Monday, April 09, 2012

Apocalyptic folk

David Tibet and Current 93 played for the first time in their career in Sweden. Namely in a former churchbuilding which now gives room to the the club-enviroment known as Babel, in southern city Malmö.

I thought I should share these two photos taken by my cell-phone to at least give a little place on this blog for the event that took place. The music they play are often called neo-folk, but one can find all terms lacking. Safe to say that it is apocalyptic. This video below is taken from the concert:



In contrast I want to post a studio recording which is much softer, one of the many examples in which different singers interpret Idumea. Here featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy:


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