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Michael Cashmore
Snow Abides
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (5) - Disc #1
1. My Eyes Open
2. The Snow Abides
3. How God Moved at Twilight
4. Your Eyes Close
5. Snow No Longer

CD Details

All Artists: Michael Cashmore
Title: Snow Abides
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Durtro / Jnana
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 3/6/2007
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 621617440722, 621617440715

Synopsis

Album Description

Durtro Jnana is delighted to release The Snow Abides, a new solo mini-album from longtime Current 93 guitarist and contributor Michael Cashmore. Comprised of five thematically linked songs, the album was written and performed by Cashmore with song texts composed by David Tibet (Current 93) and vocals contributed by Antony (Antony And The Johnsons). Cashmore has enjoyed a long and successful partnership with Tibet and his compositions have appeared on some of Current 93's most acclaimed albums including classics like Thunder Perfect Mind, Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre, Soft Black Stars, All the Pretty Little Horses and Black Ships Ate the Sky. Presented in an elegant, full-color digipak, The Snow Abides is Cashmore's most accomplished and poignant work to date, solo or otherwise.

CD Reviews

Beautiful short work by Cashmore and Antony

James Hunter | 05/23/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album, written by Michael Cashmore (who writes most of Current 93's music as well) and with vocals by Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons) was recorded between 1999 and 2001. During that time Cashmore was writing what I think is his best work for Current 93.

Cashmore apparently was unable to accumulate enough music to fill a full album, and so "The Snow Abides" is released in 2006, five years later. This is a short selection of five instrumental pieces, some with vocals by Antony. In my view it is the best work Cashmore has produced, and ranks with the best of Antony's work (along with the bits and pieces that Antony and the Johnsons released between their two studio albums).

This is a quiet and haunting work, and is highly recommended to fans of Antony and the Johnsons, Michael Cashmore, and Current 93--and especially to anyone who liked Current 93's "Soft Black Stars" album or Antony and the Johnsons' "I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy" single and wondered why nothing else they produced sounded like that."