Showing posts with label Current 93. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Current 93. Show all posts

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: