Plague Mass

Plague Mass
Live album by Diamanda Galás
Released 1 April 1991 (1991-04-01)
Recorded 12 October–13 October 1990 (1990-10-13)
Studio Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, NY
Genre Experimental
Length 72:52
Label Mute
Producer Blaise Dupuy, Kurt Munkacsi
Diamanda Galás chronology
Masque of the Red Death
(1988)
Plague Mass
(1991)
The Singer
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Q[2]

Plague Mass is a live performance album by avant-garde musician Diamanda Galás, released on 1 April 1991 by Mute Records.[3] It was recorded on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City and released in 1991.

Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Terrorizer United Kingdom 100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties[4] 2000 *
"*" denotes an unordered list.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "There Are No More Tickets to the Funeral"   13:13
2. "This Is The Law of the Plague"   11:44
3. "I Wake Up and I See the Face of The Devil"   5:59
4. "Confessional (Give Me Sodomy or Give Me Death)"   4:17
5. "How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon the Wicked?"   8:37
6. "Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death"   5:54
7. "Consecration"   3:44
8. "Sono L'Antichristo"   3:09
9. "Cris D'Aveugle (Blind Man's Cry)"   10:00
10. "Let My People Go"   6:05

Personnel

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 1991 Mute CD, LP STUMM 83
United States Mute Ltd. CD, CS 9-61043

References

  1. Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. "Plague Mass (1984 End of the Epidemic)". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  2. columnist (June 1996). "Diamanda Galás - Plague Mass". Q.
  3. Kenny, Glenn; Robbins, Ira (2007). "Diamanda Galás". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  4. "Terrorizer: 100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties". Terrorizer. Retrieved July 29, 2015.

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