Current 93: David Michael Tibet - vocals; Tony Wakeford - acoustic and electric guitar; Rose McDowall - vocals; Catherine Wallis - vocals; Dik - piano; Lu - flute; Maria Enzell - violin; Chris Wallis - sitar; Steven Stapleton - accordion; Douglas P. - Stick guitar on 'Rome...'; John Balance -in spirit.

This record is dedicated to Idei-Cho You, son of Yuko and Yongsoo, may he live long and happily. My thanks to Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus for allowing me to adapt 'Fields' into 'Earth Covers Earth'. This is a United Dairies release made in England, and was engineered by Dik and produced by Steven Stapleton. All photographs by Ruth Bayer. A second utterance for Comus. My thanks to: Sianne, Ási, James Low, Jane Mayers, Harry Oldfield, HÖH
May all sentient beings be happy.
David Michael Tibet, London 16/X/1988.

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"What is the world ? What Is It? It is nothing. if it is, why is it? The world is as nothing."
inscription on a tombstone at San Lorenzo Maggiore

Earth Covers Earth
Tracks 1-7
Current 93 by the grace of God in the twinkling of an eye: David Michael Tibet - vocals; Tony Wakeford - guitar; Douglas P. - stick guitar on "Rome for Douglas P."; Rose McDowall - vocals, guitar; John Balance - all spirit and smiles; Steven Stapleton - accordion; Lu - flute; Maria Enzell - violin; Chris Wallis - sitar; Dik - piano; Ian Read - horse whispering.

Four Songs From Japan
Tracks 8-11
Current 93 at the blue gates of death themselves: David Michael Tibet - vocals; Rose McDowall - vocals, guitars; Douglas P. - guitars, ssab sdrawkcab and jingle bells; Tony Wakeford - bass, guitar; Boyd Rice - unpleasant smiles and amorality in the corner.

The Dreammoves Of The Sleeping King
Track 12
All silence Current 93 they: David Michael Tibet - all; Steven Stapleton - all; David Kenny - all; Steve Ignorant - screaming; John Balance - whispers, stick, guitar; Boyd Rice - whispers; Douglas P. - laughter.

Tracks 1-7 recorded in 1988 and mixed by Steven Stapleton and Tibet; tracks 8-11 recorded in 1989 and mixed by Tibet and Douglas P.; track 12 recorded in 1985 and mixed by David Kenny and Tibet with suggestive assistance from Steven Stapleton, Esq. of Billingsgate.
Tracks 1-6 were originally released as Earth Covers Earth on United Dairies, UD 029.

Tracks 9-10 were originally released on a Shock 7", Shock SX003 and were then reissued with the addition of track 11 on "The Portable Altamont", Shock CD SX012. Along with track 8, these 4 songs, recorded in Tokyo, were to have been on a Japanese Current 93 album; the album was never finished, though we did finish these songs as well as two other songs, "I Am Everywhere Broken And Spinning" and "The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness" which appeared on the untitled joint Current 93 and Death In June compilation album released on NER Records in 1991 (BAD VC693).
Track 12 was recorded in 1985 as part of the material towards the "Killy Kill Killy" piece that was released on The "Nightmare Culture" mini-LP. In 1988 I was working on a soundtrack for a film that Steven Stapleton and I were thinking of making, based on the idea of the lands where dreams went when they died (an idea that I later used on the "In Menstrual Night" album) and this material is part of the music that we were putting together for it. The film remains unmade, and much of the music unreleased.
My thanks to Steven Stapleton and Stefan Jaworzyn for allowing me to re-issue those recordings originally released on their labels.
Tracks 7.8 and 12 are previously unreleased.

Earth Covers Earth was originally dedicated to You-Sun; so it is still. I again thank Tony Wakeford for allowing me to adapt his song "Fields" into "Earth Covers Earth". Earth Covers Earth was a second utterance for Comus.

I would like to thank all those who have helped and succoured me: Steven Stapleton, Douglas P., James low, ROse McDowall, Tony Wakeford, Mannox, Joolie Wood, HÖH, Nick Saloman, Andrew King, Ian Read, Lu, Paul Cheshire, Malindaine, Michael Cashmore, Starfish, DiDo, Chris Wallis, Roo, Nyida, Lilith, Debbie Fowler, John Balance, Yuko, Yongsou, Ayame, Konori, Rinpoche, Shirley Collins, Freya Aswynn, Akiko Hada, Cox, Thorn, Boyd, Karl Blake.
This CD was mastered by Denis at Porkys, and distributed by David, Alison and Alan at World Serpent. My thanks to all of them, and to Starfish for typesetting.
All lyrics by David Tibet, except as noted. All photographs by Ruth Bayer.

All titles Current 93/David Tibet. We are dead and all fall down.

David Tibet, London, October 1992. Terra tegit Terram. May all be happy.

Earth Covers Earth
Tracks 1-7
Current 93 by the grace of God in the twinkling of an eye: David Michael Tibet - vocals; Tony Wakeford - guitar; Douglas P. - stick guitar on "Rome for Douglas P."; Rose McDowall - vocals, guitar; John Balance - all spirit and smiles; Steven Stapleton - accordion; Lu - flute; Maria Enzell - violin; Chris Wallis - sitar; Dik - piano; Ian Read - horse whispering.

Four Songs From Japan
Tracks 8-11
Current 93 at the blue gates of death themselves: David Michael Tibet - vocals; Rose McDowall - vocals, guitars; Douglas P. - guitars, ssab sdrawkcab and jingle bells; Tony Wakeford - bass, guitar; Boyd Rice - unpleasant smiles and amorality in the corner.

The Dreammoves Of The Sleeping King
Track 12
All silence Current 93 they: David Michael Tibet - all; Steven Stapleton - all; David Kenny - all; Steve Ignorant - screaming; John Balance - whispers, stick, guitar; Boyd Rice - whispers; Douglas P. - laughter.

Tracks 1-7 recorded in 1988 and mixed by Steven Stapleton and Tibet; tracks 8-11 recorded in 1989 and mixed by Tibet and Douglas P.; track 12 recorded in 1985 and mixed by David Kenny and Tibet with suggestive assistance from Steven Stapleton, Esq. of Billingsgate.
Tracks 1-6 were originally released as Earth Covers Earth on United Dairies, UD 029.

Tracks 9-10 were originally released on a Shock 7" and were then reissued with the addition of track 11 on "The Portable Altamont". Along with track 8, these 4 songs, recorded in Tokyo, were to have been on a Japanese Current 93 album; the album was never finished, though we did finish these songs as well as two other songs, "I Am Everywhere Broken And Spinning" and "The Signs And The Sighs Of Emptiness" which appeared on the untitled joint Current 93 and Death In June compilation album released on NER Records in 1991.

Current 93 were then, and were never again: David Tibet, Tony Wakeford, Steven Stapleton, Diana Rogerson, Douglas P., Rose McDowall, John Balance, Lu, Chris Wallis, Dik, Maria Enzell, Ian Read. Originally released on United Dairies in 1988 and mixed by Steven Stapleton. It was a second utterance for Comus. Cover art by David Michael. Photography by Ruth Bayer. Thankyou Rob and Kelly and The Porcupine Society. This re-issue os dedicated to my friends Ben Chasny and Will Oldham. I love my wife Andria. God is Love. David Michael 22 / III / 2005.