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Dead & Gone
# 2 - Totenlieder / Songs of Death
TRIKONT US-0235
compiled by: Fritz Ostermayer (journalist and musician)
CD in Digipak with detailed Booklet
NEIL STRAUSS
Brilliantly compiled, these CD's are more than just collections of songs about mortality. As a whole, they form a unified composition, a meditation on the way different cultures respond artistically to death, a statement on grieving and a declaration of superb musical taste. Like a deft free-form radio show, these CD's follow Albert Ayler with Robert Wyatt with a funeral in a village in Ghana. Moody, atmospheric and moving, they segue Cassandra Wilson into the Geto Boys, and slowly march through dirges from Lou Reed, Billie Holiday, Lydia Mendoza, Tom Waits and. brass and vocal groups from Mexico, Albania and Serbia. It may not seem like joyous holiday fare, but it's a perfect way to reflect on those less fortunate.
Ian Anderson, FOLKROOTS
"The two companion volumes are a feast of compulsive doom. Considering the subject matter it is also strangely, compellingly uplifting."
Chris Smith, MUSICAL TRADITIONS
"... at its best it provides some outstanding examples of how the world´s cultures, and their musicians, have come to terms with, and intermittently triumphed over, the certainty that one day the music will stop."
Simon Rowland, ROCK `N´ REEL
"The prospect of eighty minutes worth of funeral dirges may sound too much to bear. Certainly it´s no happy hootenanny, but miserable it´s not."
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Tracklist
 1. BEASTS OF BOURBON: Rest In Peace [03:16]
2. LUNCH,LYDIA: Gloomy [03:01]
3. MENDOZA,LYDIA: La Boda Negra [02:55]
4. DWORAK,EDITH UND KARL(DIE PEPI WICHART SCHRAMMELN): Stellt's meine Ross in Stall [02:35]
5. MIRANDA SEX GARDEN: Gush Forth My Tears [02:14]
6. CONFRATERNITE DELLE VOCI CASTELSARDO: Miserere funebre [03:08]
7. NICO: My Only Child [03:31]
8. REED,LOU: Goodbye Mass [04:21]
9. TRIO EXVOCO: Totenklage [01:41]
10. VARIOUS: Serbischer Leichenschmaus [03:26]
11. STEIRISCHE GRABSÄNGERINNEN: Traget mich zu meinem Grabe [01:11]
12. BULAWAYO CHURCH CHOIR: Funeral Song [01:43]
13. HOLIDAY,BILLIE: Strange Fruit [03:05]
14. WILSON,CASSANDRA: Death Letter [04:12]
15. GETO BOYS: I Just Wanna Die [04:03]
16. SMITH,JASPER: Died For Love [01:52]
17. SMITH,KID & THE VIRGINIA DANDIES: Whisper Softly, Mother's Dying [03:03]
18. GIRLS OF THE GOLDEN WEST: By The Grave Of Nobody's Darling [02:53]
19. VARIOUS: Albanische Totenklage [01:29]
20. GALAS,DIAMANDA: Cris d'aveugle-Blind Man's Cry [10:07]
21. VARIOUS: Serbische Totenklage [03:00]
22. FLOYD,GARY: From The Darkness To The Light [04:25]
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