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The Michael Cashmore Interview
From England to the endlessly ethereal plains of elemental existence, Michael Cashmore, composer, multi-disciplinary musician, who has an intuitive connection to Mysticism, is a composer, multi-disciplinary musician, worked with artists such as Marc Almond, Nick Cave, Bill Fay, Anohni, and, of course, David Tibet, and Current 93. His sonically sophisticated journey began in the early to mid-1980s with early works such as “Nature and Organisation” and a cerebral introduction into 8mm film that poetically placed him in good grace within his creative community. Influenced by the iconic Throbbing Gristle, Psychic T.V., and the transcendental world of the late Genesis P-Orridge, with who Cashmore had befriended in later years, it wouldn’t be till the following decade that the young musician joined yet another fundamental favorite, Current 93. A non-planetary reality built on prolifically poetic politics, observations on the occult, and other various esoteric elements, Cashmore became the band’s main composer during his iconic involvement and has since secured himself into feverish fibers of underground music universalism.
