In Menstrual Night

In Menstrual Night Artist: Current 93
Label: World
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5021958512020
ASIN: B000006XXZ

In Menstrual Night


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Tracks:

  1. Sucking Up Souls
  2. To Feed the Moon
  3. Killykillkilly (A Fire Sermon)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent transitional album.......2004-03-20

To me, this represents a turning point in Current 93's evolution. Not AT ALL because it is so radically different from "Nature Unveiled" or "Dogs Blood Rising," but because I think it's clear they couldn't continue in this vein. Whereas Nurse with Wound can make endlessly fascinating soundscapes that are violent or silly or whatever, Current 93 really comes into its own when David Tibet starts ranting about himself and Jesus. This album opens with a clip from Hildegard of Bingen (actually from the album "A Feather on the Breath of God") and continues with a meditative jumble of voices and churchy sounds. Second track is way too long (clearly they had to fill up one side of an LP) and just not very distinctive. Third track is AWESOME, very noisy and tribal. Except for the second track which in my opinion is a total dud, this belongs in anyone's collection alongside "Nature Unveiled" and "Dogs Blood Rising," and for me would replace both "Live at Bar Maldoror" (a total snooze) and the truly awful "A Little Menstrual Night Music."

4 out of 5 stars Early Current 93 almost at its purest.......2004-02-23

If you're looking for songs in 4/4 time or 12/8 (like their later output) don't buy it. This is Current 93 of the "Live at Bar Maldoror" era - atmospheric in a dark way, less mesmerising and coherent than Maldoror and less effective for dark meditations. It is nonetheless listenable for afficionados of the genre - and very useable when this mood is needed.

Track 1: The construction is around voices, children's especially, and a blend of 16th Century polyphony (William Byrd-styled) and Berio at his best, passed through filters and loops. At moments it is the whispering of voices from another world into the very darkest of night; it fleets though a cathedral on the edge of the abyss, without light, in which you stand alone. As with all their music of this time, hair-raising moments spring out of the roiling quietude. Of the 3 tracks this is the most surreal.

Track 2 is underpinned by 12/8 drumming unvarying in pattern for long stretches. It seems to try to impose time and rhythm on material drawn from tracks 1 & 2. There are occasions when this music would be atmospherically useful but it's too earthbound to get off on some inner journey into the tunnels of the dark side.
If your intention is to disturb - as legitimate a use of this music as any - this track is fine.

Track 3 reverts almost to the mood of track 1 except that phrases and voices rise clearly out of the mists, at one point breaking into a rhythmic chant. Their emergence narrows its potential use but as a background to other ativities or pure listening, it's fine. An artist working along a parallel to Giger, for instance, may find this track highly conducive.

All tracks are long enough to "get into". If I had to choose between this or Bar Maldoror, I'd go for the latter, but given I can have both I'm perfectly happy. They are different but fairly obviously from the same composers/musicians.

A final word, "In Menstrual Night" is very different from "Little Menstrual Night Music", reported as a "remix". Re-composition might better describe the latter. I recommend an enthusiast of the genre checks both out while they are about.

2 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Shag Spectacular ~ Various Artists
  2. Ghosts
  3. The Best Part of the Symbols: The President Recordings 1966-1968 ~ The Symbols
  4. La Musica Latina
  5. Extended Versions ~ Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band
  6. Lucky Town ~ Bruce Springsteen
  7. Ain't It Dead Yet ~ Skinny Puppy
  8. Radio Waves of the '90s: Pop Hits ~ Various Artists
  9. Obsession ~ Tony Hadley
  10. Harmonia Maudit

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Standards, Vol. 2 ~ Keith Jarrett Trio

Complete, Vol. 1: 1945-1948 ~ Wild Bill Moore

New Grass ~ Albert Ayler

Pictures at an Exhibition ~ Dan Knight

Inside the Electric Circus ~ W.A.S.P.

Gumboot Guitar: Zulu Street Guitar Music ~ Various Artists

Air Mail Music: Caribbean Steel Band ~ Various Artists

Best Album ~ Rc Succession

Roque Marciano ~ Detonautas Roque Clube

Asuha Dokone Ikou ~ Garden, Hoppy Kamiyama