THE FIRE OF THE MIND

The second EP from CURRENT 93 in 1994 was THE FIRE OF THE MIND deviated significantly from the poetry meets neofolk of "Lucifer Over London" which preceded and "Tamlin" which followed. This time around David Tibet conjured up a single 20-minute drone / dark ambient track that drifted along in slo-mo with subtle sound variations emerging behind a pulsating ambience and dark atmospheric backdrop.

Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton joins and offers guitars, bass, back vocals and obviously inspiration from his own projects as it sounds much more out of the NWW playbood than the folk oriented sounds that Tibet gravitated towards. David Kenny also joined in on bass and guitars but these sounds were processed and pretty much muffled in the mix of it all but guitar strums can be discerned through the murky haze.

There's really not much to this one as it's a monotonous continuous drone with subtle changes in oscillation patterns and swirly effects in the backing atmosphere. It's a dark and brooding affair with no vocals and no percussion but the steady pulsating tension provides the right rhythmic freakery to sustain it for 20 minutes. Overall this is a nice example of dark ambient in conjunct with a droning effect but not the kind of thing that i gravitate towards often as the variations are quite minimal. Great background music but not something you're going to put on everyday most likely. David Tibet ekes out a few verbal utterances at the very end in the same poetic prose as the two bookended EPs but it's for a few seconds.

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