IF A CITY IS SET WITHIN YOUR HEART

David and his DEAR friend Robert Mucci, who is The Boss of David’s FAVOURITE shop in Hastings—ROBERT’S RUMMAGE—say ToGether: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DAVID; Photograph by Ania Goszczyńska

I have decided that all my UpDates are TOO LONG. They’re exhausting to write, and must be even more exhausting for people to read. So—although this UpDate is already longer than I had hoped—from now on, they will be much shorter… though this one alas isn’t.

SO:

I have taken on so many—too many!—projects recently. The older I get—I am now 62—the less time, of course, remains for me, and hence the urgency to finish off all I want to do becomes more pressing.

Presently, I am finishing the various editions of my and C93’s new album, IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL. There is the “standard vinyl” release, in 2 different vinyl-colours; the CD release; the cassette release; the picture-disc LP with a Hallucinatory Pulse Mix, different to the “standard” album mix; the one-sided, 2-track, 12” lathe single; the rejected-mix TestPressing edition; and a very limited lathe edition of the full album in 2 different vinyl colours. There are T-Shirts and other items connected with the release. All of these needed their artwork finishing, the inserts typing up by me, and many other things too lengthened to be mentioned.

There is also the one-sided 12” lathe single that C93 have made with my Heroine June-Alison Gibbons, which was sent to our ScreenPrinter Cyril last week, which also needs artwork creating and inserts printing. I and June-Alison Gibbons have already started recording our first album together, and we have together started creating the artwork for a book and exhibition which will be held when the album is released.

I and Ania have to finish off the Cashen’s Gap publication of June-Alison Gibbons’ THE PEPSI-COLA ADDICT; and also finish the proofing of our publication of SWEPT AND GARNISHED by Donald Armour. There is a list of another 30 books that I have prepared for republication on a new imprint that we are running with Strange Attractor Press.

C93 are preparing for her Channellings in London, NYC, Stockholm, and Vilnius. We are planning to reissue more C93 material too.

I am continuing to paint, and continue my studies in (AlphaBetically) Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Coptic, and Ugaritic.

So you will see how overwhelmed I am.

Please bear with me, and thank you for your understanding and patience. It goes without saying that if you don’t wish to wait any longer for anything, please ask for a refund.

I really need to take a break, but there is NO TIME!

Love,
David+++

SLAVA UKRAINI!—**DONATION ONLY**—HoM & HoMAleph EXTENSIVE BENEFIT COMPILATION

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS (St. Matthew V: 9)

Available ➞ here AMEN AMEN AMEN

BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS. We love the Ukrainian people AND the Russian people and all who live there. No more War. No more Terror. G+D is LOVE not HATE.

As we watch the terrible events unfold in Ukraine, HoM and HoMAleph feel we must do something. We have therefore compiled a mammoth (and we hope exciting) downloadable compilation for your listening pleasure, featuring unreleased and unrealised tracks from the likes of Current 93, Ulver, Laniakea, Nick Blinko, Daniel O'Sullivan, Youth, Michael Cashmore, Sam Loynes, Alora Crucible, The Stargazer’s Assistant, Stian Westerhus, and many more.

Please donate as much as you can and, of course, enjoy the music. All money will go to The International Committee of the Red Cross to support their work in UKRAINE.

At the present time of writing—Thursday March 3—we have received approximately £4,000, which will all go to the International Red Cross for their work in Ukraine.

G+D will Bless and Love all of you have helped… and if S/He doesn’t—I do, of course.

SMALL DELAYS IN THE RELEASE OF THE 2 LATHE EDITIONS OF THE LONG SHADOW FALLS & WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST WALK AWAY?

As usual, I have been over-confident about how quickly I would finish this. I constantly changed the designs for the ScreenPrinting on the two editions. Our ScreenPrinter Cyril finally has my final designs, and he expects to get the ScreenPrinted lathes to us in the middle of March. So, realistically, I will be sending these editions out towards the end of March.

