Post by IhateMana on Feb 15, 2020 22:56:36 GMT
David Michael Bunting
Associated Acts: Current 93 (1982 - Present), Death in June (1983 - 1996), Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV
Vocal Range: C2 - A5
{Vocal Summary}David Tibet is the enigmatic frontman and central member of English experimental collective Current 93. The group (which is really just Tibet and a revolving cast of musicians) had origins in the industrial scene, Tibet having initially been a member of the legendary Psychic TV, but have long since worked primarily in neofolk music, mostly inspired by the spiritual and the occult, with a particular fascination with death and the apocalypse. The group is rather prolific, with well over 20 full length studio albums and about 50-odd other releases and projects, a lot of which are live performances.
As a vocalist, Tibet is probably the strangest I've ever researched. Despite his (seemingly) relatively low placement, with routine phrasing around G2 and trouble pulling chest any higher than E4, Tibet has a remarkably bright timbre. As well as his general placement going against pretty much every expectation, his delivery is also very unique, adopting what sounds like, for want of any better description, melodic speaking. Tibet is very rarely satisfactorily on pitch, usually sliding off or just generally being flat and is consistently breathy; a voice that is best enjoyed within the context of the artist's macabre music.
As a vocalist, Tibet is probably the strangest I've ever researched. Despite his (seemingly) relatively low placement, with routine phrasing around G2 and trouble pulling chest any higher than E4, Tibet has a remarkably bright timbre. As well as his general placement going against pretty much every expectation, his delivery is also very unique, adopting what sounds like, for want of any better description, melodic speaking. Tibet is very rarely satisfactorily on pitch, usually sliding off or just generally being flat and is consistently breathy; a voice that is best enjoyed within the context of the artist's macabre music.
Significant High Notes
A5 ("The Seven Seals are Revealed at the End of Time as Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow")
G5 ("The Burial of the Sardine", "Christ and the Pale Queens")
F♯5 ("Lucifer Over London", "The Seven Seals are Revealed at the End of Time as Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow", "Towards the Shores of Loss")
E5 ("Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)", "Beau Soleil", "The Mystical Body of Christ in Chorazaim (The Great in the Small)", "Or", "Raio no Terrasu (Jesus Wept)", "Tree")
E♭5 ("Black Ships Ate the Sky", "Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)")
D5 ("Broken Birds Fly II (Maldoror Waits)", "Horsey", "Moonlight, You Will Say", "The Mystical Body of Christ in Chorazaim (The Great in the Small)", "Tree")
C♯5 ("Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)", "The Invocation of Almost", "Lucifer Over London", "Not Because the Fox Barks")
C5 ("And Onto PickNickMagick", "Beau Soleil", "Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)", "Diana")
B4 ("The Burial of the Sardine", "Diana", "Hitler as Kalki", "Night! Death! Storm! Omega!", "The Seven Seals are Revealed at the End of Time as Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow")
B♭4 ("Christ and the Pale Queens", "The Mystical Body of Christ in Chorazaim (The Great in the Small)", "Raio no Terrasu (Jesus Wept)", "Tamlin")
A4 ("All the Stars are Dead Now", "And Onto PickNickMagick", "Black Ships in the Sky", "Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)", "Broken Birds Fly II (Maldoror Waits)", "Christ and the Pale Queens", "The Great, Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World", "Horsey", "How the Great Satanic Glory Faded", "I Dreamt I Was Æon", "Lucifer Over London", "Not Because the Fox Barks", "Or", "Rosy Star Tears from Heaven", "A Song for Douglas After He's Dead", "Tamlin")
