JON SEAGROATT, IAN STAPLES, BOBBIE WATSON - Deathless
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JON SEAGROATT, IAN STAPLES, BOBBIE WATSON
Deathless
CD album

£5.00
Condition: EX / EX
Label: Future Vinyl
Catalogue No: CD1501
Contemporary classical collaboration, 2015.
  • 1 opening; Asterion; Horns’ cradle (song with drones).
  • 2 Daidalos fashions one automaton and later, one labyrinth.
  • 3 Catches in the curdling air the musk and salt of Attic fear / pauses / moves forward priapic.
  • 4 interlude 1; Crouched beast-like / pauses / eyes rolling back, throat opening / pauses / moves forwa
  • 5 The Minotaur sits exhausted, knuckles skinless, toes sticky with blood, head in hands.
  • 6 The Minotaur classifies the tunnels of the Labyrinth into their correct species, and calls out the l
  • 7 exegesis 1; The Minotaur maps and re-maps the Labyrinth in his mind’s eye, proposing, at its centr
  • 8 In flight from Knossos (its teeming streets labyrinthine) the Minotaur sings a great lament.
  • 9 interlude 2; In Babel, for Ishtar, the Minotaur scratches with a stick his plan for a great library.
  • 10 The Minotaur, tearful and repentant, joins a flagellant procession on its way to Kloster Eberbach.
  • 11 exegesis 2; The Minotaur sits, stunned and appalled, in Bunyan's Salvage.
  • 12 The Minotaur, his heart racing, recognises the Labyrinth. Leans forward, clicks 'like'.
  • 13 coda; Consolation; a kind of life (song with drones).