Swastika's for Noddy
Artist Current 93
Format:Vinyl / 12" Album Picture Disc
Label:Cashen Gap
Catalogue No:DOARXVII
Barcode:5060446127407
Genre:Experimental
No of Discs:1
Release Date:30 Aug 2024
Track Listings
Disc 1
1Benediction
2Blessing
3North
4Black Sun Bloody Moon
5Oh Coal Black Smith
6Panzer Rune
7Black Flowers, Please
8The Final Church...
9The Summer of Love
10(Hey Ho) the Noddy (Oh)
11Beau Soleil
12Scarlet Woman
13The Stair Song
14Angel
15Since Yesterday
16Valediction
17Malediction

SWASTIKAS FOR NODDY Is Possibly, Probably, Maybe, Or Not, A Seminal And Sidereal Masterpiece, The Inspiration For  93,000 Masks On Nothings, None Of Which Were Groovy. For Me, Well, It Was My First Hallucinatory PickNick, And The Skies Turned Pixie Red For It.

I Was Given The Album’s Title During An Acid Trip: Seeing Noddy Crucified In The Sky, I Asked God What The Most Inappropriate BirthDay Present For Noddy Might Be. God Answered Me From The Acid Whirlwind: “Swastikas!”

I Recorded Her In A Run-Down Basement Studio In West London, Whilst I Was Simultaneously Recording IMPERIUM. On Playing The Finished Album To Certain Well-Chosen Friends, I Was Told By Them That I Had “Destroyed Current 93”, And That It Sounded Like “Demented Children On Drugs Singing Simon & Garfunkel In A Playground”. I Then Knew The Album Sounded Exactly As I Had Dreamed It To Sound, And As God Had Intended It To Sound. Had I Ditched The Earlier Darkness, And Skipped Into Flowered Fields? Great Black Time Had Already Told Me “NO!—GO!”

Remastered By The Bricoleur At Bladud Flies!, And With The Original Artwork Refreshed And Reborn By Rob Hopeye, This 12” Vinyl Picture-Disc Comes In A Full-Colour Die-Cut Sleeve, Which Is Printed On Both The Outside And Inside.

This Is One Of The First 4 Reissues Of The Entire Back Catalogue Of C93 On Picture-Disc And Standard Vinyl, In The Lead-Up To The Publication Of My Autobiography At The End Of 2025, Whilst I Also Work On Many Other Recording, Publishing, And Painting Projects, And Watch And Pray! Each Release In The Picture-Disc Vinyl Reissues Series Is Limited To 1,000 Copies, And The Titles Will Not Be Repressed As Picture-Discs Once They Have Sold Out.

               David Tibet, Hastings, 3 July 2025.