David Tibet has been invited to to curate a special long-day-event as part of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take place April 20, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Current 93 will be performing as well as other special guests to be announced soon.
David Tibet comments: "I am proud and delighted to confirm that I have been invited by the wonderful Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland to curate a special day-long event. Current 93 will be performing, as well as some special guests that I have invited to accompany us. I can confirm that the majestic Om will be appearing, and that I am presently discussing the appearance of 2 or 3 more of my favourite artists. Roadburn is perhaps the pre-eminent festival of doom, stoner, psychedelacidic and othercoloured metal, and I am very touched and happy to have been invited by Roadburn to bring some of those artists whom I love to a festival whose work I have long admired."
Founded in 1982 by David Tibet, Current 93 has created a highly personal musical and æsthetic entity over 23 years, subliminal and dramatic, an opulent and complex music made of psychedelic Coptic jazz, distorted folk memories, apocalyptic ballads, gothic chorals, nursery rhymes and Roman electronics. Tibet's musical influences are wildly diverse, ranging from psychedelic rock bands from Ramases to Patripassian, from Gregorian Chant to Sahidic Threnodies.
Current 93's sound varies, according to Tibet's choice of collaborators, but it has oscillated between apocalyptic tape loops, minimal piano-and-voice settings, electronic hymns, massed drone attacks and children singing at the end of the world, whilst always featuring Tibet's own idiosyncratic singing and guitar playing. David Tibet has worked with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Marc Almond, folk goddess Shirley Collins, Stephen O'Malley, Attila Csihar, Andrew W.K., horror writer Thomas Ligotti, Nick Cave and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and many others artists.
OM, comprised of Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, the former rhythm section of stoner-legends Sleep, combine minimalist vocal mantras with propulsive drumming and vibrating bass to channel mind-expanding paeans of spiritual awakening.
Tickets will be on sale on December 1, 2007, and cost € 32,50 for the day. For more information (including the other guests David Tibet will announcing), please visit www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival.
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