I Have a Special Plan for This World
"I Have a Special Plan for This World" | |
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Single by Current 93 | |
Released | 2000, 2007 rerelease |
Genre | Experimental music, spoken word |
Label | Durtro |
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Source | Rating |
Sputnikmusic | [1] |
"I Have a Special Plan for This World" is a longform single by the English band Current 93. The lyrics are taken from a poem of the same name by the author Thomas Ligotti and spoken by David Tibet.[2] Additional sound treatments are credited to Current 93. The single was released on limited edition vinyl and CD in 2000 on David Tibet's Durtro label. There was an additional special release in February 2007, when three test pressings were made in black vinyl. These featured signed and personalized sleeves with gold ink drawing and hand written labels done in black ink.
Musically, I Have a Special Plan for This World was a temporary return of sorts by Current 93 to their experimental post-industrial roots, using various unconventional musical instruments and techniques (including synthesised drones and found sound) while dispensing almost entirely with the minimal acoustic guitar and piano melodies that characterised the group's sound at that point. There was, however, some continuity musically as the single expanded upon both the nihilistic themes and experimental sonic motifs that appeared in the Inmost Light trilogy of albums from five years prior.
Though initially released to little critical reception, the single has since gained a cult following, along with the band itself, through forums such as Rate Your Music.
Track listing
12" version
- Side A
- "I Have a Special Plan for This World" - 22:00
- Side B
- "Excerpts from Bungalow Tapes" - 18:40
CD version
- "I Have a Special Plan for This World" – 22:01
References
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- David Tibet
- Steven Stapleton
- Michael Cashmore
- Douglas P.
- Rose McDowall
- Christoph Heemann
- William Breeze
- Nature Unveiled
- Dogs Blood Rising
- Dawn
- Imperium
- Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow
- Swastikas for Noddy
- Island
- Thunder Perfect Mind
- Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Soft Black Stars
- Sleep Has His House
- Judas as Black Moth
- Black Ships Ate the Sky
- Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
- I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel
- The Light Is Leaving Us All
- Mi-Mort
- LAShTAL
- No Hiding from the Blackbird
- Nightmare Culture
- Crowleymass
- Where the Long Shadows Fall (Beforetheinmostlight)
- The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)
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