Cat Number: rsd11gaggle
Label: Transgressive
Info correct on: 15/4/2011

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12"s are limited to 1 per customer

Limited to 300.

Documenting the Arts Council-sponsored performance at the ICA on December 2nd 2010, Gaggle will be releasing the operatic ‘The Brilliant and the Dark’ on 12″ vinyl for Record Store Day.

Refreshing and modern, Gaggle are the antidote to the traditional all-girl choir and were invited by artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White to rework a 1969 cantata for women’s voices.

The radically remixed cantata uses elements from ‘The Brilliant and the Dark’, a work for women’s voices composed by Malcolm Williamson and Ursula Vaughan Williams, and first performed by 1,000 women volunteers at the Royal Albert Hall.

The libretto approaches history from the Middle Ages to WWII through the eyes of women, via characters including witch-hunters, embroiderers, crusaders’ wives, plague stricken women, mourners and war workers, transposed into a modern light by Gaggle who reference 2011 issues such as militarized rape in the DRC or “honour” killings in the UK.

RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE - Expected 16th April
If we have stock left it will be available online from Saturday 23rd April, strictly one per customer.

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