artist : Towering Inferno
title : Kaddish
date : 1994
label : n/a
genre : Avantgarde
release date: 04.29.2006
street date : 00.00.0000
tracks : 22
bitrate : VBRkbps
size : 96,9 MB
source : CDDA
type : Album
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Englishmen Andy Saunders and Richard Wolfson ù Towering
Inferno ù began performing Kaddish, a thematic multi-media
piece about the Holocaust, in 1993. (The title is the Jewish
prayer for the dead). Such a violently engaging work, so
heavily dependent upon visuals and the visceral impact of
live amplitude to make its impact felt, would seem doomed if
abstracted into a single dimension, yet the transformation
from performance piece to record album is thoroughly
successful. Long, intricate and involving, Kaddish
incorporates strange, dubby atmospherics, delicate piano
melodicism and grinding metallic guitar passages with
artistic ambience, dense, bellicose percussion, thudding
electronica and newsreel-like voices ù Foetus meets Philip
Glass and Allen Ginsberg?. Taken in toto, Kaddish is both
remarkably horrifying (their point) and ultimately
fascinating (their goal). Hopefully, it represents the next
logical step in that ever-morphing world of sound: a
thoughtfully intense modern musical work that tests not only
your ears but also your soul.
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01-the rose 04:02
02-prayer 02:58
03-dachau 02:42
04-4 by 2 02:45
05-edvard kiraly 03:26
06-memory 04:43
07-not me 04:02
08-reverse field 02:30
09-occupation 04:35
10-sto mondo rotondo 02:30
11-organ loop 03:30
12-toll i 00:56
13-toll ii 03:42
14-the ruin 02:00
15-juden 00:51
16-pogrom 04:11
17-partisans 06:12
18-modern times 06:21
19-the rose ii 03:36
20-the bell 05:05
21-kaddish 03:11
22-the weaver 01:06
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74:54 min