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Plague Mass
Plague Mass is a live album by American avant-garde artist Diamanda Galás. It was recorded on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City and released on April 1, 1991 by record label Mute.
Plague Mass was performed as a culmination of Galás' previous 3 albums about the AIDS epidemic (known as the "Masque of the Red Death" trilogy). Before its eventual performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine & commercial release Plague Mass is listed as having been performed "... in Berlin, Basel, the Helsinki Festival, and the Festival delle Colline at the Villa Medicea di Poggio a Cainao in Italy." These performances got Galás publicily denounced by members of the Italian Government for "commiting blasphemy against the Roman Catholic Church".
AllMusic described the performance as a "heart-wrenching cry about the physical suffering caused by the AIDS plague being compounded by the shameful arrogance of self-appointed moralists."
Trouser Press described it as "sepulchral, breathtakingly dramatic and, in the best possible sense, appalling".
It was placed on Terrorizer's list of the "100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties".
Note that the live performance originally included 2 other tracks not present on the official release: "Job:10" and "Lamentations". In the album's liner notes it is said these were excluded due to "...the time limitations of the CD configuration".
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
"Thanks to Sally Dricks, Barbara Mayer, Linda Greenberg, Aldo Hernandez, Conyars Thompson, Daniel Miller, Peter Wright, Jed Wheeler, Philip Glass, Randy Hansen, Robert Hilferty, Carl Valentino, Michael Flanagan, and Tim Holmes"
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Plague Mass
Plague Mass is a live album by American avant-garde artist Diamanda Galás. It was recorded on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City and released on April 1, 1991 by record label Mute.
Plague Mass was performed as a culmination of Galás' previous 3 albums about the AIDS epidemic (known as the "Masque of the Red Death" trilogy). Before its eventual performance at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine & commercial release Plague Mass is listed as having been performed "... in Berlin, Basel, the Helsinki Festival, and the Festival delle Colline at the Villa Medicea di Poggio a Cainao in Italy." These performances got Galás publicily denounced by members of the Italian Government for "commiting blasphemy against the Roman Catholic Church".
AllMusic described the performance as a "heart-wrenching cry about the physical suffering caused by the AIDS plague being compounded by the shameful arrogance of self-appointed moralists."
Trouser Press described it as "sepulchral, breathtakingly dramatic and, in the best possible sense, appalling".
It was placed on Terrorizer's list of the "100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties".
Note that the live performance originally included 2 other tracks not present on the official release: "Job:10" and "Lamentations". In the album's liner notes it is said these were excluded due to "...the time limitations of the CD configuration".
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
"Thanks to Sally Dricks, Barbara Mayer, Linda Greenberg, Aldo Hernandez, Conyars Thompson, Daniel Miller, Peter Wright, Jed Wheeler, Philip Glass, Randy Hansen, Robert Hilferty, Carl Valentino, Michael Flanagan, and Tim Holmes"