Island

Artist: Current 93
Label: World
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5021958504025
ASIN: B000007Y7I

Release Date: 1992-11-03

Island

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Tracks:

Falling
Dream of a Shadow of Smoke
Lament for My Suzanne
Fields of Rape
Passing Horses
Anyway, People Die
To Blackened Earth
Oh Merry-Go-Round
Crowleymass Unveiled
Paperback Honey
Fall of Christopher Robin
Fields of Rape & Smoke
Mery-Go-Round & Around

Customer Reviews:

Superb! Tibet is wonderful.......2004-07-06

I can only describe this music as an elegant masterpiece who's sound carries perfectly the feeling Current 93 expresses. Tibet is as godly in ISLAND as he is in any other C93 album; spellbinding, gracefully capturing, darkly bright and beautiful; moving. 5 stars.
I recommend Thunder Perfect Mind; All the Pretty Little Horses too.

an occult face of "pop" music.......2004-01-24

This is one of my favorite c93 albums. Mr. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson (aka HÖH) is the "cause" of the strong presence of keyboards. His contribution (along with beautiful backing vocals on the 1st track from Bjork) has made this album one of c93's most accessible works.It's quite different from almost anything you can hear from c93,yet maintaining the melancholic and occult atmosphere that is present in most of their albums.(As always) there are 2-3 songs (not present in the original LP version) that are irrelevant to the rest (Tibet's caprice/humor or just intermezzos?) but this time i have to admit they are quite amusing (HÖH's touch obviously).The whole result would be unworldly and "spaced out" if it wasn't for the lyrics and the diffused melancholy that bring you back to earth (or underneath...).
(HÖH -who among others has written scores for few Icelandic films- was based on this collaboration for the creation of the soundtrack of "Children Of Nature" (Oscar for Best Foreign Film-1992) but his -beautiful- music there, is more based on string arrangements and much less on keyboards.)

Not even Bjork can ruin this gem.......2002-01-08

I remember listening to this alone in a huge old house on a mammoth sound system. It was....formative, okay? I swore never to listen to it again because it was transcendental (man!) And why ruin a perfect moment? It meanders at times but passing horses is awesome. Our lives are like vapour, apparently, drawn from celestial influence. Beats New Labour, I suppose. Great keyboard work. great everything. Yes, I broke the vow and regretted it.

very consistent album.......2001-10-18

just a quick note: I love this cd and think it is one of the better (and more accessible) C93 releases. There are a few songs that use sythesizer sequences, which is a bit out of the norm for them (perhaps this is the HoH influence) but it really works quite well.

I also wanted to add (since i don't see it in the other reviews) that this cd was recorded in Iceland. Therefore, we are treated to a guest appearence (on at least one song) by a little known female vocalist from Iceland at the time known as Bjork. Now of course she is an international superstar. Don't buy the cd just for that though - she only appears as a back-up singer.

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