I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel is an album by British experimental music group, Current 93. It was released on 4 March 2014 through The Spheres record label. The album, which was premiered live on 12 February 2014 at Union Chapel in Islington, features contributions from various artists, including James Blackshaw, Andrew Liles, Ossian Brown, Antony Hegarty, Nick Cave, John Zorn and These New Puritans member Jack Barnett.

Description The first track of this album quotes the first of Nikolai Obukhov's Six prières.

Critical reception

Upon its release, I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel generally received rave reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 72, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 4 reviews. Thom Jurek of AllMusic praised the album, stating: "As displayed on I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel, it's also simultaneously holistic, maddening, erotic, bleak, bright, and most of all, visionary." Uncut wrote: "I Am The Last has a wind in its sails, though, thanks to Tibet's preacher vigour, and an extraordinary guestlist." Nevertheless, Grayson Currin of Pitchfork was mixed in his assessment of the album: "There are flutes and poetry readings, floods of noise and wisps of bass clarinet. Still, such an astounding lineup only serves to reinforce the disappointment of the flat and oftentimes gangly Field."

Track listing All songs written by Current 93. "The Invisible Church" – 6:32 "Those Flowers Grew – 8:42 "Kings and Things – 6:22 "With the Dromedaries – 5:37 "The Heart Full of Eyes – 5:46 "Mourned Winter Then – 5:55 "And onto PickNickMagick – 7:52 "Why Did the Fox Bark? – 6:22 "I Remember the Berlin Boys – 3:49 "Spring Sand Dreamt Larks – 4:32 "I Could Not Shift the Shadow – 6:12

Personnel Jack Barnett – organ, sound design, voices James Blackshaw – bass Ossian Brown – hurdy-gurdy, SiderealSingSong Nick Cave – voice, voices Antony Hegarty – voice, voices Reinier Van Houdt – piano Norbert Kox – voice Andrew Liles – electric channel, mixing Tony McPhee – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Jon Seagroatt – bass clarinet, flute Carl Stokes – drums, percussion David Tibet – voice, lyrics, mixing Bobbie Watson – voices John Zorn – saxophone The Bricoleur – mastering Seadna McPhail – engineering Pablo Clements – Nick Cave engineering James Griffith – Nick Cave engineering Alex Nizich – Antony engineering

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