In order to assist with funding for the album, customers were able to pre-order a copy. These 'subscribers' received a mention in the liner notes, as well as a limited edition extra CD, entitled I Am Black Ship, consisting of alternate versions of the tracks from Black Ships Ate the Sky.
Anohni – voice (tracks 10 and 15), harp (track 15)
Clodagh Simonds – voice and psaltery and zither and harmonium (track 13)
Cosey Fanni Tutti – voice and musics (track 14)
Chris Carter – musics (track 14)
Andria Degens – voice and appalachian dulcimer and harmonica (track 16)
Shirley Collins – voice (track 21)
Iris Bishop – concertina (track 21)
Amy Phillips – subliminal threnodic voice (tracks 14 and 19)
William Breeze – viola (tracks 17 and 19)
William Basinski – 9.28.82 galaxial compositions (tracks 12 and 18)
Colin Potter – mixing
Mark Logan – astral projection production
Al Cisneros – astral projection production
Tina Gordon – astral projection production
John Contreras – cello arrangements
Black Ships Eat the Sky
In December 2006, Current 93 released an "alternate version" of the album titled Black Ships Eat the Sky. This limited edition record features different versions and a different mix of the album, which Tibet described as "far more intimate and more emphatically acoustic than the original version." The songs of Black Ships Eat the Sky have the same titles (unlisted on the CD cover itself - only available online) as their …Ate the Sky counterparts, with the exception that track 20 is titled "Why Cæsar is Burning Part I".
