David Tibet is re-releasing the Current 93 titles SWASTIKAS FOR NODDY / CROOKED CROSSES FOR THE NODDING GOD: as COLOURED VINYL 2LP & 2CD RELEASES
On his site he states: “Both albums have been beautifully re-mastered by the bricoleur and are being pressed on colour vinyl; each disc is in a different colour to the other. We expect the 2LP and 2CD to be released in about 6 weeks. We will add it to the shop as soon as we have a shipping date, and notify ToyTown through an update.”
A limited, hand-signed and numbered edition of the white label black vinyl test-pressings of Swastikas For Noddy and Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God is now available online. …It consists of the following items, and photographs of three of the items are included in this email. Only one copy per individual. For more details, and the price, please go here.
- 39 signed and numbered copies.
- Swastikas For Noddy white label test-pressing with handwritten labels by David.
- Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God white label test-pressing with handwritten labels by David.
- A clear transparent lathe cut 12″ of a remastered version of the Ekki Er Allt Gull, Sem Gloir… Skamt Er Öfganna Á Milli 12″ single, which included “Happy Birthday Christus Christus”, “Black Flowers, Please” and “Happy Birthday, Beau Maldoror Wolf Donnan”, with David’s silver thumbprints marking each side with the side-number.
- The Swastikas For Noddy and Crooked Crosses For The Nodding God test-pressings are inserted into a 6-panel screen-printed poster sleeve, with previously unseen Ruth Bayer photos of C93 from the Swastikas For Noddy photo sessions. The folded poster sleeve with enclosed records is inserted inside a screenprinted resealable bag.
- The lathe 12″ comes in its own sleeve with silver silk-screened photographs of David and C93 on the front and back of a white card sleeve.
- All the above items then placed into a hand-made linen bag with an original 1930’s Crooked Cross patchwork dream sewn on the front, a hand-embroidered 93 with 3 dots on the back, and 3 ribbons which tie the bag together.
- Each copy comes with a hand-numbered and signed insert, printed in a different colour, and on a different paper, of the insert for the standard 2LP edition.
- Another Surprise PickNickTrick from the Nodding God is included in the package.
