Plague Songs

In 2006, 4AD released an album called Plague Songs, where a variety of artists perform songs based on the ten biblical plagues described in Exodus. The songs were originally commissioned and performed as part of Exodus Day on 30th September 2006 and you can read more about this on The Margate Exodus website.

The line-up is impressive: Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt, Laurie Anderson, Cody ChesnuTT, The Tiger Lillies, Imogen Heap, Scott Walker, Rufus Wainwright, King Creosote, Stephin Merritt/The Magnetic Fields and Klashnekoff; the reality is that the album is a hit-and-miss affair. I picked up my copy from a bargain bin at Fopp in Bristol many years ago for a couple of quid, so it was worth the punt.

 

You can listen to the entire Plague Songs album on YouTube. Rather than picking a "favourite" tune, I've mashed Scott Walker's acapella with Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt's layered 'human fly' swarm, with a little bit of tweaking and editing here and there to create a composite sampler. 

 

Normal service will hopefully resume on Friday. 

 

Flies / Darkness (Khayem's Phlegmatic Mash-Up): Brian Eno / Robert Wyatt / Scott Walker (2021)