Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre

Current 93 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 16, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: DURTRO / JNANA
• ASIN: B000VGSQ86
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Originally released in 1994, Current 93's masterpiece Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre followed the classic Thunder Perfect Mind album and marked another leap forward for the band. Michael Cashmore's
gorgeously delicate guitar, augmented by drones, bells, and sound manipulations, help to make this one of C93's most musically hypnotic albums, with David Tibet's vocals and text adding a quietly controlled power and drama virtually unsurpassed in the Current 93 canon. This reissue has been completely remastered and features newly designed artwork in a full-color digipack with a 20-page booklet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my all time favourite record, March 28, 2002

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Z. Komar (Croatia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (Audio CD)

This is, without any doubt, one of the best c93 records. It is incredibly cohesive both in music and quality/imagery of the lyrics (it is said in the liner notes it should be regarded as one piece of music), but it doesn't get even close to being boring at ANY point of the whole recording. Why? Because the substance, the meaning, the point the album develops from the very beginning til the end is extremely powerful, completely focused and vivid. What supports the meaning of the words is incredible passion and enthusiasm of Tibet's vocal which has meaning within itself. You could listen to the WAY he expresses himself without listening to the actual words and actually hear everything. Every little subtlety is there in his voice. Also, his poetry is extremely inspired, it always is, but on this record particularly. The music supports the vocal perfectly. It is consisted of Cashmore's guitar compositions which are really incredible and very effective drones by Steven Stapleton which really do add a surreal and deeper tone to it all, shifting music to some other plane (as if it wasn't shifted already). The drones swirl around Cashmore's guitar and Tibet's voice taking compositions out of time and space. This piece of art is timeless as it deals with things that shall exist as long as there are humans. Do not miss this delicate spiritual experience.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Broken Heart of Man, September 24, 2001

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"theoryst" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (Audio CD)

I may be biased toward the calmer Gnostic side of this band. So, please consider that disclaimer when I say this is my favourite piece of Tibet's work to date. What is finished in 'All the Pretty Little Horses' is what starts here.
Heavily Inspired by Pascale and Wain (*again), this album is slow, deliberate, and wide of heart. It is not the rolicking fever of Lashtal and the like. It is internal and lovely.
Enjoy

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most pleasant and thoughtful, August 16, 2005

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spizzletrunk "spizzletrunk/freightoffire" (Dunnville) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (Audio CD)

This is the best cd that has ever been made.

The Broken Heart of Man