The Inmost Light

by Current 93

The Inmost Light cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Durtro, Jnana
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 55:28
  • Community rating: 5/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'The Inmost Light' is a trilogy centered on the full-length album 'All the Pretty Little Horses', which sets lyrical themes of suffering, death, and Patripassianist theology against some of Current 93's most traditional and acoustic-guitar-based compositions. The album is built around recurring melodic motifs, but this folk-oriented structure is interrupted by experimental, spoken-word pieces that utilize drones and heavily treated vocal samples. This contrast between minimalist songwriting and avant-garde production creates the recording's distinctly unsettling atmosphere.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. The Long Shadow Falls (02:15)
  2. All the Pretty Little Horsies (02:35)
  3. Calling for Vanished Faces I (01:50)
  4. The Inmost Night (02:16)
  5. This Carnival Is Dead and Gone (03:11)
  6. The BloodBells Chime (02:58)
  7. Calling for Vanished Faces II (04:10)
  8. The Frolic (08:11)
  9. The Inmost Light (01:46)
  10. Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil (08:22)
  11. The Inmost Light Itself (09:31)
  12. All the Pretty Horses (02:31)
  13. Patripassian (05:52)

Credits

  • David Tibet - vocals, drones, strings and bells
  • John Balance - vocals on 1, 10 & 11
  • Michael Cashmore - guitar, bass, glockenspiel and piano
  • Steven Stapleton - strings 'n' stones, devices 'n' drones
  • Timothy d'Arch Smith - vocals on 10
  • Lilith - vocals on 5, 7, 8, 9 & 11
  • Geoff Cox-Dor茅 - vocals on 10
  • Nick Cave - vocals on 12 & 13
  • Joolie Wood - violin, whistle and piano
  • David Kenny - guitar and bass
  • Salamah binti Isa - vocals on 10
  • David Rowlnads - steel guitar

More from Current 93: full discography