Plague Songs
Ten international singer-songwriters have each been commissioned by Artangel to write and record a song inspired by one of the ten biblical plagues. Following the original biblical order of the plagues, Plague Songs opens with Klashnekoff’s menacing Blood, via King Creosote’s bewitching Relate the Tale (Frogs) and Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt’s insistent Flies, Laurie Anderson’s mournful The Fifth Plague (Death of Livestock) and Imogen Heap’s mesmeric Glittering Cloud (Locusts) to Scott Walker’s evocation of Darkness and Rufus Wainwright’s tragic Katonah (Death of The Firstborn).
- Klashnekoff : Blood [Plague of Blood]
- King Creosote : Relate The Tale [Plague of Frogs]
- Stephin Merritt (The Magnetic Fields) : The Meaning of Lice [Plague of Lice]
- Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt : Flies [Plague of Flies]
- Laurie Anderson : The Fifth Plague [Death of Livestock]
- Cody ChesnuTT : Boils [Plague of Boils]
- The Tiger Lillies : Hailstones [Plague of Hail]
- Imogen Heap : Glittering Cloud [Plague of Locusts]
- Scott Walker : Darkness [Plague of Darkness]
- Rufus Wainwright : Katonah [Death of The Firstborn]
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