G♯4 ("Black Ships Ate the Sky", "Lily", "The Nudes Lift Shields for War", "Or", "Raio no Terrasu (Jesus Wept)", "Sunflower", "This Carnival is Dead and Gone", "Those Flowers Grew", "Tree")
G4 ("All the Stars are Dead Now", "And Onto PickNickMagick", "Baalstorm! Baalstorm!", "The Ballad of the Pale Christ", "Beau Soleil", "Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven", "Black Ships Were Sinking Into Idumæa", "Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)", "Daedalus Rising" Live in London 1992, "December 1971", "Diana", "Dögun", "Dormition and Dominion", "Forever Changing", "The Great, Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World", "How the Great Satanic Glory Faded", "I Dance Narcoleptic", "In the Heart of the Woods and What I Found There", "The Invocation of Almost", "Moonlight, You Will Say", "Oh Coal Black Smith", "On Docetic Mountain", "Pomegranate", "Poppyskins", "Rosy Star Tears from Heaven", "This Carnival is Dead and Gone", "Towards the Shores of Loss", "Tree", "With the Dromedaries")
F♯4 ("Black Flowers Please", "Black Ships Ate the Sky", "Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven", "Black Sun Bloody Moon", "The Final Church", "Lucifer Over London", "Night! Death! Storm! Omega!", "Not Because the Fox Barks", "Tamlin", "UrShadow")
F4 ("30 Red Houses", "Aleph is the Butterfly Net", "Baalstorm! Baalstorm!", "Black Ships Were Sinking Into Idumæa", "The Breath and Pain of God", "Christ and the Pale Queens", "December 1971", "The Dreamer is Still Asleep", "Forever Changing", "Hitler as Kalki", "I Dance Narcoleptic", "The Invisible Church", "Kings and Things", "A Lament for My Suzanne", "Moon", "Moonlight, You Will Say", "Oh Coal Black Smith", "On Docetic Mountain", "Pomegranate", "Poppyskins", "The Red Face of God", "A Song for Douglas After He's Dead", "Spring Sand Dreamt Larks", "Sunflower", "Thunder Perfect Mind I")
E4 ("30 Red Houses", "Aleph is the Butterfly Net", "All the Stars are Dead Now", "The Ballad of the Pale Christ", "Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven", "Black Sun Bloody Moon", "Cuckoo", "Daedalus Rising" Live in London 1992, "The Death of the Corn", "Dormition and Dominion", "The Final Church", "The Frolic", "The Heart Full of Eyes", "In the Heart of the Woods and What I Found There", "Horsey", "The Inmost Light Itself", "The Invocation of Almost", "Kings and Things", "Lily", "Night! Death! Storm! Omega!", "The Nudes Lift Shields for War", "Oh Coal Black Smith", "Rosy Star Tears from Heaven", "A Sadness Song", "A Silence Song", "The Summer of Love", "The Teeth of the Winds of the Sea", "This Carnival is Dead and Gone", "Those Flowers Grew", "Tree", "Vauvauvau (Black Ships in Their Harbour)", "With the Dromedaries")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("All the World Makes Great Blood", "Alone", "And Onto PickNickMagick", "Be", "Bind Your Tortoise Mouth", "Black Ships in the Sky", "Diana", "The Great, Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World", "The Heart Full of Eyes", "Horsey", "I Dance Narcoleptic", "I Remember the Berlin Boys", "Imperium I", "Into the Bloody Hole I Go", "Mary Waits In Silence", "On Docetic Mountain", "Pomegranate", "A Silence Song", "Then Kill Cæsar", "Those Flowers Grew", "When the May Rain Comes")
C♯3 ("Calling for Vanished Faces I", "Calling for Vanished Faces II", "Imperium II", "The Invisible Church", "Jasmine", "Not Because the Fox Barks", "The Nudes Lift Shields for War", "With Flowers In the Garden of Fires")
C3 ("30 Red Houses", "Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer)", "Alone", "Baalstorm! Baalstorm!", "The Bench and the Fetch", "Bind Your Tortoise Mouth", "The Bloodbells Chime", "Christ and the Pale Queens", "Dormition and Dominion", "Forever Changing", "How the Great Satanic Glory Faded", "Idumæa", "Into the Bloody Hole I Go", "The Invisible Church", "The Kettle's On", "The Postman is Singing", "Queendom", "The Shining Shining World", "The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)", "Steven and I in the Field of Stars", "Sunset (The Death of Thumbelina)", "Those Flowers Grew")
