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Plague Songs

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Released
  
2 October 2006

Release date
  
2 October 2006

Label
  
4AD

Recorded
  
2006

Genre
  
Alternative/Indie

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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.

Contents

The songs were originally commissioned by the British arts organisation Artangel for its project The Margate Exodus, which centres on a one-day event that took place in Margate on 30 September 2006.

The 4AD release gathers together the 10 original recordings, presented in Biblical plague order.

Track listing

  1. "Blood" - Klashnekoff (The Plague of Blood)
  2. "Relate the Tale" - King Creosote (The Plague of Frogs)
  3. "The Meaning of Lice" - Stephin Merritt (The Plague of Lice)
  4. "Flies" - Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt (The Plague of Flies)
  5. "The Fifth Plague" - Laurie Anderson (The Death of Livestock)
  6. "Boils" - Cody ChesnuTT (The Plague of Boils)
  7. "Hailstones" - The Tiger Lillies (The Plague of Hail)
  8. "Glittering Cloud" - Imogen Heap (The Plague of Locusts)
  9. "Darkness" - Scott Walker (The Plague of Darkness)
  10. "Katonah" - Rufus Wainwright (The Death of the Firstborn)

Songs

1BloodKlashnekoff3:44
2Relate the TaleKing Creosote4:59
3The Meaning of LiceStephin Merritt3:02

References

Plague Songs Wikipedia
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