Plague Mass

by Diamanda Galás

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Performed live at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, this harrowing work is a visceral protest against the church's indifference to the AIDS crisis. Galás utilizes multi-octave vocal extremes and ritualistic elements to create an infernal, avant-garde requiem for the dying, marking it as one of the most intense and confrontational performance documents of the late 20th century.

Genres

  • Experimental
  • Spoken Word

Tracklist

  1. There Are No More Tickets to the Funeral
  2. This Is The Law of the Plague
  3. I Wake Up and I See the Face of The Devil
  4. Confessional (Give Me Sodomy or Give Me Death)
  5. How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon the Wicked?
  6. Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death
  7. Consecration
  8. Sono L'Antichristo
  9. Cris D'Aveugle (Blind Man's Cry)
  10. Let My People Go