Plague Songs
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| Plague Songs | ||
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| Studio album by various artists | ||
| Released | 2 October 2006 | |
| Recorded | 2006 | |
| Label | 4AD | |
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Plague Songs is an album of songs, by various artists, about the ten Plagues of Egypt described in the book of Exodus.
The songs were originally commissioned by the British arts organisation Artangel for its project The Margate Exodus, which centres around a one-day event that took place in Margate on 30 September 2006.[1][2]
The 4AD release gathers together the 10 original recordings, presented in Biblical plague order. It moves from the scattershot, street-level drama of Klashnekoff's "Blood" through to the lament for a real-life "Death Of The Firstborn" written by Rufus Wainwright. On the way, there's the sublime hover of Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt's "Flies", the cracked, surreal sparseness of The Tiger Lillies "Hailstones", Stephen Merrit's quirky, oddly upbeat "The Meaning of Lice", and Laurie Anderson's grave, shadowy meditation on the Death Of Livestock. Imogen Heap's "Glittering Clouds" is a soaring pop song driven along by locust samples, while Scott Walker's "Darkness" is a song based on none other than darkness.
[edit] Track listing
- "Blood" - Klashnekoff (The Plague of Blood)
- "Relate the Tale" - King Creosote (The Plague of Frogs)
- "The Meaning of Lice - Stephin Merritt (The Plague of Lice)
- "Flies" - Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt (The Plague of Flies)
- "The Fifth Plague" - Laurie Anderson (The Death of Livestock)
- "Boils" - Cody ChesnuTT (The Plague of Boils)
- "Hailstones" - The Tiger Lillies (The Plague of Hail)
- "Glittering Cloud" - Imogen Heap (The Plague of Locusts)
- "Darkness" - Scott Walker (The Plague of Darkness)
- "Katonah" - Rufus Wainwright (The Death of the Firstborn)
[edit] References
- ^ "Plague Songs & The Margate Exodus". 4AD (29 September 2006). Retrieved on 2 October 2006.
- ^ "The Margate Exodus: About". Retrieved on 2 October 2006.