Please subscribe to our TinyMail for updates. If Anyone Doesn’t Wish To Wait, Please Ask For A Refund And Your Order Will Be Cancelled And You Will Be Refunded Immediately.

I must also point out that in the description of the edition in the first line it says that it is a “12” one-sided opaque-white lathe”. In fact it is, as the following sentence made clear, a TWO-sided opaque-white lathe, with a 13-minute track on each side.

IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL PICTURE DISC WITH HALLUCINATORY PULSE MIX

500 copies have been made of a picture disc of IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL. It features all of the same tracks as appear on the “standard” album, but is a completely different mix—THE HALLUCINATORY PULSE MIX.

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SMALL DELAYS IN THE RELEASE OF THE IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL T-SHIRT

These are printed, and thus are ready. But we are still waiting for them to arrive at our house. We expect to start sending them out next week.

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JUNE-ALISON GIBBONS WITH C93 READS FROM THE PEPSI-COLA ADDICT LATHE 12” RECORD

This is the first recording by the legendary June-Alison Gibbons with C93—indeed, her first released recording ever.

123 one-sided lathes—41 in red vinyl 41 in white vinyl, 41 in blue vinyl—the Pepsi-Cola colours!—have been cut by The Bricoleur at Bladud Flies!. Some copies will be held back for the band and June-Alison. Each copy is accompanied by an insert signed by June-Alison and C93.

The single should be added to the shop in a couple of weeks. The lathes are already cut and on their way to the ScreenPrinter.

June-Alison and C93 have also started their first album together, and David and June-Alison are collaborating together on a series of 100 paintings to accompany the album. The paintings will be exhibited towards the end of the year, and a book of all the paintings will also be published.

Please subscribe to our TinyMail to be informed when we make these lathes available for sale, or keep an eye on our online shop.

C93 IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL OFFICIAL RELEASE MARCH 11 UPDATE

A brief update will come out on March 11 with full details of the official release of the HomAleph vinyl and CD of IF A CITY IS SET UPON A HILL.

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C93 THE INMOST LIGHT T-SHIRT IN THE CYRIL’S PICK SERIES

My and Ania’s dear friend Cyril at Cure Toujours ScreenPrint has created a new C93 T-Shirt, with my full approval and delight.

This is an Official Current 93 product.

The Press Release, with all ordering details, follows. The T-Shirt can be purchased here.

For my first pick of 2022, I bring you The Inmost Light as a form of a hand-pulled screen-printed T-Shirt in White and Gold.

Printed on:

• Creator by Stanley/Stella.
• 180gm Single Jersey
• 100% Organic Ring-Spun Combed Cotton

PLEASE READ:

THE SHIPPING IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE OF THE T-SHIRT SO MAKE SURE TO SELECT THE CORRECT OPTIONS.

THE OPTIONS ARE:

• (Your Size) - Standard Post - UK ONLY
• (Your Size) - Tracked Post - UK ONLY
• (Your Size) - Standard Post - OUTSIDE UK
• (Your Size) - Tracked Post - OUTSIDE UK

Due to previous issues, all orders placed from Russia MUST choose the Tracked Post option. Orders placed from Russia as Standard Post will be cancelled and refunded.

*PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE SIZE CHART ON THE SITE, WHICH IS IN CENTIMETRES.

This product is ready to ship, however it takes 24—48 hours to be dispatched and the delivery time will depend on the service you have selected (UK ONLY). Delivery time for International orders is usually 7 to 10 working days on average. Please message me before purchasing if you have any questions.

THE FABULOUS BABY DEE & HER ÆSOP BOOK ON ZAGAVA, ILLUSTRATED BY HER, ME, ANIA GOSZCZYŃSKA, & MANY OTHERS

Baby Dee wrote to me, and some other friends, recently, saying the below. It goes without saying that Ania and I were OverMoon to be invited. My own painting is used as the cover for the hardback edition. The book is just like Baby Dee—FABULOUS!

