KovnaFest 2024: Current 93

David Tibet and Current 93 will come to Prague after many years.

Current 93 led by magician David Tibet are a unique entity. He creates dark compositions full of mysticism and fantasy. They play very sporadically, and when they decide to play a concert, the venue itself has to appeal to them. After eighteen years, their magical post-apocalyptic folk church of St. Simon and Jude in Prague will be heard again. This unrepeatable artistic experience will take place on November 16, 2024 in the form of a special concert within the KovnaFest festival - which, apart from the classic festival program, there will also be a conference on avant-garde, experimental and alternative music.

Magic. How else to sum up the ritual work of one of the most respected figures in the art world - David Tibet, who develops his visions as a poet, painter, but above all as a musician in the band Current 93. Companion of Nurse With Wound, Throbbing Gristle and Coil, with collaborators such as Baby Dee, Genesis P-Orridge, Michael Cashmore, Nick Cave, Björk and in hundreds of artists inspired by David Tibet look up to his paintings.

The world of C93 is colorful, chaotic, has many twists and turns, but ultimately it is above all a sincere effort to produce an extraordinary artistic performance. They went through an industrial, noise period until they visited dark folk, where Tibet's occult texts full of symbolism and magic became even more prominent. Tibet puts poetry into music, at the same time he always paid attention to multifaceted and varied arrangements. He thus creates a unique world of his own with each new record. "Beautiful sadness scenically plucked from the English countryside." This is how their latest studio album If a City Is Set Upon a Hill was labeled.

They went to Prague Current 93 will return after eighteen years to reappear at the same venue. In the church of St. Šimona and Judy will play one of the few announced concerts this year and the coming year.

They will arrive in a line-up that will include David Tibet (vocals), Reinier van Houdt (piano), Alasdair Roberts (guitar), Andrew Liles (electronics), Aloma Ruiz Boada (violin), Michael York (wind instruments), David Pepe (visualization).