On May 23, 2008, “Durtro” label released “Black Ships Ate the Sky”, the 21^st Current 93 album.

Personnel:

• David Tibet – voice, guitars, electric leaking voices passim, mixing
• Michael Cashmore – guitars, slide guitar, bass guitar
• Ben Chasny – guitar
• John Contreras – cello
• Steven Stapleton – goatheard, mixing
• Marc Almond – voice
• Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – voice, banjo, tambura
• Baby Dee – voice, harp
• Ida Mercer – cello
• Antony – voice, harp
• Clodagh Simonds – voice, psaltery, zither, harmonium
• Cosey Fanni Tutti – voice, musics
• Chris Carter – musics
• Andria Degens – voice, appalachian dulcimer, harmonica
• Shirley Collins – voice
• Iris Bishop – concertina
• Amy Phillips – subliminal threnodic voice
• William Breeze – viola
• William Basinski – 9.28.82 galaxial compositions
• Colin Potter – mixing
• Mark Logan, Al Cisneros, Tina Gordon – astral projection production
• John Contreras – cello arrangements

Track listing:

1. Idumea – Marc Almond, Michael Cashmore, Charles Wesley, David Tibet
2. Sunset (The Death of Thumbelina) – David Tibet, Ben Chasny
3. Black Ships in the Sky – David Tibet, Michael Cashmore
4. Then Kill Cæsar – David Tibet, Ben Chasny
5. Idumæa – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Charles Wesley
6. This Autistic Imperium Is Nihil Reich – David Tibet, Michael Cashmore
7. The Dissolution of the Boat Millions of Years – David Tibet, Michael Cashmore
8. Idumæa – Baby Dee, Charles Wesley
9. Bind Your Tortoise Mouth – David Tibet, Ben Chasny
10. Idumæa – Antony Hegarty, Charles Wesley
11. Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven – David Tibet, Michael Cashmore
12. Abba Amma (Babylon Destroyer) – David Tibet, Michael Cashmore, William Basinski
13. Idumæa – Clodagh Simonds, Charles Wesley
14. Black Ships Were Sinking into Idumæa – Part one: David Tibet, Michael Cashmore Part two: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Charles Wesley
15. The Beautiful Dancing Dust – David Tibet, Antony Hegarty
16. Idumæa – Andria Degens, Charles Wesley
17. Vauvauvau (Black Ships in Their Harbour) – David Tibet, Ben Chasny
18. Idumæa – David Tibet, Ben Chasny, William Basinski, Charles Wesley
19. Black Ships Ate the Sky – David Tibet, Charles Wesley
20. Why Cæsar Is Burning Part II – David Tibet, Michael Cashmore
21. Idumæa – Shirley Collins, Charles Wesley