B2 ("All the World Makes Great Blood", "And Onto PickNickMagick", "The Ballad of the Pale Christ", "Dögun", "Imperium II", "Invocation of Almost", "Kings and Things", "Let Us Go to the Rose", "Lucifer Over London", "Passenger Aleph In Name", "The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion", "The Seven Seals are Revealed at the End of Time as Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow", "A Silence Song", "Sunset (The Death of Thumbelina)", "Tamlin", "The Teeth of the Winds of the Sea")
B♭2 ("Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)", "The Bench and the Fetch", "Cuckoo", "Honeysuckle", "No Hiding from the Blackbird", "Persimmon", "The Policeman is Dead", "Raio no Terrasu (Jesus Wept)", "The Red Face of God", "Time Stands Still", "With Flowers In the Garden of Fires")
A2 ("All the Stars are Dead Now", "All the World Makes Great Blood", "The Bloodbells Chime", "Bright Dead Star", "The Cloud of the Unknowing", "The Descent of Long Satan and Babylon", "Dormition and Dominion", "The Dreamer is Still Asleep", "The Frolic", "How the Great Satanic Glory Faded", "I Dreamt I Was Æon", "I Have a Special Plan for This World", "Imperium III", "Planet", "Raio no Terrasu (Jesus Wept)", "So: This Empire is Nothing", "Steven and I in the Field of Stars", "Tamlin", "Then Kill Cæsar", "This Autistic Imperium is Nihil Reich", "A Thousand Witches", "Why Cæsar is Burning Part II", "Your Future Cartoon")
G♯2 ("Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)", "The Burial of the Sardine", "Fair Weather", "I Dance Narcoleptic", "Persimmon", "The Policeman is Dead")
G2 ("All the Stars are Dead Now", "The Birds Are Sweetly Singing", "Bright Dead Star", "The Cloud of the Unknowing", "The Dissolution of the Boat Millions of Years", "An Ending", "Forever Changing", "The Frolic", "From Broken Cross, Locusts", "The Inmost Light", "The Inmost Light Itself", "Jerusalem the Black", "Maldoror Er Daudur", "Passenger Aleph In Name", "Sad Go Round", "The Seven Seals are Revealed at the End of Time as Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow", "The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)", "Tanks of Flies", "Thunder Perfect Mind I", "Time Stands Still", "Where the Long Shadows Fall (Beforetheinmostlight)", "Why Cæsar is Burning Part II", "Your Future Cartoon")
F♯2 ("A Thousand Witches")
F2 ("The Dissolution of the Boat Millions of Years", "The Dreamer is Still Asleep", "The Kettle's On", "The Milkmaid Sings", "No Hiding from the Blackbird", "The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)", "This Autistic Imperium is Nihil Reich", "Time Stands Still")
E2 ("26 April 2007", "All the Stars are Dead Now", "The Ballad of the Pale Christ", "Christ and the Pale Queens", "The Cloud of the Unknowing", "Dögun", "The Frolic", "The Inmost Light Itself", "The Red Face of God", "Sad Go Round", "So: This Empire is Nothing", "St. Peter's Keys All Bloody", "The Stair Song")
E♭2 ("From Broken Cross, Locusts", "The Milkmaid Sings", "The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)", "Thunder Perfect Mind I", "With Flowers In the Garden of Fires")
D2 ("Broken Birds Fly II (Maldoror Waits)", "From Broken Cross, Locusts")
C2 ("Black Flowers Please")
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Blue indicates falsetto
Italics indicates non-melodic notes (used sparingly for this singer)
Underlines indicates notes obscured in backing vocals or harmonies
{Questionable Notes}
Note: David's technique is not very reliable. As such, there are a considerable amount of times where his voice will break. I have not included any of these instances anywhere in the thread.
