BIRTH CANAL BLUES

This EP finds Current 93 in a moment of flux, as David Tibet parts ways with long-term musical collaborators Michael Cashmore (who'd been a major contributor to the Current 93 sound since 1991's live album As the World Disappears) and Nurse With Wound mastermind Steven Stapleton (who'd worked closely with Tibet since the debut Current 93 album Nature Unveiled).

Sure, Stapleton would still have a minor role on the forthcoming album Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain - which this is something of an appetiser for, being a bridge between the neofolk style of preceding releases and the weird, dark psychedelia of that album - but already in place here is Andrew Liles, who would henceforth be Tibet's major musical collaborator (and, for that matter, a regular collaborator with Stapleton in Nurse With Wound). The end result is an EP which captures Current 93 in the process of reinvigorating itself.