THE STARRES ARE MARCHING SADLY HOME (THE INMOSTLIGHT THIRDANDFINAL)

As the title implies, this is the third and final part of the Inmost Light triptych, the centrepiece of which is the All the Pretty Little Horses album. Like the first part, Where The Long Shadows Fall, it's a single long dark ambient piece. If I had to choose between the two, I would mildly prefer this one, but luckily you don't have to choose - all three parts of the triptych are available on the Inmost Light compilation, thankfully presented as a 3CD set so you can just listen to the album without the prologue and epilogue if you wish. Darker and more nostalgic than the gramophone-textured Where The Long Shadows Fall, this rounds out the trilogy neatly.

The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal) EP

The final chapter of the Inmost Light Trilogy, the 22 minute plus single track THE STARRES ARE MARCHING SADLY HOME (THEINMOSTLIGHTTHIRDANDFINAL), this apocalyptic grand finale proved to be the most experimental as well as the most stripped down with only ambient minimalism providing any musical backing and set to eerie loops and layered vocal effects that narrative a continues poetic prose by David Tibet with the guest vocal contributions of Andria Degens, Roxanne Stapleton and the even the legendary Shirley Collins leaving her traditional folk musical career behind fro a taste of the avant-garde.

Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton is back in the mixing engineer's seat and David Kenny offers some processed guitar sounds otherwise this is a swirling dark ambient excursion through some of the most most apocalyptic poetic recitals that one could ever hope to experience! The music itself is making to the abstruse musique concrète which utilizes recorded sounds as the source material and then processed through audio signals and tape music techniques that result in an otherworldly effect of sound collages and in the process creating some of the most alienating sound back possible. The Louis Wain painting on the cover art perfectly depicts the overall effect of this strange journey into the bowels of poetic prose hell.

More of a lyrical experience than a musical one per se, THE STARRES ARE MARCHING SADLY HOME in many ways provides a summary of the mood setting of the previous two installments of the trilogy with a recap of the thematic bleakness and abstruse esotericism that was all the rage in the post-industrial esoteric movement that swept the English underground by storm with CURRENT 93 emerging as one of the top acts to engage in it. A swirl box of ceaseless subtleties in the turbulent atmospheres finds the various vocal performances adding a new dimension to the overall feel of the EP with Collins' traditional singing a calming motherly lullaby thus offering a resolution to the nightmarish three installment set of some fo the 90s darkest forays into the world of experimental intersection of neofolk and electronic music.