Calling for Vanished Faces [Import]

Calling for Vanished Faces [Import]

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Product Description
Two disc retrospective of the English experimental/ electronic/ ambient/ industrial act's output for the Durtro label from their start in 1984 up through 1999. Intended as an introduction to their work for the North American market, it contains 30 tracks, including a previously unreleased version of the track 'Anyway, People Die'. David Tibet did both the artwork & liner notes for the release.

Tracks:

I: Funeral Music For Us All: Christus Christus (The Shells Have Cracked)
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Imperium I
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Be
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Oh Coal Black Smith
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Loony Runes
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Black Flowers Please
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Anyway, People Die
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Dogun
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Hourglass (For Diana)
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Falling
I: Funeral Music For Us All: In The Heart Of The Wood (And What I Found There)
I: Funeral Music For Us All: Mary Waits In Silence
I: Funeral Music For Us All: A Sadness Song
I: Funeral Music For Us All: All The Pretty Little Horses

Tracks:

II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: Lucifer Over London
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: How The Great Satanic Glory Faded
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows...
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: Bloodstreamruns
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: All The World Makes Great Blood
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of This World
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: Calling For Vanished Faces I
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: The Bloodbells Chime
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: Calling For Vanished Faces II
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: A Gothic Love Song (For N.)
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: The Dead Side Of The Moon
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: Sea Armchair
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: So: This Empire Is Nothing
II: Love, Sleep And Dreams: All The Pretty Little Horses

Album Description

Two disc retrospective of the English experimental/ electronic/ ambient/ industrial act's output for the Durtro label from their start in 1984 up through 1999. Intended as an introduction to their work for the North American market, it contains 30 tracks, including a previously unreleased version of the track 'Anyway, People Die'. David Tibet did both the artwork & liner notes for the release.

Customer Reviews:

Beyond description....and belief.......2005-05-16

This album serves as a great introduction to Current 93...in fact, it's all you really need. You might find the first CD disturbing, or perhaps irritating, but it segways nicely into the second disk. If you listen to disk 2 with an open mind, the heart-wrenching vocals and melodies will blow you away. Nothing can top Bloodstreamruns and The Great Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World.

puh-leeze!.......2004-08-26

Current 93 has got to be the worst band in the history of bad bands. The production is grating, the lyrics are infantile, and David Tibet's understanding of the metaphysical goes about as deep as a box of Count Chocula. But ooooohhh.. doesn't his voice sound scary? No. He sounds like a little kid who's mad at his mummy for not buying him an X-Box. Avril Lavigne inspires more thought than these clowns. This music is garbage. The only people who could possibly enjoy it are those who wear halloween costumes every day of the year.

Being Sick, Sick, Sick Never Felt So Fine.......2004-05-04

Ahhh, apocalyptic folk music with ambient industrial atmospheres, and the awe-inspiring voice and lyrics of David Tibet, which soar from gnostic Christian flights of glory to Thelemic quests for endless liberty to harrowing explorations of the crushing weight of earth's torments.

While listening to this album I go through the full gamut of emotions: Laughing out loud, scared, confused, tears, awe, and joy. And back again. For me, this album is the best all around place to enter Current 93's "sick, sick, sick" world. "Outsider" music at its finest. . . . Gentle psychopaths of the world should love it.

One of the best anthology recordings I've ever heard. Not only are the individual tracks great, but the sequencing of the tracks is flawless with many tracks carefully bleeding into the next one. There are whole worlds contained within these 2 discs.

A perfect place to start getting into one of the most potent U.K. esoteric bands ever. Don't miss it.

If you buy only 1 C93 Album.......2002-08-30

After listening to most of the Current 93 releases I'd have to say this is the 'best bang for the buck' album. It contains the only folk music I've ever liked on the 2nd CD. There was only 1 or 2 songs I liked on the first CD which contains their older work which isn't as good as the acustic stuff they wrote in the mid 90s. Any music affilado should buy and listen to this, my tastes vary greatly and this is one of the cornerstones in my 300+ CD music collection. The only bad thing I have to say is that album doesn't contain my favorite track "The Cat is Dead" which can only be found on the Michael Cashmore/C93 CD.

Calling C93.......2001-10-28

I haven't owned any Current 93 cds until i got copy of "Calling for Vanished Faces". It's indeed a great collection of Current 93's finest pieces. 1st cd represents wider range of styles, from psychedelic, experimental noise to calm, beautiful apocalyptic ballads (the very heart of Current 93). 1st cd would be perfect without tracks "Arch Golgatha" and "Looney Runes" due almost hysteric, almost obscene screaming and almost amusing modifying of the vocals. CD one also features tracks "Falling" feat. collabration with Björk and "All Pretty Little Horses" - vocals by Nick Cave.
2nd CD is just pure perfection -- apocalyptic, magickal and yet very touching songs. Check out tracks like "Bloodstreamruns" and "Calling for Vanished Faces 1" -- all very very beautiful.

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