Sleep Has His House

by Current 93

Sleep Has His House cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 May 2000
  • Label: Durtro
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:02:54
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Written as an elegy for David Tibet's father, 'Sleep Has His House' is an incredibly sombre and funereal neofolk album. The record relies on soft, repetitive harmonium drone and deeply poetic, hypnotic spoken word to explore themes of death and spiritual passage.

Genres

Descriptors: death, funereal, repetitive, folk, experimental, male-vocals, acoustic, spirituality, traditional, ritualistic, literary

Tracklist

  1. Love's Young Dream (3:02)
  2. Good Morning, Great Moloch (3:29)
  3. The Magical Bird In The Magical Woods (8:46)
  4. Red Hawthorn Tree (4:33)
  5. Immortal Bird (6:32)
  6. Niemandswasser (6:06)
  7. Lullaby (1:43)
  8. Sleep Has His House (24:10)
  9. The God Of Sleep Has His House (4:32)

Credits

  • David Tibet - artwork [colour painting], lyrics by, music by, vocals, harmonium
  • Colin Potter - engineer
  • Michael Cashmore - instruments [all], music by
  • Denis Blackham - mastered by [digitally mastered]
  • Steven Stapleton - mixed by

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