F♯5 ("Beau Soleil" questionable control)
D5 ("And Onto PickNickMagick" questionable tone)
F2 ("The Bench and the Fetch" nanocrusis)
E♭2 ("The Frolic" this is from the slowed passage at the end, I do not know if this affected the pitch. The same sample appears in "Twilight Twilight, Nihil Nihil for Thomas Ligotti, who has seen the bloodbells shine")
C2 ("Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)" See: 3.6 Roentgen, Diatlov et al. 2019, "The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)" exhaled, "Thunder Perfect Mind I" fairly weak spoken note)
G♯1 ("Maldoror Er Daudur" growl)
Note: David's technique is not very reliable. As such, there are a considerable amount of times where his voice will break. I have not included any of these instances anywhere in the thread.
F♯5 ("Beau Soleil" questionable control)
D5 ("And Onto PickNickMagick" questionable tone)
F2 ("The Bench and the Fetch" nanocrusis)
E♭2 ("The Frolic" this is from the slowed passage at the end, I do not know if this affected the pitch. The same sample appears in "Twilight Twilight, Nihil Nihil for Thomas Ligotti, who has seen the bloodbells shine")
C2 ("Broken Birds Fly I (Maldoror Waits)" See: 3.6 Roentgen, Diatlov et al. 2019, "The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)" exhaled, "Thunder Perfect Mind I" fairly weak spoken note)
G♯1 ("Maldoror Er Daudur" growl)
{Discography}
Current 93
LPs I Guess
(1984) Nature Unveiled: G♯2 - E5
(1984) Dogs Blood Rising: D2 - E5
(1985) Live at Bar Maldoror:
(1986) In Menstrual Night: N/A
(1987) Dawn: G2 - E5*
(1987) Imperium: F2 - E5
(1988) Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow: E2 - G5
(1988) Earth Covers Earth:
(1988) Swastikas for Noddy: C2 - E5
(1989) Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God:
(1990) Horse/Horsey: D2 - E5
(1992) Thunder Perfect Mind: E♭2 - B4
(1994) Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre - The Broken Heart of Man: E2 - D5
(1996) All the Pretty Little Horses: The Inmost Light: E2 - G♯4
(1998) Soft Black Stars:
(2000) Sleep Has His House:
(2006) How He Loved the Moon: Moonsongs for Jhonn Balance:
(2006) Black Ships Ate the Sky: F2 - E♭5 I Am Black Ship bonus disc
(2009) Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain: E2 - C♯5
(2010) Baalstorm, Sing Omega: E♭2 - B4
(2011) Honeysuckle Æons: G♯2 - G♯4
(2014) I am the Last of the All the Field that Fell: A Channel: B2 - C5
(2014) My Name Is Nearly All That's Left:
(2015) The Moons at Your Door: N/A
(2018) The Light is Leaving Us All: E♭2 - F4
(2019) Invocations of Almost: N/A
(2020) If a Star Turns to Ashes:
(2022) If a City Is Set Upon a Hill
*note: I didn't include the E5 from "Maldoror Er Daudur" in the thread, as it's functionally the same song as "Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)"
EPs in a way
(1984) LAShTAL:
(1994) Lucifer Over London: E2 - F♯5
(1994) Tamlin: A2 - B♭4
(1994) The Fire of the Mind:
(1995) Where the Long Shadows Fall (Beforetheinmostlight): G2
(1996) The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal): E♭2
(2000) I Have a Special Plan for This World: A2
(2000) Faust: N/A
(2001) Who Is the Sufferer?:
(2001) The Great in the Small:
(2003) The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion:
(2008) Birth Canal Blues:
(2008) Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor:
(2018) Stars on Their Horsies:
Live Albums
Looney Runes
Hitler as Kalki
All Dolled Up Like Christ
Cats Drunk on Copper
How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon
When Rome Falls, Falls the World
shit i haven't organised yet
NL Centrum-Amsterdam
Happy Birthday
The Red Face of God
Faith's Favourites
She is Dead and All Fall Down
As the World Disappears
