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Rating: "Live At Bar Maldoror" by Current 93, in my eyes, rises in the darkness on par with the legendary works "Nature Unveiled" and "Dogs Blood Rising". The sinister atmospheres evoked are the embodiment of a disturbing dream, a journey through which the listener is catapulted into an apocalyptic world. In such works emerges the greatness of Current 93, who later will lose themselves in the darker paths of musical creation. Theirs is a parareligious music, a soundtrack that seems to flow from infernal guts, a perfect sound accompaniment for the Divine Comedy.
David Tibet, with his ally Steve Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, has woven intricate, unsettling, and destabilizing sonic tapestries, creating an esoteric ritual that resonates in the abyss. "Live at Bar Maldoror" manifests as a Dantesque experience, revealing tormented souls weeping in eternity, helpless in their desire for peace in death. This album represents one of the many apocalyptic and unsettling visions that Current 93 mastered in the dark corners of the Eighties.
Wrapped in a Victorian mist dense with mystery, the work is a journey into darkness, a gloomy spiral that creates an atmosphere of "Gregorian hell" trapped in a bottle. Each sound develops like an infinite loop, a vortex that mirrors inner torment. David Tibet, under the mantle of Current 93, spits his demonic venom and vitriol in this primordial recording, a musical offering intended for a select audience, aware of being led into a dimension that looms like a specter from the infernal abyss.
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By mementomori
Placing the record on the turntable or inserting the CD into the player means opening unimaginable abysses within our narrow rooms.
"Live at Bar Maldoror" is a sort of turmoil of the subconscious, made of blurred, rarefied images, ghostly presences that overlap and confuse with each other.