This is what Fabulous Baby Dee says:

I've got this thing for Aesop. The fables themselves are so compelling but what's up with those condescending, stupefying, smartypants morals? It just makes me crazy. So I decided to have a go at a couple of my favorites.

Our friend Jonas Ploeger of Zagava Press loved them and asked me to invite some like-minded friends to join me in making a book of Aesop’s Fables. And that's what we did. And it came out great!
Here's a link where you can order a copy:

Fabulous Aesop - Classic Tales Revisited

Love and thanks to you all,
dee

SHIRLEY COLLINS AUTOBIOGRAPHY AMERICA OVER THE WATER REISSUED

Shirley Collins’ autobiography—or, rather, the first instalment of it—America Over The Water, has been reissued by White Rabbit. It is one of the most moving and honest and kind autobiographies I have ever read. I was UtterlyHonoured to be asked by Shirley—one of my oldest and dearest friends—to write a foreword to it when it first came out. This new edition reproduces all of Shirley’s original text, with an updated xxxx. It also carries my original introduction.

Sadly, all of the marvellous photographs which Shirley supplied for the first edition have been left out of this reissue. But Shirley’s story sings sweetly and subtly, with or without photos.

The second part of her autobiography, All In The Downs, was published by Strange Attractor Press in a beautiful edition, and is available here.

An AudioBook of America Over The Water is also available here, read by Shirley Collins along with the astonishing Pip Barnes, who also appears on Shirley’s three perfect albums on Domino, and who is an essential and integral member of Shirley’s LODESTAR band in her concerts as well. The Introduction is read by me. The publisher’s Press Release follows below:

In America Over The Water, celebrated English folksinger Shirley Collins offers an affecting account of her year-long stint as assistant to legendary musical historian and folklorist Alan Lomax. Together, they travelled to Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Georgia, discovering Mississippi Fred McDowell and many others, in their tireless work to uncover the traditional music of America’s heartland.

Blending the personal story of Shirley Collins’ relationship with Lomax and offering a unique first-hand account of a country on the brink of the civil rights era, America Over The Water cuts right to the heart of the blues in a fascinating account of Collins’ and Lomax's ground-breaking journey across the southern states of the USA to record the music that started it all.

Originally published over fifteen years ago, this definitive edition includes a new introduction by Shirley Collins.

RAY RUSSELL’S AMAZING BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT AICKMAN JUST PUBLISHED

Many of you will know the terrifying and unique supernatural fiction of the wonderful Robert Aickman. My dear friend Ray Russell has just published a truly wonderful—indeed the first—biography of him. I was—as Ray kindly reminded me—the person who first introduced Ray to Aickman’s work. It can be bought here.

Tartarus’ Press Release follows below.

Robert Aickman (1914-1981) is remem­bered today as the author of fascinating ‘strange stories’ and also as one of the saviours of Britain’s inland waterways. In Aick­man’s mind these two apparently differ­ent interests were allied—he was an ideal­ist and a Roman­tic who sought the ‘world else­where’ of Shake­speare’s Cor­io­lanus because the modern world was not for him. Aick­man believed that an alterna­tive realm could exist in life and the creative arts, and he sought to offer this in his fiction and to build a Utopia through the restoration of Brit­ain’s in­land waterways.

Aickman wrote two volumes of auto­biography—The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill—and both are full of colourful personal details. However his own versions of events cannot always be relied upon.

In this first full biography of Robert Aickman, R.B. Russell disentangles and examines the myths that have sur­rounded Aickman and his life. What is revealed is a man of vision and various talents. Determined to realise his ambit­ions he often made enemies, but he also had a great capacity for love and friend­ship. Robert Aickman’s life and attitudes were far from conventional but his legacy in literature and on the inland water­ways of Britain is far-reaching.