Seven Seals
Hypnagogue/Hypnagogue II
Misery Farm
Calling for Vanishing Faces/Virgin Mary
Halo
Birdsong in the Empire
Haunted Waves, Moving Graves
When the May Rain Comes
Death In June
The Aryan Aquarians
Current 93 with Sickness of Snakes:
(1985) Nightmare Culture:
Current 93 with HÖH
LPs
(1991) Island:
EPs:
(1987) Crowleymass:
Current 93 with Death In June
(1990) 1888:
Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti
(1997) In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land:
(2001) This Degenerate Little Town:
Current 93 with Nurse With Wound
Bright Yellow Moon
(2001) Purtle:
(2002) Music for the Horse Hospital:
Current 93 with Om
(2003) Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)
Current 93 with Zu
(2018) Mirror Emperor:
Current 93
LPs I Guess
(1984) Nature Unveiled: G♯2 - E5
(1984) Dogs Blood Rising: D2 - E5
(1985) Live at Bar Maldoror:
(1986) In Menstrual Night: N/A
(1987) Dawn: G2 - E5*
(1987) Imperium: F2 - E5
(1988) Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow: E2 - G5
(1988) Earth Covers Earth:
(1988) Swastikas for Noddy: C2 - E5
(1989) Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God:
(1990) Horse/Horsey: D2 - E5
(1992) Thunder Perfect Mind: E♭2 - B4
(1994) Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre - The Broken Heart of Man: E2 - D5
(1996) All the Pretty Little Horses: The Inmost Light: E2 - G♯4
(1998) Soft Black Stars:
(2000) Sleep Has His House:
(2006) How He Loved the Moon: Moonsongs for Jhonn Balance:
(2006) Black Ships Ate the Sky: F2 - E♭5 I Am Black Ship bonus disc
(2009) Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain: E2 - C♯5
(2010) Baalstorm, Sing Omega: E♭2 - B4
(2011) Honeysuckle Æons: G♯2 - G♯4
(2014) I am the Last of the All the Field that Fell: A Channel: B2 - C5
(2014) My Name Is Nearly All That's Left:
(2015) The Moons at Your Door: N/A
(2018) The Light is Leaving Us All: E♭2 - F4
(2019) Invocations of Almost: N/A
(2020) If a Star Turns to Ashes:
(2022) If a City Is Set Upon a Hill
*note: I didn't include the E5 from "Maldoror Er Daudur" in the thread, as it's functionally the same song as "Ach Golgotha (Maldoror is Dead)"
EPs in a way
(1984) LAShTAL:
(1994) Lucifer Over London: E2 - F♯5
(1994) Tamlin: A2 - B♭4
(1994) The Fire of the Mind:
(1995) Where the Long Shadows Fall (Beforetheinmostlight): G2
(1996) The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal): E♭2
(2000) I Have a Special Plan for This World: A2
(2000) Faust: N/A
(2001) Who Is the Sufferer?:
(2001) The Great in the Small:
(2003) The Seahorse Rears to Oblivion:
(2008) Birth Canal Blues:
(2008) Black Ships Heat the Dancefloor:
(2018) Stars on Their Horsies:
Live Albums
Looney Runes
Hitler as Kalki
All Dolled Up Like Christ
Cats Drunk on Copper
How I Devoured Apocalypse Balloon
When Rome Falls, Falls the World
shit i haven't organised yet
NL Centrum-Amsterdam
Happy Birthday
The Red Face of God
Faith's Favourites
She is Dead and All Fall Down
As the World Disappears
Seven Seals
Hypnagogue/Hypnagogue II
Misery Farm
Calling for Vanishing Faces/Virgin Mary
Halo
Birdsong in the Empire
Haunted Waves, Moving Graves
When the May Rain Comes
Death In June
The Aryan Aquarians
Current 93 with Sickness of Snakes:
(1985) Nightmare Culture:
Current 93 with HÖH
LPs
(1991) Island:
EPs:
(1987) Crowleymass:
Current 93 with Death In June
(1990) 1888:
Current 93 with Thomas Ligotti
(1997) In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land:
(2001) This Degenerate Little Town:
Current 93 with Nurse With Wound
Bright Yellow Moon
(2001) Purtle:
(2002) Music for the Horse Hospital:
Current 93 with Om
(2003) Inerrant Rays of Infallible Sun (Blackship Shrinebuilder)
Current 93 with Zu
(2018) Mirror Emperor: