6. All This World Makes Great Blood
  7. Good Morning, Great Moloch
  8. Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still
  9. 5 Hypnagogue 5
  10. Silence Song
  11. Sleep Has His House
  12. 4 Hypnagogue 4
  13. Fields of Rape
  14. So: This Empire Is Nothing
  15. Death of the Corn
  16. Locust

Halo is yet another live Current 93 recording, released in November 2004. It’s been around for a few years so I imagine most people have already heard it but I just bought my copy a few months ago so it’s still fairly new to me.

As live albums go, this is a good one, both in the material presented and the recording quality. Current 93 is one of the few bands that can consistently release good live recordings. All too often live albums are sloppy and unpolished, but that’s definitely not the case here. This almost sounds like a studio recording. The performance in question was in October 2003 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

There’s a really funny review of this album on the iTunes Music Store:

I don’t know what to think of it… This music kinda scares me to be honest…

I personally think that’s a pretty good review. Any musical recording that can evoke that kind of emotional response (even if the writer is joking) can be considered a success, in my opinion.

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